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Graduate Program

The Collaborative Master’s and Doctoral Program in Diaspora and Transnational Studies is designed to bring together both social science and humanities at  perspectives at the graduate level to augment our already existing tri-campus undergraduate program and to contribute to increased research collaboration among participants in the program. It is being set up in response to popular demand by advanced students of the current DTS undergraduate program as well as the many expressions of interest from students keen on thorough graduate training in the field from within Canada and well beyond. The Collaborative Program will be distinctive by being interdisciplinary as well as comparative. Whilst raising questions about diasporic communities in Canada, this will not be the primary focus of the Collaborative Program.  Rather, the Canadian example will be a means towards understanding the nature of diaspora and transnationalism elsewhere in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Global South.  Students must apply to and be admitted to both the Collaborative Program and a graduate degree program of a collaborating unit.  Students who complete the program at the Master’s level will not be eligible for the program at the Doctoral level.

COLLABORATING UNITS:
Department of Anthropology
Cinema Studies Institute
Centre for Comparative Literature
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
Department of English
Department of Geography
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Department of History
Department of Political Science
Centre for the Study of Religion
Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE
Department of Spanish, Spanish program
Women and Gender Studies Institute

SUPPORTING UNITS:
Centre for Jewish Studies

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Admissions, curriculum, individual programs and other academic aspects of the administration of the program will be the responsibility of the Director and the Program Committee.

MASTER'S AND DOCTORAL PROGRAM
Program requirements and application
Deadline for applications June 30, 2010


Applications should contain the following:
- cv
- Academic transcript
- Statement of scholarly interest (2 pages maximum)
- Proof of admission to home department

Applications should be received by June 1st 2009 either via email to cdts@utoronto.ca or posted to:

Antonela Arhin, Executive Officer
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
Rm 230, Jackman Humanities Building
170 St George St.
Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Canada

COURSES

DTS1000 Comparative Research Methods in Diaspora and Transnationalism
Fall 2009, Wednesdays, 2-5 pm, Room JHB 235
This seminar will introduce students to a range of theories to do with diaspora and transnationalism from the humanities and the social sciences.  Core questions will include the methodological differences between diaspora and its many synonyms, such as migrant communities, exile, refugee etc.  The different emphases and overlaps between Migration Studies, Urban Studies, and Diaspora and Transnational Studies will also be pursued.
Instructors
Ato Quayson
Ken MacDonald
Kevin O’Neill
Click here to download the syllabus

 

DTS2000 Religions, Transnationalism, and Space
Winter 2010, Mondays, 3-5 pm, Room JHB 235
For a discipline so preoccupied with space - with sacralty, with hierophanies, with ritually inscribed distinctions between dirt and earth - it is astounding that so very little time has been spent considering the study of religion's own spatial characteristics. The field's tendency to map the study of religion into three regions (i.e., Eastern Religions, Western Religions, and Ethics/Philosophy) does not simply organize departments, journals, and annual meetings but also attracts (and thus produces) scholars who assume and become subsumed by what the ethnographer might call "regional stereotypes." In critical response, this advanced seminar will explore the modern construction of religion to understand critically the field's spatial characteristics.  Readings will include those of GWF Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Auguste Comte, Émile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Mary Douglas, Raymond Williams, James Clifford, Henri Lefebvre, Tomoko Masuzawa, Catherine Bell, James Ferguson, and so on. The course will also look at how immigrant and transnational communities spatialize their sense of the sacred and of the rituals that are seen to be pertinent to it (churches, mosques, prayer groups, pilgrimages etc.).
Instructor
Kevin O’Neill

 

PEOPLE
- STUDENTS
- FACULTY
- VISITING SCHOLARS
- ALUMNI

EVENTS

CONTACT US
Collaborative Program Director: Ato Quayson
Collaborative Program Coordinator: Antonela Arhin
Email us at cdts@utoronto.ca

 

 

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