News and Events

• Another Proud Moment for HUMA!

  Thursday, December 19, 2024 | By hmoralesnewman

  Congratulations to HUMA students Alia Wazzan, Maya Karanouh and Long Vu who have been recognized for their hard work!

  

  Alia Wazzan has been awarded The 2024–2025 Robert G. Rawle Graduate Bursary and The 2024–2025 Marilyn Rose Graduate Award for Excellence in Humanities. Alia is in preparation for her Dissertation on “Netflix’s Feminist Euphoria on its MENA Platform: Colonial Feminism in the Era of a Neoliberal Platform Economy?” in the upcoming year.

  

  Maya Karanouh is a fourth year student and has received the General Brock Soiree Graduate Award. Maya’s Dissertation is on “Enhancing Growth of Canadian Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) through the Disruptive Application of Artificial Intelligence.”

  
  Long Vu is the recipient of the  Dr. Marilyn J. Rose Graduate Studies Fund. Long is a second year student with HUMA who’s Dissertation is on  “The Cultural Politics of Giftedness.”

• Congratulations Grace Channer!

  Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | By hmoralesnewman

  On November 15, Grace Channer successfully defended her thesis entitled, “TEMPLE: Resistance Embodied as a Diaspora Aesthetic Strategy.”

  Another proud moment for HUMA!

  

  Grace Channer with Dr. Margot Francis

  

  Left to right: Dr. Cathy van Ingen, Dr. Jason Hawreliak, Grace Channer and Dr. Margot Francis

  Categories: HUMA Grad Students, Uncategorised

• “Shadow Companions” by Julie Gemuend

  Friday, November 08, 2024 | By hmoralesnewman

  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.

  

   

  Categories: HUMA Grad Students

• Congratulations to Dr. Josh Manitowabi!

  Friday, October 25, 2024 | By lbetts

  

  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

  Categories: Convocation, HUMA Grad Students, News

• Orientation Event Welcomes the Incoming PhD Students

  Thursday, September 12, 2024 | By lbetts

  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

   

  

  Categories: Events, HUMA Faculty, HUMA Grad Students, Uncategorised

• HUMA PhD Candidate Receives CCA Congress Merit Award

  Wednesday, September 11, 2024 | By lbetts

  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.

  Categories: HUMA Grad Students, Student Funding and Awards, Uncategorised

• Congratulations to our Spring 2024 Graduates!

  Friday, June 14, 2024 | By lbetts

  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

  Categories: HUMA Grad Students

• PhD Student Recognized with Horizon Graduate Student Scholarship

  Friday, March 08, 2024 | By lbetts

  

  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!

  Categories: HUMA Grad Students, Student Funding and Awards

• Grants, awards and appointments from the HUMA faculty

  Wednesday, November 08, 2023 | By gminaker

  We are happy to announce grants, awards and appointments from the HUMA faculty:

  • Gregory Betts for winning SSHRC funding for “How To Speak to Aliens: bp Nichol and the Cosmic Other”
  • Christine Daigle, SSHRC Insight Grant for “Bomb Pulse: Cultural and Philosophical Readings of Time Signatures in the Anthropocene”
  • Jennifer Roberts-Smith for her SSHRC partnership grant “Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs (SBF/MSMA)”
  • Aaron Mauro for his appointment as GPD of the Department of Digital Humanities
  • Lissa Paul, elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada

• Congratulations to Julie Warkentin on her successful defence of her thesis on 28 September 2023!

  Monday, October 02, 2023 | By gminaker

  Congratulations to Julie Warkentin on her successful defence of her thesis on 28 September 2023!