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Message from VPR
                 Research and Innovation
                 are Front & Centre
                 a t the Univer sit y of Toronto S carbor ough

                                                 From its beginnings, this campus has been an
                                                 integral part of the University of Toronto, and has
                                                 inspired and educated students to become problem
                                                 solvers of tomorrow. Our world-class faculty
                                                 members are research leaders in their fields,
                                                 and engage students across a wide spectrum
                                                 of disciplines, with a commitment to excellence.
                                                 Our academic community of scholars creates
                                                 an environment where leading humanists, social
                                                 scientists, artists and scientists develop ideas and
                                                 focus on problems that matter.
                                                 University of Toronto Scarborough’s outstanding research environment is deeply
                                                 embedded in the university’s long history. And we are on a path to continue to provide
                                                 and further enhance the strength of our research enterprise by hiring the best faculty,
                                                 admitting top students at all levels, providing innovative academic programs and
                                                 educating the brightest minds of tomorrow.

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At U of T Scarborough, our faculty are thought leaders recognized for excellence in
their fields. We are committed to ensuring that students get research experience as
early as possible – and to providing a top-notch experience for our growing body of
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. As part of our commitment to nurturing
entrepreneurship, The Hub provides an innovation space where students from across
the disciplines can explore ideas and launch successful businesses.
                                                                                                 “
                                                                                                 We are committed
                                                                                                 to ensuring
                                                                                                 that
                                                                                                     students
                                                                                                 get research
                                                                                                 experience as early
Our vision is simultaneously local and global. Our collective promise to our city,               as possible –
the eastern Greater Toronto Area, and indeed the world is to deepen knowledge and                and to providing
uncover innovations that enhance human conditions. Our research strengths span areas
as different as environmental sciences, clinical psychology, neuroscience and cultural
                                                                                                 a top-notch
studies. It is this diverse expertise, nestled in interdisciplinary and international collabo-   experience for our
ration, that enables us to tackle the issues of climate change, poverty, access to health        growing body of
care and other societal concerns that challenge humanity right now. It is this expertise
that makes us proud to co-create communities, advocate for change, and push the
                                                                                                 graduate students
boundaries of knowledge.                                                                         and postdoctoral
                                                                                                 fellows.”
In these pages, you’ll discover just a small fraction of the impressive work we’re doing
here at Canada’s leading university. We invite you to follow our research news and
share in this exciting world of discovery and impact.

H. Bernie Kraatz, PhD
Professor and Vice-Principal Research

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Impact by the Numbers

             General Statistics
                 ( by year )                                                               Total Research Funding by Source

       2015-16           2016-17          2017-18                                                                  1%        2%
                                                                                                   $81,176 other                  connaught fund $226,601

                                                                                   other federal                                                    federal granting
                 research funds                                                     $1,127,349                                                          agencies
    ( number      of grants and contracts )
                                                                                                                  10%                                  $6,759,522
                                                          391           not- for- profit
                                                                          $1,039,791                    9%
                                           368 384

             funding applications
                                                                  inter- institutional               7%
                                                    253              collaboration                                                    58%
                                                                        $783,608
                                    233 244
                                                                                                      5%
           total funding sponsors                                        government of
                                                                            ontario                          8%
                                                                           $610,243
                             70
                                                                                         foreign
      total private sector partners                                                    government
                                                                                         $958,292

                              5

                                                                                                           $11.6 Million
     total no. of funding programs                                               total funding

                            117

                                                                          cihr
Tri-Agency Funding                                                      $898,529                        Entrepreneurship – The Hub (2017-18)

                                                                15.6%                                   Combined revenues and investment
                                                                                                        of Hub startups increased

                                                    $5.8                                                $100,000
                                        57.6%
                                                    Million             26.8%
                                                                                           sshrc
                                                                                       $1,542,326
                 nserc
             $3,318,666                                                                                 560             students participated
                                                                                                                        in Hub events

                                                                                                        30         companies formed

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Grant Success

90
                           88.2%
80                                                            80.0%
                                                                                                   76.5%
                                                                                                                                             National Success Rate
70
                           66.0%                              66.4%                                66.1%
60                                                                           60.9%
                                                                                                                                             UTSC Success Rates
50
                                          45.5%                              47.6%                                                           sshrc insight grant
40                                        40.0%
30       31.8%
                                                                                                                                             nserc discovery grant
         31.1%                                                                                                23.1%
20
                                                                                                                                             cihr project grant
10                                                                                                            14.6%                          (fall 2017 and spring
                                                                                                                                              2018 competitions )

                 2015-16                          2016-17                                   2017-18

                Supervisions by U of T Scarborough Faculty                                                                      2017-18 Statistics

                          2017-18
        146                                       151                        total                                             Research Faculty
                          2016-17

                                                                                                                               250                                       235
                  110                                                                                                                                      2015 –16
                                            179

                        119         139                                      2015-16             680                                                       2016 –17      239

                         2015-16

                              422
                                                                             2016-17             764                            publications

                                                                                                                                Journal Articles                      524
                              475
                                                                             2017-18             798                                Book Chapters

                                                                                                                                                  Books
                                                                                                                                                                      27
                                                                                                                                                                      17
                              501                                                                                                                  Other              117
     master’s                 doctoral                  postdoctoral

Commercializaton

                                                        2013-14              2014-15               2015-16                2016-17               2017-18*              total

       New Invention Disclosures**                                                                                                                                     9
Priorit y Patent Applications Filed
                                                                                                                                                                       5
     License and Option Agreements
                                                                                                                                                                       2
                   Start-up Companies
                    Formed by Facult y
                                                                                                                                                                       3
                                                        * Data for 2017-18 is preliminary and may change until finalized in 2019.
                                                        ** Counts with at least one inventor from UTSC (full counts rather than weighed by inventor).
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an evolutionary surprise:

              Brain size decrease
             due to habitat change

Modern-day mountain beavers have a smaller relative brain
size than their ancestors did, a surprising evolutionary finding
in wild species.
   Ornella Bertrand, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of
Anthropology, is the lead author of a study that compared virtual
endocasts – the imprint the brain makes against the inner part of
the cranium – and found that the part of the brain related to sight
may be what shrank over time.
   Unlike its ancestor, which lived in trees, the modern moun-                    beyond gps :
tain beaver adapted to burrowing, meaning it lives mostly
underground. Being less reliant on its vision, it appears an area              Monkeys can
of the neocortex responsible for sight may have shrunk over
time in this species.                                                        plan their routes
   An evolutionary decrease in brain size has been observed in
domesticated animals such as chickens, pigs and dogs, but this is
a rare example of a decrease in brain size due to a specific shift in
where the animal spends most of its time, says Bertrand.                Julie Teichroeb found that vervet monkeys
   A member of Professor Mary Silcox’s lab at U of T Scarbor-           can solve multi-destination routes in the
ough, Bertrand took first place in the Taylor and Francis Best          same way humans do.
Student Paper Award, a top prize from an international paleon-             An assistant professor in the Department
tology society for her paper exploring rodent brains.                   of Anthropology, Teichroeb is also lead
                                                                        author of a study showing that the monkeys
                                                                        apply simple rules of thumb to find rela-
                                                                        tively short routes without having to think
                                                                        too much about it. “People are amazed that
                                                                        animals can often find the shortest route
                                                                        when foraging for food, and the big ques-
                                                                        tion is how they’re able to figure it out,”
                                                                        she says. “Solving these kinds of routes
                                                                        is extremely difficult mathematically but
                                                                        we’ve found that these monkeys, much
                                                                        like us, rely on heuristics.”
                                                                           Teichroeb and study co-author Eve
                                                                        Smeltzer, a PhD student in U of T’s Depart-
                                                                        ment of Anthropology, observed the vervets
                                                                        at Lake Nabugabo in Uganda.
                                                                           Vervet monkeys, which are found
                                                                        mostly throughout southern Africa, help
                                                                        serve as a non-human primate model for
                                                                        understanding genetic and social behav-
                                                                        iours in humans. They’ve been observed
                                                                        to experience hypertension, anxiety
                                                                        and social dependency, and even display
                                                                        spiteful behaviour.

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                               Exploring molecular mechanisms
                                       of virus infection

             For Christina Guzzo, the prospect of         about medical advancement is essential
             working in a room containing poten-          not only because of her own line of work,
             tially deadly pathogens is an exciting and   but because she recognizes that as break-
             essential part of her research.              throughs are made in HIV treatment, we
                An assistant professor in the Depart-     must also adapt how we treat people with
             ment of Biological Sciences, Guzzo           HIV socially.
             received support from the John R. Evans         “Any young Canadian who is diag-
             Leaders Fund, which helps to create          nosed early and adherent to antiviral
             infrastructure for cutting-edge labora-      treatment can live a long, fulfilling and
             tories. Her lab will conduct advanced        relatively ‘normal’ life,” says Guzzo. “In
             research on HIV.                             the long term, our research will provide
                Guzzo cares deeply about the influ-       new ways to extend the lifespan of HIV-
             ence HIV stigma has on public policy and     infected individuals, and ultimately, aims
             about other social hurdles HIV-positive      to contribute knowledge to the ongoing
             people are needlessly forced to encounter    quest for effective HIV vaccine and cure
             every day. For her, spreading the word       strategies.”

                                         How will climate change affect the
                                         spread of disease?

                                          A new model developed by Péter Molnár may help
                                          researchers better understand how diseases will be affected
                                          by climate change.
                                            “Climate change is altering the environment as we
                                          know it and it’s also changing the interactions species are
                                          having with parasites and pathogens,” says Molnár, an
             assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.
               “The ultimate goal is to have some predictive capability for how these interactions
             are changing due to changing temperatures, [so that we can] help manage the spread
             of disease in humans and animals.”
               Molnár and his team developed a model that uses physiological characteristics from
             well-known species, such as the malaria parasite, and applies them to understudied ones.
               “If we can get some idea of what may happen with climate change, you can start to
             plan for the time when a disease arrives, and this applies to wildlife, cattle, humans –
             whatever you want to manage,” says Molnár.

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beyond gps :

                                                                                                  Monkeys can
                                                                                                plan their routes

    The complexity of beating a personal best

“Personal bests” act as reference points in     as they surpass it. They won’t risk playing
human behaviour.                                another game and sinking below where
   “If your personal best is 28 push-ups        their personal best used to be. But eventu-
and you get 29, then you feel much, much        ally they’ll come back and try again.
happier than if you do 27, even though             To bridge models in social sciences
[the two numbers] are very close,” says         and computer science, Anderson believes
Ashton Anderson, an assistant professor in      finding more reference points will make
the Department of Computer and Math-            social science theories more predictive.
ematical Sciences.                                 Computation is having a significant
   Anderson co-led a study with colleagues      impact on the social sciences, where
from the Wharton School at the Univer-          historically lab studies were limited to the
sity of Pennsylvania that analyzed a dataset    number of participants. “Now we have
of more than 130 million chess games by         datasets of billions of people, searching for
70,000 players.                                 what they want to find, talking to their
   So if personal bests are used as reference   friends, finding romantic partners and so
points, how do we expect them to affect         on. [Big] datasets and the computational
how people behave?                              resources that we have to process them
   Anderson says individuals will exert         are akin to the invention of the telescope.
extra effort the closer they get to their       Before, we were just looking at the stars
personal best, and will stop playing as soon    with our bare eyes.”

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                                             Adapting our view on dementia

                                         Marlene Goldman, a professor of English and expert in contempo-
                                         rary Canadian literature and the gothic, is changing the way we
                                         view aging and dementia.
                                            Goldman worked with neurologists and clinicians to under-
                                         stand the current perspective on the condition. When she finished
                                         her book, Forgotten: Narratives of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
                                         in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), she wanted
                                         to make its subject accessible to the audience she studied.
                                            That’s when she added “filmmaker” to her resumé.
                                            Goldman adapted Nobel winner Alice Munro’s short story, “In
                                         Sight of the Lake” for the screen because it offers an alternative to
                                         the gothic approach to dementia.
                                            Working in film was a contrast to the solitary scholarly writing
                                         experience. “It was amazing to move from an individual process
                                         to co-writer, co-director and producer.”
                                            She worked with experienced writer and director Philip
                                         McKee, whom she credits with making her work better.
                                            “How we understand and respond to cognitive decline is based
                                         on our culture,” says Goldman. “People with dementia don’t
                                         always share our sense of ‘reality,’ but when we take the trouble to
                                         forge connection, everyone benefits because we gain access to a
                                         fascinating, alternative and imaginative view of the world.”

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sin o - w es t ern rel at io n s a n d l aw :

                                                     Top book prize

                    Li Chen has won one of the most presti-
                    gious awards in Chinese studies from the
                    Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for
                    his book Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes:
                    Sovereignty, Justice and Transcultural Politics
                    (Columbia University Press, 2016). The
                    AAS awarded the Joseph Levenson Book
                    Prize to Chen, who is the chair of
                    the Department of Historical and Cul-
                    tural Studies.
                       The book takes a unique look at how
                    Western views of China and Chinese law
                    were influenced in the century leading
                    up to the First Opium War (1839-1842).
                       Chen argues that recovering the varied
                    and contradictory roles of Chinese law in
                    Western “modernization” helps focus the
                    subsequent Euro-Americentric discourse of         studies, history of international law
                    global modernity through the eyes                 and empire, post-colonial theories, and
                    of China.                                         Chinese history and Sino-Western rela-
                       “This book was part of the collective          tions. His book also sheds new light on
                    effort of a growing number of scholars to         important topics such as the formation of
                    re-situate the conversation about Chinese         comparative Chinese law in the West, the
                    cultural, legal, social or economic tradi-        origins of the First Opium War and the
                    tions,” says Chen.                                application of foreign laws in China.
                       The book shows how constructed                    The AAS awards the Joseph Levenson
                    differences between societies were first          Book Prizes to two English-language
                    hardened into cultural or racial bound-           books (on the pre-1900 and the post-
                    aries and then politicized to make sense          1900 periods respectively) that make the
                    of international conflicts and hierarchy.         greatest contribution in increasing the
                       Chen draws on recent work in anthro-           understanding of history, culture, society,
                    pology, cultural studies, critical legal          politics or the economy of China.

Making Toronto transit better

The King Street pilot project aims to improve travel times for Toronto Transit Commission commuters along
Toronto’s busiest streetcar route – and it seems to be doing just that.
   Steven Farber, an assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography, worked on the project. He is
also co-director of U of T’s Spatial Analysis of Urban Systems lab, which conducted the research on the King
Street pilot. “[Travel] times have been improved by about four to five minutes during the rush hour period,”
says Farber.
   The pilot aimed to reduce car traffic along a 2.6 kilometre stretch of King Street by allowing motorists to drive
only one block before forcing them to turn right, giving priority to streetcars, which transport more than 65,000
passengers per day.
    “From a transit perspective and an operational perspective, the pilot is achieving the goal of providing a much
faster and more reliable transit route to tens of thousands of people daily,” says Farber.

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Our Stories                                                              h e a lt h h u m a n i t i e s :

                                                         A truly interdisciplinary program

                                                “Health humanities or medical                 The founding director of SCOPE:
                                             humanities, as it’s also sometimes called,    The Health Humanities Learning
                                             can take a few different forms,” Charise      Lab (an arts- and humanities-based
                                             says. “One approach involves more             research and education initiative at U
                                             theoretical considerations of health, ill-    of T Scarborough), Charise is the first
                                             ness, disability and embodiment, as well      recipient of the Digital Scholars Fel-
                                             as the aesthetics of representing illnesses   lowship, co-sponsored by the Jackman
                                             like AIDS, cancer, dementia or depres-        Humanities Institute and University
                                             sion in various creative media. But the       of Toronto Scarborough, which allows
                                             field also encompasses more applied,          her to explore the special affordances
                                             hands-on practices: the use of arts-based     of a digital approach to age studies and
                                             health interventions such as art therapy,     health humanities more generally.
                                             ‘narrative medicine,’ universal design,          “An interdisciplinary field like health
                                             and healthcare architecture, to name          humanities has many possible futures,”
                                             just a few.”                                  says Charise. “One important thread
Andrea Charise, an assistant professor in       Charise is a literary scholar with more    to follow will be how the relationship
the Department of English and Inter-         than 15 years of experience as a medical      between arts, humanities and health plays
disciplinary Centre for Health and           researcher, primarily in geriatrics.          out in different national contexts. The
Society, is the lead developer of Canada’s   Her interdisciplinary research aims to        amplification of voices, experiences and
first undergraduate program in health        highlight the fascinating texture of          communities that have historically been
humanities. The program looks at the         aging, which is far more complex than         marginalized or exploited in the name of
impact of the humanities and critical        the usual platitudes regarding decline or     health care, research and policy is another
social sciences on health.                   so-called “successful” aging.                 necessary future for this field.”

facin g do min a n ce :

Why we may prefer a wider face on our clocks and cars

                                             Research by Pankaj Aggarwal reveals that there may be an unconscious appetite among
                                             consumers for products that convey dominance.
                                                Products like cars and watches are often marketed as sleek, classy and reliable. But
                                             that’s not necessarily what consumers may be looking for when they go shopping.
                                                “If these products are used in situations where you’re competing with someone else,
                                             the goal may be dominance,” says Aggarwal, a marketing professor in the Department
                                             of Management and U of T’s Rotman School of Management.
                                                Aggarwal studies the notion of anthropomorphism, the idea of attributing
                                             human traits to non-human entities.
                                                “While people don’t want to interact with dominant human faces, we found they
                                             prefer it in certain products when their goal is dominance,” says Aggarwal.
                                                So what are the lessons for product designers, marketers and consumers?
                                                Aggarwal says designers may want to look beyond just aesthetics and functionality
                                             to also consider how the product represents certain traits, like dominance or warmth.
                                             “With cars, some may find it useful to convey dominance, but for others, like health-
                                             care products, you may want to signal the complete opposite trait.”

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Uncovering rock-carved churches

Michael Gervers’ research focuses on digitally   church officials seemed surprised it was
preserving the knowledge and technique of        taking place,” says Gervers.

                                                                                                    “
how Ethiopia’s rock-cut churches are made.          A crew of craftsmen, typically with no
   A professor in the Department of His-         formal training and using only hammer and
torical and Cultural Studies, Gervers has        chisel, will carve out 50 centimetres of rock
travelled to Ethiopia three times since 2015,    in a day. Carving a church 15 metres square
and uncovered 20 modern churches across          by four metres high can take two years of
the country.                                     non-stop work, and often progress is slowed        It’s a challenge,
   Gervers’ work has attracted the atten-        by a lack of funds or workers.                     but I’m perfectly
tion of descendants of Ethiopian royalty.           Since most of the modern rock-cut
Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie,     churches are being made in rural areas, the        happy in this
the grandson of the country’s last ruling        only way to find out more is to visit them.        environment.
emperor, awarded Gervers the Grand Cross         Often this involves travelling from vil-           Other than
of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia in recog-   lage to village, and, once there, asking the
nition of his research.                          craftsmen if they know of other churches           basic food and
   There are hundreds of rock-cut churches       that are being built, notes Gervers.               water, I don’t
scattered throughout Ethiopia, some dating          As for what continues to motivate him           crave much
as far back as the 12th century, with a few      most about his research, he says it’s as much
containing the finest examples of monu-          the physical as the intellectual challenges that   in life. What
mental stonework found anywhere in the           come along with it. Most of the churches are       motivates me
world. But many thought the practice of          carved into the side of hills or mountains.        most is seeing
carving churches from rock had all but           Gervers has even had to scale down a sheer
disappeared 500 years ago. Even scholars of      cliff on a rope to access a church.                this project
Ethiopian culture didn’t seem to know it            “It’s a challenge, but I’m perfectly happy      through.”
was still taking place in remote areas of the    in that environment,” he says. “Other than
country.                                         basic food and water, I don’t crave much in
   “Scholars and government officials didn’t     life. What motivates me most is seeing this
seem to know it was happening. Even some         project through.”

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App as a tour guide in
                                                       Rouge National Urban Park

                                               A new mobile app for Rouge National Urban Park developed
                                               by U of T Scarborough students is so good, it’s like having a
                                               seasoned tour guide right in the palm of your hands.
                                                  The project was part of the students’ work placement with
                                               Parks Canada as part of the Arts & Science Co-op program,
                                               but work on the app took place in The Hub, U of T Scarbor-
                                               ough’s centre for innovation and entrepreneurship, under the
   Changing landscape                          guidance of Hub Director Gray Graffam.
                                                  “We wanted the app to be user friendly and fun, one that high-
   and Arctic ponds as                         lights the amazing ecology and cultural history for people in real
                                               time,” says Kaitlyn Chow, a graduate of the master’s program in
   a source of carbon                          Environmental Science who helped develop the app.
                                                  Chow developed the content side of the app along with
        emissions                              fellow Environmental Science master’s student Winston Lee,
                                               while Computer Science students Derek Etherton, Alex
                                               Cavanagh, Dayde Reid and Brian Au worked on the technical
                                               side. In addition to an interactive park map detailing trails and
Some ponds in the High Arctic may be           points of interest, users can also turn on a Rouge Tracking
a hidden source of greenhouse gases.           feature that acts as a GPS-based virtual tour guide.
   A study co-authored by Environ-                More than 1,700 species have been documented in the
mental Science Professor Myrna Simpson         park, which also includes a diverse range of habitats including
looked at how dissolved organic carbon         meadows, wetlands, marshes and farmland, not to mention a
(DOC) stored in Arctic permafrost is           stretch of Carolinian Forest found nowhere else in Canada.
being released into Arctic watersheds          It also has a rich history spanning more than 10,000 years of
as a result of physical disturbances that      human habitation.
relocate nutrients across the landscape.          Rouge National Urban Park is the first national park in
For the first time, researchers were able to   Canada located in an urban setting.
determine that the chemical composition
of carbon in these ponds is vastly different
than in rivers in the High Arctic.
   “This is one of the novel findings of
the study – that these ponds could play an
important role in the global carbon cycle,”
says Simpson. What’s more, she notes, the
Arctic permafrost stores a lot of carbon
because it generally remains frozen, locked
into place for a long time. With rapid
thawing of the permafrost, that’s changing.
In fact, using radiocarbon dating, the
researchers found DOC more than 5,000
years old that was being degraded.
   An important next step for the research
will be to see how widespread the phe-
nomenon is, for example if it happens in
all Arctic ponds and different types of
bodies of water.

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Can the pursuit of happiness                                                                   Using AI to study
make us feel unhappy?                                                                        craters on the moon

                                         Getting caught up in the pursuit of happiness     A new technique developed by Mohamad

“
                                         may end up making us feel unhappy.                Ali-Dib uses the same technology behind
                                            “The annoying thing about happiness            self-driving cars to measure the size and
                                         for people interested in pursuing it is that      location of crater impacts on the moon.
                                         it can be such a moving target,” says study          “[We’ve] developed a technique from
                                         co-author Sam Maglio, an assistant professor      artificial intelligence that can automate
It helps if you                          in the Department of Management and U of          this entire process, [saving] significant
can let go of                            T’s Rotman School of Management.                  time and effort,” says Ali-Dib, a postdoc-
                                            “Happiness is something that everyone          toral fellow in the Centre for Planetary
happiness as                             wants a little bit more of, but there’s no        Sciences (CPS).
a goal that                              clearly defined end state for when you’ve            “It’s the first time we have an algorithm
needs constant                           got it.”                                          that can detect craters really well for not
                                            So what can people do if they want or          only parts of the moon, but also areas
pursuing and                             need to pursue happiness as a goal?               of Mercury,” Ali-Dib says. He developed
instead see it as                           For one, says Maglio, focus on the present     the technique along with Ari Silburt,
something that                           thing that makes you happy, and appreciate        Chenchong Charles Zhu and a group
                                         the progress you’ve made in achieving it. If      of researchers at CPS and the Canadian
is already all                           hiking makes you happy, for example, just         Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
around you.”                             focus on the current hike and not the life-       (CITA).
                                         time of hikes you will need to take.                 Knowing the size and location of
                                            The other is to take stock of what’s already   craters on bodies like the moon is impor-
                                         in your life that’s making you happy or pro-      tant because it offers a window into the
                                         viding you with a sense of happiness.             history of our solar system. By studying
                                            “It helps if you can let go of happiness       impact craters of all shapes, sizes and ages,
                                         as a goal that needs constant pursuing and        we can better understand the distribution
                                         instead see it as something that is already       of material and the physics that occurred
                                         all around you.”                                  in the early stages of our solar system.

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In his research, Jackson Yue Bin Guo
                                                          focuses on the interplay between
                                                          popular and elite cultures.
                                                             A PhD candidate of late imperial
                                                          Chinese history who works with Pro-
                                                          fessor Li Chen in the Department of
                                                          Historical and Cultural Studies, Guo
                                                          is also affiliated with the Culinaria
                                                          Research Centre.
                                                             His research focuses on how alcohol
                                                          shook the distinctive features of social
                                                          class, ethnicity and other constructed
                                                          boundaries during the Qing dynasty
                                                          (1644–1912).
                                  “What fascinates me about the Qing dynasty is that the
                               empire was massive, so there was a flourishing of trade and a
                               lot going on culturally that was so influential to the drinking
im p eri a l g at herin gs :   culture,” says Guo. “A big part of my research going forward
                               is looking at the different ways drinking habits of the elites
Interplay between              were influenced by commoners. We’re talking about 300 mil-
                               lion people around that time, so it’s very likely that elites were
popular and                    influenced by what was going on among commoners.”
                                  To conduct his research, Guo went to four of the larger
elite cultures                 archives in China and Taiwan, spending a month in the First
                               Historical Archives of China in Beijing, where most of the
                               Qing records are kept, to manually copy research material.
Our Stories

                                                             Toronto needs to develop a fresh vision
                                         Fresh vision for    for its public art projects.
                                                                This is the key finding of Redefining
                                         public art policy   Public Art in Toronto, a comprehen-
                                                             sive report co-authored by Dan Silver,
                                                             associate professor in the Department
                                                             of Sociology, and Dr. Sara Diamond,
                                                             president and vice-chancellor of
                                                             OCAD University.
                                                                The authors and their teams inter-
                                                             viewed artists, architects, developers,
                                                             politicians and other experts in Toronto

20 | University of Toronto Scarborough
and Montreal. They also relied on       compared to cities like Chicago, San        for Nuit Blanche, while Silver was
an inventory map of all public art      Francisco, Vancouver and Montreal.          co-creator of the Art of the Danforth
projects completed in Toronto from         “The funding model is pretty             festival.
1967 to 2015, looked at a host of       unique to Toronto; it’s a maze and             “Public art is about building a
public art policy documents for the     you can lose yourself in it,” says          profoundly livable city,” says Dia-
City of Toronto and collected similar   Silver. “But the bottom line is that        mond. “There’s no denying it has an
documents from 30 other cities          how projects get funded in Toronto          aesthetic role, but it’s more than just a
around the world as part of a com-      is through a negotiation with devel-        decorative add-on; it can help play an
parative analysis.                      opers for a percentage of development       important role in the future trajectory
  The result? While there are areas     costs that then go towards public art.”     of the city.”
where Toronto is doing well, there         Diamond and Silver say the report           “I hope when Toronto looks at its
are clear areas where it’s falling      offers a path forward for the city by       city-building plans in the coming
behind.                                 outlining eight key recommendations         years and decades, more of an effort
  A key area of improvement is          ranging from robust funding to better       will be made in reaching out to all of
how the city goes about funding         promotion of public art. They bring         its neighbourhoods,” Silver says.
art projects. The number of public      a wealth of experience from outside            “All of these areas have rich cul-
artworks in Toronto is at an all-       of academia, with Diamond being             tural activity and are deserving of an
time high but investment has lagged     the chair of the advisory committee         effective strategy.”

d o yo u s e e w h at i s e e?                                     The dangers of live
A mind-reading                                                    journalistic reporting
algorithm
reconstructs what                                Recent events suggest that the ability of journalists to safely do their job,

we perceive                                      like reporting live on location, has been greatly compromised – even for
                                                 local news reporters. Jeffrey Dvorkin, director of the Journalism program,
                                                 explains how an increase in attacks on the media can be attributed to soci-
                                                 etal shifts and changes in news organizations.
                                                    “At a certain point in time, news organizations decided to save money
                                                 by only sending a reporter out by themselves without a camera person,
                                                 without a producer to help set up the shot and be a second set of eyes and
                                                 ears. [In] an Internet age, [this has] rendered the reporter more vulner-
                                                 able,” he says.
                                                    Dvorkin, who began his journalism career at CBS News in 1972, has
                                                 seen a transformation in the media environment. “Previously war cor-
                                                 respondents, people who did a lot of crime reporting, were the journal-
                                                 ists ending up with PTSD, and now we’re seeing it with photo editors,
                                                 desk editors and copy editors. There is so much harshness out there that
                                                 we have to figure out a better way that we can support good journalism
                                                 and good journalists.”
                                                    Dvorkin notes that all large institutions – media, government, edu-
                                                 cation – are under attack. “The deference that the public used to give
                                                 to the academy, the church, the media is gone. We’re living in more
                                                 troubled times, so our obligation is to present information, educa-
                                                 tional opportunities and development opportunities that make sense to
                                                 people, and not just retreat behind ivory towers.”

                                                                                                               Annual report 2017/2018 | 21
Our Stories

                           Is climate change driving                                   Surprising clues to
                                  hurricanes?                                        anxiety and depression

            Athena Masson, a doctoral student in the Environmental Science           Rutsuko Ito and Andy Lee, both associate
            program working with Professor William Gough, studies hurri-             professors in the Department of Psychology,
            canes in the Atlantic basin.                                             found that a specific part of the hippocampus
                                                                                     could play an important role in emotional
            Compared to other years, was 2017 an unusual year                        regulation.
            for hurricanes?                                                             The finding calls into question our under-
            Compared to recent years, the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has         standing of how exactly this part of the brain
            been an active year, including the frequency of storm formation,         works, since the hippocampus is an area of
            major hurricane formation, and storms forming beyond the desig-          the brain commonly linked with memory
            nated hurricane season.                                                  and dementia.
              The amount of activity can partly be attributed to the warm sea           “What this shows is that we may need
            surface temperatures maintained over the mild North American             to rethink how the hippocampus processes
            winter season. The [U.S.] National Hurricane Center and other            information,” says Ito.
            meteorological agencies called for an above-average hurricane               If the hippocampus plays a role in basic
            season this year because of these contributing elements, and warned      motivational behaviour, it may offer impor-
            about the possibility of both more activity and higher strength in       tant insights into a range of mental health
            the Atlantic basin.                                                      illnesses. Addiction, for example, could be
                                                                                     linked to deficits of approach motivation.
            Can we say that hurricanes like Harvey and Irma are a result             Anxiety and depression, on the other hand,
            of climate change?                                                       could be linked to avoidance behaviours,
            Hurricanes like Harvey and Irma are consistent with what we can          which could also manifest themselves in this
            expect in a warming climate. But it’s a bit tricky to say these storms   part of the brain.
            are only caused by climate change. We are experiencing a slight
            positive trend in the frequency of tropical storms developing, but
            we are not yet seeing a change in their intensity – although it isn’t
            out of the question that elements including intensity, duration and
            size are on the increase.
               The fuel for Atlantic basin hurricanes comes from heat stored
            in the upper levels of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf
            of Mexico. Research in the U of T Scarborough Climate Lab and
            elsewhere has shown the sea surface temperatures in [these] bodies
            of water have increased. The atmosphere is also changing, and
            these changes may be affecting the creation and development of
            hurricanes. My research shows a clear trend for more hurricanes
            making landfall than in the past, which is a serious concern.

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“
do you see w h at i see?                       This is the first time EEG has been
                                            used to reconstruct images based on
A mind-reading                              visual stimuli using neuroimaging
                                            techniques. The technique could have       [EEG] could
algorithm                                   wide-ranging clinical applications.        provide a means
                                               “It could provide a means of
reconstructs what                           communication for people who are           of
                                                                                        communication
                                                                                       for people who
we perceive                                 unable to communicate verbally.
                                            Not only could it produce a neural-        are unable to
                                            based reconstruction of what a person
                                            is perceiving, but also of what they       communicate
                                            remember and imagine, of what they         verbally. Not only
Researchers are now able to digitally       want to express,” says Nestor.             could it produce
reconstruct images of what people per-         “It could also have forensic uses for
ceive, based on their brain activity.       law enforcement in gathering eyewit-       a neural-based
   A technique developed by Dan             ness information on potential suspects     reconstruction
Nemrodov, a postdoctoral fellow in          rather than relying on verbal descrip-
Assistant Professor Adrian Nestor’s lab     tions provided to a sketch artist.
                                                                                       of what a person
in the Department of Psychology, uses          “What’s really exciting is that we’re   is perceiving,
electroencephalography (EEG) data to        not reconstructing squares and tri-        but also of what
obtain the images.                          angles but actual images of a person’s
   “When we see something, our brain        face, and that involves a lot of fine-
                                                                                       they remember
creates a mental percept, which is essen-   grained visual detail,” adds Nestor.       and imagine, of
tially a mental impression of that thing.      “It unveils the subjective content      what they want to
We were able to capture this percept        of our mind and it provides a way to
using EEG to get a direct illustration of   access, explore and share the con-
                                                                                       express.”
what’s happening in the brain during this   tent of our perception, memory and
process,” says Nemrodov.                    imagination.”

                                                                                                Annual report 2017/2018 | 23
Faculty Awards

                                         internal                              external

                                         University of Toronto President’s
                                         Impact Award 2017                     Royal Society of Canada Fellow 2017
                                         U of T Scarborough Principal’s
                                         Research Award 2018
                                                                               frank wania,
                                                                               Physical & Environmental
                                         zindel segal,                         Sciences
                                         Psychology

                                         U of T Scarborough Research           Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research
                                         Excellence Faculty Scholars 2018-21   Fellowship 2018

                                         julie mccarthy,                       robert haslhofer,
                                         Management                            Computer & Mathematical
                                                                               Sciences
                                         anthony ruocco,
                                         Psychology                            giulio tiozzo,
                                                                               Computer & Mathematical
                                         andre simpson,                        Sciences
                                         Physical & Environmental
                                         Sciences
                                                                               Ministry of Research, Innovation and
                                                                               Science Early Researcher Award 2018

                                                                               stefanos aretakis,
                                                                               Computer & Mathematical
                                         U of T Scarborough Research
                                                                               Sciences
                                         Recognition Award 2018

                                         artur izmaylov,                       blake richards,
                                                                               Biological Sciences
                                         Physical & Environmental
                                         Sciences

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Canada                                                       Cendri Hutcherson, an assistant professor of
                                                               psychology and the director of the Toronto
  Research                                                     Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, is U
                                                               of T Scarborough’s most recent Canada
  Chairs                                                       Research Chair.
                                                                  Hutcherson’s research focuses on the
                                                               development of neural and behavioural
                                                               models of decision making and self-control.
                                                               Her research program aims to explain and
                                                               predict why people succeed or fail to make
                                                               good choices in different contexts, and
                                                               hopes to yield new technologies and strate-
                                                               gies to help them improve their decision
                                                               making. These strategies will allow indi-
                                                               viduals to set and achieve their goals more
                                                               effectively, and will help create more effec-
                                                               tive health and educational policies.
                           cendri hutcherson,
                           Canada Research Chair in Decision
                           Neuroscience, 2018-2023

c u rre n t c a n a da re s e a rc h                                kagan kerman,
                                                                    Physical & Environmental Sciences,
c h a i r s at u o f t s c a rb o ro u g h                          CRC in the Bioelectrochemistry of
                                                                    Proteins, 2016-2021

                daniel bender,                                      michael lambek ,
                Historical & Cultural Studies,                      Anthropology, CRC in the
                CRC in Global Culture,                              Anthropology of Ethical Life,
                2014-2021                                           2006-2020

                brian connelly,                                     bianca schroeder,
                Management, CRC in                                  Computer & Mathematical Sciences,
                Integrative Perspectives on                         CRC in Data Centre Technologies,
                Personality, 2016-2021                              2014-2019

                marney isaac,
                Physical & Environmental
                                                                    bebhinn treanor,
                Sciences / Centre for Critical                      Biological Sciences, CRC in
                Development Studies,                                Spatially Resolved Biochemistry,
                CRC in Agroecosystems and                           2016-2021
                Development, 2013-2018

                                                                                                       Annual report 2017/2018 | 25
Student Awards

             2017-18
             u of t sca rborough u n dergr a duat e
             r e s e a r c h p o s t e r f o r u m (Co-sponsored by the
                                                                        Library and the Office
                                                                        of the Vice-Principal
                                                                        Research)

              1 st
             place
                                         janessa tam & hoi tai lau,
                                         Centre for French & Linguistics
                                         Processing digraphic text (Cantonese-
                                         English) in social media settings
                                                                                                 U of T Scarborough Undergraduate
                                                                                                 Research Prize 2017-18
                                                                                                 (Co-sponsored by the Library and the
                                                                                                 Office of the Vice-Principal Research)

                                                                                                 nikolai meek ,
                                                                                                 Computer & Mathematical

              2
                                                                                                 Sciences
                                         tian lin,
                                                                                                 olivia rennie,

                nd
                                         Physical & Environmental Sciences
                                         and Centre for Critical Development                     Psychology
                                         Studies
                                                                                                 karen wang,
             place                       Community forestry approach to climate
                                         change adaptation: Example from the dry
                                         zone of Myanmar
                                                                                                 Arts, Culture & Media

              3 rd
             place
                                         sumaya dano,
                                         Interdisciplinary Centre for Health
                                         and Society
                                         Social support and illness perception:
                                         How social support is associated with
                                         perceived symptom burden in patients on
                                                                                                 Graduate Student Research Award
                                                                                                 2017-18

                                                                                                 jacob koudys,
                                         maintenance dialysis                                    Psychology, Master’s level

                                         Graduate Student Travel Grants 2017-18
                                                                                                 sathesan
                                                                                                 thavabalasingam,
                                         $22,995.46                                              Psychology, Doctoral level
                                         (grant year : may 1, 2017   – april 30, 2018)

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Research Events

c e l e b r at i o n o f re s e a rc h e xc e l l e n c e l ec t u re s e ri e s

Bringing the community together to advance the intellectual
life of the campus is the goal of U of T Scarborough’s
Celebration of Research Excellence Lecture Series.

“This series crosses academic boundaries to build a sense of
common identity, allowing recent award winners to share their
notable discoveries, and fostering a collective passion for education
and research,” says [then] Acting Vice-Principal Research Marc
Cadotte. “This is a forum that will stimulate the imaginations of
those who share the need to know more.”

The 2017-18 series was comprised of eight lectures, featuring
leading U of T Scarborough scholars:

marc cadotte, Biological Sciences
li chen, Historical & Cultural Studies
jamie donaldson, Physical & Environmental Sciences
michael inzlicht, Psychology
marney isaac,Physical & Environmental Sciences /
                   Centre for Critical Development Studies
lisa jeffrey, Computer & Mathematical Sciences
anthony ruocco, Psychology
frank wania, Physical & Environmental Sciences

n e w f ro n t i e r s s e m i n a r s e ri e s

The New Frontiers Seminar Series showcases the newest research          Speakers in the New Frontiers Seminar Series
being conducted at University of Toronto Scarborough and                2017-18 were:
highlights new discoveries from leading external researchers.
The seminars are designed to reach a broad audience, and                jennifer chun, Sociology
are presented by the U of T Scarborough Graduate Students’              girish daswani, Anthropology
Association, with sponsorship from the Office of the Vice-
                                                                        marlene goldman, English
Principal Research.
                                                                        jayeeta sharma, Historical & Cultural Studies
                                                                        jeffrey hutchings, Dalhousie University (guest)
                                                                        julie lockwood, Rutgers University (guest)
                                                                        massimo pigliucci,The City University
                                                                                               of New York ( guest)

                                                                                                             Annual report 2017/2018 | 27
Outreach

                                                       s ci e n c e re n d e z v o u s at t h e t o ro n t o zo o
             attendance

      ~1500
                                                       U of T Scarborough is continuing its long-standing partnership
                                                       with the Toronto Zoo and Let’s Talk Science with an aim to get
                                                       kids excited about studying science. Faculty and students brought
                                                       the lab to the zoo to inspire the next generation of scientists as
             number of event volunteers
                                                                                       part of Science Rendezvous, a

            80                                                                         national festival of STEM (Science,
                                                                                       Technology, Engineering and Math-
                                                                                       ematics) that takes place at more than
                                                                                       300 sites across Canada.
             volunteer hours spent planning

            1400                                                                      Featured speakers at this year’s Sci-
                                                                                      ence Rendezvous at the local event
                                                                                      at the Toronto zoo included Pro-
                                                                                      fessor Maydianne Andrade, Professor
             social media reach
                                                                                      Marc Cadotte and Assistant Professor

            33,000 +                     impressions
                                                                                      Tod Thiele, all from the Department
                                                                                      of Biological Sciences.

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l e t ’ s ta l k s ci e n c e                                               The number
Let’s Talk Science, an award-winning national charitable outreach
                                                                            of registered
organization, creates and delivers unique learning experiences that         volunteers
engage children and youth in science, technology, engineering and           has grown
mathematics (STEM). Let’s Talk Science at U of T Scarborough

                                                                            36%
has been delivering free hands-on activities to youth in Scarbor-
ough and throughout Ontario since 2004, and has reached more
than 30,000 students in the past 14 years.

More than 5700 youth participated in the 173 events and activities          in the last
organized by the UTSC branch of Let’s Talk Science in 2017-18,              two years
while the number of registered volunteers has grown 36% over the
last two academic years.

Number of Registered Volunteers
                                                                            More than

2010
2011
               20

                            144
                                                                            5700
                                                                            youth participants
2012                     143                                                in 2017-18
2013                  108

2014                         154

2015                               189

2016                                      305

2017                                                        498

2018                                                                  675

                                                                                    Annual report 2017/2018 | 29
Books Published by
           U of T Scarborough
           Research Faculty
                This is a non-comprehensive list of books published by our faculty members
                between January 2017 and June 2018. For full credit of covers, please see page 69.

                                                                                                           SUSTAINABILITY
                                                                                                           POLICY, PLANNING
                                                                                                           AND GENTRIFICATION

                                                                                                           IN CITIES
                                                                                                                                                       SUSANNAH BUNCE

                                                                                                             ROUTLEDGE EQUITY, JUSTICE AND THE SUSTAINABLE CITY SERIES

                Aisha Ahmad                  Aparna Balachandran,          Sandford Borins              Susannah Bunce
                                             Rashmi Pant &                 & Beth Herst
                Jihad & co.:                 Bhavani Raman (Eds.)                                       Sustainability
                Black markets and                                          Negotiating business         policy, planning and
                Islamist power               Iterations of law: Legal      narratives : Fables of the   gentrification in cities
                                             histories from India          information technology,
                                                                           automobile manufacturing,
                                                                           and financial trading
                                                                           industries

                Clayton Childress            Jennifer Clapp &              Sébastien Drouin,            Barry Freeman
                                             S. Ryan Isakson               Myrtille Méricam-
                Under the cover: The                                       Bourdet & Caroline           Staging strangers: Theatre
                creation, production, and    Speculative harvests :        Vernisse (Eds.)              and global ethics
                reception of a novel         Financialization, food, and
                                             agriculture                   Correspondance littéraire
                                                                           de Karlsruhe, Vol. 4

30 | University of Toronto Scarborough
MOBILIZING
                                                                                                                                                                                  FU
                                                                                       CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN CONTENTIOUS POLITICS

                                                                                       “Nearly seventy years ago, Mao Zedong’s Communist party came to power
                                                                                       through mass protests and a people’s army. Since then his successors have

                                                                                                                                                                               MOBILIZING WITHOUT THE MASSES
                                                                                       been increasingly intent on limiting the possibilities for mass protest against their

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  WITHOUT
                                                                                       policies or organized resistance of any sort. Diana Fu ingeniously explores and
                                                                                       explains how China’s modern citizens are working around those constraints and
                                                                                       creating new forms of apparently unorganized resistance. This is an important
978110 8 420 5 49 F U – M O B I L IZI N G W I T H O U T T H E M AS S ES PP C C M Y K

                                                                                       and under-appreciated part of the struggle to determine China’s political future.”
                                                                                       James Fallows, The Atlantic

                                                                                                                                                                                                               THE MASSES
                                                                                       “… Her deeply embedded ethnography shows how organizers have adapted
                                                                                       to the fragmented opportunity structure of the Chinese state at the local level.
                                                                                       Her book represents an important contribution to the literature on contentious
                                                                                       politics and is a milestone in our understanding of China’s powerful but deeply
                                                                                       flawed industrial relations system.”
                                                                                       Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell M. Upson Professor Emeritus of Government, Cornell
                                                                                       University, and author of Power in Movement (Cambridge, 2011)

                                                                                       “Based on remarkable participant-observation field work, Diana Fu provides a
                                                                                                                                                                                                               CONTROL AND CONTENTION IN CHINA
                                                                                       rare and revealing look inside the otherwise opaque world of China’s labor NGOs
                                                                                       ... Mobilizing Without the Masses is a must-read, not only for those studying
                                                                                       contemporary China but for anyone interested in the possibilities for social
                                                                                       mobilization and social justice in authoritarian regimes.”
                                                                                       Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University

                                                                                       “… Mobilizing Without the Masses stands out for disaggregating the state
                                                                                       horizontally, rather than vertically, and because it unpacks the repression–
                                                                                       mobilization nexus in a strikingly bottom-up, close-to-the-ground way. Fu
                                                                                       explores what needs to be collective about collective action and how the
                                                                                       response to migrant worker demands is not always uniform ... we are not likely to
                                                                                       see another book like this on Chinese activism and techniques of control soon.”
                                                                                       Kevin J. O’Brien, University of California, Berkeley

                                                                                       A STUDY OF THE WE ATHE RHE AD
                                                                                       E AST AS IAN INSTITUTE
                                                                                       COLUMBIA UNIVE RS IT Y

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    DIANA FU
                                                                                       Cover image: © Sandra Subraian / OpenART

                                                                                                                                                                                                         Diana Fu                                                                                                                                                                       Marlene Goldman                                John Hannigan
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       & Greg Richards (Eds.)
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Mobilizing without the                                                                                                                                                         Forgotten : Narratives of
                                                                                                                                                                                                         masses: Control and                                                                                                                                                            dementia and Alzheimer’s                       The SAGE handbook of new
                                                                                                                                                                                                         contention in China                                                                                                                                                            disease in Canada                              urban studies

                                                                                                                                                                                                           Bruce Kidd &                                                                                                                                                                 John R. Miron                                  Sharlene Mollett &
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Cesar R. Torres (Eds.)                                                                                                                                                                                                      Thembela Kepe (Eds.)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The organization of cities :
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Historicizing the                                                                                                                                                            Initiative, ordinary life, and                 Land rights, biodiversity
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Pan-American Games                                                                                                                                                           the good life                                  conservation and justice:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Rethinking parks and people
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Beyond Women’s Words

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            “This book is by some of the most distinguished, clever, and informed writers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            in the field. It builds on one of the transformative texts in oral history theory/
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            practice to offer exciting and important contributions to the subject.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Margaretta Jolly, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell stories that matter.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            They know, too, that the telling of those stories—the processes by which they are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            generated and recorded, and the different contexts in which they are shared and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            interpreted—also matters—a lot. Using Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            classic text, Women’s Words, as a platform to reflect on how feminisms have
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            influenced the field of oral history, this collection brings together an international,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            multigenerational, and multidisciplinary group of authors whose work highlights
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            the variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Through five thematic sections, the volume considers Indigenous modes of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            storytelling, feminism in diverse locales around the globe, different theoretical
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            approaches, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            community-engagement. Beyond Women’s Words is ideal for students of oral
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            history, anthropology, public history, women’s and gender history, and Women’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and Gender Studies, as well as activists, artists, and community-engaged
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            practitioners.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Katrina Srigley is Associate Professor in the Department of History at
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Stacey Zembrzycki and Franca Iacovetta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Edited by Katrina Srigley,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada. Author of the awardwinning monograph
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City (2010),
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            her current collaborative work with Nipissing First Nation focuses on the history
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of Nbisiing Anishinaabeg territory.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Stacey Zembrzycki teaches at Dawson College, Quebec, Canada. She is the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            author of According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Community (2014) and its accompanying website www.sudburyukrainians.ca,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            and is co-editor of Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (2013).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Franca Iacovetta is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            co-editor of Studies in Gender and History at University of Toronto Press. A past
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, she is author or editor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            of ten books, including the award-winning Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Lives in Cold War Canada (2006).

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            ORAL HISTORY/WOMEN’S AND GENDER HISTORY

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Cover image: Aunt Grace and the Elders (1978) © Daphne Odjig, Anishinaabekwe from Wikwemikong Unceded Territory.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Beyond Women’s Words
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         FEMINISMS AND THE PRACTICES OF ORAL HISTORY
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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                                                                                                                                                                                                           Jeffrey M. Pilcher                                                                                                                                                           Katrina Srigley, Stacey                        Sherry S. Yu
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Zembrzycki & Franca
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Food in world history:                                                                                                                                                       Iacovetta (Eds.)                               Diasporic media beyond
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Second edition                                                                                                                                                                                                              the diaspora : Korean
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Beyond women’s words :                         media in Vancouver and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Feminisms and the                              Los Angeles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        practices of oral history in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        the twenty-first century

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Research Funding
            by      Re search Facult y
              Data source: University of Toronto Research Information System
              Award Report, prorated, Grant Year April 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018.
              Report generated on July 9, 2018. This is a non-comprehensive list.

              faculty             department          sponsor                program               project title                                     awarded

              Aggarwal,            Management         Social Sciences &      Insight Grant         Tradeoffs and product flaws: Applying             $15,228.00
              Pankaj                                  Humanities Research                          social norms to anthropomorphized
                                                      Council (SSHRC)                              products

              Ahmad,              Political Science   Norwegian University   Norwegian Research    The Jihadist war economies project                $61,541.00
              Aisha                                   of Life Sciences       Council Subgrant

              Ambuehl,             Management         Connaught Fund         New Researcher        Incentives for complex transactions -             $17,500.00
              Sandro                                                         Award                 Bridging economics and ethics

              Andrade,            Biological          Natural Sciences &     Discovery Grant       Examining links between behaviour, plasticity     $33,000.00
              Maydianne           Sciences            Engineering Research                         and diversification under environmental
                                                      Council (NSERC)                              heterogeneity using broadly distributed spiders

              Aretakis,            Computer &         Connaught Fund         New Researcher        Mathematical problems in general relativity        $5,000.00
              Stefanos             Mathematical                              Award
                                   Sciences

                                                      NSERC                  Discovery Grant       Mathematical problems in general relativity       $30,000.00

              Arhonditsis,        Physical &          Environment Canada     Great Lakes           Eutrophication risk assessment with               $60,000.00
              George              Environmental                              University Research   process-based modelling and evolutionary
                                  Sciences                                   Fund                  algorithms in the Bay of Quinte AOC

                                                      Environment Canada     Great Lakes           Determination of the best management              $60,000.00
                                                                             University Research   practices in the Napanee River watershed
                                                                             Fund

                                                      Environment Canada     Great Lakes           Integrated modelling to assess phosphorus         $60,000.00
                                                                             University Research   best management practices in Hamilton
                                                                             Fund                  Harbour

                                                      Environment Canada     Great Lakes           Eutrophication risk assessment and                $68,000.00
                                                                             University Research   adaptive management implementation in
                                                                             Fund                  the Hamilton Harbour AOC: Elucidating the
                                                                                                   role of internal nutrient recycling

                                                      Environment Canada     Great Lakes           Modelling nutrient exports and dynamics           $50,000.00
                                                                             University Research   including internal nutrient loading in
                                                                             Fund                  Lake Erie

                                                      Mitacs                 Elevate (PDF)         Guiding delisting decisions in the Great          $23,958.34
                                                                                                   Lakes area: Development of a Bayesian risk
                                                                                                   assessment methodology

                                                      NSERC                  Discovery Grant       A Bayesian framework to study the effects         $58,000.00
                                                                                                   of hydrological extremes under present and
                                                                                                   future climate conditions

                                                      U.S. Department        Operating Contract    Great Lakes water quality models inventory        $50,020.99
                                                      of State

              Armstrong,          Psychology          NSERC                  Discovery Grant       Toward a universal theory and model of            $26,000.00
              Blair                                                                                word comprehension

              Arruda              Psychology          Brain & Behavior       NARSAD Young          Circuit maturation and susceptibility              $2,612.82
              Carvalho,                               Research Foundation    Investigator Award    to depression
              Maithe

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faculty       department          sponsor                 program                project title                                  awarded

Arruda        Psychology          Canada Foundation       Infrastructure         Maturation of sensitive circuits underlying    $10,983.05
Carvalho,                         for Innovation (CFI)    Operating Fund         early life stress
Maithe                                                    (IOF)

                                  CFI                     John R. Evans          Maturation of sensitive circuits underlying    $60,000.00
                                                          Leaders Fund           early life stress

                                  Ministry of Research,   Small Infrastructure   Maturation of sensitive circuits underlying    $60,000.00
                                  Innovation and          FundRese               early life stress evolutionary algorithms in
                                  Science                                        the Bay of Quinte AOC

                                  NSERC                   Discovery Grant        Maturation of circuits underlying learning     $33,000.00
                                                                                 and memory panee River watershed

                                  NSERC                   Research Tools         Circuit basis of decision making across the     $9,354.62
                                                          & Instruments -        lifespan anagement practices in Hamilton
                                                          Category 1             Harbour

Averbakh,     Management          nserc                   Discovery Grant        Nonclassical discrete optimization problems    $21,000.00
Igor

Birn, Anne-   Political Science   Canadian Institutes     Open Operating         Health diplomacy at a crossroads: Social        $8,333.33
Emanuelle                         of Health Research      Grant                  justice-oriented south-south cooperation in
                                  (CIHR)                                         a time of global changeLake Erie

Blouin,       Historical and      SSHRC                   Insight                Living on the edges: Cultural landscapes        $5,116.67
Katherine     Cultural Studies                            Development Grant      in the Hellenistic and Roman eastern Nile
                                                                                 Delta

Boonstra,     Biological          NSERC                   Discovery Grant -      The role of stress in natural populations      $15,000.00
Rudy          Sciences                                    Northern Research
                                                          Supplement

                                  NSERC                   Discovery Grant        The role of stress in natural populations in   $51,000.00

                                  Office of Naval         Research               Quantifying stress in marine mammals:           $3,459.73
                                  Research                                       Measuring biologically active cortisol in
                                                                                 cetaceans and pinnipeds

Borins,       Management          SSHRC                   Insight Grant          Extending the reach of a methodology           $18,148.00
Sandford                                                                         for studying narratives about politics and
                                                                                 government

                                                          University of          Extending the reach of a methodology            $6,000.00
                                                          Toronto Excellence     for studying narratives about politics and
                                                          Award - SSH            government

Bowen,        Arts, Culture       SSHRC                   Aid to Scholarly       Renaissance and reformation / renaissance      $29,347.86
William       & Media                                     Journals               et réforme

Brown,        Anthropology /      CIHR                    Project Scheme         Chronic medical conditions and perinatal       $76,500.00
Hilary        Interdisciplinary                           Grant                  mental illness
Kathryn       Centre for Health
              & Society
                                  CIHR                    Request for            Infants born to women with disabilities:        $4,167.00
                                                          Applications (RFA)     Health and health care
                                                          Operating Grant

                                  Connaught Fund          New Researcher         Maternal diabetes and perinatal mental         $17,500.00
                                                          Award                  illness: A population-based cohort study

                                  National Institutes     Operating              Pregnancy in women with disabilities:          $114,598.56
                                  of Health (U.S.)        Grant-R01              Using novel methods to characterize risk

                                  Women’s College         Women’s Xchange        Pilot randomized controlled trial of an         $7,495.50
                                  Hospital                Project Funding        interconception intervention provided
                                                                                 by public health nurses to improve
                                                                                 reproductive and perinatal outcomes

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