Catherine Grant-Wata

PhD Program
cm.grant@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Migration/Diaspora

Areas of Interest

Cultural History, Housing Discrimination, Sound Studies

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Canadian History
  • Black British Social and Intellectual History

Minor 1

American Political History

Working Dissertation

Title

"Making the Jampolitan : A Cultural History of African- Jamaican Women in Toronto, Canada and Birmingham, England 1948-1985”

Supervisors

Sean Mills
Chris Johnson

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)