Kiran Mirchandani Cv oct 2012 lifetime

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KIRAN MIRCHANDANI

Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult EducationOntario Institute for Studies in Education

University of Toronto252 Bloor Street West, 7-111

Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6Canada.

[email protected]: 416 978-0884

Fax: (416) 926-4749

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2004-date

2006-date

1999-2004

1997-1999

1996-1997

Associate ProfessorOntario Institute for Studies in EducationUniversity of Toronto

DirectorCollaborative Graduate Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change, University of Toronto

Assistant ProfessorOntario Institute for Studies in EducationUniversity of Toronto

Postdoctoral FellowSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaSt. Mary’s University

Assistant ProfessorSociology & AnthropologyConcordia University

EDUCATION

1996

1991

1990

1986

Doctor of Philosophy, SociologyMcGill University, Canada

Master of Philosophy, Social and Political TheoryUniversity of Cambridge, UK

Bachelor of Arts [Hons], Cultural Studies

Kiran Mirchandai, Curriulum Vitae, 2012.

mailto:[email protected]

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Trent University, Canada

'A' Levels, ArtsRaffles Junior College, Singapore

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2010

2003

2002

1998

1996

1996

1994

1993

1993

1991

1990

1987

Academic Activist Award, Council of Agencies Serving South Asians, Toronto.

Best Paper Award, Gender and Diversity in Management Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), ($500).

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.

Second Place in Best Dissertation Competition, Academy of Management, Gender and Diversity Division.

Annual Feminist Thesis Prize. Best Thesis in Feminist Studies at McGill University.

Honourable Mention Award, Women in Management Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).

McGill Major Award - Gorgon H. Eberts Fellowship (15,000).

Best Ph.D. Paper Award, Women in Management Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).

Samuel Lapitsky Fellowship, McGill University ($3,500).

McGill Major Award - Alma Mater Fellowship ($20,000).

Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award ($9,000)

Singapore International Chamber of Commerce - CIDA Full Undergraduate Scholarship ($36,000).

RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED

Dates Granting Body Title Role Amount2010-2013 Social Sciences

and Humanities Auxilliary Workers: The Hidden Scaffold of India’s Information

Principal Investigator

$111,930


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Council of Canada

Technology Industry

2006-2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada

Professional Immigrant Women Navigating the Canadian Labour Market: A Study in Adult Learning

Co-Investigator

$110,091

2003-2005 National Literacy Secretariate

Overcoming Race and Gender Barriers to Workplace Literacy


$40,000


The The Uneven Periphery: Social Effects of Telemediated Work


$89,857


Skilled In Vulnerability: Work-related Learning Amongst Contingent Workers.


$199, 675


Knowledge Networks of Portfolio Workers: Development, Usage, and Benefits for Success in the New Economy

Co-Investigator

$107,456

2002-2003 University of Toronto, Seed Grant

Learning to Cross Borders: Transnational Call Centre Work in India. Principal Investigator


$2,100

2002-2004 Canadian Race Relations Foundation

The Racialized impact of Welfare Fraud Control in B.C. and Ontario

Co-principal investigator

$30,000

2001-2002 Canadian Indo-Shastri Foundation.

The Globalized Home: Women Home-Based Workers in India’s Export Industries.


INR100,000/C$3,000

2001-2002 University of Toronto, Seed Grant

Training Against Vulnerability: Workplace Learning Amongst Contingent Workers


$2,500


Changing Work, Changing Lives: Mapping the Canadian Garment Industry

Co-investigator

$86,147

2000-2002 University of Toronto Seed Grant

The Uneven Periphery: Mapping the Home-based Workforce in Canada


$7,500

2000-2002 Connaught Automatic Start-up Grant

Restructuring Work: The Experiences of Veteran Home-Based Teleworkers


$10,000

2000-2001 University of Toronto Seed

Immigrant Integration, Settlement and Garment


$2,000


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Grant Workers: A Feasibility Study.2000-2001 University of

Toronto, Seed Grant

Employers, communities and workers in the new global environment of the garment industry

Co-Investigator

$2,500


Postdoctoral Fellowship Field Grant


$5,000

1994-1995 McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on

Fieldwork Grant Principal Investigator

$1,0000

1994-1995 McGill University

Grant for Thesis Fieldwork Principal Investigator

$2,200

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


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McMillan.

Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, Rawlings, T., Siddiqui, K., Shan, H., Slade, 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 DilemmaCreative, 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.


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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.

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


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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.

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.


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Mirchandani, K. (1995). Reasons Teleworkers Like to Work at Home. Telework International, Vol 3, No 2, Summer.

BOOK REVIEWS

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.


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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.

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 1-2nd, 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.


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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.

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 WorkCritical Perspectives on Organizations


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Practicum in Organizational DevelopmentWork, Technology and the Knowledge Economy Master's Research SeminarWorkplace Learning and Social ChangeGendered Labour Around the WorldGender and Society Classical Social Theory

GRADUATE SUPERVISION

Completed Theses SupervisedName Degree Year TitleYetunde 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(Dec 3 oral)

Risk Factors Contributing to HIV Vulnerability of Immigrant Women of South Asian Descent in the 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 CommunityAmy Appelle M.A. 2003 Experiences of Class amongst Migrant Domestic

Workers in TorontoJennifer King M.A. 2001 Participation in Knowledge Sharing Activities in

Organizations

Completed Thesis Committee MembershipsName Degree Year TitleJulie Chamberlain

M.A. 2012 Who is Wilhelmsburg? Race and Space in 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


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Mai Ngo M.A. 2011 Canadian Youth Volunteering Abroad: Rethinking issues of Power and Privilege

Sohaila Pashang

Ph.D. 2011 Non-status Women: Invisible Residents and 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 LearningJohanna Maria Radsma

Ph.D. 2010 Clerical Workers: Acquiring the Skills to Meet 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 Thorndycraft

M.A. 2007 It wasn't just bowling on Wednesdays : ins and outs of engagement in radical activism

Nancy Latimer Ph.D. 2006 Student Nurses’ Perceptions of Self Image in a Four Year Baccalaureate Program

Archana Sharma

Ph.D. 2006 Girl Seeks Suitable Boy: Indian Marriage Dot com

Rachel Gorman Ph.D. 2004 A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Disability ActivismRashida Keshavjee

Ph.D. 2004 A Redefined Role for Educated Muslim Women

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


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John Paul Halata

Ph.D. 2003 Making the Transition to Re-employment: Social 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 Ayodele Akingbola

M.A. 2002 Government Funding and Staffing in the Nonprofit Sector: A Case Study of the Canadian Red Cross, Toronto Region.

Sarita Srivastava

Ph.D. 2002 Facing Race, Saving Face: Anti-racism, Emotion 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 Sharma

Ph.D. 2000 The Social Organization of 'Difference' and Capitalist Restructuring in Canada: The Making of 'Migrant Workers' through the 1973 Non-Immigrant Employment Authorization Program.

Current Thesis SupervisionsName Degree TitleZeenat Janmohamed

Ph.D. Social exclusion: investigating the experiences of queer parents in early childhood education settings

Agnes Thomas Ph.D. South Asian Immigrant Women in the Cash EconomyAbdulhamid Hathiyani

Ph.D. Bridging Programs for Internationally Trained Professionals

Soma Chatterjee

Ph.D. Racial Governmentality and Skills Deficit

Adriana Berlingeri

Ph.D. Workplace Harassment

Haesun Moon Ph.D. Developmental Disability Sector in OntarioMichelle Coombs

Ph.D. Leadership in the Non Profit Sector

Beverley Jones M.A. Interprofessional Teams in Social Work

Current Committee MembershipsName Degree TitleValarie Damasco

Ph.D. The history of immigration of Philippine-trained nurses to Canada

Tammy Chan Ed.D. Ethnic Minority Women and Innovative Lifelong Learning


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Roy Della Savia Ed.D. Job Developers in OntarioYuk-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 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 review2012 Canadian Social Welfare: Social Policy, Racial Inequality and Poverty2011 Women, Migration and Informal economy2010 Immigrant Women's Settlement and Governmentality.2010 Queering Immigrant Education in Early Childhood Studies2009 Harassment in the Workplace: Concepts, Consequences, Causes2009 Feminist Organizational Development2009 Borderlands and Trans sexuality

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Selected)

Administrative Service within the University

2010-2012 Program Chair, Adult Education and Community Development Program2008-2012 Director, Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change2006-2012 Departmental Committees for Tenure and Promotion Candidates2009 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 Change2000-2004 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 ReviewACMEAtlantisCanadian Ethnic StudiesCanadian Journal for the Study of Adult EducationCanadian Public Policy


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Canadian Review of Sociology and AnthropologyConvergenceEphemera: After Organization Studies IssueEthnographyFamily Business ReviewGender, Place and CultureHuman RelationsJournal of Applied Behavioural Sciences (JABS)Journal of Management StudiesOrganizational Research ManagementOrganizational Research MethodsOrganizationsPersonnel ReviewResources for Feminist ResearchWomen’s Studies International Forum

2006-2012 Reviewer for SSHRC research grant (approximately one per year)2011 Participant in review of the SSHRC Postdoctoral Program2010 Reviewer for Book Manuscript, Routledge2009 Reviewer for Book Manuscript, Princeton University Press2006, 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 College2007 External Reviewer, Tenure case at Skidmore University2006 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.


Documents

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