The WGSI is delighted to announce the winner of the Vida Heydarian Gender Justice Award, PhD student Esra Kazanbas. The Vida Heydarian is awarded in the Fall to a graduate […]
The WGSI is pleased to announce that PhD student Haleh Mir Miri is the recipient of this year’s Brianna O’Connor Hersey Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to a WGSI […]
In November 2019, Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis and her husband Dr. Chandler Davis welcomed a small crew from the Women & Gender Studies Institute in their home for an interview […]
Alumni Profile: Aarzoo Singh
Aarzoo Singh Ph.D. (2021) How has your journey / experiences / learnings at WGSI, inside and/or outside the classroom, guided or influenced your career path / decisions. Having worked and […]
Alumni Profile: Chelsea Fung
Chelsea Fung BA, WGSI Major (2012) What is your current position? I’m Co-founder of an events and marketing company in my home country Guyana, RED Entertainment and RED Marketing, however […]
Catch WGSI professor Robert Diaz in the documentary “Harder Better Faster Stronger” on CBC Gem. In it, misinformation expert Timothy Caulfield investigates the purported ‘crisis in masculinity,’ debunks toxic men’s […]
The Feminist Sports Club is an initiative piloted by the WGSI’s undergraduate coordinator S. Trimble. Read about the Feminist Sports Club in the University of Toronto Magazine. Read the full […]
The Women & Gender Studies Institute is pleased to announce that award-winning producer and broadcast journalist, Samira Mohyeddin has been selected as the inaugural WGSI Journalism Fellow. Samira will be working alongside […]
Ian Liujia Tian has successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Queering Social Reproduction: Pleasure and Labour in Urban Southern China.” Committee members include: Dr. Jamie Magnusson (OISE), Dr. Shana Ye, and […]
Led by S. Trimble, and with the support of project coordinators Sam Sanchinel and Shalom Brown, the WGSI’s Feminist Sports Club has secured a LEAF seed grant worth just under $10K/year over […]