Department of Sociology
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Pamela Sugiman, Professor OFFICE: JOR-317 |
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EDUCATION:
B.A. (University of Toronto, with distinction, 1982), M.A. (University of Toronto, 1984), Ph.D (University of Toronto, 1992, Sociology, The Connaught Fellowship)
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Ryerson University, 2006 to Present: Sociology of Gender; Racism and Racialization; Work and Labour; Oral History and Life History
McMaster University, 1991-2006: Diversity & Multiculturalism, Arts and Science Programme; Sociology of Gender, Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology; Women, Work, and Unions, Labour Studies Programme.
RECENT COURSES
SOC603: Sociology of Gender
SOC105: Introduction to Sociology
SOC472: Sociology of Work & Occupations
SOC501: Sociology of Work
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Oral History, Memory, Women’s history in Canada, Racism and Racialization, Work and Labour, Working-class experience, Working-class history
Selected Academic Honours: 2007, Winner, Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women’s History/Le Prix Marion Dewar en histoire des femmes au Canada, The National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women’s History; Honorable Mention, Hilda Neatby Award for Outstanding Paper in Women’s History, Canadian Historical Association.
Selected Research Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant, 2010 for “Gendered Livelihoods: Working-class women’s memories of making due in Canada, 1940-2010”; SSHRC SIG, 2010, “Gendered Livelihoods,” SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 1996, “The Gender Politics of the Second World War Internment and Resettlement of Japanese Canadians, 1935-1955.”
SELECTED RECENT AND KEY PUBLICATIONS
| 2009 | Sugiman, Pamela. “`Life is Sweet’: Vulnerability and Composure in the Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadians, Journal of Canadian Studies, 43(1):186-218. |
| 2008 | Sugiman, Pamela. “Work and the Economy,” Second edition, Chapter 9 In Lorne Teppeman, James Curtis, and Patrizia Albanese (eds.), Sociology. A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 275-311. |
| 2007 | Sugiman, Pamela. “`A Million Hearts from Here’: Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer:50-68. |
| 2007 | Sugiman, Pamela. “Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment.” In Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed and Nazilla Khanlo (edss), Not Born a Refugee Woman. How Refugee Women Reclaim their Identities in Research, Education, Policy and Creativity. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 113-134. |
| 2006 | Sugiman, Pamela. “`These Feelings that Fill My Heart’: Japanese Canadian Women’s Memories of Internment,” Oral History, (34)2:69-84. |
| 2006 | Sugiman, Pamela. “The Unmaking of a Transnational Community: Japanese Canadian Families in Wartime Canada.” In Lloyd Wong and Victor Satzewich (eds.), Negotiating Borders and Belonging: Transnatinoal Identities and Practices in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 52-68. |
| 2004 | Sugiman, Pamela. “Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women,” Histoire Sociale/Social History, 36(73):51-79. |
| 2004 | Sugiman, Pamela. “Memories of Internment: Narrating the Life Stories of Japanese Canadian Women,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 29(3):359-88. |
| 2003 | Sugiman, Pamela. “Understanding Silence: Finding Meaning in the Oral Testimonies of Nisei Women in Canada.” In Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada. Selected Conference Proceedings. Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, British Columbia, pp. 353-63. |
| 2001 | Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949.” Labour Le Travail, 47(Spring):83-113. |
| 1999 | Fox, Bonnie and Pamela Sugiman. “Flexible Work, Flexible Workers: The Restructuring of Clerical Work in a Large Telecommunications Company,” Studies in Political Economy, 60(Autumn):59-84. |
| 1994 | Sugiman, Pamela. Labour’s Dilemma. The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (second printing in 1997; selected for digital reproduction in 2008). |
| 1992 | Sugiman, Pamela. “`That Wall’s Comin’ Down’: Gendered Strategies of Worker Resistance in the UAW Canadian Region (1963-1970),” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 17(1):1-27. |
SELECTED COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
- Member, Programme Committee, Canadian Historical Association (2009-10)
- Member, Nominations Committee, Canadian Sociological Association
(2009-10) - Director, National Executive Board, National Association of Japanese Canadians (2007-11)
- Member, Status of Women Committee, Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (2008-10)
- President, Canadian Sociological Association (2007-08)
- Member, Committee on Research Ethics and Scholarly Integrity, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-09)
- Member, John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Prize Committee, Canadian Sociological Association (2003-06)
- Member, Status of Women Canada External Committee to the Policy Research Fund, Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada (2004-07)
- Chair & Member, Ontario Graduate Scholarship Selection Panel, Sociology (2001-2003)
- Member, Canada Research Chair, College of Reviewers, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2001-Present)
- Assessor: SSHRC, University of Toronto Press, UBC Press, Aid-to-Scholarly Publications, Atlantis, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Journal on Aging, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Review of Sociology, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Journal of Women’s History, Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, Labour/Le Travail, Signs, Sociological Forum.
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