Congratulations are in order for two SOFAM MFA grads whose paintings placed in the top 15 finalists for RBC's Canadian painting contest. Amanda Boulos and Ambera Wellmann are in the running for a cash prise of $25,000.
SETS professor Lawrence Hill has received an honorary doctor of letters from the University of Western Ontario. Congratulations!
SETS professor Dionne Brand has been named to the Order of Canada. Congratulations!
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2017/06/professor-writing-activism-recognized-o...
SETS PhD grad Ryan Rashotte is an Assistant Professor of General Studies at Lakeland University in Tokyo. His book, Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography, was published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Congratulations to SETS student David Lee, who has sucessfully defended his PhD dissertation.
Tony Berto, SETS PhD grad and sessional lecturer, has a new play Bugger the Butterfly (or My Hollywood Sci-Fi Adventure) opening at the Toronto Fringe Festival on July 6 at the Theatre Centre. The production features Kenny Grenier and Gordon Harper and is stage managed by Jessi Crews, each of whom has been a student in SETS' Theatre Studies Program.
Congratulations to Megan Wilson, who was among the top 25 in the SSHRC Storytellers competition. Megan, a research assistant on SETS Professor Mark Lipton's Privacy Stories, will enter the MA program in the Fall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw61MqTHvUU&list=PLww1dvjSoO4PRgIc62dkPCUcRKVQlPXUB&index=25rva
Congratulations to SETS PhD grad and sessional lecturer Andrew Bretz, who has accepted a limited term appointment at Queen's University.
At the Canadian Historical Association Awards ceremony in May our new Aboriginal historian, Brittany Luby, received the John Bullen prize for the best dissertation defended in the last year. Our Graduate Chair, Matthew Hayday, won the prize for the best article published in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
Congratulations from all of us!