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The Department of Social Justice Education is thrilled to celebrate our PhD candidate Jose Miguel “Miggy” Esteban, PhD candidate in SJE, on receiving the from New College, University of Toronto. This award honours outstanding sessional instructors whose teaching significantly enriches New College’s academic programs and reflects its commitment to socially engaged, innovative pedagogy. 

As an instructor in New College’s Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity, Miggy’s teaching combines creativity with critical engagement, using disability and mad arts to shape inclusive classroom experiences. He guides students to rethink learning, collaboration, and social justice in imaginative and critical ways. In reflection, Miggy expresses: 
“I am always so grateful for all the ways in which my students teach me. For me, this award is more of a recognition of the generosity of my students. ... I am so privileged to get to live out the questions I am grappling with in the community with such creative and passionate students.” 

SJE faculty share this excitement. Professor Tanya Titchkosky offered the following message: 

“A big congratulations to SJE PhD Candidate Miggy Esteban for winning a U of T, New College, Teaching Award. Miggy has been doing amazing teaching in Disability Studies and the Arts as well as Equity and Activism and other courses too. I know each time I am in a Doing Disability Differently meeting with Miggy, I learn a lot through his practices of care. So glad you do what you do, Miggy!” 

Miggy is the . He is a dance/movement artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Miggy’s choreographic work develops improvisational practices of navigating mad and queer routes to embody Filipinx remembering and belonging through (un)rest. Miggy’s research and teaching are oriented through disability studies, black studies, and dance/performance studies. Miggy’s dissertation project reinterprets practices of teaching and learning dance through methods of choreographic narrative that are influenced by disability/mad arts, Black radical traditions, Indigenous storytelling, and queer performance. 

The Department of Social Justice Education congratulates Miggy on this well-deserved recognition. Learn more in the .