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Visiting scholars

Visiting scholars in the SdBI are academic researchers well known for their feminist scholarship and activism.

The Lillian Robinson scholars program

This program is designed to attract distinguished visiting scholars working on a range of feminist research topics to the SdBI. The program supports stays of varying lengths for scholars with a PhD. 

Thanks to generous donations from the Renée B. Fisher Foundation, the Simone de Beauvoir Institute created a visiting scholars program as a living memorial to Dr. Lillian Robinson.

Follow these steps to apply to the program.

NOTE: The Lillian Robinson scholars program is on pause for the 2024-2025 academic year.

About Dr. Lillian Robinson

Dr. Lillian Robinson was Principal of the SdBI, from 2000 until 2006.

Her career spanned over 35 years and she is widely recognized as one of the leading feminist theorists of the twentieth century. Her essays and books have inspired feminist scholarship around the world.

Learn more about the life and work of Dr. Lillian Robinson.

Past scholars

Dr. Zara Saeidzadeh (postdoctoral researcher, Örebro University, Sweden)

  • "Lucky to be a trans* woman in Sweden?" Trans* citizenship and the experience of epistemic misrecognition

Dr. Sarah Stefana Smith (Department of Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College)

  • Aesthetic Dissemblance in Contemporary Black Art

Dr. Karen Kuo (Arizona State University)

  • The task is hers: Margaret Sanger’s Asian Experiment

Dr. Nancy Spina (Independent Scholar)

  • Habits, performativity, and the maternal citizen: The progressive Ontario curricula in the 1930s and 1940s.

Dr. Seema Thakur (Department of Gandhian and Peace Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh)

  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on domestic violence against women in Punjab, India

Dr. Fatemeh Sadeghi (Independent scholar)
  • Towards a Gender Egalitarian Constitution in Iran: Viewing the Past with an Eye to the Future.

Dr. Michael Orsini, (University of Ottawa)

  • On Emotional Entanglements: Narrating the Affective Politics of Fatness and Obesity.

Dr. Maia Kotrosits (Denison University)

  • Gynecology Was Always a Racial Project: Ancient Medicine and the Biopolitical Present

Dr. Nané Jordan (University of British Columbia)
  • Life Lines: Women’s Spirituality in Feminist Studies, Education and Activism

Dr. Julia Skelly (McGill University)

  • Redressing Canadian art history: Sherry Farrell Racette’s Indigenous-feminist textiles and texts

Ellen Gabriel

  • Recipient of the Outstanding Lillian Robinson Scholar “Feminist Contributions Prize”

Dr. Eve Haque (York University)
  • Memory and multiculturalism: The limits of remembering the victims of 'honour killings'

Dr. Rashida K. Braggs (Williams University at Williamstown, MA)

  • Performing the Jazz woman’s diaspora

Dr. Rachel da Silva Gorman (York University)

  • Grieving empire: Aesthetic catharsis and speculative histories

Dr. Tanisha Ramachandran (Wake Forest University, North Carolina)
  • ‘Take it off! This is America!’: The materiality of headscarves and hatred in the benev(i)olent West

Dr. Sharon Batt (Dalhousie University)

  • Beyond resistance: Forging a renewed vision of feminist health activism

Dr. Rebecca Godderis (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  • Using feminist expertise to address sexual violence on campus

Dr. Sara Kindon (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

  • Untangling Hybrid Tapestries: Tracing the Effects of Arpilleras with Chilean Migrants and Former Refugees in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

Dr. Sarah Carmona (University of Manouba, Tunis)

  • About the need to decolonize knowledge on Roma Women

Dr. Angela Cameron (University of Ottawa)

  • Sperm donation in Ontario: An empirical study

Dr. Maya Eichler (University of Toronto)
  • Women’s agency in war

Dr. Dana Olwan (Syracuse University, New York)

  • ‘Before she was murdered, she wasn’t alive’: Transnational solidarity and the politics of confronting the ‘honour crime’

Dr. Gayatri Gopinath (New York University, New York)
  • States of suspension: Queer diasporic re-visions of ‘the good life’

Dr. Anne McClintock (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin)

  • Invisible war: Militarized masculinity, rape culture and torture-porn

Françoise David (Québec Solidaire)

  • De l’action féministe jusqu’à l’Assemblée nationale : parcours d’une militante

Dr. Manal Hamzeh (New Mexico State University, New Mexico)
  • Pedagogies of deVeiling: Muslim girls and the hijab discourse

Dr. Heather Sykes (University of Toronto)

  • Queer bodies: Sexualities, genders and fatness in physical education

Dr. Christabelle Sethna (University of Ottawa)

  • Undercover sex: RCMP surveillance of women’s liberation groups

Dr. Emily van der Meulen (University of Toronto)
  • Sex work: Research and politics in Ontario

Dr. MJ Thompson (Concordia University)

  • She was burning: Towards an experimental biography of dancer Louise Lecavalier

Dr. Erica Meiners (Northeastern Illinois University, Illinois)
  • Building abolition futures: Feminist troubles with protection in a prison nation

Dr. Marie Hélène/Sam Bourcier (Université de Lille III)

  • F to where? How transmasculinities technologies challenge queer theory?

Dr. Yvette Taylor (Newcastle University, UK)
  • Queer but classless? Intersecting class and sexuality

Dr. Adel Ghannay (Université de Tunis, Tunisie)

  • Femmes tunisiennes et inégalité devant le remariage

Dr. Andrea O’Reilly (York University)

  • Rocking the cradle: Feminism, motherhood and the possibility of empowered mothering

Dr. Kathlene McDonald (City University of New York)

  • Transnational left feminist culture and the fight against facism in the post-World War II United States

Dr. Manju Jaidka (Panjab University, India)

  • Articulating silences: Foregrounding women’s issues from real to reel

Deonne Minto (Trinity University, Washington, DC)

  • Sisters in the spirit: Transnational constructions of diaspora in late twentieth century black women’s literature of the Americas

Dr. Kevin Moss (Middlebury College, Vermont)

  • They’re not really lesbians: Representing LGBT people in films from ex-Yugoslavia
 
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