Simalchik Joan

Biography

Joan Simalchik coordinates the interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies Program at UTM and teaches courses on women and social change, history, memory and human rights, and transnational perspectives on gender and cultural difference. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in history from Philadelphia’s Temple University and her master’s and doctoral degrees were received from the University of Toronto where her work focused on the relationship between Canadian churches and Chilean refugees and the material culture of the Chilean democracy movement. She is currently editing the Canadian edition of Women’s Realities/Women’s Choices (Oxford University Press) a textbook for introductory courses in women and gender studies, and has delivered and published many papers dealing with diasporic refugee communities and human rights. Joan Simalchik coordinates the interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies Program at UTM and teaches courses on women and social change, history, memory and human rights, and transnational perspectives on gender and cultural difference. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in history from Philadelphia’s Temple University and her master’s and doctoral degrees were received from the University of Toronto where her work focused on the relationship between Canadian churches and Chilean refugees and the material culture of the Chilean democracy movement. She is currently editing the Canadian edition of Women’s Realities/Women’s Choices (Oxford University Press) a textbook for introductory courses in women and gender studies, and has delivered and published many papers dealing with diasporic refugee communities and human rights.

Research Interest

Women and Gender Studies; Migration and Diaspora; History; Memory and Human Rights