Women and Gender Studies Institute

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Ryan Persadie who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation – “Sounding Qoolie Diasporas: Indo-Afro-Caribbean Relationalities, Chamkay Feminisms, and the Queer Politics of Fête in Toronto and […]

The WGSI is proud to announce that Robyn Maynard is one of three recipients of the 2025 Governor General’s Gold Medal in recognition of her academic excellence at doctoral level. […]

This Call for Proposals is being RE-POSTED. Funds remain available to support CKA Projects. The Community Knowledge Alliance (CKA) fund is meant to galvanize, encourage, and facilitate discussions across WGSI […]

The Community Knowledge Alliance (CKA) fund is meant to galvanize, encourage, and facilitate discussions across different sites of intellectual inquiry such as non-profit settings, workplaces, grassroots social movements, municipal, provincial, […]

The WGSI is delighted to announce that incoming WGSI Collaborative student Taylor Chalker has been awarded the Kay Armatage Graduate Women and Gender Studies Entrance Prize for the 2025-2026 academic year. This award is […]

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Jade Nixon who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation  –  “The Site of Feeling: Black Caribbean Women’s Theories of Gathering on the Ubersoca Cruise Ship.” […]

The Women & Gender Studies Institute is pleased to announce that four of our students, Yusra Khogali Ali, Esra Kazanbas, Valley Weadick and Leslyn Stobbs are recipients of the 2025-2026 […]

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Dr. Hazal Halavut, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation – “Archives of Absence: Nation’s Sleep, Perpetrator’s Dream, and Afterlives of Genocide.”   Hazal’s committee consisted […]

Recent WGSI graduate Dr. Sam Yoon will begin a position as an Assistant Professor in The School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University this upcoming Fall. Sam, who […]