Dr. Caroline Hossein

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2025

2022

  • Winner, Bronze, Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Awards) for The Banker Ladies, Women's Issues category

  • Unbankable. An investigative documentary. Dir. Luke Willms. Cameo, as an expert on financialization.

  • Memorialized in a plaque and named as an ‘eminent scholar’ at the University of Kerala.

  • Honorable Mention for The Banker Ladies from the William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte Book Prize, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations

  • Fellow, Black Feminist Economics, Boston Ujima Project

  • 2024–25 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre for Capitalism Studies, University College London

2024

2023

2021

  • Post Growth Institute Fellowship

  • The Hopper Lecture: “The Future of Cooperation.” Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the University of Guelph Institute of Development Studies

  • Appointed Member, Advisory Board, Intersections, Oxford University Press

  • Big Thinking on the Hill Lecture: “Canada’s Hidden Cooperative System: The Banker Ladies.” Funded by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS)

  • Elected to three-year term on the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Board ofDirectors (effective July 1, 2021)

2020

  • Rodney Higgins Best Faculty Paper Award. For the Paper A Black Epistemology for the Social and Solidarity Economy: The Black Social Economy. (Link).

  • Emerging Scholar Award, African Diaspora Special Interest Group, Comparative and International Education Society

  • Winning article: “A Black Epistemology for the Social and Solidarity Economy: The Black Social Economy”

  • Emerging Scholar Award. African Diaspora Special Interest Group By The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). A full review of all academic writing. (Link).

  • York Research Leader. By York University. Named alongside several distinguished colleagues, three years in a row.

  • Suraj Mal and Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize. By The International Association of Feminist Economics. For book - Politicized Microfinance (UTP, 2016).

2019

2018

  • Co-winner of the WEB DuBois Book Award. By the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. For US. Book award for Politicized Microfinance (UTP, 2016)

  • Community leadership award from the York South Weston community. By MP Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship for the Government of Canada.

  • The Outstanding Scholarship Prize Competition. By Women's and Gender Studies/et Recherches Feministes. Honourable Mention.

2017

The Helen Potter Award from the Association of Social Economics, US. By the Allied Social Science Association. For best article in the Review of Social Economy, entitled Big man politics in the Social Economy.

Certificate of Appreciation and Community Award. By MPP Judy Sgro of Humberside-Black Creek. For (SOSC 4046 The Social Economy Practicum) which assisted in the social enterprise development at the Community Learning & Innovation Centre (FLICC) in Jane/Finch.

2012

  • Elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada (seven-year term)

  • Recipient of 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women (100ABCWomen), a national award established by the Honourable Jean Augustine

  • Keynote Lecture: “Radical Love in Business and Society,” The Harvard Business School

  • Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy (five-year term)

  • University of Toronto Convocation Address

The Kari Polanyi Levitt Award. By the Canadian Association for the Studies of International Development (CASID). Shortlisted.

2011

Best Teaching Assistant Award. By the Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto Scarborough UTSC.

2009

U.S. Fulbright. By the U.S State Department. For examination of the patronage and clientelism in Kingston, Jamaica. At the University of West Indies, Mona campus (John Rapley and Anthony Harriott).