Faculty Awards Programs
Dalhousie Diversity Faculty Awards
The Dalhousie Diversity Faculty Awards (DDFA) program is a recruitment initiative designed to increase the number of faculty members who come from historically under-represented groups. The program was introduced in 2011 in partnership with the Dalhousie Faculty Association and augmented through collective bargaining.
To date, Dalhousie has awarded 20 DDFA's as follows:
| Penghao Xiao | Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science | 2021 |
| Hamid Afshari | Department of Industrial Engineering | 2021 |
| Brian Gillis | Department of English | 2020 |
| Michelle Williams | Schulich School of Law | 2020 |
| Suresh Eshwarathasan | Department of Mathematics & Statistics | 2019 |
| Lisa Binkley | Department of History | 2019 |
| Asha Jeffers | Department of English | 2019 |
| Saurabh Chitnis | Department of Chemistry | 2018 |
| Maria Dugas | Schulich School of Law | 2018 |
| Leonardo Perez | Fountain School of Performing Arts | 2018 |
| Miao Zhang | Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences | 2018 |
| Rita Orji | Faculty of Computer Science | 2017 |
| Eric Oliver | Department of Oceanography | 2017 |
| Ren Thomas | School of Planning | 2016 |
| Ajay Parasram | Department of International Development Studies | 2016 |
| Tamara Franklin | Department of Psychology & Neuroscience | 2015 |
| Diana Lewis | Department Sociology & Social Anthropology | 2015 |
| Shauntay Grant | Department of English | 2015 |
| Hany El Naggar | Department of Civil & Resource Engineering | 2014 |
| Amy Bombay | School of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry | 2014 |
If you have questions about the Dalhousie Diversity Faculty Awards Program, please contact Marlo Shinyei, Academic HR Consultant, marlo.shinyei@dal.ca or 902.494.2965.