Research and partnerships

Research at the Faculty of Arts

Our researchers examine intriguing topics such as the human and environmental impacts of climate change, the dynamic qualities of francophone literature in Canada, Africa and beyond, digital technologies and cultural change, Indigenous identities and histories, decolonization, and innovative artistic practices. This groundbreaking research garners national and international acclaim and contributes to reshaping our understanding of societies and cultures.

Areas of research strength

  • Francophone communities in a changing world
  • Indigenous Cultures
  • Living with diversity
  • Society and environmental changes
  • Digital Humanities
  • Well-being across the life course
  • Migration, rights and social justice
  • Cultures and communities

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Research stats

4

Canada Research Chairs

2

University of Ottawa Research Chairs

5

Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute Chairs

Research discoveries
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Research discoveries

Professor's Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex vision comes to life

When Jinny Yu, a Full professor in the Visual Arts Department, suggested that her colleagues teach more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Peoples of Colour) artists, their immediate reaction was "But they’re so hard to find.” Jinny set out to prove otherwise.
Research discoveries
Painting of colonial scene of village by the water
Research discoveries

Professor's award-winning book has opportunity to become an audio book

Daniel Rück, an associate professor in the Department of History, wasn’t planning on making an audio version of his award-winning book, The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada (UBC Press, 2021). An examination of Canada’s legal and environmental colonial relationship with one First Nation, the book chronicles how Canadian governments over time interfered with Indigenous law and government, and eventually imposed Indian Act law on its people and lands. However, when Kaniehti:io Horn, an actor from Kahnawà:ke (a Kanien'kehá:ka or Mohawk nation territory near Montreal), reached out to him to say that she wanted to do the voice acting if he ever made an audiobook, he agreed to give it a try.
Research Discoveries
Meredith Terretta, middle, with the participants of the June 2024 training session at uOttawa.
Research Discoveries

History professor awarded grant to establish international research training gr…

During her tenure as the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Right (2016-2021), history professor Meredith Terretta noticed a significant and troubling gap in the academic research on migration and displacement: locally centred perceptions of migration, and the experiences of hosting communities in sub-Saharan Africa, were not adequately represented in academic papers produced in the Global North. Compounding the problem, some 90% of scholarly research on the topic of refuge-seeking is published in the Global North, despite 85% of the forcibly displaced being located in the Global South.

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2 Chaires de recherche sur le monde francophone

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Endowed and Sponsored Research Chair

$24M+

Funded research

Research centres, institutes and laboratories

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Office of the Vice-Dean (Research)

Simard Hall, room 106
60 University
Ottawa ON, Canada, K1N 6N5
Tel.: 613-562-5972
Fax: 613-562-5975

[email protected]

Office Hours
Monday to Friday
From 9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.
From 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(June to August: closed at 3:30 p.m.)

Your research team

Vice-Dean Research
Brian RAY, Ph.D.
Simard Hall, Room 106
Telephone: 613-562-5972
[email protected]

Senior research advisor
Kelly-Anne MADDOX,Ph.D.
Simard Hall, Room 106
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1006
[email protected]

Administrative assistant
Stéfanie TESSIER
Simard Hall, Room 106
Telephone: 613-562-5972
[email protected]