On September 3rd, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced its newest list of new Fellows and Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. The class of 2024 includes four McGill Arts Professors: Professor Arash Abizadeh (Department of Political Science), Professor Daniel Béland (Department of Political Science), Professor Delphine Collin-Vézina (School of Social Work) and Professor Alain Farah ( Département des littératures de langue françaises, de traduction et de creation). Professors Abizadeh, Béland, and Collin-Vézina were appointed to the Society's Academy of Social Sciences and Professor Farah was appointed to the Society's Academy of Arts and Humanities.
“McGill’s new cohort of Royal Society of Canada Fellows and Members are not only exceptional individuals but are, in many ways, the very embodiment of the university,” said Dominique Bérubé, Vice-President, Research and Innovation to the McGill Reporter. “Their transformative contributions, from advancing equitable and inclusive public policies to enriching French-language literature, reflect the core of McGill’s mission and impact.”
“McGill exists because of their work and their success is the university’s success,” she added. “The entire McGill community celebrates and congratulates them on these well-deserved honours.”
About this year’s Fellows:
Arash Abizadeh is the R.B. Angus Professor of Political Science and an Associate Member of the Department of Philosophy. He specializes in contemporary political theory, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. His research has focussed on democratic theory; democracy's relation to identity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism; immigration and border control; social and political power; the role of passion, rhetoric, and discourse in politics; and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, particularly Hobbes and Rousseau.
Daniel Béland is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Professor Béland has published more than 20 books and 180 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 13,000 times. Professor Béland currently serves Editor of Policy and Society and Executive Editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. He is also on the editorial board of a dozen journals, including Global Social Policy, Governance, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Policy and Society, Policy Sciences, The Gerontologist, and World Affairs. During his tenure at McGill, Professor Béland has held two Canada Research Chairs (a Tier 2 and Tier 1) and has been awarded six SSHRC standard research/Insight grants.
Professor Béland is on sabbatical for the 2024-2025 academic year and will be undertaking a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute.
Delphine Collin-Vézina is the Director of the Centre for Research on Children and Families and an Associate Member in the Department of Pediatrics. She holds the Nicolas Steinmetz and Gilles Julien Chair in Community Social Pediatrics. She has established the research group on Social Responses to Complex Trauma at McGill University and has received a 2.5 million SSHRC Partnership grant to expand this work and establish the Canadian Consortium on Child Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (2020-2027) and she was awarded the 2020 CPA Traumatic Stress Section Award for Excellence in Psychology.
Alain Farah est professeur agrégé dans le Département des littératures de langue françaises, de traduction et de création chez l’université McGill. Son dernier roman, Mille secrets, mille dangers remporte le Prix du Gouverneur Général: romans et nouvelle langue française en 2022. Mille secrets, Mille dangers est en voie d'être adapté au cinéma par le réalisateur Philippe Falardeau.
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