New books, awards and a distinguished professorship

The warmer weather is finally here, and with it comes more good news about Concordians earning scholarly awards and academic distinction.

Here’s a roundup of our most recent bragging rights:

Ted Stathopoulos, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, was appointed Distinguished Professor of Building Physics, Urban Physics and Wind Engineering by the Eindhoven University of Technology. Stathopoulos will visit the institute in the Netherlands regularly and will be actively involved in research and education.

The Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences presented its 2016 Best Paper Award to Michel Magnan and his co-authors. Magnan is an accounting professor at the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance. An honourable mention went to another JMSB faculty member, Darlene Walsh, associate professor in the Department of Marketing.

Adrian Iovita, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is a recent Simons Fellow in Mathematics. The Simons Foundation division for Mathematics and Physical Sciences seeks to extend the frontiers of basic research. The Simons Fellows programs provide funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations, which can increase creativity and provide intellectual stimulation.

At the 2016 national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Gavin Foster’s book, The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class, and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), was awarded the 2015 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences. The Donnelly Prize committee offered the following praise for the book: "Foster is a perceptive and imaginative historian, who writes with verve and precision. Readers of this work will find that it has much to say that is new about social relations and hierarchy in Ireland in the 1920s." Foster is an associate professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies.

Erica Lehrer, associate professor in the Department of History and Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory and Ethnography and Museology, was recently awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant valued at $133,268 for a four-year comparative project focusing on Poland and Canada, Difficult Heritage in National Museums.

For the second time in three years, MBA students from the John Molson School of Business have won the Whitman Case Competition, hosted by the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. 

PhD student Julie Guyot has published a book, Les Insoumis de L'Empire (Septentrion, 2016), a comparative study of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and late 18th-century Irish resistance.

Do you know an exceptional Concordian? Submissions are welcome at now@concordia.ca.