The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is a national non-profit organization that promotes scholarship and leadership in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) through advocacy, capacity-building, and knowledge exchange.

We strengthen the national infrastructure that connects HSS knowledge to the places it is needed. Working with a membership of more than 160 universities, colleges, and scholarly associations representing over 90,000 researchers and graduate students, we convene through Big Thinking summits and Canada’s leading academic gathering Congress, invest in scholarly publishing through the Scholarly Book Awards and the Canada Prizes, our national book award, and advance through funding and advocacy community-building initiatives that elevate research and leadership across the country.  

Across this work, we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization, and to strengthening bilingual linguistic access, which widens whose scholarship is heard and mobilized and ensures that our programs and platforms reflect the breadth of the HSS in Canada.  

Learn more at www.federationhss.ca

Our impact

Supporting the Federation means championing a united community of thinkers whose collective wisdom bridges the gap between academic discovery and the real-world challenges we face together.

Your contribution helps sustain and strengthen the national spaces and conditions where humanities and social sciences scholarship is connected and amplified. It enables us to bring together scholars, students, and institutional leaders across Canada and beyond; to recognize and elevate outstanding scholarship; and to foster collaboration that helps ideas travel further beyond academia.