Honours and Awards

Student and Recent Graduate Awardees

Terri-Lynn Langdon is the recipient of the 2020 Eric Waldron Scholarship.

Dr. Polina Kukar is the recipient of the 2020 E. Lisa Panyotidis Dissertation Award by the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education.

Suleyman Demi is the recipient of the 2019 Lisa Robinson Award for Excellence in Research. 

Leroy Baker is the recipient of the 2019 Dionne Brand Award for Excellence in Liberal Arts.

Suleyman Demi and Ezinwanne Odozor are recipients of the 2019 Gordon Cressy Leadership award. 

Jessica Wright is recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship in both 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, as well as the 2018-2019 recipient of the University of Toronto Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence.

Maya Chacaby is recipient of the 2017-2018 Amilcare Iannucci Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities.

Faculty Awardees

Professor Eve Tuck is the Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellow in the Humanities, 2020-21.

Professor Miglena Todorova is awarded 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for "Sexual and Gender-based Violence among International Students: A Qualitative Approach."

Professor Miglena Todorova is awarded 2019 SSHRC Connection Grant for "Social Innovation in Media Literacy Education." 

Professor rosalind hampton is awarded 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for "Coalition Building by and with Black Students at Canadian Universities from 1960-2000."  

Professor Lauren Bialystok is the recipient of the 2018 OISE Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.

Professor Abigail Bakan is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "The UN as knowledge producer: World conferences on women, racialized and Indigenous people." 

Professor George Dei is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "The potential for elders' cultural knowledge to contribute to a new education futurity." 

Professor John Portelli is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Investigating the impact of the Ontario equity policy." 

Professor Njoki Wane is awarded 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Black women's experience in leadership positions in Canadian universities." 

Professor George Dei has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2017. This is recognition of “distinguished scholars and artists selected on the basis of their exceptional contributions,” following an extensive nomination and selection process across Canada.

Staff Awardees

Sezen Atacan is recipient of the Dr. Claire Alleyne Staff Excellence Award.