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Two Queen’s University professors are among this year’s Killam Prize recipients.
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Receiving the $100,000 prize in the “humanities” category is Katherine McKittrick, who teaches in the university’s Gender Studies department and is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, and Margaret Moore, an instructor in the school’s Political Studies department and is “cross-appointed” in philosophy, who took the top honour in the prize’s “social sciences” category.
McKittrick is “internationally recognized for her contributions to the fields of Black studies, studies of liberation, and cultural geographies,” according to the news release announcing this year’s winners.
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“She studies the creative contours of Black livingness and diasporic placemaking. McKittrick’s research focuses on how histories racial displacement and loss have provided the conditions for Black creatives and theorists to disrupt and remake spatial and scholarly norms.”
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McKittrick is an interdisciplinary scholar who “stitches together conventional academic forms and creative narratives as a way to challenge methodological norms, while also drawing attention to the complex layers of Black imaginative texts, knowledges, and narrative-sonic forms,” continued the release.
Margaret Moore, meanwhile, “pioneered the field of rights to territory, with important implications for the study of law, political science, and territorial disputes, and is universally recognized as one of its top authorities worldwide,” reads the release.
“Moore’s work on territory has been hailed a major achievement, and has influenced work not only in political science and political philosophy, but in critical geography, nationalism studies, international legal scholarship, work on colonialism, Indigenous rights, the Arctic and Antarctic, how we think about resources, and in various conflict zones.”
The Killam Trust has awarded more than $1 billion to advance research in Canada. There are more than 8,000 Killam laureates worldwide.
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