Donna Schatz
Phone:	7046
Office:	JOR701
E-mail:	dschatzpolitics.ryerson.ca

Donna Schatz is a part-time instructor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. Her course directorships at Ryerson include CPOG 100- People, Power, and Politics and CPOG 315- Equity and Human Rights. She has also taught various courses in Social Science at York University including GEOG 4060- Women in North America: Historical Geographies of Gender and Sexuality and POLS 3011- The Politics of Sexuality/ Sexual Politics, as well as SOSC 4B02- Gender, Globalization and Social Change at Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) University.

She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University where she specializes in Women and Politics and Canadian Politics and holds an M.A. in Political Science from York University and a B.A. (Double Honours) in Political Studies & English from the University of Saskatchewan.

Donna’s doctoral research provides a critical race/ postcolonial, political economy, and public policy analysis of urban marginalization as well as an examination of the potential of community organizations and social activism.  She has published and presented various conference papers on the topics of urban Indigenous politics and gender, race, and multiculturalism in Canada, along with women, sex work, and human rights.