New Policy Brief on Climate Adaptation Finance
ISID is pleased to release a new policy brief entitled "Climate Adaptation Finance: the Gap Between Needs and Resources Continues to Grow", by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir along with his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez.
Read about it HERE
Honours Information Session - April 3
Wednesday, April 3 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in LEA 738
Please see attached flyer for more information.
Announcing the 2024 ISID Graduate Travel Awards
MA students enrolled in the Development Studies Option and PhD students supervised by ISID faculty members and associate members are invited to apply for the 2024 ISID Graduate Student Travel Grants. Grants will range from $500-$1500.
ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column"
Professor Jacob Blanc of the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of History has had a new book published with Duke University Press. In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.
Dean's Reception for Fellowship Recipients
Being honoured at this event were Lily-Cannelle Mathieu (Trudeau Scholarship and Vanier Scholarship) and Camilo Mireles (Tomlinson Fellowship)
Fellowship Announcement 2023-2024
Congratulations to the 2023-2024 fellowship recipients!
Trudeau Scholar: Lily-Cannelle Mathieu, https://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/member/lily-cannelle-mathieu
Weaver-Tremblay Award in Canadian Applied Anthropology 2023 - Prof. Colin Scott
Weaver-Tremblay 2023: Anthropological Activism for Territories of Life 11/16/2023 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM, TMCC Hall FProf.
New Ecozoic Initiative - Dept. of Anthropology seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow
The Department of Anthropology is seeking applicants for the funded Leadership for the Ecozoic PhD initiative and an Ecozoic Postdoctoral Fellow, newly housed in our department under the umbrella of the Anthropology for the Ecozoic (A4E) hub, which also includes the Critical Media Lab, a practice-based research space for audiovisual and multimodal ethnography.
VOX POPULI ON PANDEMIC by Prof. Sandra Hyde (The Hill Times, 2021)
“Epidemics are not random events that drop from the sky without warning. Epidemic outbreaks follow the fault lines of society, where they begin to entrench more” along racial and economic disparities
Congratulations to our incoming MA student Daisy Couture for winning a McCall MacBain Scholarship!
The McCall MacBain Scholarship enables students to pursue a fully funded master’s or professional degree at McGill University while connecting with mentors and participating in an intensive leadership development program.
Prof. Katherine Lemons' book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural SAMSA Book Award
Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Lemons whose book Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press, 2019) has just received an Honourable Mention in the inaugural South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) Book Award, which recognizes scholarship taking place within the field of South Asian Muslim Studies.
Prof. Ronald Niezen awarded a Distinguished James McGill Professorship
Congratulations to Prof. Ronald Niezen, , for being awarded a Distinguished James McGill Professorship