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Dr. Pamela Sugiman is a Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from July 2016 to August 2024. An accomplished oral historian, she specializes in documenting marginalized communities through intersectional lenses of race, gender, and class.
Education:
- BA, University of Toronto
- MA, University of Toronto
- PhD, University of Toronto
Her research focuses on oral history, memory studies, and social justice, with seminal work on Japanese Canadian internment, Black workers in auto foundries, and women's labor history. Current projects include a SSHRC-funded initiative preserving oral histories of grassroots women activists. She employs rigorous intersectional frameworks to explore how identity shapes lived experiences of racism, labor exploitation, and historical erasure.
Publications consistently center marginalized voices across three decades, evolving from labor studies to memory politics while maintaining core themes of resistance and historical accountability in Canadian contexts.
Awards:
- Outstanding Contribution Award (Canadian Sociological Association)
- Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women’s History
- Lansdowne Lecturer and Distinguished Women Scholar (University of Victoria)
- SWAAC Recognition Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Errol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Leadership (TMU)
She mentors graduate students in Immigration & Settlement Studies and Policy Studies while leading a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant on women's activism. External leadership includes board positions at Pathways to Education Canada and The Atkinson Foundation, reflecting her commitment to community-engaged scholarship and social change.
