Professor Gail Super of the University of Toronto has been awarded a 2026 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award for her research project, “Community-Based Violence in Spaces of Rural Precarity: A Case Study of the Xhora Mouth Area in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.”
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Awards recognize leading researchers proposing to make a significant contribution to illuminating an issue of violence. The Foundation supports projects across the natural and social sciences that aim to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression.
Reflecting on the award, Professor Super remarked, “I’m thrilled to have received this award since it enables me to continue my research on vernacular understandings of justice in a deeply marginalized rural area of South Africa, and to research how to achieve violence reduction without subjecting more people to state violence.”
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