Women and Gender Studies InstituteCongratulations 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, […]
Excerpt from Dr. Shauna Sweeney’s nomination letter for her work WGS360 Making Knowledge in a World that Matters: Hazal Halavut is not only a part of WGS360 through her work […]
A beaded bag by a Cree artist from James Bay circa 1865 (photo courtesy of Professor Kristen Bos) Kristen Bos initially resisted going into the field of Indigenous studies. “I started […]
WGSI is very pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Kay Bachour has been offered a position of Senior Research Specialist at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to pursue […]
It is with tremendous pleasure WGSI shares the exciting news that Robyn Maynard, doctoral candidate in WGSI who is currently writing her dissertation, will be starting a tenure-stream position at […]
Congratulations to Cornel Grey, who has accepted an offer to join the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University. One of the exciting things about the position […]
Ferdie is a 4th year direct entry PhD student at WGSI. She was awarded the 2020 University of Toronto Outstanding Scholar in the Area of Gender-based Violence, the Edward Hallam […]
Congratulations to Nicole Charles, whose book, Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados published by Duke University Press will share the 2022 Gordon K. and Sybil […]
Tatiana Klepikova, a WGSI postdoc in 2019-2021, has just received a 1,5-million-euros grant from the German Volkswagen Foundation to start a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism. […]
WGSI thanks Natalya Motluk, who for the past two years has been a work-study student who has provided incredible support to the department, bringing her calm and social media skills […]