Gender Studies Accolades:
Graduate Students:
Gender Studies Graduate Symposium November 3, 2011
Kaleigh Alkenbrack - "Written Lives: Intertextual Dialogues about Domestic Violence in Audrey Andrews' Auto/biographical Account of the Life and Trial of Dorothy Joudrie"
Emily Burns -"Unsettling the White Noise: Deconstructing the Nation-Building Project of CBC Radio One's Canada Reads"
Ashley Hoskin - "(Re)Conceptualizing Femme/phobia: Critical Approaches to Decolonizing Western Feminism"
Auden Neuman - "Wounded Subjects: White Settler Nationals in Toronto G20 Resistance Narratives"
Maya Thau-Eleff - "'Her Body is Good Earth': Mapping A Way Home through Intimate Geographies in North American Indigenous Poetry, 1990-Present"
Dana Wesley - "Conversations With Urban Two-Spirit Indigenous Youth: Creating Indigenist Communities"
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Jillian Burford-Grinnell - has been awarded the 2011 Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award, the highest tribute that can be paid to a student for valuable and distinguished service to the University in non-athletic, extra-curricular activities. The award is named after Dr. Agnes Benidickson who was Chancellor of Queen's University from 1980 to 1996.
Shannon Coyle -is the sole recipient of the Norman Barwin Scholarship for Reproductive
Health for her study of the trans person's needs and fulfillments within Ontario's health
care system. Shannon attended the Rainbow Health Ontario Conference on a full scholarship in March 2010. She has been asked to write a chapter in the forthcoming
Canadian textbook by Dr. Caroline Pukall entitled Sex Education in Canada.
Katherine Mazurok -was awarded the Canadian Women's Studies Association (CWSA/ACEF) 2010 Graduate Essay Prize for her essay 'The Metaphoric Middle (Im)Passage: Beauty and National L/Anguish' which she presented at the CWSA/ACEF annual meeting, which was part of the Learneds/Congress, held this year at Concordia University in Montreal.
Gender Studies Graduate Symposium November 4, 2010
Jillian Burford-Grinnell: "Ontario's Children: Are They Entitled to Food?"
Shannon Coyle: “A Comparative Analysis of Transgender Experiences in Accessing Ontario Health Care Services in Single-tier vs. Upper-tier Municipalities”
Leora Jackson: “Finding Home: Transnational Connectivities in Iranian Jewish Women’s Life Writing”
Emily MacGillivray: "Oh Canada, Or Settled and Colonized Land: How representations of blackness and indigeneity are mobilized and silenced to support discourses of settler colonialism in Ontario history textbooks"
Katherine Mazurok: “Becoming Ballet Bodies: A Critical Analysis of Narrative Structure and Its Implications for Bodily Productions and (Inter) National Identity in Swan Lake and Stars and Stripes”
Ayca Tomac: " 'Who is afraid of Islamic feminism?': A Critical view on debates of Islamic Feminism"
Dana Wesley: "A Conversation with Urban Aboriginal Two Spirit Youth: Building Radical Indigenist Communities?"
