CURRICULUM VITAE
SUTAMA GHOSH
416-979-5000 Extn. 6170
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
Jorgenson Building 6th Floor
Ryerson University
380 Victoria Street, Toronto, On, Canada
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RESEARCH INTERESTS and SPECIALISATION
Migration and Settlement Geographies, Transnationalism, Urban Social Geography
Critical ‘Race’ Theories, Postcolonial Theory, and Theories of Space
Regional Geography of ‘South Asia’ with particular reference to India
EDUCATION
2000-2005Degree awarded in 2006 / PhD (Geography), York University, Toronto, Canada
Title: “We are not all the Same: Differential Migration, Settlement Patterns, and Housing Trajectories of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto” (Supervisor: Professor Robert A. Murdie)
1999-2000 / MA (Geography) Course Work, York University, Toronto, Canada
(Supervisor: Professor Valerie A. Preston)
1989-1991 / MA (Regional Development, Geography), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Supervisor: Professor M. H. Qureshi)
1989 / B.Ed, Department of Education, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
1985-1988 / B.A. (Honours Geography), Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
AWARDS and RESEARCH FUNDING
2015 / Sub-Grant,Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, Social Science and Humanities Research Council / 16,200
2014 / Dean of Arts International Travel Grant (Fall 2014 Competition)
Dean of Arts Travel Grant (Spring 2014 Competition) / $1400
$400
2013 / Collaborator, SSHRC Connections Grant / $49,170
2012 / Co-Investigator, Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, Social Science and Humanities Research Council / $2.5 Million
2009 / Ryerson New Faculty Development Fund, Ryerson University / $10,000
2007 / Housing Studies Achievement Award (for significant contribution to the understanding and advancement of housing in Canada), Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Canada. / $10,000
2005 / Graduate Student Research Award, Centre for Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) Toronto, Canada. / $500
2001 / Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. / $3,000
1999 / York Entrance Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. / $3,000
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: 7
Book Chapters: 4
Conference Proceedings: 1
Published Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
2015 / Ghosh, S. and R. M. Garrison “Home” as a Paradoxical Space: Some South Asian Experiences from Toronto, Gender Place and Culture (under review)2014 / Ghosh, S. Everyday Lives in Vertical Neighbourhoods: Exploring Bangladeshi Residential Spaces in Toronto’s Inner Suburbs, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. vol 38(6), 2008-2024
DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.12170
Ghosh, S. (2013) A Passage to Canada: The Differential Migrations of ‘South Asian’ Skilled Workers to Toronto, Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol 15 (4), 715-735
2013 / Ghosh, S. (2012) Am I A South Asian, Really?” Constructing ‘South Asians’ in Canada and Being South Asian in Toronto, South Asian Diaspora, vol 5(1), 35-55
DOI: 10,1080/19438192.2013.724913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2013.724913
2010 / Murdie, R. A. and S Ghosh (2010), “Does Spatial Concentration Always Mean a Lack of Integration? Exploring Ethnic Concentration and Integration in Toronto”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (2), 293 – 311
2007 / Ghosh, S. and R. M. Garrison (2007), “Language and residential choice: a case study of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto”, Contact, 33 (2): 123-153
2007 / Ghosh, S. (2007), “Transnational Ties and Intra-Immigrant Group Settlement Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto”, Geojournal, 68: 223-242
2003 / Ghosh S and Wang L (2003) “Transnationalism and Identity: A tale of two faces and multiple lives”, The Canadian Geographer, 47 (3): 269-282
Published Peer Reviewed Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings:
2015 / Ghosh., S. and R. M. Garrison, Changing Immigrant Settlement Patterns in Canada’s Gateway Cities, Chapter 16 in H. Bauder and J. Shields (eds), Immigration, Integration and the Settlement Experience in North America” Canadian Scholar’s Press (CSPI), 388-413.Ghosh, S. How Are Sri Lankan Tamils Doing in Toronto: A Comparative Study of the Housing Experiences of Refugee Claimants and Family Class Migrants, Chapter 4 in Carlos Teixeira and Wei Li (eds). The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in North American Cities, University of Toronto Press.
2014 / Ghosh., S. and R. M. Garrison, Transnational Habitus and Multiple Meanings of Home and Being Home in Toronto, Chapter 20, in Aninidita Datta (ed.), Conference Proceedings of the Re Orienting Gender: Geographies of Resistance, Agency, Violence and Desire in Asia, The IGU Commission of Gender and Geography, November 18 to 21, New Delhi India
2012 / Ghosh., S. “Everyday Lives in Vertical Neighbourhoods: Exploring Bangladeshi Residential Spaces in Toronto”, Chapter 16, in H. Bauder (ed), Immigration & Settlement: Challenges, Experiences and Opportunities in Global and Local Contexts; Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc.
Murdie, R. A. and S Ghosh, “Does Spatial Concentration Always Mean a Lack of Integration? Exploring Ethnic Concentration and Integration in Toronto”, Chapter 7 in G., Bolt A. S. Ozuekren and D. Phillips (eds), Linking Integration and Residential Segregation, Oxford: Routledge.
Other Scholarly Writings:
2013 Invited Book Review, Emily Skop’s (2012) The Immigration and Settlement of Asian Indians in Phoenix, Arizona 1965- 2011: Ethnic Pride vs. Racial Discrimination in the Suburbs, New York: Edwin Mellen Press in Population, Space and Place (In Press)
2012 Research Bulletin, “Living in Toronto Studying Immigrant lives”, in E. H. Fouberg, A. B. Murphy, H. D. Blij, and C. Nash eds, Introduction to Human Geography Canadian Edition, Wiley Publishers.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
2006 / “Immigrants and Housing: A Review of Canadian Literature from 1990 to 2005”, Ottawa: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (with R. Murdie, V. Preston and M. Chevalier)2003 / “Housing Immigrants and Refugees: Canada Promises A Place in the Sun”, CERIS Report, (also available at the Housing Again web site: http://action.web.ca/home/housing/alerts.shtml?sh_itm=5795bfe11de90c8f793a0706d0baf97a)
2002 / “Review Research on Immigration: Perspective from Geography” Literature Review co-authored with K. Sadiq, R.A. Murdie and V. Preston. Ottawa: Strategic Research and Review Unit, Citizenship and Immigration Canada
2001 / “Place of Indian Women: Myths and Meanings”, United Nations, Toronto.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and PROCEEDINGS:
2015 / a. Geographies of Media III: Multicultural media, international migration, and transnationalism – Discussant, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographer’s Conference, April 21st to 24th, Chicago, USAb. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities – Panelist, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographer’s Conference, April 21st to 24th, Chicago, USA
c. Migration Studies Moving Forward: An Interdisciplinary conversation, Invited Panel Discussion at the Department of History, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, January 23rd 2015, Toronto
2014 / Transnational Habitus and Multiple Meanings of Home and Being Home in Toronto, Re Orienting Gender: Geographies of Resistance, Agency, Violence and Desire in Asia, The IGU Commission of Gender and Geography, November 18 to 21, New Delhi India
2013 / Residential Overcrowding Among Sri Lankan Tamils in Toronto: A Comparative Study of Refugee Claimants and Family Class Migrants, RCIS Conference, Immigration and Settlement Precarious Futures, May 15th to 17th, Toronto
2012 / a. About Mothers and Daughters, Paper presented at the 14th National Metropolis Conference, Toronto, March 2012
b. Losing Jobs and Keeping Houses: Exploring the Housing and Labour Market Situations of the “Not So lucky” Indian Professionals in Toronto, Paper presented at the 14th National Metropolis Conference, Toronto, March 2012
c. Intersections of Displacement: Immigrant and Refugee Housing and Homelessness Experiences I, II — Session Organiser, Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference, February 24th to 26th 2012, New York, USA
2011 / a. The Transnational Habitus and Multiple meanings of Home, Paper presented at the South Asian conference, Wilfred Laurier University, May 19th to 21st
b. How are Sri Lankan tamils Doing in Toronto’s Housing Market? Paper presented at the 12th National Metropolis Conference, Vancouver, March 2011.
2010 / a. Exploring the Sri Lankan Tamil and Bangladeshi Housing Experiences in Toronto, 11th National Metropolis Conference, Montreal
b. Exploring Bangladeshi and Tamil Enclaves in Toronto, York University Research Day lecture
2008 / a. The Production of Vertical Neighbourhoods: Analysing Bangladeshi Residential Spaces in Toronto, Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference, April 15th to 19th, Boston, USA.
b. Why Do New Immigrants Live on The Ragged Edges? A Critical Evaluation of the Housing Conditions of Bangladeshis in Toronto, paper presented at the 10th National Metropolis Conference, Halifax, Canada.
2007 / Transnational Ties and Intra-Immigrant Group Settlement Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto”, Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference, April 17 to 21st, San Francisco, USA.
2006 / a. Language and Residential Choice: A Case Study of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto, 7th Annual Research Symposia, Teachers of English as a Second Language Ontario, November 14th — 18th, Toronto, Canada.
b. Vertical neighbourhoods as Spaces of Hope and Despair: Bangladeshi Neighbourhoods in Toronto , paper presented at CERIS Seminar series, Toronto, Canada
c. Multiple Facets of Housing Discrimination, paper presented at the 8th National Metropolis Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
2005 / “We are not all the same: Differential Migration of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto”, paper presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers, Annual Conference, London, Canada
2004 / a. “House as Home”: Using Pierre Bourdieu’s idea of the Habitus to understand Residential Satisfaction of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto”, paper presented at the ISA International Housing Conference, Toronto, Canada
b. Challenges in the Field: An Insider’s Perspective, paper presented at the Department of Geography, York University, Toronto, Canada (Invited)
2003 / South Asian Identity, paper presented at the York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto, Canada (invited)
2002 / a. Rethinking South Asian Identity in Canada, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Toronto, Canada
b. Transnationalism and Identity: A Tale of two Faces and Multiple Lives, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Toronto, Canada
2001 / Differential Settlement Patterns of South Asian Subgroups in Canadian Cities, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, Canada
2000 / Methodological Issues in Discerning South Asian Subgroups in Canada, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Asian American Association, Toronto, Canada
OTHER RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS
2011 / CBC Radio 1 Interview / Ethnic Enclaves2010 / Invited Lecture / Vertical Neighbourhoods as Spaces of Hope and Despair: A Case Study of Bangladeshi neighbourhoods in Toronto, Housing and Neighbourhoods wing of the Metropolis Project, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Ottawa
2009 / Toronto Star Interview / Bangladeshi community a portrait of growth; Danforth’s Bangla Town built on immigrants’ shared values, identities, Toronto Star; Apr 13, 2009; pg. GT.1
2008 / Toronto Star Interview / Vertical Village; A bustling stretch of Danforth, along with Crescent Town, has become a proud community for Bangladeshi families, Toronto Star; Feb 28, 2008; pg. A.10
2007 / CBC News Interview / October 23rd 2006: Bangladeshis in Toronto
2006 / CERIS (Centre for Excellence in research on Immigration and Settlement) Seminar series, Toronto, Canada / Vertical neighbourhoods as Spaces of Hope and Despair: Bangladeshi Neighbourhoods in Toronto
CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
2012- / Co-Investigator, Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership, Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Leader of the Tower Renewal Team, Toronto.2008-2010 / Sri Lankan Tamils in Rental Housing in Toronto
South Asian Identity
2006 / Doctoral Research—“We are not all the Same: Differential Migration, Settlement Patterns, and Housing Trajectories of Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis in Toronto”
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
2015 / Masters in
Spatial Analysis / Lorenzo Haza / TBA
2014 / Patrick G. Kniss / Recreational Geographies
2013 / Denise Lo / The Geography of Ageing in Toronto
2012 / Philip Pendergast / Associating with A Transient Identity: An Analysis of the Sense of Belonging to Canada Among
Masters in
Immigration and Settlement Studies / Saraniya Satgunam / Transformations of Pubic Spaces in Toronto: A Case Study of the 2009 Tamil Protests
Darinka Vlajkovic / Exploring the Intersections Between Housing and Health: A Review of the Canadian Literature
Santy Restrepo / Transnational Habitus and the Formation of A Colombian Community in Toronto
Desiree Gomes / Transnational Habitus And Patriarchy In Indian Immigrant Fiction: An Analysis Of The Immigrant By Manju Kapur.
2011 / Masters in
Spatial Analysis / Cosmin Mumureanu / Does the TDSB Need a new Method for Selecting Schools in need of tree Cover?
2010 / Masters in
Immigration and Settlement Studies / Vanessa Goetler / The Evolution Of Social Housing In The “Competitive City”: An Analysis of Toronto
Naomi Arsenault / Subjective Integration and the Spaces and Places of Inclusion: A Case Study of St James Town in Toronto.
2009 / Masters in
Immigration and Settlement Studies / Semhar Zerat / Identity Retention and Sense of belonging Among Second Generation Eritrean Youth in Toronto
Anne Heiritis / South Asian Identity in Public and Private Spaces in Toronto
GRADUATE SECOND READER/ EXAMINER:
2015 / Jacob Levy, Masters in Spatial Analysis2014 / Chantal Smith, Immigration and Settlement Studies
2012 / Haoran Zhang, Masters in Spatial Analysis
2011 / Uschi Erne, Masters in Spatial Analysis
Isabell, Masters in Spatial Analysis
Jessica Coleby, Masters in Spatial Analysis
2010 / Angelica Suroneini, Immigration and Settlement Studies
Danile Boyko, Masters in Spatial Analysis
2009 / Laura McDonough, Immigration and Settlement Studies
Mabel Ho, Immigration and Settlement Studies
2008 / David Koisor, Masters in Spatial Analysis
Joseph Park, Masters in Spatial Analysis
EMPLOYMENT:
August 2015-- / Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, CanadaJune 2013-- / Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
August 2008—May 2013 / Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2007-2008 / Assistant Professor (Limited Term), Department of Geography, Division of Social Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
2006--2007 / Assistant Professor (Limited Term), Urban Studies, Division of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
2005 to 2006 / Sessional Teaching, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto, Canada
1999-2005 / Teaching Assistant, Urban Geography, Social Geography, Introduction to Human Geography, Introduction to World Geography York University, Toronto, Canada
1996-1999 / Senior Teacher, D.A.V. Public School, Calcutta, India
1995 / Lecturer, Department of Geography, City College, Calcutta, India
1993-1994 / Lecturer, Department of Geography, Loreto College, Calcutta, India
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