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The Technoscience Research Unit Stewards New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation Grant

We are happy to share that the Technoscience Research Unit is the steward of a New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation stream grant that brings $22 million dollars to a […]

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A&S News Feature: Reclaiming dodgeball: At ‘Feminist Sports Club’, everyone’s a gold medalist

The WGSI’s Feminist Sports Club was recently profiled in A&S News. Read the story here.

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WGSI is delighted to announce the creation of an Annual Public Lecture named after M. Jacqui Alexander, WGSI Professor Emerita

This annual WGSI lecture, which will be launched in 2026, will honour the incredibly generative contributions Professor Emerita M. Jacqui Alexander has made to the field of transnational women’s studies, as well as to Black feminist, Caribbean feminist and queer of colourscholarship. It recognises the impact of Jacqui’s undergraduate and graduate teaching […]

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Two WGSI Faculty Members Awarded CSRI Funding

The CrimSL Research Cluster for The Study of Racism and Inequality (CSRI) recently announced four awards “to support projects that are concerned with how systemic racism, colonialism, gendered and sexual […]

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Letter on the Proposed Suspension of Admission to Undergraduate Programs at York University

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‘Every person just needs an opportunity to flourish’: A&S alum Binta Bajaha building resilience with World Food Programme

WGSI alum, Binta Bajaha was recently profiled on A&S news for her remarkable work with the World Food Programme. The article, written by A&S News’ David Goldberg, touches on the […]

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Congratulations Dr. Sam Yoon

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Dr. Sam Yoon on the successful defence of his thesis titled: Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives Abstract: This dissertation examines the […]

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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 […]