Leadership, Culture & Society

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.

Mechanical Engineering student and ballerina, Lacey Wice, examines the mechanics of ballet and how the dance has helped her become the 'whole engineer'.

McMaster English professor Daniel Coleman's RBC Taylor Prize-nominated book explores big issues through a small landscape.

From Canadian literary icons to international stars, Lorraine York has spent much of her career trying to understand the world of celebrity and what it tells us about society.

With social media, the worlds of sports and politics are becoming more and more intertwined. What does this mean for the Olympics?

Like religion, major sports break down natural social barriers and help people forge intense bonds. That's why strangers watching the Super Bowl at the bar hug when their team scores. It's why a whole nation turns into sports fans and cheers for its team in the Olympics.

This year, McMaster University Library is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the acquisition of the archives of renowned peace activist, philosopher and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, widely considered one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century.

Spencer Pope is working his way 2,600 years backwards in time, to a period when Metaponto was a major Greek settlement on the Mediterranean.

There is a difference between educating - clearly an important role of universities - and the surveillance, monitoring and enforcement of copyright compliance on campus.

In a new era of reconciliation and an openness from the Canadian government to right the wrongs that have devastated generations, McMaster has established one of the country's only institutes dedicated to Indigenous ways of knowing and research.