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Advisory Committee

Hilary Cunningham
Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Interests: social movements, including the Sanctuary Movement on the U.S.-Mexican border; bioethical aspects of recent research on, and commericalization of, human genetics; globalization, environmentalism, anthropology of religion, and culture and political economy.

Maureen Fitzgerald
Professor, Transitional Year Program and Program Director, Sexual Diversity Studies
Interests:oral histories of pre-Stonewall gay women in Toronto; left wing movements and lesbian and gay movements specifically in Toronto; queer studies, women's studies and equity studies; intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality.

Nazilla Khanlou
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Department of Psychiatry (Culture, Community & Health Studies Programme)
Homepage: www.nursing.utoronto.ca/faculty/bios/default.phtml?id=17
Interests: mental health promotion among youth in multicultural contexts; gender, cultural identity, self-esteem and migration status; participatory action frameworks; community-based research with immigrant and Canadian-born youth.

June Larkin
Director, Equity Studies
Interests: Gender, youth and HIV/AIDS; violence against women; equity, globalization and education; gender, body image and eating problems.

Shahrzad Mojab
Associate Professor, Adult Education and Counselling Psychology
Director Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies
Homepage: www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/aecdcp/faculty/mojab.html
Interests: critical and feminist pedagogy; power and difference in the workplace; women, state, globalization and citizenship; women, war, violence and learning; and comparative analysis of lifelong learning theory and practice.

Peter Newman
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work
Homepage: www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/facmem/pnewman/bio.html
Interests: HIV/AIDS in the developed and developing world, preventive intervention, LGBT issues, sex work, empowerment, and social marketing.

Keren Rice
Professor of Linguistics
Director, Aboriginal Studies Program
Interests: Aboriginal literacy

Izumi Sakamoto
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work
Homepage: www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/facmem/isakamoto/bio.html
Interests: empowerment, group work, qualitative research, and social work practice in relation to transnationalization/globalization, how aspects of cultural diversity and oppression inform social work practice and theory. Her current research investigates Cultural Negotiation for immigrants (e.g., Chinese & Japanese Im/migrant Projects), exploring the processes of marginalization and self-empowerment (Transnational Homeless Project), and to examine theoretical and pedagogical issues involved in anti-oppressive, multicultural, and critical international social work (Critical Consciousness Project).

Jesook Song
Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies.
Interests: Contemporary South Korean history, public culture and discourse, Korean Diaspora, urban and political anthropology, social governance and welfare, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism, education and pedagogy of higher education, and Korean film and literature.

Julia Sudbury
Associate Professor of Social Work
Homepage: www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/facmem/jsudbury/bio.html
Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, Equity and Diversity.
Interests: community organizing by women of colour and aboriginal women; theorizing intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and nation; globalization and transnationalism; women's criminalization and imprisonment; feminist and anti-oppressive research methodologies.

Judith Taylor
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.
Interests: state feminisms, organizations in the Greater Toronto Area dedicated to women's empowerment, and emotion in organizations. Teaching interests: Feminist Studies in Sexuality, and the Research Practicum for advanced women's studies students interested in conducting research on feminist work outside the academy.

Alissa Trotz
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education.
Interests: intersectionality and social inequalities, migratory circuits and diasporic identities, feminism and transnationality, and Caribbean Studies

Rinaldo Walcott
Associate Professor, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education and Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies.
Homepage: www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/sese/walcott.htm
Interests: cultural studies and cultural theory; queer and gender theory, and transnational and diaspora studies.