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Thursday, July 29, 2021

New publication by Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen on engaging girls with disabilities in the Global South via participatory visual research

Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, along with her co-authors Marnina Gonick and Tuyen Bui, recently published their latest article Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South in the journal Global Studies of Childhood. This article uses a critical... More

Thursday, July 22, 2021

WGST Faculty Nadia Abu-Zahra, Katie Bausch, and Carolyn Ramzy awarded SOPI Grant

WGST faculty Nadia Abu-Zahra and Katie Bausch, along with cross-appointed faculty member Carolyn Ramzy were recently awarded a SOPI (Shared Online Projects Initiative) Grant for their project Open Educational Resources (OER) on Community-Building and Culture. This grant will help facilitate the creation of critical online resources addressing... More

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Dr. Kelly Fritsch co-authors new children’s book about dis/ability justice!

Cross-appointment professor, Kelly Fritsch has co-authored "We Move Together", a new children's book that "chronicles the experiences of a diverse group of characters as they cleverly negotiate barriers and conflicts that impede their ability to move together. But more than that, We Move Together is a celebration of disability culture, community,... More

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Welcome to our New Profs!

We're thrilled to welcome two new faculty members to our department this year Dr. Manjeet Birk and Dr. Fady Shanouda! Manjeet Birk Manjeet Birk (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centres the lived experience of racialized and Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Her research focuses on women’s organizing, social justice and... More

Monday, June 21, 2021

Congratulations Class of 2021!

We want to send out our warmest CONGRATULATIONS to all our graduates this year!   Class of 2021 - Master's Graduates Class of 2021 -... More

Monday, May 3, 2021

Prof. Pat Gentile’s book nominated for CHA Best Scholarly Book in CA History!

Patrizia Gentile's book Queen of the Maple Leaf : Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity has been nominated for a 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association.  The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history that is deemed to have made the most significant contribution... More

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Brittney Bos awarded contract instructor teaching award!

The Office of Provost and VP Academic have announced their 2021 Achievement award recipients, and we wanted to extend our enthusiastic congratuations to Brittney Bos for winning the Contract Instructor Teaching Award.  She states "I always remind learners: I’m formally listed as your instructor, but I’m actually your feminist educator who is... More

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

PhD Fellowship in Critical Disability Studies

We enthusiastically invite applications for a PhD fellowship in Critical Disability Studies at Carleton University. The objective of this fellowship is to provide an opportunity for training a doctoral student in Critical Disability Studies with a focus on working with women and girls with disabilities in Vietnam. The successful candidate will... More

Friday, February 19, 2021

MA Student Caitlin Manuel is nominated for 2020 Favorite Faculty!

The Department of Housing and Residence Life Services sends out a survey to all students living in Residence that gives them the opportunity to submit a nomination for their Favourite Faculty member. This survey simply stated: Who is the faculty member, and why are they so great? Our Masters student, Caitlin Manuel has been... More

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Student Poetry – The 504 Sit-ins: The Wakening

Gagan Dhaliwal is a first-year student majoring in Cognitive Sciences and was taking our DBST1001A course - Intro to Disability Studies. “I took the course on disability studies as an elective and, to be honest, did not think much of it. Many concepts, ideas and definitions were introduced throughout the course, ultimately changing my... More

Friday, January 15, 2021

Former prof Betty-Anne Daviss’s new book – Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power

Betty-Anne Daviss (midwife, researcher and former WGST prof) has published a new book - Birthing Models on the Human Rights Frontier: Speaking Truth to Power. Combined as an academic textbook and essential activist reading, it traces the major highlights of the history of Human Rights and how reproductive rights activists have graduated from... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Amrita Hari: Immigrant women are falling behind during the COVID-19 pandemic

"Immigrant women are feeling the brunt of the negative economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and it may not get better. The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited public debate on the adverse socio-economic effects on women engaged in both paid and unpaid work. There have been some specific conversations about health-care workers and... More

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