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Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Congratulations to two professors in the Faculty of Arts who are among the Royal Society of Canada’s Class of 2020. Professor Imre Szeman (Communication Arts) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of Canada’s most distinguished scholarly honours. Professor Jay Dolmage (English) has been named to the RSC’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, representing top mid-career leaders in Canada. Here are the RSC citations.
Imre Szeman is an internationally-acclaimed cultural theorist. His landmark research establishes the shaping influence of fossil-fuel dependency on modern society. Szeman’s work propelled a new discipline—‘energy humanities’—which grapples with the cultural transformations required for a global shift to sustainable and renewable forms of energy. A highly collaborative, interdisciplinary and public-facing scholar, he is the co-founder of the Petrocultures Research Group and numerous initiatives advocating for energy transition.
Fellows of the RSC are elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement.
Jay Dolmage is the Founding Editor of the highly impactful Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Winner of the 2015 PROSE award, Dolmage’s work brings together rhetoric, disability studies, and critical pedagogy, in an accessible yet ground-breaking body of articles, talks, and workshops. A fierce advocate for disability rights, Dolmage is committed to publishing Open Access and accessible material and helped to author the international guidelines for accessible electronic books.
“The College provides the RSC with a multigenerational capacity to help Canada and the world address major challenges and seize new opportunities including those identified in emerging fields,” states the September 8, 2020, RSC media release.