Women and Gender Studies Institute
The WGSI would like to congratulate MA student Stephanie Sawah on being the recipient of the 2024-2025 Margrit Eichler Award. This award recognizes overall achievement in graduate student leadership during the academic year. Professor Margrit Eichler was […]
The Women & Gender Studies would like to congratulate PhD Candidate Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo on being one of the recipients of the 2025 TATP Teaching Excellence Award. This award […]
Please join us in congratulating Wafaa Hasan for being selected by the Arts & Science Students’ Union (ASSU) as this year’s recipient of the Ranjini (Rini) Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. Students nominated […]
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 […]
The WGSI’s Feminist Sports Club was recently profiled in A&S News. Read the story here.
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 […]