News and Events
Teaching Assistantship Vacancies | 2025 Winter Term
Nov 29, 2024
The Department of Global Development Studies invites applications from suitably qualified candidates interested in available teaching assistant positions for the winter 2025 academic term..
Dr. David McDonald wins FAS Dean's Teaching Award
Oct 18, 2024
Dr. David McDonald is honoured with the Deans Teaching Excellence Award for his innovative Living Lake Ontario: From the Local to the Global course.
Professor Marc Epprecht Launches New Book
Oct 01, 2024
DEVS Professor Marc Epprecht launches Accidental Queer book
DEVS faculty members named as finalists for SSHRC 2024 Impact Awards
Sep 06, 2024
Dr. Susanne Soederberg and Dr. Reena Kukreja are named as finalists for the SSHRC 2024 Impact Awards.
Allyson Dafoe recognized as a 2024 Champion for Mental Health
Jun 29, 2024
Allyson Dafoe, DEVS PhD student and TA recognized as a Champion for Mental Health
Damai Siallagan ³ÉÈË´óƬ Newest Pathy Fellow
Jun 03, 2024
An exceptional new graduate joins a network of leaders and changemakers from Queen’s and beyond as a recipient of this prestigious community-development fellowship program.
Accidental Queer, and other essays around critical masculinity studies in Southern Africa and Canada
May 14, 2024
Marc Epprecht publishes Accidental Queer, and other essays around critical masculinity studies in Southern Africa and Canada.asculinity and African queer studies with such publications as the award-winning Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa.
DEVS Speaker Series Presents Dr. Wendy Harcourt
Mar 21, 2024
Dr. Harcourt probes into what it means to be a feminist and a political activist concerned about the environmental justice undertaking research in today’s neoliberal university.
Graduate colloquium in honor of Bruce Berman
Mar 19, 2024
Please join us in sharing research-in-progress or proposed by grad students working on African themes across diverse departments at Queen’s. This will also be an opportunity for us to show our respects to one of the founders of African Studies at Queen’s, and indeed, in Canada.
Developing a Glocal Future: Bridging Global and Local Perspectives Conference
Mar 10, 2024
The DEVS Department Student Council announces the 2024 conference will be held on Sunday March 10, 2024. The theme is Developing a Glocal Future: Bridging Global and Local Perspectives.
Master’s or PhD Position Available: Post-Extractive Transitions
Dec 12, 2023
The Futures of Care project led by Drs. Hall, Epprecht, and Goebel are seeking a qualified candidate interested in pursuing their MA or PhD research investigating alternative relations to land in extractive regions in northern Canada and South Africa.
DEVS Alumni Sara-Maya Kaba wins a 2023-2024 Pathy Fellowship Award
Nov 22, 2023
Funded by the Pathy Fellowship Foundation, in partnership with the Coady Institute, Sara-Maya has founded Aawaaz. Aawaaz is an initiative that works with underserved youth in Pakistan.