Professors Shana Poplack and Joseph-Yvon Thériault are among the five latest recipients of the $225,000 Trudeau Foundation Fellows Prize, awarded for outstanding contributions to the social sciences and humanities in Canada and around the world.
Shana Poplack is full professor at the Department of Linguistics. She is the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. Poplack’s research team is working out of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory she founded at the University in 1982 (and continues to direct). Earlier this year, Professor Poplack was awarded a prestigious Killam Prize. (See Gazette, 07/04/26.)
Joseph-Yvon Thériault is full professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He is the founding Director of the University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities. He holds the Chair in Identity and Francophonie. Professor Thériault’s research focuses on the relationship between collective identities and citizenship, and he has established a strong reputation as a compelling thinker on national identity in a minority context.
