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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 […]

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Dr. Kristen Bos on a successful defense of her dissertation titled: what the seed beads saw: Indigenous Feminist Disruptions of Colonial, Gendered, and Environmental […]

Please join us in celebrating WGSI’s very own Huda Hassan on the successful defense of her dissertation Ciyaal Baraf: Tropes, Fictions, and Self-Creation through the Somali Diaspora’s Aesthetic, Political, and Artistic Production.  Huda’s […]

Congratulations to Jordache A. Ellapen, assistant professor of Feminist Studies in Culture and Media and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Director, who is the recipient of the Queer African Studies […]

Congratulations to Angie Fazekas, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Creative Becomings: Explicit Fanfiction, Reinventing Adolescence and Queer Relationality. Angie was supervised by Professor Dina Georgis with Patrick Keilty and Leslie Shade […]

The following is a statement from University of Toronto President Meric Gertler regarding the crisis in Iran. This statement is also available on the office of the President’s website here. […]

Kathryn Pauly Morgan — Witty; Inquisitive; Someone you can talk to; Philosopher; Imaginative Kathryn Pauly Morgan, mother to Daniel Pauly, sister to John, Charles, Dave, and Mark Pauly, and daughter […]

Congratulations to Zeinab Farokhi, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Digital Islamophobia: A Comparison of Right-Wing Extremist Groups in Canada, the United States and India. Zeinab was supervised by Professor Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, […]