Wenona Giles
Senior Scholar
O.C., FRSC
Professor Emerita
Email: wgiles@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/wgiles
Not accepting new graduate students
Wenona Giles retired from York University in October 2018. She is Professor Emerita, Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She has published in the areas of gender, migration, forced migration, refugee issues, protracted refugee situations, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, war and education. She is currently working on a novel.
www.yorku.ca/wgiles
Until 2019, she co-led the GAC funded aspects of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project.
See: http://crs.yorku.ca/bher-group
and project video on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3q4blUAmTC0
She has carried out research on long-term refugee situations for almost a decade
See: www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~gprs/HTML/agprs.html.
As well, she is a co-investigator of the international SSHRC Cluster Grant: A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge
see: http://www.refugeeresearch.net/.
Giles co-led the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network with Maja Korac in the mid 1990s to the early 2000s and the project “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States”.
Degrees
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of TorontoM.A. Anthropology, University of Toronto
Education degree, British Columbia
BA. Liberal Arts (English and French Literature), University of Santa Clara
Diplôme de Langue et des Lettres Françaises, Université d'Aix-Marseille
Research Interests
- Jackie Kirk Book Award - 2022
- Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 2018-
- Recognition of 2012-13 Research Leaders, York University - 2013
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Bellagio Centre, Italy - 2012
- Open Society Foundation Grant - 2016-18
- Global Affairs Canada for Borderless Higher Education in Refugee Camps (BHER) project - 2013-19
- MasterCard Foundation Grant for BHER - 2011
- SSHRC-Partnership Development Grant for BHER project - 2011
- Co-investigator. SSHRC Cluster Grant: A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge - 2008-14
- SSHRC Standard Grant for project: The Globalization of Homelessness in Long-Term Refugee Camps. - 2005-08
- Ford Foundation grants for A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States - 1998-2000
- SSHRC Women and Change Strategic Grant for an International Network Concerning Women in Conflict Zones - 1996-99
- 2023 York University Research Leader Award - 2023
- Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada - 2024
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Pursued — دنبال is a historical novel that spans the early decades of the 20th century in Persia and England. The story examines the unquenchable imperial thirst for what lay beneath the ground in southwest Persia - both oil and archaeological treasures - and how these threaten to destroy the lives of more than one of the novel's multigenerational characters.
Not accepting new graduate students
Wenona Giles retired from York University in October 2018. She is Professor Emerita, Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She has published in the areas of gender, migration, forced migration, refugee issues, protracted refugee situations, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, war and education. She is currently working on a novel.
www.yorku.ca/wgiles
Until 2019, she co-led the GAC funded aspects of the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project.
See: http://crs.yorku.ca/bher-group
and project video on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3q4blUAmTC0
She has carried out research on long-term refugee situations for almost a decade
See: www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~gprs/HTML/agprs.html.
As well, she is a co-investigator of the international SSHRC Cluster Grant: A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge
see: http://www.refugeeresearch.net/.
Giles co-led the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network with Maja Korac in the mid 1990s to the early 2000s and the project “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States”.
Degrees
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of TorontoM.A. Anthropology, University of Toronto
Education degree, British Columbia
BA. Liberal Arts (English and French Literature), University of Santa Clara
Diplôme de Langue et des Lettres Françaises, Université d'Aix-Marseille
Research Interests
Awards
- Jackie Kirk Book Award - 2022
- Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - 2018-
- Recognition of 2012-13 Research Leaders, York University - 2013
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the Bellagio Centre, Italy - 2012
- Open Society Foundation Grant - 2016-18
- Global Affairs Canada for Borderless Higher Education in Refugee Camps (BHER) project - 2013-19
- MasterCard Foundation Grant for BHER - 2011
- SSHRC-Partnership Development Grant for BHER project - 2011
- Co-investigator. SSHRC Cluster Grant: A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge - 2008-14
- SSHRC Standard Grant for project: The Globalization of Homelessness in Long-Term Refugee Camps. - 2005-08
- Ford Foundation grants for A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States - 1998-2000
- SSHRC Women and Change Strategic Grant for an International Network Concerning Women in Conflict Zones - 1996-99
- 2023 York University Research Leader Award - 2023
- Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada - 2024
Current Research Projects
-
Summary:
Pursued — دنبال is a historical novel that spans the early decades of the 20th century in Persia and England. The story examines the unquenchable imperial thirst for what lay beneath the ground in southwest Persia - both oil and archaeological treasures - and how these threaten to destroy the lives of more than one of the novel's multigenerational characters.
Role: Author