Harshita Yalamarty
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Gender and Migration
Faculty of Arts
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Toronto, Ontario
harshita.yalamarty@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 556904
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Harshita Yalamarty (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Gender and Migration. She is a former international student with a PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University (Tkaro...
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Harshita Yalamarty (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Gender and Migration. She is a former international student with a PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University (Tkaronto), and an MPhil and an MA in Political Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Before coming to TMU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University (Kingston/Katarakwi) and an Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax (K’jipuktuk). She has also previously taught at University of Delhi.
Her research looks at the intersections of marriage and migration decisions, specifically marriage as a pathway to migration across skilled workers and international students. She is also engaged in community-led research around caste experiences in the South Asian Canadian diaspora. Her dissertation was awarded the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize (2022) and the Mary McEwan Memorial Prize in feminist scholarship (2022) by the Centre for Feminist Research, York University. She also enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy, watching baking shows, is a budding birder and can talk for hours about the transformative potential of playing tabletop roleplaying games.
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Her research looks at the intersections of marriage and migration decisions, specifically marriage as a pathway to migration across skilled workers and international students. She is also engaged in community-led research around caste experiences in the South Asian Canadian diaspora. Her dissertation was awarded the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize (2022) and the Mary McEwan Memorial Prize in feminist scholarship (2022) by the Centre for Feminist Research, York University. She also enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy, watching baking shows, is a budding birder and can talk for hours about the transformative potential of playing tabletop roleplaying games.
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