Michelle Szabo’s New Course Develops Emotional Wellness
You meditate in class?? This Winter 2023 term, FHASS Professor Michelle Szabo is thrilled to be launching the first iteration of a new trauma-informed, social and emotional wellness course in FHASS called The Wisdom of Connection: Wellness, Community… Read More
Professor Anna Boshnakova Presents Research in Madrid
Dr. Anna Boshnakova was invited to present the preliminary results of her project “Hermeneutics of music-related visual narratives on 5th c. B.C.E. Greek vases. The So-Called Non-Sense Inscriptions in a Musical Context: Identification, Analysis, and Interpretation” at the… Read More
Professor Rory Sommers Presents Research on Active Interviewing
During June of last year, Professor Rory Sommers traveled to St. John’s Newfoundland to present a paper at the 2022 Qualitatives Conference titled “Negotiating Boundaries in Active Interviewing: Engaging with Ascribed and Achieved Positionalities”. Based on data collected… Read More
The Canadian Literary Censorship Project is underway
With the aid of a SRCA Growth Grant, Professors Alex Hollenberg, Owen Percy, and Brandon McFarlane have started work on The Canadian Literary Censorship Project. They’ve hired a team of four student research assistants from Creative Writing &… Read More
Global Education in TESOL Plus Program with Professor Hee-Seung Kang
The TESOL Plus Program has been collaborating with our international partner institution in Brazil, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), to bring global education to our TESOL Plus students. This is a CiCan-funded project, which is led by… Read More
Professor Sara Cumming travels to Kenya
In June, Dr. Sara Cumming (FHASS) and Social Work Professor Michaelann George (FACHS) traveled to Kenya with professors from Niagara College as part of a partnership with the Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works-Kenya: Youth Employability through Technical and… Read More
Professor Peter Grevstad successfully defends his PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Grevstad on the success of his doctoral dissertation, Queering Places, and Curricular Spaces: LGBGTQ+ Students in the Community, the College, and the Curriculum. The defense occurred in August 2022 at OISE, University of Toronto…. Read More
Seeking participation in community research projects
Are you looking to incorporate community research projects into your winter classroom? Professor Sara Cumming is currently leading a collaborative three-year NSERC-CCSIF-funded project that aims to build a client-centric, applied, EDI-informed life skills curriculum to be shared amongst… Read More
Jennifer Chambers’s Research Project Wraps up a Great Year!
Jennifer Chambers SRCA-funded research project, Everybody’s Got a Story, wrapped up at the end of the semester with over 60 stories from a diverse range of students, staff, and faculty across Sheridan. This project enlisted the help of… Read More
Stories of Home: An Update
In the Fall 2021 Alchemy edition, we introduced a new project set up by a team from the English as a Second Language (ESL) department: Nataly Shaheen, Claudia Daniela Cirip, Sara Cordeiro Alexandre, Suzanne Soares, and Diana Catargiu…. Read More
