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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)


NURSING FACULTY

Betty Burcher
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Professor Betty Burcher was the Nursing representative on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies committee for 2006-2007. Her areas of expertise are public health, urban health, health policy, access and equity, and public health ethics. Before joining the Faculty of Nursing in 2002, Professor Burcher worked in public health in the City of Toronto, including as manager of the Teaching Health Unit/PHRED Program (1993-1999), and then as manager of Health Planning until 2002. She is currently working on the research project, Clinical Cultural Competence Capacity Building.

Selected Publications

Burcher, Betty, K. Carlin, and L.K. Sweatman. "Public Health Nursing Practice and Ethical Challenges." Paper for the Globalisation of Nursing: Ethical, Legal, and Political Issues Conference, July 10-11, 2006, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

______. "Ethical & Legal Issues for Schools of Nursing During SARS: Lessons for Pandemic Planning." Presentation prepared for Public Health Agency of Canada, 2006. Available online at http://casn.mcmaster.ca/BettyBurcher.html.

______. "Count me in! Tools for an inclusive Ontario." Toronto: Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse, 2005.

_____, M. Fay, K. Fay, and C. Turl. "Count me in! A new health promotion stragegy," Ontario Health Promotion Email Bulletin 358.1 (2005).

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Denise Gastaldo
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Professor Denise Gastaldo is the representative for the Faculty of Nursing on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program committee. Her academic work is organized around four main areas: gender, migration, and other social determinants of health; poer relations in health promotion, nursing, and health care; nursing and international health theoretical development; and qualitative methodology. Teaching projects include introducing global health as a core component of graduate nursing curriculum, doing international capacity-building for health research, and coordinating the International Nursing PhD Collaboration (INPhD) which involves nursing faculties from Canada, Spain, Mexico, and Australia. Professor Gastaldo currently has a grant to research the topic of Latin American workers as caregivers: globalization, health promotion, and access to health care.

Selected Publications

Gastaldo, Denise, A. Gooden, and N. Massaquoi. "Transnational Health Promotion: Social Well-Being across Borders and Immigrant Women's Subjectivities," Wagadu Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies 2.1 (2005).

_____, and A. Bover. "The Centrality of the Family as a Resource in Home Care: Gender and Generational Perspectives" [in Spanish], Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 58.1 (2005): 9-16.

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Rebecca Hagey
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Professor Rebecca Hagey is interested in relationships and intercultural politics and conflict. Her research programs attend to 1) racism in nursing 2) building the infrastructure to support Aboriginal students’ education in the health professions and 3) restorative justice as an approach to healthy relationships. Professor Hagey currently has funding from the MOHLTC, “Bringing Minopimaatisiwin into the Nursing Academy,” and from SSHRC, “Development of infrastructure to advance Aboriginal health.” She teaches NUR1014, "Politics of Aboriginal Health."

Selected Publications

Hagey, Rebecca, Jane Turrittin, and Enid Collins."Experiences of Women of Colour in the Context of Professional Nursing: Cosmopolitan Citizenship or Democratic Racism?" CERIS funded project.

_____, U. Choudhry, S. Guruge, J. Turritin, E. Collins, and R. Lee. "Immigrant Nurses' Experience of Racism," Journal of Nursing Scholarship 33.4 (2001):389-94.

_____. "Choosing Integrative Care: Managing Forces That Affect Practitioners, Consumers, and Alternative Therapies," Alternative and Complementary Therapies 7.1 (2001): 51-54

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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