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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.
WOMEN
AND GENDER STUDIES INSTITUTE (WGSI)
Jacqui Alexander
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Professor M. Jacqui Alexander is
Professor of Women's Studies and Gender Studies at the University of
Toronto. She is one of the most important theorists of transnational
feminism working today. She has written extensively on the
heteronormative, regulatory practices of the modern state and the
different ways in which radical communities, both outside and inside
the academy, position themselves in relation to these practices. Her
most recent scholarship has taken up questions of the sacred dimensions
of experience and the meaning of sacred subjectivity. It also involves
writing the life of an enslaved Kongolese woman in the Caribbean. She
is a member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and
Action. Her Pedagogies of Crossing brings together
essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive
critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer,
and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this
landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to a number of
critical imperatives made all the more urgent by contemporary
manifestations of neoimperialism and neocolonialism. Among these are
the need for North American feminism and queer studies to take up
transnational frameworks that foreground questions of colonialism,
political economy, and racial formation; for a thorough
re-conceptualization of modernity to account for the heteronormative
regulatory practices of modern state formations; and for feminists to
wrestle with the spiritual dimensions of experience and the meaning of
sacred subjectivity.
Selected
Publications
Alexander, Jacqui.
"Colonialism and its Contemporaries: Feminist Reflections on the State
of War and the Meaning of Solidarity." Paper presented at Debating
Independence: Autonomy or Voluntary Colonialism?,
The Teachers’ Training School of Greenland, Nuuk, April 22–23, 2006.
_____. Pedagogies of
Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the
Sacred." Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
_____, Mab Segrest, Sharon
Day, and Lisa Albrecht, eds. Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray:
Feminist Visions for a Just World." Berkeley CA: EdgeWork,
2003.
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Bonnie McElhinny
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Professor Bonnie McElhinny is
Graduate
Coordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Institute and the WGSI
representative on the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies committee. She works
on issues linked to gender, the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora.
Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on historical and contemporary
investigations of North American interventions into Filipino health
care and childcare practices, and reactions and resistance to these.
Her current work includes an investigation into early 20th century
attempts to address high infant mortality rates in the Philippines
during the American colonial occupation, as a case study in imperial
attempts to restructure affect and intimacy, and the ways debates about
children were used as a terrain for imperial and nationalist arguments.
She also coordinates a life history research group with
Filipino-Canadian graduate and undergraduate students.
Selected
Publications
McElhinny, Bonnie, Bonnie McElhinny, Shirley
Yeung, Valerie Damasco, Angela DeOcampo, Monina Febria, Christianne
Collantes, and Jason Salonga. "Talk about Luck": Coherence,
Contingency, Character and Class in the Life Stories of Filipino
Canadians in Toronto." In Language and Asia-Pacific Americans,
edited by Adrienne Lo and Angela Reyes. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007.
_____. "Language, Gender and Economies in Global
Transitions: Provocative and Provoking Questions about How Gender is
Articulated." In Words, Worlds, Material Girls: Language and
Gender in a Global Economy, ed. Bonnie McElhinny. Belin/New
York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
_____. "Recontextualizing the American Occupation
of the Philippines:
Erasure and Ventriloquism in Colonial Discourse around Men, Medicine
and Infant Mortality." In Words, Worlds, Material Girls: Language and
Gender in a Global Economy, ed. Bonnie McElhinny. Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
_____. "Prétextes de L'Empire Américain aux
Philippines: Recontextualisation des Histoires de la Médecine
Impériale," Anthropologie et Sociétés (Special
issue on "Dynamiques et pratiqueslangagières," edited by Michelle
Daveluy) 31.1 (2007):75-95.
_____. 2005. "'Kissing a Baby is Not At All Good
For Him': Infant Mortality, Medicine and Colonial Modernity in the
US-Occupied Philippines," American Anthropologist
107.2 (2005):183-194.
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Shahrzad Mojab
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Professor Shahrzad Mojab is
Director of
the Women and Gender Studies Instute and Professor in Adult Education
and Counseling Psychology (OISE/UT). Her specialty includes:
educational policy studies; comparative and international adult
education policy; adult education, globalization and learning; critical
and feminist pedagogy. Areas of research and teaching are: women,
state, globalization and citizenship; women, war, militarization,
violence and learning; and comparative analysis of lifelong learning
theory and practice; and feminism, colonialism and imperialism. She has
conducted extensive research on immigrant women’s access to employment
and training in Canada and the impact of war and violence on women’s
learning in the diaspora, in particular, on women political prisoners
of the Middle East.
Selected
Publications
Mojab, Shahrzad, and Rachel Gorman. "Dispersed
Nationalism: War, Diaspora, and Kurdish Women's Organizing," Journal
of Middle East Women and Gender Studies 3.1 (2007): 58-85.
_____. "Gender, Nation and Diaspora: Kurdish Women
in Feminist Transnational Struggles." In Muslim Diaspora:
Gender, Culture and Identity, edited by Haideh Moghissi.
London: Routledge, 2006. Pp 116-32.
_____. "Adult Education Without Borders." In Contexts
of Adult Education: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Tara
Fenwick, Tom Nesbit and Bruce Spencer. Toronto: Thompson Educational
Publishing, 2006. Pp 347-56.
_____. "Gender, Political Islam and Imperialism."
In The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire,
edited by Colin Moores. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006. Pp 61-85.
_____. "Race and Class." In Class
Concerns: Adult Education and Social Class, edited by Tom
Nesbit. New Directions in Adult and Continuing Education, no. 106. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. Pp. 73-82.
_____, and Nahla Abdo, eds. Violence in
the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges.
Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2004.
_____, and Himani Bannerji, eds. War and
Militarization, special issue of Resources for
Feminist Research 30.3/4 (2003).
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Alissa Trotz
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Professor D. Alissa Trotz teaches
at the
Women and Gender Studies Institute. She is also Director of the Caribbean
Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests are in
the areas of intersectionality and social inequalities, migratory
circuits and diasporic practices, feminism and transnationality, and
Caribbean Studies. Dr. Trotz is associate editor of Wadabagei:
A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora. Her current
research looks at the reconfiguration of Caribbean feminist activism in
an era of neoliberalism.
Selected
Publications
Trotz, D. Alissa. "Rethinking Caribbean
Transnational Connections: Conceptual Itineraries," Global
Networks 6.1 (2006).
_____. "Between Despair and Hope: Towards an
Analysis of Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana," Small
Axe: A Journal of Criticism 15 (2004): 1-25.
_____. "The Caribbean Family?" In The
Gender Companion, edited by Audrey Kobayashi, Philomena
Essed, and David Theo Goldberg. London: Blackwell, 2004.
_____. "Behind the Banner of Culture? Gender,
Race, and the Family in Guyana," New West Indian Guide
77. 1/2 (2003): 5-29.
_____. "Gender, Ethnicity, and Familial Ideology:
Household Structure and Female Labour Force Participation
Reconsidered." In Gendered Realities: An Anthology of Essays
in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by P. Mohammed.
Kingston, Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press, 2002.
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