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Wenona Giles

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Department of Anthropology

Senior Scholar
FRSC
Professor Emerita

Email: wgiles@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/wgiles


Wenona Giles retired from York University in October 2018. She is Professor Emerita 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

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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 Toronto
M.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

Anthropology , Gender Issues, Migration and Forced Migration; the Gender Relations Economic and Political Migration, Access to Higher Education for Marginalized Populations, Gender and Militarization; Ethnicity, Nationalism and Gender, Women and Development, gender, forced migration, refugee issues, education
  • SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship 1989-1991 - 1989-91                     
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1983-1984 - 1983-1984
  • Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship 1982-1983 - 1982-83
  • University of Toronto Open Fellowship 1981-1982 - 1981-82
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1980-1981 - 1980-81
  • Nominated for Canadian Women’s Studies Association book award 2002 - 2002
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) -
  • Portuguese Government Scholarship (declined) -
  • University of Toronto Open Fellowship (declined) -
  • Rockefeller Fellowship - 2011
Books

Publication
Year

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2021


Wenona Giles retired from York University in October 2018. She is Professor Emerita 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 Toronto
M.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

Anthropology , Gender Issues, Migration and Forced Migration; the Gender Relations Economic and Political Migration, Access to Higher Education for Marginalized Populations, Gender and Militarization; Ethnicity, Nationalism and Gender, Women and Development, gender, forced migration, refugee issues, education

Awards

  • SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship 1989-1991 - 1989-91                     
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1983-1984 - 1983-1984
  • Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship 1982-1983 - 1982-83
  • University of Toronto Open Fellowship 1981-1982 - 1981-82
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship 1980-1981 - 1980-81
  • Nominated for Canadian Women’s Studies Association book award 2002 - 2002
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) -
  • Portuguese Government Scholarship (declined) -
  • University of Toronto Open Fellowship (declined) -
  • Rockefeller Fellowship - 2011

All Publications


Books

Publication
Year

xxxxx

2021