Subseries 5.2 - Women & Gender Studies

0.65 m of textual records

Kathryn Morgan began teaching in the Women’s Studies Programme in 1977. Over the course of her career she was active in the development of Women’s Studies as an academic discipline at the University of Toronto. Materials in this sub-series document the growth of the programme at the U of T from its early days as an undergraduate programme at New College through to the launch of the Graduate Collaborative Program in Women’s Studies in 1994-95, the creation of the Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies in 1999 (now Women & Gender Studies Institute) and the admission of graduate students in 2007 (MA) and 2013 (PhD).

Files include Program Committee minutes, newsletters, correspondence and memos, course proposals, programme review files, newspaper clippings and event posters. There are several files of planning documents and proposal drafts about the establishment of the Collaborative Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies. Morgan was co-chair the committee to develop a graduate programme in Women’s Studies (1989-1990) and chair of the Ad Hoc Steering Committee to develop a Collaborative Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies (1991-1994).

All files are open, with the exception of:

• B2021-0004/023(05)
• B2021-0004/024(11)-(12)
• B2021-0004/025(10), (14), (27)

These files have been restricted to protect the privacy of third parties. Please contact the University Archivist for additional information.

• University of Toronto. Women and Gender Studies Institute fonds
• Women’s Studies Programme Undergraduate & Graduate Brochures in UTARMS’ serials collections (W002.001)