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Professor Shauna Sweeney

Congratulations to Professor Shauna Sweeney, who has just been named as one of the Connaught New Researcher Awardees this year!!

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Navigating a Path in Development Studies through Women and Gender Studies: Inside and Outside the Academy – Tara Cookson

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:00pm – 6:00pm WGSI Lounge, New College, 40 Willcocks Street This talk explores options for navigating a meaningful career as a ‘scholar activist’ trained in Women […]

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Gwen Benaway featured in the UofT news

As the first in her family to attend college or university, Gwen Benaway struggled with feeling a sense of belonging in higher education. “I didn’t have the financial or social […]

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WGSI Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows

We are thrilled to welcome Debby Wilson Danard and Nikoli Attai, who were recently chosen as two of 8 recipients of the 2019-2021 University of Toronto Provostial Postdoctoral Fellows Programme for […]

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WGSI PhD Student Elisha Lim Publishes Chapter

Congratulations to Elisha! Their book Cartographies of Race and Social Difference has recently been published in electronic and print format.

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Fleck Prize 2019: Michelle Murphy

Congratulations to Michelle Murphy for recently being awarded the Fleck Prize for her book The Economization of Life from the Society the Social Studies of Science, which is the main […]

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WGSRF National Essay Awards

Students enrolled in the joint undergraduate/ graduate seminar Challenging Coloniality: Caribbean Sexualities in Transnational Perspective took home first prize at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels for the 2019 annual Women’s […]

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National Magazine Award

GWEN BENAWAY won the gold medal in the personal journalism category at the 42nd annual National Magazine Awards for her essay A Body Like a Home, Hazlitt, May 30, 2018. […]

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Inaugural Brianna O’Connor Hersey Scholarship

On November 28, 2018, WGSI celebrated the life of Brianna O’Connor Hersey, a PhD student in WGSI who died on March 31, 2018, with the awarding of the inaugural Brianna […]

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Congratulations to Professor Rinaldo Walcott

Professor Rinaldo Walcott of the Department of Social Justice Education has been promoted to the rank of Professor, effective July 1, 2018. Professor Walcott is an innovative and internationally influential […]