SHERYL NESTEL
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
252 Bloor St. West, Room 12-266
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V6
Tel: (416) 923-6641 ext. 6018
Rm. 12-266
e-mail <snestel@oise.utoronto.ca>
web site: <http.www3.sympatico.ca/sydnestel/sherylnestel/sheryl_main.html>
ACADEMIC
DEGREES
-
2000
Ph.D. Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in
Education,
OISE/UT Title of Ph.D. Thesis: “Obstructed
Labour: Race and Gender
in the Re-emergence of
Midwifery in Ontario.”Supervisor: Professor Sherene
Razack
1994
M.A. Department of Adult
Education OISE/UT. Title
of
Master’s Thesis: “’Other’
Mothers: Race and
Representation in Natural Childbirth Discourse”
1975
B.A. Department of History - University of California at
Los Angeles
ACADEMIC
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2000
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Postdoctoral
Fellowship
Gordon
Cressy Student Leadership Award (University of
Toronto Alumni Association)
1998
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1996
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Doctoral Fellowship
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined)
1995
OISE Scholarship (declined)
Bernard J. Shapiro Scholarship (declined)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
RESEARCH
AND TEACHING
2005
Principal Investigator: A Multi-method Evaluation of
Diversity Training for Physicians – Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto,
Ontario
2005/2006
Co-Investigator
(with Prof. Lillie Lum, York University School of Nursing)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research
project Internationally
Educated Health Professionals Seeking Entry into the Canadian Labour Market:
Exploring Adjustments of Post-Secondary Institutions
2004/2005
Sessional Instructor Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in
Education OISE/UT
2004/2005
Co-Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research
project, Multiculturalism Issues in Canada Program:
Creating Effective Distance Education for Internationally-Educated Health
Professionals Seeking Canadian Registration. CDN 50,000.00.
2003/2004
University of Toronto Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Sociology and Equity Studies in Education OISE/UT. Social Sciences and Humanties
Research Council funded project: “Understanding
Cultural Differences Within An Anti-Racist Framework”, principal investigator:
Prof. Sherene Razack
2003/2004
Sessional
Instructor Department
of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education OISE/UT
2001/2003
Assistant
Professor
(contractually limited appointment), Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
in Education, OISE/UT
2001-
Research Fellow, Institute for Women’s
Studies
and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
2000/2001
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of
Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
Project title: “Global
sisterhood or feminist neo-colonialism?: Midwifery tourism and ‘third world’
women as educational commodity”
2000
Sessional Instructor, Department of Sociology
and
Equity Studies in Education, OISE/UT
1993 -1998
Program
Coordinator/Instructor, Humber
College School of Health Sciences/ Women's
College Hospital Multidiscipline Childbirth Educators
Certificate Program
COURSES TAUGHT
Dept.
of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE/UT (Graduate level)
2003/2004
SES1954
–
Marginality and the Politics of Resistance
This
is a survey course on current theoretical perspectives on the construction of
subjects
in relation to race, gender, class, sexuality and ability
SES
2999
– Special
Topics Course: Jews, Identity, and Difference
This course examines recent scholarship in sociology
and cultural studies which
theorizes the construction of contemporary Jewish
identities.
2002/2003
SES
1954
– Marginality
and the Politics of Resistance
SES3912
-
Race and Knowledge Production
This
doctoral level graduate course looks at the operation of multiple systems of
domination in the production of racialized knowledge and explores how
intellectuals can challenge imperialist and racist systems through their
research and writing.
2001/2002
SES
1954
– Marginality
and the Politics of Resistance
.
SES
2999
– Special
Topics Course: Jews, Identity, and Difference
2000/2001
SES
1954
– Marginality
and the Politics of Resistance
1993
-1998 Humber
College School of Health Sciences (post-degree program)
CBED
103
– Histories and Philosophies of Childbirth Education
This
course examined the 19th and 20th century movements for
the reform of childbirth practices and social, medical and educational issues
related to women’s health.
CBED
104
– Issues in Childbirth Education
This
course explored the social dimensions of pregnancy, childbirth, early parenting,
reproductive health care and new reproductive technologies. Topics included:
domestic violence, sexual abuse, disability and the impact of processes of
social marginalization on women’s reproductive lives.
CBED
106
– Principles of Adult Education
Placing
an emphasis on anti-discriminatory practice, this course introduced conceptual
models of adult education and explored a variety of skills related to the
teaching of adult students
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Race and
racism in health care; globalization and women’s occupational mobility in the
West; racism and anti-racism in feminist movements; Jewish identity and
multiculturalism.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
“Obstructed
Labour: Race and gender in the
re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario,” (forthcoming) University of British
Columbia Press.
Refereed
journal articles
Nestel,
S. (2000). Delivering subjects: Race,
space and the emergence of legalized midwifery in Ontario. Canadian Journal
of Law and Society 15(2), 187-215.
Nestel,
S. (1998). (Ad)ministering angels: Colonial nursing and the extension of empire in Africa.
Journal of Medical Humanities 19 (4), 257-277.
Nestel,
S. (1998). Atalanta’s daughters:
Tales of identity, reflexivity and
accountability in feminist knowledge production. trans/forms
3 / 4, 167-185.
Nestel,
S. (1996/97). “A new profession to the white population in Canada”:
Ontario midwifery and the politics of race. Health and Canadian
Society 4 (2), 315-341.
Nestel,
S. (1995). "Other" Mothers: Race and representation in natural childbirth discourse.
Resources for Feminist Research
23 (4), 5-19.
Chapters
in edited collections
Nestel,
S. (2004). The boundaries of professional belonging: How race has shaped the
re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario. In Robbie Davis-Floyd, Cecilia Benoit,
& Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (Eds.), Reconceiving
Midwifery: The 'New' Canadian Model
of
Care,
Queen’s-McGill Press.
Nestel,
S. (2002) Delivering subjects: Race,
space and the emergence of legalized midwifery in Ontario. In Sherene Razack
(Ed.), Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping White Settler Society.
Toronto: Between the Lines
Baron
(Nestel), S. (1973). Jewish women and women's liberation. In Jack Nusan Porter
(Ed.), Jewish Radicalism: A
Selected Anthology. New York:
Grove Press.
Book Review
Nestel,
S. (2004) Israel and Palestine Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity
in the Twenty-First Century by March Ellis. American Journal of Islamic
Social Sciences 21(2), Spring 2004, pp. 98-100.
Nestel,
S. (1993). Beyond the Pale by Vron Ware. Resources for Feminist Research 22 (3/4), 79-80.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Confronting
the Violence of Non-Recognition: Diasporic
Palestinian and Jewish Challenges
to the “Radical Irreconcilability” of National Narratives Canadian Critical Race Conference. Halifax, N.S. April 1 & 2, 2005.
Feminist
projects: Imperial locations: Canadian
midwifery and the commodification of “third world” mothers.
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
June 18, 2004
Feminist
Projects: Imperial Locations: Canadian
midwifery and the commodification of “third world” Mothers. Race,
Racism and Empire: The Local and The Global Conference, York University,
Toronto, Ontario. May 1, 2004.
Mapping
Jewish Dissent: Jewish
Anti-occupation Activism in Toronto.
Association
of Canadian Jewish Studies Conference May 30, 2004 University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
*Rethinking
the history of the re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario:
A victory for all women? Ryerson
University Midwifery Education Program Speakers Series. January, 2003
“Critique
from a Globalization Perspective”: Commentary
on panel: “Exploring
transformative justice in racial disputes in nursing:
Highlights of a report to the Law Commission of Canada.”
Research Day 2002, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, April 24,
2002.
“Bordered
Births”: The geopolitics of
Canada’s new midwifery profession.
Paper presented at “Crossing Borders 2001, Looking Back and Forward: Exploring Issues and Relations at the Border” Brock
University Nov. 8-9, 2001.
“If
I get through this program, then I’m going to be myself”:
Delivering bourgeois subjects in Ontario’s Midwifery Education Program.
Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian
Women’s Studies Association, May 2001, Laval, Quebec.
Race
and the boundaries of professional belonging:
Tracking the access to practice of immigrant midwives of colour in
Ontario. Paper
presented to 36th Annual
meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, May 2001, Laval,
Quebec.
An
even exchange?: Midwifery tourism and ‘third world” women as educational
commodity. Paper
presented at “Health Care in a Complex World:
An International Research Conference” sponsored by the Faculty of
Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, May
2001.
What's
so bad about doing good?:
Confronting racial dominance in the
professions Roundtable
presentation, annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
Montreal, Quebec, April 1999.
Delivering
subjectivity: Race, space and the construction of new midwifery identities
. Paper
presented at "Making History, Constructing 'Race':
Situating 'Race' in Time, Space and Theory." University of Victoria,
Victoria, British Columbia, October 1998.
Attending
to absences: Using post-positivist research methodologies to analyze the
re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario.
Paper presented at the First Annual Symposium on Midwifery Research in the
Social Sciences and Humanities. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of
the University of Toronto, April 1998.
Using
the Internet to do research in Women's Studies. Paper
presented at the Fourth Annual OISE/UT Women's
Studies and Internet Roundtable: Womyn.Edu:
Storming the Technology Tower. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
of the University of Toronto, March 1998.
“A
new profession to the white population in Canada”:
Ontario midwifery and the politics of race. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association,
Congress of Learned Societies. Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland,
June 1997
“A
new profession to the white population in Canada”: Ontario midwifery and the
politics of race. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Seattle, Washington, March 1997.
“A
new profession to the white population in Canada”: Ontario midwifery and the
politics of race. Paper
presented at the York Centre for Health Studies, York University, Toronto,
Ontario, March 1997.
(Ad)ministering
angels: Colonial nursing and the
extension of empire in Africa.
Paper presented at the joint conference of the Canadian History of Education
Association and the History of Education Society (U.S.A.). Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, October 1996.
"Race"
and the idealization of "primitive"
childbearing in maternity care reform.
Paper accepted to "Teaching to Promote Women's Health, International
Multidisciplinary Conference." Toronto, Ontario, June 1996.
Atalanta's
daughters: Tales of accountability
and reflexivity in feminist research.
Paper presented at the National Women's Studies Association 17th Annual
Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York, June 1996.
Atalanta's
Daughters: Tales of accountability
and reflexivity in feminist research.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Women’s Studies
Association, Congress of Learned Societies.
Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario, May
1996.
Between
the gates of purity and defilement: The
lives of Bertha Pappenheim. Paper
presented at "From Memory to Transformation:
Jewish Women's Voices." Toronto, Ontario, January 1996.
"Other"
mothers: Race and representation in
natural childbirth discourse. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Women's Studies Association,
Congress of Learned Societies. Montreal, Quebec, June 1995.
"Other"
mothers: Race and representation in
natural childbirth discourse. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of
the Canadian Critical Pedagogy Association, Congress of Learned Societies.
Montreal, Quebec, June 1995.
Educating
the educator: Power and practice in health education.
Paper presented to the 45th Annual Conference of the Ontario Public Health
Association. Toronto, Ontario, November 1994.
Racism
and the pedagogy of social movements: The
case of childbirth reform.
Paper presented to the Northeastern Popular Culture/American Culture
Association. Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, October 1994.
INVITED
LECTURES
Rethinking
the history of the re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario:
A victory for all women?
Women’s
Studies Program Speakers Series, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. October
12, 2004.
Race
and Methodology.
Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education of the University of Toronto. March 4, 2004
Equity
and nursing practice – A workshop for first-year nursing students.
Faculty
of Nursing, University of Toronto,
October,
2003
Rethinking
the history of the re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario:
A victory for all women?
Ryerson
University Midwifery Education Program Speakers Series. January, 2003
Feminist
projects/Imperial locations: Canadian
midwifery and the commodification of “third world” mothers.
Lecture series, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE/UT. Nov. 28,
2001
Obstructed
Labour : Race and gender in the re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario. Critical Issues in Gender
& Health Seminar Series, Centre for Research in Women's Health in
partnership with the Faculty of Nursing, the Institute for Women's Studies &
Gender Studies, and the Social Science & Health Program of the Department of
Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, June, 2001
The
boundaries of professional belonging: How race has shaped the re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario.
Faculty
of Nursing, University of Toronto, January 2001.
Obstructed
labour: Race and gender in the
re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario.
Popular Feminism Lecture Series of the Centre for Women's Studies in Education
of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto,
March 1999.
Obstructed
labour: Race and gender in the re-emergence of midwifery in Ontario.
Department of Women's Studies, University of Manitoba, March 1999.
ACADEMIC
SERVICE
2004-2005 Member,
Ethics and Research Committee
Department
of Sociology and Equity Studies
2002
- 2004 Member,
Scholarship
Committee, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
2001-
Council member and Research Chair, Institute for Women’s Studies and
Gender Studies of the University of Toronto
2001
- 2002 Chair, Computer Committee, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies,
OISE/UT
2000
Reviewer, Medical
Anthropology.
Panel
member, Departmental seminar on writing successful scholarship and awards
applications
1999
Member, Bursary/Graduate Assistantships Committee, Dept. of Sociology and
Equity Studies, OISE/UT
Panel
member, Departmental seminar on writing successful scholarship and awards
applications
Reviewer, Resources
for Feminist Research, and
trans/forms
1998
Co-chair,
Student Caucus of the Department of Sociology and Equity
Studies in Education
Member
of planning committee/facilitator for departmental "town hall" to
discuss the future of Dept. of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
Organizer,
First Annual Symposium on Midwifery Research in the Social Sciences and
Humanities, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of
Toronto, April 1998.
1997
Panel member, interdepartmental seminar on getting
scholarships and
awards
Member,
Admissions Committee and Bursary Committee, Dept. of Sociology and Equity
Studies in Education
Panel
member, interdepartmental seminar on getting scholarships and awards
Panel
member, departmental seminar on Internet research resources
1996
Member, Bursary Committee, Dept. of
Sociology and
Equity Studies in
Education
1995
– 1999
Member, Editorial Board of trans/forms, OISE/UT
graduate student
journal
1995
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Dept.
of Adult
Education, OISE/UT
1994
Member, Orientation Committee, Dept.
of Adult
Education, OISE/UT
MEMBERSHIPS
IN LEARNED ASSOCIATIONS
Canadian
Jewish Studies Association
National
Women’s Studies Assocation (USA)
Canadian
Women’s Studies Association
Canadian
Sociology and Anthropology Association
Critical
Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education Special Interest
Group of the American Educational Research Association
|