Doctor of Philosophy in Women and Gender Studies

The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) offers a program leading to the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Women and Gender Studies. The program offerings bring feminist scholarship to the tasks of challenging and investigating colonial, postcolonial, and transnational contexts. Central themes of the program include global capitalism, nation and state formation, empire, citizenship, indigeneity, diaspora, and cultural flows, all of which are examined through the lenses of diverse feminist scholarship.
The Doctoral Program in Women and Gender Studies (DWGS) offers a particular focus on feminist colonial, post-colonial, diasporic and transnational studies. The program supports diverse and multidisciplinary graduate research querying gendered, raced, sexed, and queered subjects as they are entangled in political economies and cultural formations. In particular, WGSI has distinctive strengths in the following four areas of strength: (1) gender, sexuality and queer studies, (2) feminist cultural studies, (3) feminist studies of technology, science, environment and biomedicine, and (4) transnational political economy and critical development studies. Our core faculty brings transnational feminist commitments to the study of diverse sites and their interconnection with particular focus on Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, and the United States.

A statement of interest of proposed study (500 words maximum)
Two (2) letters of academic recommendation
A brief academic curriculum vitae (CV) (1 page maximum), with details of education, awards, teaching and research experience, and other information of academic interest.
One sample of academic writing, under 30 pages, relevant to Women and Gender Studies, e.g. a course paper or conference paper.
Scanned (unofficial) copies of all post-secondary transcripts.
Completion of Master's degree in Women and Gender Studies (or a cognate subject with significant focus on women and gender studies), or its equivalent from a recognized university, with an average grade of at least an A- in the applicant's overall program.
In exceptional cases, direct-entry admission is also offered to outstanding students with well-defined projects who have completed a bachelor's degree with a concentration in Women and Gender Studies, or a cognate subject from a recognized university. Admission as a direct-entry student will require 6.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) in women and gender studies, with a cumulative average of A (CGPA 4.0) and an average of at least A- (GPA 3.7) in the final year of undergraduate study.

IELTS - Minimum required score 7.0 (Academic) with at least 6.5 for each component.
TOEFL IBT - Overall Score - 93, Writing and Speaking- 22, TOEFL Paper-based Test - Overall Score 580 , TWE 5