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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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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to our 2024 MA Graduates!
Congratulations to our outgoing MA class who have recently submitted their research! We are so proud of all the work they have accomplished. Mika Castro Supervisor: Dina GeorgisProject Title: “Cats, K-Pop, and […]
The WGSI is pleased to announce that PhD Student Julie-Ann McCausland has been selected for the Janka Seydegart Scholarship in Feminist Studies. This award is to support an exceptional graduate student showing a demonstrated […]