MA Student Profiles

Clare Littlechild

Research Interests / Specializations: Intersections of trauma and health, intergenerational trauma, eating disorder recovery, methods of coping, cycle-breaking, and restorative justice

Kate Maillet

Research Interests / Specializations: queer theory, reproductive justice, sexual health(ism), abortion storytelling, and feminist affect studies.

Shandelle Maxwell

Research Interests / Specializations: Shandelle is pursuing the collaborative specialization in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Her research interests include: feminist international relations, feminist political ecology, decolonization, migrations & borders, human rights, peacebuilding, conflict resolution processes, critiques of power, wealth disparities, community organizing, activism, and examining the root causes of violence.

Sangeetha Sudharshan

Research Interests / Specializations: neoliberalism, politics of care, prison abolition, carceral logics, transformative and restorative justice, community accountability, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial feminisms, disability and mad studies, trauma, healing, root causes of interpersonal/systemic violence, and love.

Sophia Wright

Research Interests / Specializations: IRP title: Grief as gendered performance in funeral practices. Research interests: emotional labour, fatphobia/fat-liberation, Covid-19 policy, and neoliberalism.