Dr. Jared Toney wins dissertation prize

Dr. Jared Toney wins dissertation prize

Congratulations to University of Toronto PhD graduate Jared Toney, who has won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for his 2014 thesis, “Locating Diaspora: Afro-Caribbean Migrations and the Transnational Dialectics of Race and Community in North America, 1910-1929.” The selection committee noted that the dissertation, which examines identity formation among Anglophone West Indians in New York, Montreal, and Toronto, “significantly expands scholarly understanding on the importance of diasporic communities” and “demonstrates that a sense of blackness was continually reworked in the early twentieth century and was grounded in more than essential notions of color or background or in a simple encounter with new nation-states.” Dr. Toney, who wrote the dissertation under the supervision of Professor Russell Kazal, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of South Florida.