S. Karly Kehoe is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. Her research specialism is historic religious minority migration and settler colonialism in the north Atlantic world, and this work has informed her commitment to the free and responsible practice of science because it has given her a deep understanding of how systemic exclusion begins.
She is an advocate for advancing science as a global public good and has undertaken extensive work to support academic colleagues whose research as been disrupted by war, conflict, and threats of violence. She is the architect of several programs that amplify the voices of some of the most marginalized early and mid-career scientists.
In 2016, she founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland’s At-Risk and Refugee Academic Initiative, in 2017, she co-founded the Global Young Academy’s At-Risk Scholar Initiative, and in 2022, she founded the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars Artists and Scientists’ At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists program.
This page has been updated in May 2024.
