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Tania Das Gupta
Dr. Tania Das Gupta is a Bengali Canadian professor and activist.

She is currently a Professor at the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.

Her primary fields of research are race and racism, post coloniality, diaspora studies, decolonization, migration, women, work and families

Early Years
Tania Das Gupta was born on January 2, 1957 in Kolkata, India. She was born a secular Hindu. At the age of 14, the family immigrated to Toronto, Canada. Arriving in Toronto (date), she attended highschool at Jarvis Collegiate in Toronto. With paki bashing at an all time high, Das Gupta found herself at odds with her mainly white Canadian peers. She regularly wrote for her school’s newspaper about her experiences as a new immigrant, only to be met with more racism. During this time, Das Gupta worked at her father’s shoe store to help support the family.

While in highschool, Das Gupta immersed herself in Marxist and __ literature, fuelling her desire for social change. Growing up in a post-colonial India, she also became interested in religion and started studying various subjects including Mahabharata, Upanishads and Eastern-Western philosophy. Her As a result, she developed a desire for social and institutional change.

Academic Career
After graduating high-school, Das Gupta enrolled at the University of Toronto. Initially an Accounting major, she was uninspired by the subject. Das Gupta took a course in Sociology and switched her focus soon after. In _________, she earned her Bachelors degree in Sociology from the University of Toronto. She was given the University of Toronto Scholarship for study at Oxford in 1975.

Following this, she earned her Masters degree in Sociology from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto in 1987, with a thesis focused on garment workers. Das Gupta’s thesis explored the _____ in great detail. In her dissertation, she interviewed garment factory workers, many of whom were refugees, immigrants and Holocaust survivors working in poor safety conditions.

In __________, she obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto.

Professional Life
In 1982, following an onslaught of gendered violence in the South Asian community in Toronto, Canada, Das Gupta, her mother, Madhusree Das Gupta and great-grandmother founded Toronto South Asian Women’s Centre.

In _______she was a key expert during the the Ontario Human Rights Commission landmark case as the most comprehensive settlement achieved in Canada regarding racial and systemic discrimination of racialized nurses in the workplace.

Currently, she holds cross-appointments in the Graduate Programs in Sociology, Social and Political Thought, and Social Work. She served as Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer (206-2020); was the Director of the York Centre on Education & Community (2008-2016) which he founded, and Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology (2007-2008).

York University Merit Award, 2008 - 2008

Personal Life
Das Gupta identifies as a Marxist and secular Hindu. She is married to Tariq Kidwai and they have two daughters.