{"id":160303,"date":"2026-03-11T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:48:40","slug":"two-queens-professors-named-killam-prize-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160303\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Queen&#8217;s professors named Killam Prize recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Two Queen\u2019s University professors are among this year\u2019s Killam Prize recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the $100,000 prize in the \u201chumanities\u201d category is Katherine McKittrick, who teaches in the university\u2019s Gender Studies department and is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies, and Margaret Moore, an instructor in the school\u2019s Political Studies department and is \u201ccross-appointed\u201d in philosophy, who took the top honour in the prize\u2019s \u201csocial sciences\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>McKittrick is \u201cinternationally recognized for her contributions to the fields of Black studies, studies of liberation, and cultural geographies,\u201d according to the news release announcing this year\u2019s winners.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katherine McKittrick.\" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0312-ki-killam-2.ki_-e1773234800745.jpg\"  height=\"170\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"169\"\/> Katherine McKittrick. jpg, KI, apsmc<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe studies the creative contours of Black livingness and diasporic placemaking. McKittrick\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>McKittrick is an interdisciplinary scholar who \u201cstitches 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,\u201d continued the release.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Moore, meanwhile, \u201cpioneered 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,\u201d reads the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoore\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Killam Trust has awarded more than $1 billion to advance research in Canada. There are more than 8,000 Killam laureates worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article content Two Queen\u2019s University professors are among this year\u2019s Killam Prize recipients. Article content Receiving the $100,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-160303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}