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Graduate Faculty in Ethnicity or Immigration

The following directory includes University of Toronto professors teaching courses for the Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. In addition, departmental representatives are listed, as well as faculty members whose academic interests concern either ethnicity or immigration.

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Anthropology (5)
Economics (1)
European, Russian & Eurasian Studies (11)
Geography (6)
History (13)
Industrial Relations & Human Resources (3)
Law (8)
Nursing (3)
Political Science (9)
Religion (5)
Social Work (6)
Sociology (8)
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education (6)
Theory & Policy Studies in Education (3)
Women & Gender Studies (5)


GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

Jock Galloway
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Professor Jock Galloway has taught GGR 1700H—Seminar in Cultural-Historical Geography in the Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Interests include the historical geographies of Brazil, the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as the sugar cane industry.

Selected Publications

Galloway, Jock H. "The Role of the Dutch in Early American Sugar Industry," Halve Maen - Journal of the Holland Society of New York 76.2 (2003): 25-32.

______. "Decline of a Staple: The Caribbean Sugar Industry in the 20th Century." In Competing for the Sugar Bowl: Sugar and Alternative Sweeteners in History, edited by R. Munting and T. Szmrecsanyi. Verlag, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae, 2000.

______. "Botany in Service of Empire: The Barbados Cane-Breeding Program and the Revival of the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1880s-1930s," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86.4 (1996): 682-706.

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Minelle Mahtani
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Professor Mahtani's academic interests concern "mixed race" identity, media and minority representation, critical journalism, and women of colour in geography. She teaches the course JPG 1505 The Multicultural City: Diversity, Policy, and Planning, which is included in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies collaborative program.

Selected Publications

Mahtani, M. "Mixed Metaphors: Situating Mixed Race Identity." In Situating Race and Racisms in Space, Time, and Theory, edited by J. Lee and J. Lutz. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.

______. “Gillian Rose.” In Key Thinkers on Space and Place, edited by R. Hubbard, R. Kitchin, and G. Valentine. London: Sage, 2005.

______. “David Sibley.” In Key Thinkers on Space and Place, edited by R. Hubbard, R. Kitchin, and G. Valentine. London: Sage, 2005.

______. “Judith Butler.” In Key Thinkers on Space and Place, edited by R. Hubbard, R. Kitchin, and G. Valentine. London: Sage, 2005.

______. “Same Difference? Towards a More Unified Discourse in Mixed Race Theory.” In Critical Mixed Race Reader, edited by J. Ifekwunigwe. London: Routledge, 2004.

______. “Mapping Gender and Race in the Academy: The Experiences of Women of Color Faculty and Graduate Students in Britain, the U.S., and Canada,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 28.1 (2004): 450-61.

______. “What’s in a Name?: Exploring the Employment of ‘Mixed Race’ as an Ethno-Racial Identification,” Ethnicities 2.4 (2002): 469-90.

______. "Interrogating the Hypen-Nation: Candian Multicultural Policy and 'Mixed Race' Identities," Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture 8.1 (2002): 67-91.

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D. Aidan McQuillan
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Professor Aidan McQuillan has taught JPG 1712H—Historical Geography of Ethnic Groups in Canada in the Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. Current research concerns: social adjustment and environmental adaptation of French-Canadians, Irish Catholics, and Irish Protestants in Beaurivage, Quebec, between 1830 and 1900; a study of historic preservation planning in San Juan, Puerto Rico; an analysis of the historic townscape of Siena, Italy; and European peoples in the American and Canadian plains.

Selected Publications

McQuillan, D. Aidan. "European Americans." In Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

______. "Les Chemins Divergents: les Irlandais et les Canadiens francais au XIXe siècle." In Le Dialogue avec les cultures minoritaires, edited by Eric Waddell. Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université Laval, 1999.

______. "Pouvoir et Perception: une communauté Irlandaise au Québec au dix-neuvième siécle," Recherches Sociographiques 40.2 (1999): 263-283.

______. Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment on the Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1990.

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Katharine N. Rankin
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Professor Katharine N. Rankin works in the areas of politics of development, feminist theory and practice, comparative market regulation, financial restructuring, planning history and theory, and South Asia. Her work focuses on the articulation of local cultural forms with global economic processes, with a view to documenting local experiences of economic globalization. In her South Asian work, she identifies the gender and cast dimensions of economic development.

Selected Publications

Rankin, Katharine N., and Y.B. Shakya. “The Politics of Subversion in Develompent Practice: An Exploration of Microfinance in Nepal and Vietnam,” Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming.

______, and Y.B. Shakya. “Neoliberalising the Grassroots: Microfinance and the Politics of Development in Nepal.” In Neo-liberalization: Networks, States, Peoples, edited by Kim England and Kevin Ward. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

______. The Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

______, and K. Goonewardena. "The Desire Called Civil Society: A Contribution to the Critique of a Bourgeois Category," Planning Theory 3.2 (2004): 117-49.

______, K. Goonewardena, and S. Weinstock. "Diversity and Planning Education: A Canadian Perspective," Canadian Planning and Policy 13.1 (Supplement 2004): 1-27.

______. "Anthropologies and Geographies of Globalization," Progress in Human Geography 27.6 (2003): 708-34.

______. "Cultures of Economies: Gender and Socio-Spatial Change in Nepal," Gender, Place, and Culture 10.2 (2003): 111-29.

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Susan Ruddick
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Professor Susan Ruddick teaches PLA 1503—Planning and Social Policy (2002-2003) and has taught JPG 1506H—State / Space / Difference: Understanding the New Social Geography of the State in the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program. She is also the representative for the Geography Department on the Collaborative Program Committee. Interests include changing notions of public and private space, social identity and policy, urban political economy, and the geogrpahies of youth and marginalized groups, with a focus on North America and Europe.

Selected Publications

Ruddick, S. "At the Horizons of the Subject: Neo-Liberalism, New Conservatism, and the Rights of the Child. Part One: From 'knowing' fetus to 'confused child,'" Gender, Place, and Culture, forthcoming.

_____. "Activist Geographies." In Envisioning Human Geographies, edited by Paul Cloke, Phil Crang, and Mark Goodwin. London: Arnold/Hodder, 2004.

______. "Domesticating Monsters: Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City." In The Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities, edited by Loretta Lees. London: Sage, 2004.

______. "Metamorphoses Revisited: Restricted Discourses of Citizenship." In Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario, edited by Joe Hermer. Toronto: Fernwood Press, 2002.

______, Deb Cowen, and Luisa Veronis. Supporting Communities: How Halifax and Edmonton Mobilized to Fight Homelessness. Ottawa: Prepared for Human Resources Development Canada, 2001.

______. "Youth, Modernization, Resistance." In Cool Places: The Geography of Youth Culture, edited by G. Valentine and T. Skelton. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1997.

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Kathleen Wilson
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Professor Wilson's academic interests concern reciprocal relationships among experiences of place and health; Aboriginal health; gender and health; and access to health care. Current research includes a CIHR funded project that explores the extent to which inequalities in access to health care services exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians living in census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and the relative role of these inequalities in shaping health disparities. In addition, Professor Wilson is collaborating with John Eyles of McMaster University; together they are researching the links between social exclusion and health in Hamilton, Ontario.

Selected Publications

Wilson, K., and E. Peters. “You can make a place for it: Remapping urban Aboriginal spaces of identity," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, forthcoming.

______, S. Keller-Olaman, J. Eyles, S. Elliott, N. Dostrovsky, and M. Jerrett. "Individual and Neighbourhood Characteristics Associated with Environmental Exposure: Exploring Relationships at Home and Work in a Canadian City," Environment and Behaviour, forthcoming.

______, S. Elliot, M. Law, J. Eyles, M. Jerrett, and S. Olaman. “Linking Perceptions of Neighbourhood to Health in Hamilton, Canada,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 58 (2004): 192-198.

______, and M. Rosenberg. “Accessibility and the Canadian Health Care System: Squaring Perceptions and Realities,” Health Policy 67 (2004): 137-148.

______, S. Birch, M. Jerrett, M. Law, S. Elliott, and J. Eyles. 2003. “Heterogeneities in the Production of Health: Smoking, Health Status and Place." In Issues of Health Economics and Health Management, edited by S. Birch, J.F.P. Bridges, and G.T. Papanilos. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2003.

______."Therapeutic landscapes and First Nations peoples: an exploration of culture, health and place," Health and Place 9.2 (June 2003): 83-93.

______, and M. Rosenberg. "The Geographies of Crisis: Exploring Accessibility to Health Care Services in Canada," The Canadian Geographer 46.4 (2002).

______, and M. W. Rosenberg. "Exploring the determinants of health for First Nations peoples in Canada: can existing frameworks accommodate traditional activities?," Social Science & Medicine 55.11 (December 2002): 2017-2031.

______, M. Jerrett, and J. Eyles. "Testing Relationships Among Determinants of Health, Health Policy and Self-Assessed Health Status in Quebec, Canada," International Journal of Health Services 31.1 (2001): 67-89.

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Program Director:
 Jeffrey G. Reitz
Courses, 2010-2011

Program Administrator:

Momo Kano Podolsky


Collaborating Departments:

Anthropology
European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies
Geography
History
Industrial Relations & Human Resources
Nursing Science
Political Science
Religion
Social Work
Sociology
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Theory & Policy Studies in Education
Women & Gender Studies