Leadership, Culture & Society

Ten researchers have been awarded a total of $478,661 in funding through the federal government's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Insight Development Grants.

Linguistic experts used Twitter, one of the world's most popular social media platforms, to better understand national identity on a mass scale and where stereotypes might originate.

McMaster University Library has acquired a new collection of materials that sheds new light on the peace activism and later years of Bertrand Russell - widely considered one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century.

A rare map from McMaster's extensive World War One map collection is shedding light on the little-known German East Africa campaign, a guerrilla war where troops were more likely to die from disease than enemy fire.

A YouTube producer trying to create a parody of 'The Simpsons' found out that Apu is being phased out of the show. While many will miss Apu, others reflect on what his character represents - a flat stereotype of South Asian immigrants.

McMaster profs work with Stratford Festival actors to explore the performance of gender in early modern theatre.

Two teams of campus and community partners are the inaugural recipients of the President's Award for Community Engaged Scholarship for their projects related to preserving the Mohawk language and giving voice to the challenges faced by immigrant women.

McMaster's history professors are finding new ways to teach old stories.

Professors from Humanities and Social Sciences use the power of theatre to amplify the voices of people who are socially marginalized

A new digitization project is making more than 100 letters written in Brixton Prison by renowned philosopher and pacifist, Bertrand Russell available online for the first time, providing scholars from around the world with access to these rarely seen materials.