Honours & Awards
Student & Recent Graduate Awards
Jose Miguel “Miggy” Esteban receives the 2025 Kathleen O’Connell Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. JJ Wright (PhD 2022) is named one of Edify's Top 40 Under 40 of 2025.
Annie Chau is the recipient of the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship — SSHRC Doctoral (CGRS D) for 2025-26.
Emelia Sandau is the recipient of the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship — SSHRC Master's (CGRS M) for 2025-26.
Dr. Marissa Largo (PhD 2018) is the recipient of the 2023 Emerging Leader Award from the OISE Leaders and Legends Awards.
Dr. Rebecca Beaulne-Stuebing (PhD 2022) is the recipient of the 2023 Leithwood Award for OISE Outstanding Thesis of the Year.
Amanda Buffalo (EdD) is the winner of the 2022 National Women’s Studies Association (US) First Book Prize for her dissertation Kēdzéntēdé Kedzedı̨̄: Aunties, Disestablishment, and the Making of Communiversitea.
Michael Primrose (MA 2022) is awarded the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society's 2022 Thesis and Dissertation Award for Badiou, Freire, and the Pedagogy of Concentration.
Dr. Notisha Massaquoi (PhD) is recognized by Toronto Life as one of the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2022.
Sandy Hudson (MA 2018) is named to Maclean’s 2021 Power List.
Joel Mukwedeya is the recipient of the 2021 Arbor Award
Deserene Burrell-Ingram is the recipient of 2021 Sister A.T. Sheehan as well as the 2021 CSJ Graduate Fellowship.
Abarna Selvarajah is the recipient of the 2021 Danny and Muriel Fung Graduate Award as well as the 2021 CCDI Fiftieth Anniversary First Families Award.
Terri-Lynn Langdon is the recipient of the 2020 Eric Waldron Scholarship.
Dr. Polina Kukar is the recipient of the 2020 E. Lisa Panyotidis Dissertation Award by the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education.
Faculty Awards
Professor Shozab Raza is awarded a 2025 Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Professor Amal Madibbo is awarded the 2025 Outstanding Contribution Award by the Canadian Sociological Association.
Professor Shozab Raza is co-awarded a 2025 SSHRC Connection Grant for "Marxism in Translation and the Demands of Decolonization"
Professor Lauren Bialystok is the co-recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Scholarly Publication on Justice in Education for Touchy Subject: The History and Philosophy of Sex Education.
Professor Shozab Raza has been awarded the University of Toronto's Connaught New Researcher Award with a 2025-27 research agreement from the Connaught Fund for "The Revolution in Decolonization: Universal Insurgency in the Global Sixties."
Professor Megan Boler is co-awarded a 2025 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Capturing care work: Making visible women’s emotional work in families through participatory video."
Professor Shozab Raza has been awarded the 2024-25 Fung Global Fellowship from the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University.
Professor Devon Healey is awarded the 2023 Connaught New Researcher Award for "Ways of Seeing: An Exploration of Blindness as a form of Perception."
Professor Njoki Wane is the recipient of the 2023 Excellence Award from the OISE Leaders and Legends Awards.
Professor Miglena Todorova has been recognized with the 2023 Canadian Association for the Study of Women's Achievement Award.
Professor Abigail Bakan has been awarded the 2023 Milner Memorial Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
Professor George Dei is a co-recipient of the University of Toronto's 2023 President’s Impact Award, designating him by the University as a member of the President’s Impact Academy.
Professor Hayley Brooks is the recipient of the 2022 University of Toronto Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence.
Professor George Dei has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Black Canadians of 2022 by Afroglobal Television.
Professor Abigail Bakan is awarded a 2021 research award from the Canadian Heritage Digital Citizen Research Program for "Promoting Social Cohesion and Resilience to Far-Right Disinformation through Adult Disinformation Literacy: A Scoping Review."
Professor George Dei has received the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators.
Staff Awards
Iman Fouad is the recipient of the Cultivating Community Award 2024.
Sezen Atacan is recipient of the 2021-2022 OISE Staff Excellence Innovation Award as a part of OISE's Slate Working Group.
Sezen Atacan is recipient of the Dr. Claire Alleyne Staff Excellence Award.
Honours & Awards - Archive
Anne McGuire (PhD 2011) wins the first Tobin Siebers prize in Disability Studies in the Humanities at the Modern Languages Association for her book War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence.
Kate Cairns (PhD 2011) wins the 2013 Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada.
Paloma Villegas (PhD 2012) wins the 2012 OISE Leithwood Award for Outstanding Thesis of the Year.
Michael Mcgarry (PhD 2013) wins the 2014 Canadian Philosophy of Education Society Dissertation Award for To read, write, and cast accounts: Foucault, Governmentality and Education in Upper Canada/Canada West.
Sandy Hudson (MA 2018) is the recipient of the Black Champions Award by the Canadian Youth Champions.
Natalie Romanow (MA 2019) wins the 2019 Master's Thesis Recognition Award from the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education for Confidence in Crisis: An Investigation of Education Strategies in a Crisis-Defined System.
Sandy Hudson (MA 2018) is the recipient of the OISE Emerging Leader award in 2019.
Harriet Akanmori, PhD student (2015)
Francisco Villegas, PhD Candidate (2014)
Cindy Ruvashtre Sinclair, PhD Candidate (2013)
Jacqui Spencer
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Marissa Largo, Doctoral (2013-16)
Ashling Ligate, Masters
Averie MacDonald, Masters
Amanda Parris, Masters
Jaclyn San Antonio, Doctoral (2013-16)
David Pereira, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships 2013-16
Roopa Cheema
Surekha Gangopadhyay
Laura Landertinger (2014)
Ashling Ligate (2013)
Averie MacDonald (2013)
Amanda Parris (2013)
Aman Sium (2013)
Preeia Surajbali (2013)
Kate Zankowics is the winner of the University of Toronto Women's Association A&C Coman Scholarship, 2013-2014.
Terri-Lynn Langdon is the recipient of the Dr. E. Bruce Hendrick Scholarship.
Laura Landertinger is awarded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's (NAISA) Best Student Paper for her presentation at the annual NAISA Conference in 2014.
Laura Kwak is awarded for Academic Excellence (2014)
Sandy Hudson is named one of the most influential Torontonians of 2016 by Toronto Life.
Sandy Hudson is named one of Toronto's most inspiring women of 2017 by Post City Magazine.
Maya Chacaby is the recipient of the 2017-2018 Amilcare Iannucci Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities.
JJ Wright is the 2018-2019 recipient of the University of Toronto Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence.
Suleyman Demi is the recipient of the 2019 Lisa Robinson Award for Excellence in Research.
Leroy Baker is the recipient of the 2019 Dionne Brand Award for Excellence in Liberal Arts.
Suleyman Demi and Ezinwanne Odozor are recipients of the 2019 Gordon Cressy Leadership Award.
Dr. Marleen Villanueva is the recipient of the 2019 OISE Scholarship for Indigenous Doctoral Students.
Professor Eve Tuck is a recipient of the 2023 Mike Charleston Award for Distinguished Contributions to Indigenous Education.
Professor Eve Tuck is the recipient of the 2022 Spencer Mentor Award 2022 by the Spencer Foundation.
Professor Eve Tuck is the Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellow in the Humanities, 2020-21.
Professor Eve Tuck is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in 2021 from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Professor Emeriti Dorothy Smith, is appointed to the Order of Canada for "extending the boundaries of traditional sociology to incorporate a feminist perspective, and for developing institutional ethnography,” in 2019.
Professor Rosalind Hampton is the recipient of the 2019 Connaught New Researcher Award for "Plotting Black Studies in Canada."
Professor Megan Boler has been awarded a Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge grant for her research project, "Affective Media, Social Movements, and Digital Dissent: Emotions and Democratic Participation in the 'Post-Truth' Era".
Professor Lauren Bialystok is the recipient of the 2018 OISE Distinguished Contributions to Teaching.
Professor George Dei has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2017.
Professor Megan Boler is awarded a 2016 Knowledge Synthesis Grant for "Safeguarding democracies: An interdisciplinary synthesis of digital media studies and the politics of emotion to understand identity, belonging and trust in the post-truth media landscape."
Professor Lauren Bialystok is awarded a 2012-16 research agreement from the Connaught Fund for "Refining the Authenticity Discourse in Education."
Professor Miglena Todorova is awarded a 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for "Sexual and Gender-based Violence among International Students: A Qualitative Approach."
Professor Miglena Todorova is awarded a 2019 SSHRC Connection Grant for "Social Innovation in Media Literacy Education."
Professor Rosalind Hampton is co-awarded a 2019 SSHRC Insight Development Grant for "Coalition Building by and with Black Students at Canadian Universities from 1960-2000."
Professor Megan Boler is co-awarded a 2018 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Digital Dissenters and Polarized Politics: Affect, Identity and Social Media in the U.S. and Canadian Elections."
Professor Abigail Bakan is co-awarded a 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "The UN as knowledge producer: World conferences on women, racialized and Indigenous people."
Professor Lauren Bialystok is awarded a 2017 SSHRC Grant for "The Philosophy of Education Society."
Professor George Dei is awarded a 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "The potential for elders' cultural knowledge to contribute to a new education futurity."
Professor John Portelli is awarded a 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Investigating the impact of the Ontario equity policy."
Professor Njoki Wane is awarded a 2017 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Black women's experience in leadership positions in Canadian universities."
Professor Lauren Bialystok is awarded a 2016 SSHRC Insight Grant for "Touchy Subject: Investigating and Assessing the Aims of Ontario's Controversial 2015 Sex Education Curriculum"
