RECOGNIZING OUR OWN

Celebrating a year’s worth of awards and achievements from alumni, faculty, and staff

SIMON LEWSEN

The Innis One instructor received a Gold Digital Publishing Award in the Best Feature Article (Long) category for “A LongTerm Tragedy” (The Local, November 2020), for which he also received a National Magazine Award nomination.

TOM CARDOSO (HBA ’12 Cinema Studies) was named Journalist of the Year at the 2020 National Newspaper Awards.

JAREN KERR (HBA ’17 Innis, Writing & Rhetoric) was awarded (as part of a team) the John Wesley Dafoe Award for Politics at the 2020 National Newspaper Awards.

SHARON LEWIS (BA ’89 Innis), producerdirector of the series Paranormal Nightshift, received a 2021 Canadian Screen Award for Best Direction, Factual.

STEVE MASSE

The Innis dean of students received the Jill Matus Award for Excellence in Student Services.

RICHIE MEHTA (HBA ’01 Cinema Studies), creator of the Delhi Crime TV series, won Best Drama Series at the 2020 International Emmy Awards.

MIKE MENEGHETTI

The Cinema Studies Institute instructor’s book, Martin Scorsese’s Documentary Histories: Migrations, Movies, Music, was published in March 2021.

CYNTHIA MESSENGER

The Writing & Rhetoric Program associate professor (teaching stream) and Innis Writing Centre director received a 2021 OCUFA Service Award.

SHAWN MICALLEF

The Innis One instructor received a 2021 Superior Teaching Award for Sessional Instructors from the Faculty of Arts & Science.

KEN OPPEL (BA ’89 Cinema Studies) released his latest novel, Hatch, in September 2020.

MICHELLE ORANGE (HBA ’98 Cinema Studies) published her memoir, Pure Flame, in June 2021.

SANDY PEREIRA

(BA ’00 Cinema Studies), film editor of the TV series Cardinal, received the 2021 Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture Editing, Drama, and the 2020 Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Best Film Editing, Movies for Television and Mini-series.

SCOTT RICHMOND

The Cinema Studies Institute associate professor received the 2021 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

ROBERT ROTENBERG (BA ’75 Innis) released his novel, Downfall, in February 2021.

PETER H. RUSSELL

Innis’s second principal published his latest book, Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim, in February 2021.

RACHEL SAMUEL

(HBSc ’18 Innis) received a 2021 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the U of T African Alumni Association.

JACK WANG

(BSc ‘94 Innis) received the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for We Two Alone

ALBERTO ZAMBENEDETTI

The Cinema Studies

Institute assistant professor released his book, Acting Across Borders: Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema, in March 2021.