Gail Super (supplied image)
Gail Super named 2026 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar
Published: February 18, 2026
Gail Super, an associate professor of sociology at U of T Mississauga, has been named a 2026 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar.
The award, from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, recognizes exceptional researchers whose work advances understanding of violence and aggression.
Super’s funded project is titled “Community-Based Violence in Spaces of Rural Precarity: A Case Study of the Xhora Mouth Area in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.”
“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," said Super, who is cross-appointed to the department of sociology and the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
