Hammond, Cynthia, Cynthia Hammond, Concordia University, has received awards for her writing on the roles played by such women as Florence Nightingale and Catherine Bauer Wurster in the development of institutional and modern architecture, showing how their production was embedded within larger questions of nation, colonialism, and gender. She holds a three-year, Emerging Scholar award (FQRSC) for the study of Montreal's public, modernist buildings and spaces.