Stephanie Nolen
The Globe and Mail's Latin America correspondent, Stephanie Nolen, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria on Monday, in recognition of the breadth of the subjects she covers.
"Her work makes us aware of issues that we, as citizens of the world, need to be aware of, but that are not usually giving headline attention," said Jamie Cassels, the university's president and vice-chancellor. "She is an example and an inspiration to our students and to all of us."
After years as a roving correspondent, Ms. Nolen moved to Johannesburg in 2003 to open a new bureau for The Globe, to report on what she believed was the world's biggest uncovered story, Africa's AIDS pandemic. She won four National Newspaper Awards for her work in Africa, including her coverage of AIDS. Her book 28 stories of AIDS in africa won the 2007 PEN Courage Award and was nominated for the 2007 Governor-General's Award for non-fiction.
In 2008, Ms. Nolen moved to New Delhi, to open a Globe bureau there. She has won a total of seven National Newspaper Awards, including one for coverage of India's crisis of child malnutrition.
In 2013, she opened The Globe's bureau in Rio de Janeiro, from which she covers Latin America.
"It is a hallmark of The Globe and Mail's foreign coverage that we employ correspondents to engage in the most important issues of the day," said David Walmsley, The Globe's editor in chief. "Stephanie's work across the continents is at the heart of that calling and we congratulate her on the occasion of this well-deserved recognition."
This will be the third honorary doctorate for Ms. Nolen, who will be in Victoria for Monday's commencement ceremony.
"I always hope that people are reading the stuff I write, and that they find it useful and that it tells them things they didn't know about the world," she said. "This is obviously a very tangible recognition of that, so it's very gratifying."