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Congratulations to the 2023 FASS faculty and staff award winners
Every year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) recognizes the dedication, hard work, and excellence of its faculty and staff by honouring them with the Dean's Medal Awards, Cormack Teaching Awards, and Employee Achievement Awards. Congratulations to all the winners!
Dean's Medal Awards
In recognition of academic excellence in research, teaching, and service, with an emphasis on significant contributions while in position at SFU FASS, up to three Dean's Medals and one Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded annually to tenured faculty.
Betty A. Schellenberg
English
Betty A. Schellenberg is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of ten books on eighteenth-century literary culture – about women writers, authorship, manuscript culture, literary coteries, Bluestockings, and the novelist Samuel Richardson. At the moment, she is especially interested in manuscript poetry collections in which people created “personal playlists” of their favourite poems, thereby leaving us a record of their tastes and how they saw themselves as active participants in literature.
Mark Pickup
Political Science
Mark Pickup is a professor in the Department of Political Science. He is a specialist in political behaviour, political psychology and political methodology. Substantively, his research primarily falls into three areas: political identities and political decision-making; conditions of democratic responsiveness and accountability; and polls and electoral outcomes. His research focuses on political information, public opinion, political identities, norms and election campaigns within North American and European countries.
Yue Wang
Linguistics
Yue Wang is a professor in the Department of Linguistics. Her main areas of research are phonetics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive science. Using behavioral and neuro-imaging techniques, she has been studying the processing and acquisition of second-language speech sounds by both children and adults with the goal of learning more about brain plasticity as well as how multisensory brain systems cooperate functionally in cognitive processing. She is also the director of the Language and Brain Lab.
Cormack Teaching Awards
The Cormack Teaching Awards celebrate excellence and innovation in teaching within the faculty. The award recognizes the passion that faculty bring to the classroom, quality of pedagogy and the value they bring to their students’ education and the FASS teaching community.
Amanda Watson
Sociology and Anthropology
Amanda Watson is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research interests include care, labour, social reproduction, disability, climate crisis, media representation of maternal labour and identity, and feminist pedagogy. She teaches on politics of family, global problems and the culture of capitalism, and power and conflict in Canadian society. Her current projects explore how young adults reconcile their desires for ethical family life and how young adults talk about their future relations in the context of interlocking crises.
Atiya Mahmood
Gerontology
Atiya Mahmood is a Professor at the Department of Gerontology. Her training is in environmental gerontology and her research focuses on health and built environments for older adults with a specific interest in neighbourhood environments, mobility, active living and pro-social behaviour/social engagement of diverse groups of older adults in community-based and supportive housing. She has over two decades experience in qualitative and mixed methods research in the areas of environment-behaviour studies and aging and built environment.
Coleman Nye
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Coleman Nye is an assistant professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She works at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, graphic medicine, and performance studies. She co-authored Lissa: a story of friendship, medical promise, and revolution and is currently completing a monograph Biological Property: Race, Gender, Genetics which mines the epistemological linkages between genetic understandings of relation and property-based models of inheritance.
John-Henry Harter
History and Labour Studies
John-Henry Harter is a lecturer at the Department of History and the Labour Studies Program. He has had what can be best described as a non-traditional education. A high school dropout, he worked as a washer of walls, a digger of ditches, a tender of bar, and a waiter of tables. Going back to school as a mature student, Harter graduated with honours with a degree in History and minor in Film Studies. He has a Masters and PhD in History from SFU. He writes on class, the environment, and popular culture when not consuming too much coffee and TV.
Tamara O'Doherty
Criminology
Tamara O'Doherty is a senior lecturer in the School of Criminology. Her research expertise includes critical criminology, human rights and criminal law, collaborative and legal research methods. In addition to post-secondary teaching and decolonizing legal pedagogy contributions, O'Doherty’s research and publications have focused on the effects of criminalization, victimization, commercial sex, and human trafficking law.
Employee Achievement Awards
The FASS Employee Achievement Awards recognize the dedication and hard work of all FASS Employees, continuing and temporary, on behalf of our students and in advancing the academic mission.
Individual Work Performance
Huyen Pham, Global Humanities
An alumnus of the humanities program, Huyen has been working with the Department of Global Humanities and the Institute for the Humanities since 2014. In her various roles – first as a program assistant, then as a communications coordinator, and now as department manager – Pham is known for going above and beyond, and for being the reliable voice of reason and calm in any crisis. Her attention to detail, creativity, and strong work ethic has helped to elevate the reputation and profile of Global Humanities.
Term Teaching or Research Faculty
Adam Blanchard, Psychology
Adam Blanchard is a term assistant professor at the Department of Psychology where he completed his master's in clinical forensic psychology and PhD in experimental psychology and law. As part of his teaching philosophy, Blanchard believes that an educator’s role is to not only help students succeed in class, but it is also to impart onto them the skills and confidence they need to succeed in their future careers. Described by faculty and students as a diligent and engaging instructor, Blanchard incorporates interactive and problem-based learning into his courses as a way to help students develop critical thinking skills and become more engaged with the class material.
Sessional Instructor
Evan Caldbick, Psychology
Described by his doctoral supervisor as “a true polymath”, Evan Caldbick has been praised for his ability to communicate his intellectual curiosity to students in a highly infectious way, turning challenging material into an engaging exercise in storytelling. His colleagues at the Department of Psychology attest to Caldbick’s genuine concern for his students' academic growth and well-being, often adapting his teaching methods to be more accessible and providing extra support both inside and outside the classroom.
Teaching Assistant or Tutor Marker
Richard Hohn, Psychology
Over the years as a teaching assistant with the Department of Psychology, Richard Hohn has demonstrated adeptness in teaching complex methodology courses in an approachable manner. The enthusiasm he brings to quantitative courses, usually considered challenging by many students, has had a positive impact in the classroom, as evident by the positive evaluations Richard receives every time he teaches.
Teaching Assistant or Tutor Marker
Sara Doering, Criminology
As a Criminology alumnus herself, Sara Doering uses her lived experience to help students succeed in their class material. Often embodying a positive and optimistic attitude, Doering goes above and beyond for her students at every possible opportunity, including creating resource documents and preparing mini lectures. According to her student nominators, her empathy and commitment to student success has made a big difference in their learning experience.