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Jeremy Laity, a first-year Master of Arts student in 天美mv天美鈥檚 Department of English, has won the 2025-2026 David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). Congratulations!

Laity focuses his research on British Columbia history and Indigenous literature. In 2024, he worked as a research assistant on the conference. At the conference, he also presented a paper on the writing of Eric Duncan, a Vancouver Island settler and author whose poetry and prose explore his Scottish identity and the differences between his Shetland origins and his adopted home in the Pacific Northwest. Laity鈥檚 article on ecology and caretaking in Duncan鈥檚 writing has been accepted for the edited volume, Unsettling Scottish Studies: Canons, Chronologies, Colonialisms, currently under consideration by Edinburgh University Press.

His current research centers on the Ts鈥檓syen missionary William Henry Pierce, the son of a Scottish father and Indigenous mother whose six-decade career on British Columbia鈥檚 northern coast was memorialized in his autobiography From Potlatch to Pulpit. Through an examination of Pierce鈥檚 various published and unpublished writings, Laity is working to uncover how Pierce understood his Scottish identity and the role that it played in his career as an Indigenous missionary. 

The David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship provides financial support to graduate students who demonstrate academic and research excellence and whose research focuses on Scottish history, literature, philosophy, politics, and/or culture.

The Fellowship is valued at $20,000 (paid over three terms).