News and Events
Please join me in sending deepest condolences to Senior Fellow Rosalie Abella. Her husband, Dr. Irving Abella passed away yesterday. The College flag will be flown at half-mast for the remainder of the week. Several members of our community were honored last week: Senior Fellow Peter Russell has been promoted to Companion of the […]
Announcing the 2023 Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence at Massey College
I am pleased to announce that the 2023 Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence is David Chariandy. David Chariandy lives in Vancouver and teaches in the department of English at Simon Fraser University. His first novel, entitled Soucouyant, was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His second novel, entitled Brother, won the […]
Tomsom Highway to deliver the 2022 CBC Massey Lectures
Laughing with the Trickster On Sex, Death, and Accordions Trickster is zany, ridiculous – and wise. The mythic figure in many First Nations tales is the ultimate, over-the-top, madcap lunatic. Here to remind us that the reason for existence is to have a blast, and to laugh ourselves silly. Ever the trickster, Tomson Highway brings […]
Paul Chen is a 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow
Junior Fellow Paul Chen and alumna Elizabeth Phillips, have both recieved 2022 Schmidt Science Fellowships. The Schmidt Science Fellowship is an international competition identifying and bringing together the world’s best emerging scientists to develop novel solutions to society’s challenges and accelerate ground-breaking discoveries. Paul and Elizabeth are two of 29 fellows, and the only Canadian recipients selected this year. They […]
Dr. Hadiya Roderique
Dr. Hadiya Roderique is an award-winning writer, consultant, advisor, researcher, and lawyer. Dr. Roderique was a Junior Fellow at Massey College from 2014 to 2019 and is a current Associate at McKinsey & Company. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science from McGill University and is a two-time alumna of the University of Toronto with […]
In conversation with Dr. Chizoba Imoka
Dr. Chizoba Imoka is an award-winning advocate, educator, researcher, and an equity, diversity and inclusion consultant. She was a Junior Massey Fellow from 2013 to 2015 and 2017 to 2018, and is the Founder and Director of Unveiling Africa. Dr. Imoka is a two-time alumna of the University of Toronto and holds a doctorate in […]
Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Dr. Wendell Ni Laryea Adjetey is a historian, humanitarian, and social entrepreneur. Dr. Adjetey was a Senior Resident Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Massey College from 2016 to 2017 and is currently an Assistant Professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at McGill University. Dr. Adjetey holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History […]
Olugbenga Olubanjo, MA.Sc.
Entrepreneur, innovator, and CEO Olugbenga Olubanjo was an active Massey College Junior Fellow and committee member from 2017-2019. Mr. Olugbenga Olubanjo holds a Master of Applied Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with First Class Honours from the University of Ibadan. Mr. Olubanjo was […]
THE 2021 CBC MASSEY LECTURES | OUT OF THE SUN: ON RACE AND STORYTELLING
What happens when we begin to consider stories, and lives, at the margins of society? How does that complicate what we think we know about who we are — as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through visual art, literature and film, as well as her own personal experience, award-winning novelist Esi Edugyan’s 2021 CBC […]
Announcing the 2021-2022 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and PEN/America Open Book Award, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Little, Brown (U.S.), and Bloomsbury […]
