Faculty and Staff News

Posted December, 2009

Dr. Amy Fitzgerald was presented with the FASS Full Time Faculty Meritorius Service Award for 2009. Dr. Fitzgerald embodies the most exceptional and worthy qualities of an academic whose first and most object is to do good works. She has a list of memberships and activities on her resume that many people with two or three times her experience would be proud of. These accomplishments speak to the range of her interests and to her commitment to social and enviromental justice. Amy's concern is not just that people ought to be treated with fairness and respect, but that this should be extended to all living beings who can experience suffering and whose treatment reflects on all of us.

Posted March 13, 2008

Ms. Lena Razwan was presented with the 2008 Support Staff Award from the Organization of Part-Time University Students (OPUS).

Posted June 22, 2007

The film Weaving Worlds, on which Dr. Kathy M'Closkey has been working with Bennie Klain, has received the Rigoberta Menchu Prize at the Montreal's First Peoples' Festival 2007 Awards.

Posted June 15, 2007

Dr. Barry Adam has received the Simon-Gagnon Award from the American Sociological Association (2007). The award honours Barry's career contributions to the study of sexualities.

Posted April 19, 2007

Ms. Rosemarie Denunzio is the 2007 winner of the GLAD Award from the Faculty Association of the University of Windsor for her teaching and mentorship. Professor Denunzio is an instructor in Anthropology who has been teaching for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology since 1992.

Posted Jan. 12, 2007

Ms. Joy Cecile, winner of the FASS Full Time Staff Meritorious Service Award (2006) - described as generous, professional, efficient, patient with and caring for everyone, a successful problem solver, and especially a calming influence during crises. The award given in recognition of the her outstanding service as full time support staff to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Windsor.

Posted Oct. 10, 2006

A team of University of Windsor Researchers from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology publicly released their Breast Cancer case control findings published by the New York Academy of Sciences. The event was held at Hospice in Oct, 2006. Research team members included, Dr. Isaac Luginaah, Dr. James Brophy, Dr. Margaret Keith (Adjunct Professors), and Dr. Eleanor Maticka Tyndale (University Professor).

Posted Sept. 27, 2006.

Dr. Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale has been voted as a "Fellow" of the Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Fellows in SSSS are individuals recognized for their outstanding contributions to the field of sexual science.

Posted July 17, 2006.

Dr. Leslie Robertson, and her co-editor Dara Culhane, have received the 2006 George Ryga Award for their book, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver.

Posted July 14, 2006.

Dr. Rudhramoorthy Cheran has just received news that his proposal, Diasporas, Transnationalism and Global Engagement, has been approved for funding by IDRC. This is a competitive three year grant for a total amount of $300,000.

Posted July 10, 2006.

Over the last seven years, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has brought in close to $6 million dollars in research funds. Our latest research awards are:

Dr. Barry Adam: Career Scientist Award in Risk, Culture and Sexuality, Ontario HIV Treatment Network ($72,000). This award provides release time to pursue research into HIV prevention. At a time when HIV rates are rising again, Professor Adam is part of research teams investigating risk in vulnerable communities and developing responses to HIV transmission in collaboration with the AIDS Committee of Toronto and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

Dr. Robert Arnold: $202,767. SSHRC Aboriginal Research Programme (2006-09). Title: Better Futures for Bkejwanong: The next generation. Professor Arnold will be interviewing parents and children followed from birth through the Better Beginnings initiative, as well as Grade 12 students and their parents, who were initially interviewed when the children were in JK. The primary focus will be on changes in social/familial, psychological, and nutritional well-being, examined in relation to the preservation of traditional lifestyles.
Professor Arnold also received good news from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, which has granted $147K over two years (2006-08) to the Better Beginnings team for an examination of Grade 9 data on children and families at the sites where we have been following children from JK onward.

Dr. Ruth Mann: $125,856.00 SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2005-08). Title: The Youth Justice Renewal Initiative and Interventions for Violent and High-Risk Youth in Ontario: Partnering, Practices, and Outcomes across Correctional and Educational Domains.

Dr. Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale: SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2006-09)
Title: Scripting of Heterosexual Relationships among Iranian Immigrants in Canada. This project focuses on how subjective understandings of Canadian cultural scripts of heterosexual relationships interface with interpersonal heterosexual scripts of adult Iranian immigrants in Canada, looking particularly at sexual and relationship satisfaction. Professor Maticka-Tyndale holds a Canada Research Chair in Sexuality and Social Justice.

Dr. Lynne Phillips: $98,752. SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2006-09)
Title: Mobilizing Gender: The United Nations, Cultures of Accountability, and Changing Women’s Lives in Latin America. This project investigates how audit culture shapes the concept of gender equality as it is circulated in and implemented by international and regional organizations. Through ethnographic fieldwork, Professor Phillips (with co-investigator Professor Sally Cole (Concordia University)) is examining changing gender relations in Brazil and Ecuador and exploring alternative practices to audit-based global models of gender change.

  University of Windsor Research Awards: Posted July 10. 2006. Dr. Barry Adam was awarded the Senior University Research Award by the University of Windsor in 2004 for his life-time contributions to research, most recently in the areas of social movements and HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Dan O’Connor was awarded a University Research Award by the University of Windsor in 2005 for his research on security issues and changes in the public sector.

Dr. Leslie Robertson was awarded a FASS Research Award by the University of Windsor in 2005 for her two books: In Plain Sight: Reflections on life in downtown Eastside Vancouver (2005, with Dara Culhane) and Imagining Difference: Legend, curse and spectacle in a Canadian mining town (2005).

  Faculty Teaching Awards: Posted Jan. 12, 2007

Dr. Veronika Mogyorody, FASS Teaching Award (2006) -- awarded to the team involved in the first year 'Ways of Knowing' course for FASS students.

Posted July 10, 2006

Dr. Danielle Soulliere – OPUS Teacher of the Year (2006); FASS Teaching Award (2005)

Dr. Francisca Omorodion – OPUS Teaching Award (2006)Dr. Arshia Zaidi – OPUS Teaching Award (2006)

Posted July 1, 2005

This year our Department has been recognized by the University in the areas of teaching, research and service. The following people have received high honours from the University.

Dr. Barry Adam won the President's top award for Research Excellence.

Dr. Gerald Booth and Dr. Subhas Ramcharan shared the Kate McCrone Teaching Award for teaching excellence in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). They join Danielle Soulliere from our department, who won the award last year.

Ms. Perry Pittao, the Administrative Secretary for the Department, won President's Achievement Award 2005 for all the work she has done for us over the years, her extensive support of students and new faculty, and her community service.