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Nadege Compaoré
Recipient: 2019 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Dr. Compaoré’s research has focused on the global governance of natural resources and the implications for the resource-development-environment nexus. Theoretically, she is interested in the […]
Nemoy Lewis
Recipient: 2019 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Dr. Lewis’ research addresses urban geographies of race and urban housing in the United States and Canada. His research has examined the subprime mortgage crisis […]
Ahmed Ilmi
Recipient: 2019 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Dr. Ilmi has done extensive work on social exclusion and identity formation of Black Canadian youth. His postdoctoral research will address anti-Black racism, Black boys […]
Nikoli Attai
Recipient: 2019 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Dr. Attai has concentrated on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork across four countries (Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago) to explore transgressive gender and sexual relations […]
Oisin Keohane
I came to Toronto from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and before that, from the Philosophy Department at the University of Johannesburg. […]
Michelle Afkhami
I completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice University in Houston, Texas followed by a PhD in Population Biology at University of California, Davis. Throughout […]
Christina Geisen
I am from Germany, where I completed my undergraduate and master’s studies in Egyptology (major), Islamic Studies (first minor), and Pre- and Early History (second minor) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität […]
Yalun Zhang
The University of Toronto is a prestigious university with Nobel Prize Laureates and great scientists. What attracted me most is the world-renowned research team studying neurological diseases in U of […]
Samah El-Tantawy
​I completed a BSc in electronics and electrical communications engineering and an MSc in engineering mathematics, both from Cairo University. In 2007, I embarked on a PhD in Intelligent Transportation […]