Women and Gender Studies Institute
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]