This document is Kiran Mirchandani's curriculum vitae from 2012. It lists her academic appointments as Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto since 2004 and Director of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change since 2006. It provides information on her education, awards, research grants, publications and other academic accomplishments.

1. KIRAN MIRCHANDANI
Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, 7-111
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6
Canada.
kiran@oise.utoronto.ca
Telephone: 416 978-0884
Fax: (416) 926-4749
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2004-date Associate Professor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
2006-date Director
Collaborative Graduate Program in Workplace Learning and Social
Change, University of Toronto
1999-2004 Assistant Professor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
1997-1999 Postdoctoral Fellow
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
St. Mary’s University
1996-1997 Assistant Professor
Sociology & Anthropology
Concordia University
EDUCATION
1996 Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology
McGill University, Canada
1991 Master of Philosophy, Social and Political Theory
University of Cambridge, UK
1990 Bachelor of Arts [Hons], Cultural Studies
Trent University, Canada
1986 'A' Levels, Arts
Raffles Junior College, Singapore
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2. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2010 Academic Activist Award, Council of Agencies Serving South Asians,
Toronto.
2003 Best Paper Award, Gender and Diversity in Management Division,
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), ($500).
2002 Shortlisted for Rosemary Moss Kanter Award for the author of the
best piece of work-family research published in a journal during a
calendar year.
1998 Second Place in Best Dissertation Competition, Academy of
Management, Gender and Diversity Division.
1996 Annual Feminist Thesis Prize. Best Thesis in Feminist Studies at
McGill University.
1996 Honourable Mention Award, Women in Management Division,
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).
1994 McGill Major Award - Gorgon H. Eberts Fellowship (15,000).
1993 Best Ph.D. Paper Award, Women in Management Division,
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).
1993 Samuel Lapitsky Fellowship, McGill University ($3,500).
1991 McGill Major Award - Alma Mater Fellowship ($20,000).
1990 Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award ($9,000)
1987 Singapore International Chamber of Commerce - CIDA Full
Undergraduate Scholarship ($36,000).
RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED
Dates Granting Body Title Role Amount
2010-2013 Social Sciences Auxilliary Workers: The Hidden Principal $111,930
and Humanities Scaffold of India’s Information Investigator
Council of Technology Industry
Canada
2006-2009 Social Sciences Professional Immigrant Women Co- $110,091
and Humanities Navigating the Canadian Labour Investigator
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3. Council of Market: A Study in Adult
Canada Learning
2003-2005 National Overcoming Race and Gender Principal $40,000
Literacy Barriers to Workplace Literacy Investigator
Secretariate
2002-2007 Social Sciences The The Uneven Periphery: Principal $89,857
and Humanities Social Effects of Telemediated Investigator
Council of Work
Canada
2002-2006 Social Sciences Skilled In Vulnerability: Work- Principal $199,
and Humanities related Learning Amongst Investigator 675
Council of Contingent Workers.
Canada
2002-2005 Social Sciences Knowledge Networks of Co- $107,456
and Humanities Portfolio Workers: Investigator
Council of Development, Usage, and
Canada Benefits for Success in the New
Economy
2002-2003 University of Learning to Cross Borders: Principal $2,100
Toronto, Seed Transnational Call Centre Work Investigator
Grant in India. Principal Investigator
2002-2004 Canadian Race The Racialized impact of Co-principal $30,000
Relations Welfare Fraud Control in B.C. investigator
Foundation and Ontario
2001-2002 Canadian Indo- The Globalized Home: Women Principal INR100,0
Shastri Home-Based Workers in India’s Investigator 00/
Foundation. Export Industries. C$3,000
2001-2002 University of Training Against Vulnerability: Principal $2,500
Toronto, Seed Workplace Learning Amongst Investigator
Grant Contingent Workers
2001-2003 Social Sciences Changing Work, Changing Co- $86,147
and Humanities Lives: Mapping the Canadian investigator
Council of Garment Industry
Canada
2000-2002 University of The Uneven Periphery: Mapping Principal $7,500
Toronto Seed the Home-based Workforce in Investigator
Grant Canada
2000-2002 Connaught Restructuring Work: The Principal $10,000
Automatic Experiences of Veteran Investigator
Start-up Grant Home-Based Teleworkers
2000-2001 University of Immigrant Integration, Principal $2,000
Toronto Seed Settlement and Garment Investigator
Grant Workers: A Feasibility Study.
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4. 2000-2001 University of Employers, communities and Co- $2,500
Toronto, Seed workers in the new global Investigator
Grant environment of the garment
industry
1997-1999 Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship Field Principal $5,000
and Humanities Grant Investigator
Council of
Canada
1994-1995 McGill Centre Fieldwork Grant Principal $1,0000
for Research Investigator
and Teaching
on
1994-1995 McGill Grant for Thesis Fieldwork Principal $2,200
University Investigator
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Mirchandani, K. (2012). Phone Clones: Authenticity Work in the Transnational Service
Economy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Livingstone, D., Mirchandani, K. and Sawchuk, P. (Eds). (2008). The Future of Lifelong
Learning and Work: Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Mirchandani, K. and Chan, W. (2007). Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare
Fraud Enforcement in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood.
Chan, W. and Mirchandani, K. (Eds). (2002). Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal
Justice System in Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Mirchandani, K., Maitra, S. and Sangha, J. (2012). Treats and Threats: Global Cultures in
India's Call Centres. In A. Prasad (Ed.), Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial
Organization Studies (pp. 135-154). Denmark: Copenhagen Business School Press.
Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S., Rawlings, T., Shan, H., Siddiqui, K., and
Slade, B. (2011). The entrenchment of racial categories in precarious employment. In N. Pupo,
D. Glenday and A. Duffy (Eds.), The Shifting Landscape of Work (pp. 119-138). Toronto:
Nelson Educational Ltd.
Mirchandani, K. (2010). Gendered Hierarchies in Transnational Call Centres. D. Howcroft and
H. Richardson (Eds.), Work and Life in the Global Economy (pp. 78-98). Hampshire: Palgrave
McMillan.
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5. B. (2010). Transitioning into Contingent Work: Immigrants’ Learning and Resistance. In P.
Sawchuk and A. Taylor (Eds.), Challenging Transitions in Learning and Work: Reflections on
Policy and Practice (231-242). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Mirchandani, K. (2010). Preface. In Ramtulla, K. Socio-Cultural Impacts of Workplace E-
Learning: Epistemology, Ontology and Pedagogy. Hershey: IGI Global.
Mirchandani, K. (2009). Transnationalism in Indian Call Centres. In M. Thite and B. Russell
(Eds.), The Next Available Operator (pp. 83-114). New Delhi: Sage.
Mirchandani, K. (2008). Work. In Darity, W. A Jr. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the
Social Sciences (pp. 121-124). 2nd Edition. Detroit: Macmillan Reference.
Mirchandani, K. (2008). Practices of global capital: gaps, cracks and ironies in transnational
call centres. In R. Gajjala and V. Gajjala (Eds.), South Asian Technospaces (pp. 225-248).
New York: Peter Lang. Updated reprint.
Mirchandani, K and Chan, W. (2008). The Racialized Impact of Welfare Fraud Control in
British Columbia and Ontario. In M. Wallis and S. Kwok (Eds.), Daily Struggles - the
Deepening Racialization of Poverty in Canada (167-182). Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press.
Reprint.
Ng, R. and Mirchandani, K. (2008). Linking Global Trends and Local Lives: Mapping the
Methodological Dilemmas. In K. Gallagher (Ed.), The Methodological Dilemma
Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research (pp. 34-45). New York:
Routledge.
Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, Rawlings, T., Siddiqui, K., Shan, H., Slade,
B. (2008). The Paradox of Training and Learning in a Culture of Contingency. In Livingstone,
D., Mirchandani, K. and Sawchuk, P. (Eds.), The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work: Critical
Perspectives (pp. 171-184). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Mirchandani, K. (2008). Enactments of Class and Nationality in Transnational Call Centres. In
S. Fineman (Ed.), The Emotional Organization: Passions and Power (pp. 88-101). Oxford:
Blackwell. Also translated into Italian - Le Emozioni Nell’ Organizzazone. 2009. Milano: Rafello
Cortina Editore.
Mirchandani, K. and Maitra, S. (2007). Learning Imperialism through transnational call centres.
T. Fenwick (Ed.), Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge Work, Knowledge Workers (pp.
154-164). London: Routledge.
Mirchandani, K. (2007). Contradictory Images of Home Based Work. In P. Adler and P. Adler
(Eds.), Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Introductory Sociology (pp. 359-396).
Belmont: Thomson. Reprint.
Mirchandani, K. and Butler, A. (2006). Beyond Inclusion and Equity: Contributions from
Transnational Anti-Racist Feminism. In A.M. Konrad, P. Prasad and J. Pringle (Eds.),
Handbook of Workplace Diversity (pp. 475-488). London: Sage.
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6. Mirchandani, K. (2005). Women Entrepreneurs: Exploring New Avenues. In S. Fielden and M.
Davidson (Eds.) International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship (pp.
253-263). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Mirchandani, K. (2004). Webs of Resistance in transnational call centers: strategic agents,
service providers and customers. In R. Thomas, A. Mills and J. Helms Mills (Eds.), Identity
Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance (pp. 179-195). London: Routledge.
Mirchandani, K. and Chan, W. (2002). From Race and Crime to Racialization and
Criminalization. In Chan, W. and Mirchandani, K. (Eds.), Crimes of Colour: Racialization and
the Criminal Justice System in Canada (pp. 9-22). Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Mirchandani, K. (2001). Feminist Insight on Gendered Work: New Directions in Research on
Women and Entrepreneurship. In B. Shaffer (Ed.), Feminism(s) Challenge the Traditional
Disciplines (pp.79-89). Montreal: McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women.
Mirchandani, K. (1999). Re-forming Organisations: Contributions of Teleworking Employees. In
P.J. Jackson (Ed.), Virtual Working: Social and Organisational Dynamics (pp.61-75). London:
Routledge.
Mirchandani, K. (1998). No Longer a Struggle? Teleworkers’ Reconstruction of the Work-Non-
Work Boundary. In P.J. Jackson and J. Van Der Wielen (Eds.), Teleworking: International
Perspectives From Telecommuting to the Virtual Organisation (pp.118-135). London:
Routledge.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Sangha. J. K., Slade, B., Mirchandani, K., Maitra, K., Shan, H. (2012). An Ethnodrama on
Work-Related Learning in Precarious Jobs: Racialization and Resistance. Qualitative Inquiry,
18, 3, 286-296
Mirchandani, K. (2012). Learning Racial Hierarchies: communication skills training in
transnational customer service work. Journal of Workplace Learning, 24, 5, 338-350.
Gellatly, M., Grundy, J., Mirchandani, K., Perry, J.A., Thomas, M., Vosko, L. (2011).
Modernizing Employment Standards? Efficiency, Market Regulation, and the Production of the
Illegal Claimant in Ontario. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 22, 2, 81-106.
Mirchandani, K. and Chan, W. (2006). The Racialized Impact of Welfare Fraud Control in
British Columbia and Ontario / Les répercussions raciales de la lutte contre la fraude dans le
domaine de l'aide sociale en Colombie-Britannique et en Ontario. Directions, 2, 2, 31-58.
Mirchandani, K. Ng, R, Sangha, J., Rawlings, T., and Coloma-Moya, N. (2005). Ambivalent
Learning: Racialized Barriers to Computer Access for Immigrant Contingent Workers. The
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 19, 2, 14-33.
Mirchandani, K. (2006). Gender Eclipsed?: Racial Hierarchies in Transnational Call Centres.
Social Justice, 32, 4, 105-119.
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7. Mirchandani, K. (2004). Practices of Global Capital: Gaps, Cracks and Ironies in Transnational
Call Centres in India. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 4: 4, 355-374.
Mirchandani, K. (2004). Immigrants Matter: Canada's Social Agenda on Skill and Learning.
Convergence, 37, 1, 61-68.
Mirchandani, K. (2003). Challenging Racial Silences in Studies of Emotion Work: Contributions
from Anti-Racist Feminist Theory. Organization Studies, 24, 5, 721-742.
Mirchandani, K. (2002). A Special Kind of Exclusion: Race, Gender and Self-Employment.
Atlantis, 27, 1, 25-38.
Mirchandani, K. (2000). "The Best of Both Worlds" and "Cutting my Own Throat":
Contradictory Images of Home-Based Work. Qualitative Sociology, 23, 2, 159-182.
Mirchandani, K. and Tastsoglou, E. (2000). Towards a Diversity Beyond Tolerance. Studies in
Political Economy, 61, 49-78.
Mirchandani, K. (1999). Feminist Insight on Gendered Work: New Directions in Research on
Women and Entrepreneurship. Gender, Work and Organization, 6, 4, 224-235.
Mirchandani, K. (1999). Legitimizing Work: Telework and the Gendered Reification of the
Work-Nonwork Dichotomy. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 36, 1, 87-107.
Mirchandani, K. (1998). Shifting Definitions of the Public-Private Dichotomy: Legislative Inertia
on Garment Homework in Ontario. Advances in Gender Research, 3, 47-71.
Mirchandani, K. (1998). Protecting the Boundary: Teleworker Insights on the Expansive
Concept of "Work". Gender & Society, 12, 2,168-187.
REPORTS
Mirchandani K. and Chan, W. (2005). The Racialized Impact of Welfare Fraud Control in
British Columbia and Ontario. Report Published by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation,
October.
Mirchandani, K. (1997). Gender Integration and Diversity in the Canadian Forces: Pointing the
Way forward through Comparisons with Other Canadian Organizations. Research
commissioned by the Personnel Research Team, National Defense (Ottawa), March.
Mirchandani, K. (1996). Living in the Office: How Teleworkers Manage their Work and
Nonwork. Telework International, Electronic Edition, Volume 4, no. 4, Fall.
Mirchandani, K. (1995). Reasons Teleworkers Like to Work at Home. Telework International,
Vol 3, No 2, Summer.
BOOK REVIEWS
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8. Mirchandani, K. (2011). [Review of the book Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and
the International Regulation of Precarious Employment, by L.F. Vosko]. Work, Employment
and Society, 25, 4.
Mirchandani, K. (2003). [Review of the book Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy and
the Prospects for Democratic Administration, by G. McElliott]. Canadian Review of Social
Policy. 65.
Mirchandani, K. (2002). [Review of the book High Tech and High Heels in the Global
Economy, by C. Freeman]. Atlantis, 26, 2.
Mirchandani, K. and Doucet, A. (1999). [Review of the book Not one of the family: Foreign
Domestic Workers in Canada, by A. B. Bakan and D. Stasiulis (Eds.)]. Canadian Review of
Sociology and Anthropology. 36, 2.
Mirchandani, K. (1997). [Review of the book Gendered Work: Sexuality, family and the labour
market, by L. Adkins]. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 34, 4.
Mirchandani, K. (1993). [Review of the book Theorizing Patriarchy, by S. Walby]. Canadian
Woman's Studies, 13, 4.
INVITED LECTURES AND MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Mirchandani, K. 2012. Daily Journeys: The Engagement of the Virtual Diaspora in India.
Diaspora and Development Workshop, Institute for South Asian Studies, National University of
Singapore, Singapore.
Mirchandani, K. 2012. Using Institutional Ethnography for the Study of Service Work. College
for Women, Pune, India.
Mirchandani, K. 2011. Welfare Fraud Policy and Enforcement. Social Exclusion and the Law:
Newcomers Experience of the Justice System. Elizabeth Fry Society, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2011. Transnational Service Work in India. Asian Research Institute,
University of Singapore, August 8th, Singapore.
Mirchandani, K. 2011. Speaker for Closing Plenary for the CASAE/AERC Annual Conference.
OISE/UT, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2011. Transnationalism and Public Policy Rountable. Collaborative Program in
Policy Studies. OISE/UT, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2011. Transnational Service Work. Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies
Seminar Series, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2010. Interview on Radio Canada International on The Link, April 14 th
Mirchandani, K. 2010. Guest Speaker, Book Launch for Managing the Margins (Vosko), Oxford
University Press, April, 2nd, Toronto.
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9. Mirchandani, K. 2008. Invited speaker for the Corporate Human Rights Practitioners on
Diversity Training. Oct 28th, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. and Chan, W. 2006. Press conference on the Racialization of Welfare Fraud.
Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2004. International Challenges and Opportunities for organizing call center
workers. Conference on Organizing Call Centres: Workers' perspectives. September 11th,
Toronto (invited by Steelworkers Union).
Mirchandani, K. 2004. Racialized Class Relations in Telemediated Employment. Conference
on Gender and Work Database – Knowledge Production in Practice. York University, Oct 1-2 nd,
Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2003. Work and Learning Conference. Immigrants Matter: Canada's social
agenda on skill and learning. Panel on Perspectives on Federal Policy Related to Work and
Learning, Edmonton.
Mirchandani, K. 2003. Contingent workers and instability: case studies from New Delhi. Work,
Information Technology and Restructuring in the Canadian Context. September 28th,
Vancouver.
Mirchandani, K. 2003. International Challenges and Opportunities. Organizing Call Centres:
Workers' perspectives. September 11th, Toronto.
Mirchandani,K. 2002. Critical Reflections on Adult Work-Related Education. Indian Adult
Education Association. April 5th, New Delhi, India.
Mirchandani, K and Slade, B. 2002. Constructing Resistance: A geo-cultural analysis of
promotional material on home-based work. Institute for Gender Studies and Women's Studies.
March 13th, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2001. The Uneven Periphery: Home-Based Work in Canada. Popular
Feminism Speaker Series. April 15th, OISE/UT, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2000. Learning Self Employment: The Negotiation of Exclusion. Network for
Lifelong Learning (NALL) Speaker Series. May 16 th OISE/UT, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K.1999. Media Interview with Ylva Van Buuren for article on Working Women
and Stress.
Mirchandani, K. 1998. Telework: Catalyst for Change or Tonic for the Status Quo?. University
of Calgary, October, Calgary.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2007 onwards)
Mirchandani, K., Tambe, S. and Mukherjee, S. 2012. Learning Old Jobs in New Sectors:
The Professionalization of Housekeeping Services. Canadian Association for the Study of
Adult Education, Waterloo.
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10. Mirchandani, K. 2012. Authenticity Work in the Global Service Economy. British Sociology
Association Annual Meetings, Leeds.
Mirchandani, K. 2012. Gender, Work and Transnational Service. Gender, Work and
Organization Annual Meetings, Keele.
Mirchandani, K. 2011. Sounding Right in Service Work. Canadian Association for the Study of
Adult Education. Toronto. Published in refereed proceedings.
Chatterjee, S. Berlingieri, A, Dossa, S and Mirchandani, K. 2011. Roundtable: Mobilization
through discourses of skill. Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education. Toronto.
Published in referred proceedings.
Mirchandani, K, Transnational Service Work in India. 2011. International Labour Process
Conference, Rutgers, New Jersey.
Tania Das Gupta, Roxana Ng, Guida Man, Hongxia Shan and Mirchandani, K. 2008.
Transnational Class Mobility: Professional Immigrant Women Navigating the Labour Market.
Race-ing Hegemonies, Resurging Imperialisms. Ryerson University, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K, Maitra, S and Sangha, J. Emerging Cultures in Indian Call Centres. 2008.
Race-ing Hegemonies, Resurging Imperialisms. Ryerson University, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2008. Transnational Call Centres. Cities, Social Lives and Poverty Seminar.
University of Pune, India.
Chan, W. and Mirchandani, K. (2007). Media Racialization: Constructions of Welfare Fraud in
Canadian Newspapers. 7th Annual Critical Race Studies Conference of Researchers and
Scholars of Colour. Toronto.
Mirchandani, K., Sangha, J., Maitra, S., Slade, B., Shan, H., 2007. Skilled Invulnerability: A
Multimedia Ethnodrama on Learning in the Racialized Culture of Contingency. 7th Annual
Critical Race Studies Conference of Researchers and Scholars of Colour, Toronto.
Mirchandani, K. 2006. Participation in Training Programs by Marginalized and Immigrant
Workers. Restructuring Work and Labour in the New Economy. York University, Toronto.
COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT
Gender and Hierarchy at Work
Critical Perspectives on Organizations
Practicum in Organizational Development
Work, Technology and the Knowledge Economy
Master's Research Seminar
Workplace Learning and Social Change
Gendered Labour Around the World
Gender and Society
Classical Social Theory
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11. GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Completed Theses Supervised
Name Degree Year Title
Yetunde Banjo M.A. 2012 Welcome to Canada! An Inquiry into the Choice
of Nursing as a Career Among Immigrant Women
of Nigerian Origin
Roula Hawa Ph.D. 2012 Risk Factors Contributing to HIV Vulnerability of
(Dec 3 Immigrant Women of South Asian Descent in the
oral) GTA
Zainab Habib M.A. 2011 Cutting off the Homeless: Reexamining Social
Housing Service and Activism in Ontario
Shama Dossa Ph.D. 2011 In Pursuit of Empowerment: Navigating the
Participatory Trail
Srabani Maitra Ph.D. 2010 Redefining Enterprising Selves: Exploring the
‘Negotiation’ of South Asian Immigrant Women
as Home-Based Enclave Entrepreneurs
Cole Gately M.A. 2010 Solidarity in the Borderlands: Gender, Race,
Class and Sexuality for Racialized Transgender
Bonnie Slade Ph.D. 2008 From Highly Skilled to High School: The Social
Organization of "Canadian Work Experience",
Immigration, and Volunteer work
Alana Butler M.A. 2004 Addressing Race in Workplace Cultural Diversity
Training
Jasjit Sangha M.A. 2003 Race, Cyberspace and the Linux Community
Amy Appelle M.A. 2003 Experiences of Class amongst Migrant Domestic
Workers in Toronto
Jennifer King M.A. 2001 Participation in Knowledge Sharing Activities in
Organizations
Completed Thesis Committee Memberships
Name Degree Year Title
Julie M.A. 2012 Who is Wilhelmsburg? Race and Space in
Chamberlain Internationale Bauaustellung Hamburg
Sumaya Ahmed MRP 2012 Working Class Embodiments Behind the Myth:
South Asian Immigrants in Canada Living up to
the Model Minority Status
Mai Ngo M.A. 2011 Canadian Youth Volunteering Abroad: Rethinking
issues of Power and Privilege
Sohaila Ph.D. 2011 Non-status Women: Invisible Residents and
Pashang Underground Resilience
Trudy Rawlings Ph.D. 2011 The Digital Divide: Globalization and
Technological Access and its impact on Adult
Education
Karim Remtulla Ph.D. 2010 Socio Cultural Impacts of Workplace E Learning
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12. Johanna Maria Ph.D. 2010 Clerical Workers: Acquiring the Skills to Meet
Radsma Tacit Process Expectations within a context of
work undervaluation and job fragility
Hongxia Shan Ph.D. 2009 Learning as Socially Organized Practices:
Chinese Immigrants Fitting Into the Engineering
Market in Canada
Laura Charles M.A. 2008 How Language is Put to Work: An Analysis of the
Language of New Capitalism
Hijin Park Ph.D. 2007 Constituting Asian Women: Canadian gendered
orientalism and multicultural nationalism in an age
of Asia rising
Melanie Knight Ph.D. 2007 We can't all be Oprah: How Black women
negotiate entrepreneurship
Sandra Tam Ph.D. Young Women's Provisioning: A Study of the
Social Organization of Youth Employment.
Nancy Slamet M.A. 2007 The Struggle for Equity in Unionized Social
Justice Organizations in Canada
Joni Brook M.A. 2007 It wasn't just bowling on Wednesdays : ins and
Thorndycraft outs of engagement in radical activism
Nancy Latimer Ph.D. 2006 Student Nurses’ Perceptions of Self Image in a
Four Year Baccalaureate Program
Archana Ph.D. 2006 Girl Seeks Suitable Boy: Indian Marriage Dot com
Sharma
Rachel Gorman Ph.D. 2004 A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Disability Activism
Rashida Ph.D. 2004 A Redefined Role for Educated Muslim Women
Keshavjee
Hongxia Shan M.A. 2004 Orientation Toward Clerical Work: Institutional
Ethnographic Study of Immigrant Women’s
Experiences of Employment Related Services
Jennifer Clark M.A. 2003 Experiential Learning as an Enabler to Improving
Conflict Management in a Work Team
Bonnie Slade M.A. 2003 A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Marginalization
of Immigrant Women Engineers: Subtle
Semantics, Redundant Assessments and
Conflicting Juristictions
John Paul Ph.D. 2003 Making the Transition to Re-employment: Social
Halata Networks and their Impact on Social Assistance
Recipients.
Adriane Paavo M.A. 2002 Eight Days a Week: How Union Workload Blocks
Women's Leadership in the Union Movement.
Wang Yi M.A. 2002 Women and Leadership in China.
Olakunle M.A. 2002 Government Funding and Staffing in the
Ayodele Nonprofit Sector: A Case Study of the Canadian
Akingbola Red Cross, Toronto Region.
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13. Sarita Ph.D. 2002 Facing Race, Saving Face: Anti-racism, Emotion
Srivastava and Knowledge in Social Movement
Organizations.
Jos Ann Cutajar Ph.D. 2001 Widowhood in the Island Where Time Stood Still:
Gender, Ethnicity and Citizenship
Isla Carmichael Ph.D. 2001 Union Pension Funds, Worker Control and Social
Investment in Canada: Implications for Labour
Education
Nandita Ph.D. 2000 The Social Organization of 'Difference' and
Sharma Capitalist Restructuring in Canada: The Making of
'Migrant Workers' through the 1973 Non-
Immigrant Employment Authorization Program.
Current Thesis Supervisions
Name Degree Title
Zeenat Ph.D. Social exclusion: investigating the experiences of queer
Janmohamed parents in early childhood education settings
Agnes Thomas Ph.D. South Asian Immigrant Women in the Cash Economy
Abdulhamid Ph.D. Bridging Programs for Internationally Trained Professionals
Hathiyani
Soma Ph.D. Racial Governmentality and Skills Deficit
Chatterjee
Adriana Ph.D. Workplace Harassment
Berlingeri
Haesun Moon Ph.D. Developmental Disability Sector in Ontario
Michelle Ph.D. Leadership in the Non Profit Sector
Coombs
Beverley Jones M.A. Interprofessional Teams in Social Work
Current Committee Memberships
Name Degree Title
Valarie Ph.D. The history of immigration of Philippine-trained nurses to
Damasco Canada
Tammy Chan Ed.D. Ethnic Minority Women and Innovative Lifelong Learning
Roy Della Savia Ed.D. Job Developers in Ontario
Yuk-yung Kim Ph.D. Transnational Feminist Self-Making
EXTERNAL EXAMINER
Romee Lee. Lifelong Learning at the Borders: Transnational Learning Experiences of Migrant
Workers in Korea. Ph.D. Educational Studies. University of British Columbia. 2006.
Nicole Balan, Displaced Women Professionals: An Exploration of Perceived Learning
Processes During Workplace Transition. Master of Education, Brock University, 2004.
Lisa Kane, Understanding the Complexity of Contingent Employment: Employee Experiences
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14. and Employer Considerations for Organizational Effectiveness. Masters of Continuing
Education. University of Calgary. 2002
INDEPENDENT READING COURSES SUPERVISED (Selected)
2012 Gender & Organizational Leadership: a critical review
2012 Canadian Social Welfare: Social Policy, Racial Inequality and Poverty
2011 Women, Migration and Informal economy
2010 Immigrant Women's Settlement and Governmentality.
2010 Queering Immigrant Education in Early Childhood Studies
2009 Harassment in the Workplace: Concepts, Consequences, Causes
2009 Feminist Organizational Development
2009 Borderlands and Trans sexuality
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Selected)
Administrative Service within the University
2010-2012 Program Chair, Adult Education and Community Development Program
2008-2012 Director, Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change
2006-2012 Departmental Committees for Tenure and Promotion Candidates
2009 Hiring Committee for Academic Position (SESE)
2006 Hiring Committee for Academic Position (CTL)
2005 Hiring Committee for Academic Position (TPS)
2005 Developed Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change
2000-2004 Editorial Board, Resources for Feminist Research.
2000 Developed Collaborative Program in Work and Careers
Reviews
1999-date Articles Reviewed for the following Journals:
American Sociological Review
ACME
Atlantis
Canadian Ethnic Studies
Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education
Canadian Public Policy
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
Convergence
Ephemera: After Organization Studies Issue
Ethnography
Family Business Review
Gender, Place and Culture
Human Relations
Journal of Applied Behavioural Sciences (JABS)
Journal of Management Studies
Organizational Research Management
Organizational Research Methods
Organizations
Personnel Review
Resources for Feminist Research
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15. Women’s Studies International Forum
2006-2012 Reviewer for SSHRC research grant (approximately one per year)
2011 Participant in review of the SSHRC Postdoctoral Program
2010 Reviewer for Book Manuscript, Routledge
2009 Reviewer for Book Manuscript, Princeton University Press
2006, 2001 Reviewer for Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Faculty Research Fellowships.
2006 Reviewer for CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund Project.
2004 Adjudicating Committee, Scholarships, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
2001 Reviewer for Book Proposal, Sage.
2000 Reviewer for Theresa F. Girouz Fellowship Program at SSHRC.
External Tenure Assessments
2010 External Reviewer, Tenure case at Babson College
2007 External Reviewer, Tenure case at Skidmore University
2006 External Reviewer, Tenure case at Carleton University
Service to Students and Community
2012 Organized student seminar with Carla Freeman.
2011 Organized student seminar with Richa Nagar.
2003-2011 Instructor, Regent Park Community Development Project
2003 Introduction for talk by Avtar Brah, March 28, University of Toronto.
2003 Moderator, Event on Women, War and Resistance. University of Toronto.
2000-2002 Board Member, Nightwood Theatre, Toronto.
1996-1998 Board Member, Universal Shelter Association, Halifax.
CAREER INTERRUPTIONS
I was on adoption/maternity leave in 2003 and 2005.
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