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Madeleine Mant wears a plague doctor mask
December 10, 2019

Anthropologist Madeleine Mant takes the concept of school dress codes to an entirely new level. Over the past semester, the University of…

Portrait of Sharla Alegria
December 9, 2019

Sharla Alegria is working on work. “I care an awful lot about work in general,” says the sociologist who joined the University of Toronto’s…

Portrait of Cheryl Arrowsmith and Levon Halabelian
December 6, 2019

If a bone breaks or a tendon snaps, you know to seek treatment immediately. But your most fragile and precious cellular commodity, chromosomal DNA,…

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December 6, 2019

As soon as I entered Elmina Castle (the dungeons) in Cape Coast in Ghana, I felt haunted by over 400 years of brutality and the enslavement and…

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford stands with a medal draped around her neck
December 6, 2019

  Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is having a good year.  The University of Toronto alumna, who graduated from the Faculty of Arts &…

view of the class on language and social linguistics
December 5, 2019

When you think of social justice, you’re likely thinking about how some people are discriminated against because of their race, gender, sexual…

Cassie Brownell stands in front of a brick wall on Bloor St.
December 5, 2019

While teaching second-graders in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Cassie J. Brownell quickly realized how important it was to create space for…

Composite photo of the four women featured Mirjana, Julie, Shivani and Savanna
December 5, 2019

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history. The 14 victims, 12 of whom…