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Congratulations Dr. Michelle Murphy

Dr. Murphy was one of twelve U of T faculty members appointed Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Read more.

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Scholar Strike Canada

Dear Colleagues, Scholars across Canadian universities are outraged at the relentless anti-Black police killings of Black people in the U.S. and in Canada. As athletes have done, so, too, must […]

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The Black Aquatic: On Water, Art and Black Movement

A Winter School webinar with Professor Rinaldo Walcott Rinaldo Walcott is Professor of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto. He recently served as the Director of the […]

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Nikoli Attai celebrated in MENtions – Stories About Us

Nikoli Attai had a choice when he earned three CXC passes. He could either be demotivated or encouraged to do better. He found a renewed desire to succeed. After earning […]

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Congratulations to Binta Bajaha, recipient of this year’s Margrit Eichler Student Leadership Award!

Binta is a doctoral candidate working with Dr. Marieme Lo, and Chair of the WGSI Graduate Student Union which has done amazing work this past year. Binta is also being […]

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Congratulations to Professor Michelle Murphy for being awarded a Tier One Canada Research Chair

UofT awarded 29 Canada Research Chairs – Michelle Murphy, in the department of history in the Faculty of Arts & Science, tier one Canada Research Chair in science and technology […]

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Raha Bahreini

Raha Bahreini’s passion for human rights was born in Iran, nurtured in U of T’s Women and Gender Studies Institute and is now helping improve the lives of Iranians still facing oppression, repression and discrimination.  […]

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Mara Raposo

Mara Raposo’s road to success is clearer, thanks to the City of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Scholarship.  “My family raised me to love learning and to treat university as the […]

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Eva Mackey

Eva Mackey has come a long way since dropping out of high school in Grade 9 — and she thanks the City of Toronto Women and Gender Studies Scholarship for a large […]

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Dawn Wilkinson

For 25 years, Dawn Wilkinson has been challenging outdated perceptions of what a film director looks like and how stories are brought to life on the screen, thanks in part […]