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WGSI PhD Student Esra Kazanbas is the Recipient of the 2024 Vida Heydarian Gender Justice Award

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 […]

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WGSI PhD Student Haleh Mir Miri is the Recipient of the 2024 Brianna O’Connor Hersey Scholarship

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 […]

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Film: Natalie Zemon Davis in Conversation with Shauna Sweeney

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Robert Diaz is Featured in CBC Documentary ‘Harder Better Faster Stronger’

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 […]

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University of Toronto Magazine: U of T’s Feminist Sports Club Is Here to Bend the Rules

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 […]

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An Interview with Samira Mohyeddin, WGSI’s Inaugural Journalism Fellow

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 […]

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Ian Liujia Tian Joining Mount Saint Vincent University as Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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 […]

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WGSI’s Feminist Sports Club Receives LEAF Funding

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 […]