Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

Women and Gender Studies

MA and PhD

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

• Aging, Palliative and Supportive Care Across the Life Course
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA
• Bioethics (admissions have been administratively suspended)
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA
• Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA
• Development Policy and Power
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA
• Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• Environment and Health
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• Environmental Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• Jewish Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA
• Sexual Diversity Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• South Asian Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• Women's Health
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA, PhD
• Workplace Learning and Social Change
  • Women and Gender Studies, MA

Overview

The overall graduate program is cutting edge for its focus on transnational feminist studies. Graduate students and faculty investigate how gender and sexuality are informed, lived, and reinvented amidst entwined yet discrepant narratives, geographies, and histories.

Graduate work at the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) encourages an engagement with an interdisciplinary range of theories and methods that grapple with how gender and sexuality are entangled with questions of race, citizenship, embodiment, colonialism, nation, global capitalism, violence, political economy, cultural formations, aesthetics, and other pressing concerns.

The core faculty brings transnational feminist commitments to the study of diverse sites and their interconnection with particular focus on Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and the United States. In doing so, the institute seeks to ask feminist questions as well as put feminism into question.

Areas of focus within the transnational feminist approach include:

• gender, sexuality and queer studies
• political economy and critical development studies
• feminist studies of technology, science, environment and biomedicine
• feminist cultural studies.

The MA and PhD degree programs also feature the option of a practicum that aspires to strengthen students’ ability to interrogate the application of theories and methods to lived practice.

Contact and Address

Web: www.wgsi.utoronto.ca/graduate
Email: wgsi.programs@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-3668
Fax: (416) 946-5561

Graduate Program in Women and Gender Studies
Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Wilson Hall, New College, 40 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1C6 Canada