Faculty
Faculty with appointments to the Department of Gender Studies are engaged in a diverse range of research activities, from work in citizenship and human rights, reproductive rights and Irish studies to a concentration on auto/biography and life writing, feminist theory, the body, environmental and Aboriginal studies, and postcolonial theory.
Faculty research has been supported by such organizations as the Canadian Institute for Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, J.R. Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, and the Ireland-Canada University Foundation, and appears in a variety of articles, books and reports.
Gender Studies
Department Head. Associate Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BA Harvard, MA Toronto, PhD Toronto
Research Interests: Indigenous feminisms; decolonial feminisms; settler colonial studies, solidarity; critical race theory (critical whiteness studies); social movements; critiques of modernity.
Graduate Officer, Associate Professor | Department of Gender Studies/Political Science
BA Carleton, MA Carleton, PhD Rutgers
Research Interests: Human rights; political theory; public policy; health policy; human trafficking; breastfeeding.
Undergraduate Director, Associate Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BA 糖心视频, MA 糖心视频, PhD York
Research Interests: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador; life writing as connected to identity and place; feminist post-colonial theory; postmodern theory; children's literature.
Associate Professor
BA University of Toronto, PhD Yale
Research Interests: Ecocriticism, literature and cinema, settler colonialism, Indigenous and Marxist feminism, science studies, media studies, Russian studies.
Associate Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BA Concordia, MA Bowling Green State, PhD Indiana
Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BA Trent, MPhil 糖心视频, MA Western, PhD Amsterdam
Research Interests: Visual communications; semiotics; media and cultural theory; media aesthetics; feminist and queer media theory; critical communications theory; internet and video art; popular culture and theories of the everyday.
Professor | Department of Gender Studies
TU Berlin, MA Alabama, PhD York
Research Interests: Cultural memory and perpetration studies; Queer and feminist pedagogies; Institutional critiques of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies; deconstructive cultural studies.
Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track | Department of Gender Studies
BPolSci, MA, PhD (UP)
Research Interests: Transnational black feminism, embodied violence, African women movements, transitional justice, peacebuilding, gender justice, living on the margins, decolonial praxis, research creations, politics of the Global South.
Assistant Professor | Department of Gender Studies (cross-appointed with Religious Studies)
BA Alberta, MA Ottawa, PhD Victoria(pending)
Research Interests: Discursive and feminist approaches to religion, race, and gender; imperialism and settler colonialism; Canadian politics and law; Indigenous governance; Indigenous feminist & critical Indigenous theories; states, power, and social movements; Ukrainian-Canadian history.
Per Course Instructors
Per Course Instructors | Department of Gender Studies
Adjunct Professors
Adjunct Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BMus Toronto, MM Indiana, PGRNCM, Royal Northern College of Music, MA Simon Fraser, PhD Simon Fraser
Research Interests: Auto/biography; feminist theory and the body; women's history; performance studies; history of medicine and the reproductive body.
Adjunct Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BA(H) 糖心视频, BEd 糖心视频, MPhil 糖心视频, MGS 糖心视频, PhD 糖心视频
Research Interests: Girlhood studies; gothic and gothic subgenres; film and genre Studies; abjection and the grotesque; feminist film and literature,
Adjunct Professor | Department of Gender Studies
PhD 糖心视频, MWS 糖心视频, BA McGill
Research Interests: Climate justice and social equity; feminist STS; feminist political economy/ecology; social ecological aspects of fisheries and aquaculture; rural coastal labour; qualitative methods.
Adjunct Professor | Department of Gender Studies
BSc Cologne, MSc Saarland , PhD (Interdisciplinary) 糖心视频
Research interests: Transdisciplinarity; research-based art; research-creation; Newfoundland; borderlands; cultural ambivalence; agential realism.
Adjunct Professor | Department of Gender Studies
PhD Western; MA, 糖心视频, BScN University of Ghana
Research Interests: Gender-based Violence, Feminist Intersectional theory, (Mental) Health; Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies including applied multivariate statistical analysis.
Affiliated Faculty
Professor | Department of Political Science
BA Hons Toronto, MA British Columbia, PhD British Columbia
Research Interests: Elections and voting; political psychology; women and politics.
Professor | Department of Sociology
Ph.D. New York University
Research Interests: Cultural sociology, Gender and sexuality, Theory, Inequality.
Associate Professor | Department of Religion and Culture
B.A. (Hons) Calgary, M.A. Calgary, PhD McMaster
Research Interests: Hindu religious texts, Hindu goddesses, women and religion.
Professor | Department of Anthropology
BA Toronto, MA McMaster, PhD McMaster University
Research Interests: Gender and class consciousness; oral history; women's memory practices; feminisms and nationalisms; gender, language and power.
Graduate Officer, Professor | Department of Religion and Culture
M.A. Queen's, Ph.D. McMaster
Research Interests: Islam in the West (especially France and Canada); gender and feminist theory; method and theory of religion; social scientific perspectives.
Professor | Department of Sociology
PhD Western University
Research Interests: Population health; gender and marital violence in sub-Saharan Africa; social dimensions of HIV and adolescent sexual behaviours; non-communicable diseases in limited resource settings.