The National Killam Program is pleased to announce the 2026 Killam Laureates, whose contributions to research are having direct impacts on the way we live.
Internationally recognized for her contributions to the fields of black studies, studies of liberation, and cultural geographies, Katherine McKittrick studies the creative contours of black livingness and diasporic placemaking.
Adjetey’s research project will examine how ostensible democracies in the Americas neutralized anti-colonial movements from the 1870s to the 1990s.
Read all about the 2024 research leaders, barrier breakers and inclusive collaborators.
In 1965, Mrs. Dorothy Killam left more than $110-million to support advanced study in Canada. Who is next? Read our article published in the Globe & Mail on December 2, 2024.
Listen to the interviews with the Killam Prize laureates Janine Marchessault (Humanities) and Tania Li (Social Sciences).
