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WGSI PhD Candidate Adriana Perez-Rodriguez awarded the Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence

The WGSI would like to congratulate PhD candidate Adriana Marcela Pérez Rodríguez on being awarded the Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence. Established in 2016, […]

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WGSI Collaborative Student Phoebe Chih Receives the Janka Seydegart Scholarship in Feminist Studies

The WGSI is pleased to announce that Collaborative Student Phoebe Chih (they/them) has been selected as the recipient of the Janka Seydegart Scholarship in Feminist Studies. This award is to support an exceptional graduate student […]

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Congratulations Dr. Ryan Persadie

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 […]

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Robyn Maynard Receives 2025 Governor General’s Gold Medal

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. […]

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Extended: 2025-2026 Community Knowledge Alliance Call for Proposals

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 […]

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2025-2026 Community Knowledge Alliance Call for Proposals

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, […]

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WGSI Collaborative Student Taylor Chalker Awarded the 2025 Kay Armatage Graduate Women and Gender Studies Entrance Prize

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 […]

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Congratulations Dr. Jade Nixon!

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.” […]

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Four WGSI Students Receive 2025-2026 OGS Awards

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 […]

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Congratulations Dr. Hazal Halavut

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 […]