http://politics.utoronto.ca/2018/03/remembering-lee-ann-fujii/
What a horrible loss. RIP
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Lee Ann Fujii has passed away
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She really was a role model and embodied the opposite of everything that sucks in this profession. She did not care about hierarchy and prestige, she was accessible and patient, she studied things for years that most people can barely stand to think about for a few hours (lynching, torture, genocide). She used methods that are not in fashion and still published well. She was funny and kind. Her death is a huge loss. She was a mentor to those of us who are POC and/or women. We don't have many who are like her, and she will be dearly missed.
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It's a tragedy to see anybody suffer an untimely death (I believe Fujii was around 55-56 years old). But it's especially tough to see such a thing happen to a person who was awarded her Ph.D. after the age of 40 (an increasingly common occurrence these days), landed a great job at a top R1 university like UofT, and was granted tenure just 3 years ago.
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She died of the flu. Second major loss for that department, after Ana Maria Bejarano last year.
Wow I did not know Bejarano had passed. Had Fujii and Bejarano for several seminars - they were both such kind people who were so passionate about their work. This is horrible.
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