Category: News

UofT Alum and former WGSSU President Azrah Manji-Savin recently presented a winning pitch at Collision 2023. The culinary production platform start-up that she co-founded, Syzl has its roots in her […]

Congratulations to Jordache A. Ellapen, Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies in Culture and Media has been awarded the Claire G. Moses Award for the Most Theoretically Innovative Article for “Siyakaka Feminism: Intersectionality, African […]

WGSI PhD student, Julie-Ann McCausland, was profiles in A&S News for her work on women in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Read the full profile here.

The Women and Gender Studies Institute is delighted to announce that WGSI Doctoral Student Julie-Ann McCausland had been awarded the Brianna Hersey Scholarship. The Brianna O’Connor Hersey Scholarship at WGSI […]

Women’s and Gender Studies Recherches Féministes (WGSRF) Open Statement of Solidarity with Professor and Students Targeted in Violent Attack at the University of Waterloo. View the letter here. For staff, […]

Please join us in congratulating WGSI Doctoral Student, Vanbasten Noronha de Araujo who has been awarded a 2023-2024 Ontario Graduate Scholarship at the University of Toronto. From the School of […]

Congratulations to Kate Lahey and Leslyn Stobbs on receiving the 2022-2023 June Larkin TA Award. Kate was nominated by Ali Greey for their support in the Women and Gender Studies […]

Please join the WGSI in congratulating our very own MA alum, Rui Liu on their acceptance to the NYU American Studies PhD program where they will be working with Gayatri […]

The Women and Gender Studies Institute is proud to announce that Kate Lahey has successfully defended their dissertation titled: At the Mouth of the River: Shame, Secrecy and Intergenerational Trauma […]

The Women and Gender Studies Institute extends our deepest condolences for the loss of lives during the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. We invite our community to contribute to […]