Exhibit display by artist-researcher Julie Gemuend, “Shadow Companions” will be featured at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts – Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise from November 2 – December 13.
It was a proud moment for us to watch Dr. Josh Manitowabi cross the stage to accept his Doctorate in Philosophy!
This is the latest in a string of accomplishments by Dr. Manitowabi, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brock.
Congratulations, Dr. Manitowabi!
How it started…
… How it’s going
Graduate Program Director, Dr. Lissa Paul, Dr. Joshua Manitowabi, and Dr. Danny Samson
Associate Dean and VP Research Humanities, Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak, Dr. Lissa Paul, Dr. Joshua Manitowabi, and Dr. Danny Samson
Professor Sherri Vansickle, Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek, Dr. Joshua Manitowabi, and Professor Jeannie Martin
Dean of Humanities Dr. Carol Merriam, Dr. Lissa Paul, Dr. Joshua Manitowabi, and Dr. Danny Samson
On Tuesday, September 3rd, HUMA faculty and students were on hand to welcome the new cohort. We are thrilled to have Elizabeth Colantoni, Philip Akoje, Kaitlin Grant, Hani Hedayati, and Laur Pilon join the program!
Back: Dr. Donna Szoke, Dr. Fiona Blaikie, Dr. Sarah Stang, Ece Cizmeci, Laur Pilon, Marley Liepert, Philip Akoje, Dr. Gregory Betts, Dr. Michael Ripmeester, John Heckman
Middle: Teresa Galbraith, Long Vu, Anna Roshni Jose, Alia Wazzan, Dr. Lissa Paul, Elizabeth Colantoni
Front Row: Herminia Morales-Newman, Dr. Nina Penner, Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak, Maya Karanouh, Zixuan Liao
At the 2024 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held in Montreal in June the President of the Canadian Communication Association, Dr. Ghislain Thibault, presented HUMA PhD Candidate, Maya Karanouh with a Congress Merit Award for her paper: “Decoding the Author in the Age of Generative AI: Copyright, Ethics, and Litigation.”
Congratulations, Maya!
Recipients Maya Karanouh (Brock University) and Alexandra Borkowski (York University) with Dr. Thibault.
On Friday, June 14, 2024, Dr. Carrie Stiver and Dr. Julie Morris-Warkentin crossed the stage to receive their PhDs.
Dr. Stiver was supervised by Professor Elizabeth Neswald in the Department of History.
Dr. Morris-Warkentin was supervised by Professor Mathew Martin in the Department of English.
Congratulations on this major accomplishment!
Drs. Julie Warkentin, Lissa Paul, and Carrie Stiver
Genevieve (Evie) Jones, a recipient of this year’s Horizon Graduate Student Scholarship, is exploring the intersections of motherhood identity in the workforce, including the discrimination faced by single mothers in the arts industry. Photo Credit: The Brock News
Congratulations, Genevieve (Evie) Jones, on your well-deserved feature in the Brock News!
We are happy to announce grants, awards and appointments from the HUMA faculty:
Congratulations to Julie Warkentin on her successful defence of her thesis on 28 September 2023!
Congratulations to Mitch Goldsmith on the successful defence of his doctoral dissertation! Terrific work. HUMA program faculty and staff are all delighted.
Below is the abstract for Mitch’s thesis: “The Unfinished Business of Anna Kingsford: Science, Enchantment, and Experiments on Animals”
The project takes seriously Dr Anna Kingsford’s (1846-1888) claim that vivisection is a type of sorcery and science, a type of occult or spiritual undertaking believing that the assertion, which gained currency during the 19th–century antivivisection movement and is now overlooked, is yet unfinished and therefore a potentially powerful figuration for current antivivisectionists. To that end, the dissertation provides a critical and intersectional reading of the 19th-century British and European antivivisection movement, the fin de siècle occult revival, and Kingsford’s role in each, often working to bring these worlds together. This historical analysis includes an examination of Victorian attitudes to the period’s changing understanding of gender, species, race, and science. Building on this historical foundation, the dissertation will provide a theoretical discussion of Kingsford’s contemporary resonances with emerging disciplines in the environmental and posthumanities, including critical animal studies, material feminism, feminist posthumanism, and science and technology studies. Many theorists in these fields are interested in reappraising the roles of affect, enchantment, mysticism, and wonder in ethical thinking and human-animal-environmental relations.
This project builds on these historical and theoretical insights by providing an “enchanted” analysis of the contemporary laboratory space, experiments on animals, and a reading of three case studies of ongoing animal experimentation paradigms (i.e., maternal deprivation, learned helplessness, and the organizational-activational hypothesis of homosexuality) which I argue lend themselves to a Kingsford-inspired analysis. Furthermore, this project articulates a novel “enchanted animal ethic” involving a feminist and neo-Spinozist articulation of human-animal and environmental ethics that makes space for mystical, non-secular modes of meaning-making, care-centered multispecies community building, and social and political movements. Finally, the project and an enchanted understanding of animal ethics will be useful to interdisciplinary scholars and advocates seeking a paradigm change in the sciences away from experiments on animals and towards a more humane and efficacious science as well as more egalitarian and meaningful relationships with animals and the more-than-human world.
Please find below the collective agreement with CUPE from September 2022 to September 2025:
CUPE Collective Agreement
