Wenona Giles
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
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
- 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
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 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
- 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
