Dr Tracy M Lemos

Tracy M. Lemos is Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.  A scholar with wide-ranging interests and expertise, she was trained in Jewish history, religious studies, and biblical scholarship at Brown University and Yale University.  She has written on material spanning millennia, continents, and vast divides of cultural and social distance.  Lemos is the author of two books, coeditor of three volumes, and has written dozens of articles, essays, and reviews.  She has given lectures in Canada, the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, France, Finland, Sweden, and Spain and been featured in a CBC Ideas podcast. She is currently writing a book on healing from dehumanization and has begun work on a project on queer kinship with the anthropologist Andrea Stevenson Allen, also at the University of Toronto.