Dr. Pamela Sugiman
Areas of Expertise:
oral history; memory; women’s history in Canada; racism & racialization; work & labour; working-class women’s experience
Research:
Dr. Pamela Sugiman is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (since July 2016). Prior to this, Dean Sugiman was Chair of the Department of Sociology (since 2012). Over the course of her career, Pam has built a reputation for collegiality, transparency, creativity and vision. She is committed to issues of social justice, equality and inclusion as an academic leader and researcher. As Dean of Arts, she has promoted the recruitment of Indigenous faculty, development of Indigenous education, democratic engagement, migration and immigration and student engagement and student-worker experience.
For excellence in research, Sugiman has been awarded an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. In recognition of her overall excellence in research, teaching and service, she has received a Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women’s History from the National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s History. Most recently, she has been named the Lansdowne Lecturer and the Distinguished Women Scholar, both at the University of Victoria.
Graduate Program Membership:
- Immigration & Settlement Studies
- Policy Studies
Community & Professional Service:
- Board Member, Pathways to Education Canada (external link, opens in new window) (current)
- Board Member, The Atkinson Foundation (external link, opens in new window) (current)
- President, Canadian Sociological Association (external link, opens in new window) (2007-08)
- Member, Committee on Research Ethics and Scholarly Integrity, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (external link, opens in new window) (2006-09)
- Member, Status of Women Canada External Committee to the Policy Research Fund, Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada (2004-07)
Recent Publications:
Sugiman, P. 2018. "Memories of internment: Narrating Japanese-Canadian Women’s life stories" in Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home (external link) (pp. 48-80), edited by V. Agnew. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Stanger-Ross, J. and P. Sugiman (eds.). 2017. Witness to loss: race, culpability, and memory in the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. (external link) Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press.
Sugiman, P. 2016. “Work and the Economy” (Chapter 15) in Sociology. A Canadian Perspective (4th ed.), (external link) edited by L. Tepperman, J. Curtis and P. Albanese. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press.