Our Team

Our team is made up of an enthusiastic and talented group of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students and alumni.  The current list is below.  We are also indebted to the contributions of the many students that have made this project a success over the past few years. Their names and contributions are also listed below.

headshot Christine Berkowitz

Christine Berkowitz

Principal investigator

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Emerita

UTSC Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, History Program

chris.berkowitz@utoronto.ca

Leslie Chan

Contributing Investigator

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

UTSC Department of Arts, Culture and Media and Centre for Critical Development Studies

lesliekw.chan@utoronto.ca

Nancy Lee

Coordinator, Digital Resources and Oral History Preservation

University of Toronto, MI (2022); University of Toronto Scarborough, HBA History (2020)

nancych.lee@mail.utoronto.ca

Amena Ahmed

Researcher

University of Chicago, MA English Literature (2023); University of Toronto Scarborough, HBA English (2022)

amena.ahmed@outlook.com

Asmaa Helali

Archival Assistant

University of Toronto Scarborough, HBSc – Life Science – Human Biology Specialization (in progress)

asmaa.helali@mail.utoronto.ca

Maria Bacchus

Researcher

University of Toronto Scarborough, HBA History, Minor Anthropology and Classical Studies (2023); Centennial College, Human Resources Management (in progress)

m.bacchus@mail.utoronto.ca

Inyoung Choi

Researcher

University of Toronto Scarborough, Specialist (Co-op) Psychology, Minor Applied Statistics, in progress

inyoung.choi@mail.utoronto.ca

 

Rafiya Mubashshira

Archival Assistant

University of Toronto Scarborough, HBSc –
Mental Health Studies Specialist (in progress)

r.mubashshira@mail.utoronto.ca

 

Many thanks to:

Amelia Ainsworth, Project Coordinator, 2020-2022; Undergraduate Researcher, 2019-2020

Naailah Patel, Co-Coordinator, Digital Resources and Oral History Preservation 2022; Undergraduate Researcher 2020-2021

Azreen Sikder, Undergraduate Researcher 2019-2020; Researcher 2021-2022

Jennifer Tran, Undergraduate Researcher  2019-2021

Mariam Mian, Undergraduate Researcher 2020

Edward Dunsworth, 2018-2019, UTSC History Project Coordinator

Archival Assistants:

Kathleen Lacy, Summer 2023

Inyoung Choi, Summer 2023

Tammy Nguyen, Fall/Winter 2022/23; Summer 2022

Stefania Virgilio, Fall/Winter 2022/23

Karisa Yuet, Summer 2022

Maherah Sadaf, Summer 2020 to Fall/Winter 2022

Maria Bacchus, Fall/Winter 2020/21

Irish Bonon, Summer 2021

Issra Marie Martin, Summer 2020

Hsin Yu (Madgen) Liao, Fall/Winter 2019/20

Danielle Milankov, Fall/Winter 2019/20