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ɬ﷬ Professor Thomas Soehl has received funding to study the challenges allophone newcomers to Quebec face in building the francophone social networks necessary for integrating French into daily life and participating meaningfully in a predominantly French-speaking society.

Classified as: Department of Sociology
Published on: 8 Apr 2026

ɬ﷬ ProfessorThomas Soehlhas received funding to study the challenges allophone newcomers to Quebec face in building the francophone social networks necessary for integrating French into daily life and participating meaningfully in a predominantly French-speaking society.

Classified as: Department of Sociology
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Published on: 2 Apr 2026

Professors Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey and Jill Baumgartner will lead innovative research focusing on anti-Black carceral systems and climate-related health risks respectively

Classified as: Department of History and Classical Studies
Published on: 11 Mar 2026

A study of Black Americans is among the first to show how the internalization of negative messages about dark skin tones could be linked to harms to health.

Researchers found that Black Americans who are, or perceive themselves to be, dark skinned show clear markers of cellular aging associated with immune-system damage and also score lower on a measurement of self-worth. Cellular aging and low self-worth are both associated with relatively poor health outcomes.

Classified as: Alexis Dennis, Department of Sociology
Published on: 19 Feb 2026

The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readerships, and to exploring the world’s Englishes.

We award one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of forty or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately sixty poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology.

Published on: 4 Feb 2026

The French government announced on Jan. 27 the rollout of its new videoconferencing platform, Visio. The domestically developed platform was created to replace U.S. tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams across all state services by 2027 as part of the French government’s broader push for digital sovereignty. Officials say the shift will also cut software licensing costs and strengthen security and confidentiality.

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Classified as: Emmanuelle Vaast, Sonja Solomun, digital sovereignty, france, technology
Published on: 28 Jan 2026

Congratulations to Professor Manshel for winning the MELUS Book Award!

Published on: 20 Jan 2026

Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley for receiving a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant!

Published on: 20 Jan 2026

Congratulations to Professor Carmen Faye Mathes!

Professor Mathes has been awaredthe 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize for her essay“Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address.”

The committee writes:

Published on: 20 Jan 2026

The Department of English isdelighted to announce Professor Ricardo Wilsonas the 2025-2026 MordecaiRichler Writer-in-Residence.

Published on: 22 Dec 2025

Congratulations to Professor Camille Owens!

Professor Owens received an honorable mention from theModern Language Association of America for her book.

Published on: 11 Dec 2025

Professor Sandeep Banerjee was a guest in the CBC Ideas episode "How this 19th-century Indian feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head."

Published on: 24 Nov 2025

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