Catherine Grant-Wata

Catherine Grant-Wata

First Name: 
Catherine
Last Name: 
Grant-Wata
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PhD Program
Biography : 

Catherine Grant-Wata is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation in progress, Making the Jampolitan:  A Cultural History of African-Jamaican Women in Toronto, Canada and Birmingham, England, 1948-1985 centres oral histories and focuses on Jamaican culture and community activism. Catherine completed her MA at York University, The Darkside of the Canadian Dream: A History of Housing Discrimination in Toronto 1961-1977 in August 2020. Catherine writes poetry and collects reggae records in her free time.

Education: 
MA, History, York University, August 2020
Honours BA, History, York University, 2019 (Summa cum laude)

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Areas of Interest: 

Cultural History, Housing Discrimination, Sound Studies

Program:

1st Major: 
Canadian History
2nd Major: 
Black British Social and Intellectual History
1st Minor: 
American Political History
Dissertation Title: 
"Making the Jampolitan : A Cultural History of African- Jamaican Women in Toronto, Canada and Birmingham, England 1948-1985”
Dissertation Supervisors: 
Sean Mills
Chris Johnson

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Learn more about Catherine Grant-Wata, a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.