The National Killam Program has announced that Naila Keleta-Mae, Associate Professor, Communication Arts, has been awarded a 2023 Dorothy Killam Fellowship that provides support for dedicated research time to scholars “whose superior, ground-breaking, best-in-class research stands to have significant impact on a national or global scale.”
Keleta-Mae is a Tier 2 SSHRC Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Race Gender and Performance and Principal Investigator (PI) of the Black And Free research-creation program, a multi-year artistic and academic experience that explores what it means to be Black And Free in the 21st century. The Dorothy Killam Fellowship will contribute to this ongoing program.
Read more about Keleta-Mae's work and the 2023 recipients of the Killam Prizes and Dorothy Killam Fellowships.