PhD Student Profiles
Joy Addae-Madzi
Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist disability theories, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Transitional Justice.
Florence Anfaara
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Grassroots Peace-building in a Post conflict Society: Liberian women’s activism in Peace Huts.
Arpana Awwal
Research Interests / Specializations: gender representation in South Asian popular culture and cinema; men and masculinity in post-conflict communities; gender and humanitarian aid organizations; gender and transitional justice. Thesis: The Question of Masculinity in Humanitarian Assistance and Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Refugee Camps in Bangladesh: The Case of the Rohingya Refugee Men.
Deeplina Banerjee
Research Interests / Specializations: Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Sexual Violence.
Jacob Barry
Research Interests / Specializations: Jacob Barry (they/them) identifies as a queer, trans-non-binary person and their research interests include community care, feminist care ethics, gender-affirming care, institutional ethnography, and knowledge translation.
Andrea Burke
Research Interests / Specializations: gender equality, pandemics, gender-based violence, international development, decent work, non-governmental organizations, public policy, women’s work, social cohesion, feminist international relations, feminist political economy. Thesis topic: COVID-19, gender equality, and frontline work.
Teaching: GSWS 1020E Intro to Women's Studies
Peyton Campbell
Research Interests / Specializations: queer ecology, gender and the environment, queer temporalities, sexual violence prevention, the politics of reproduction, and gender and labour.
Emily Carrothers
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: (De)constructing Graduate Social Work Education: Understanding Orientations to Poverty and Marginalization in Canada.
Hale Doguoglu
Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist ethics; feminist epistemology; feminist moral psychology; institutional (dis)trust within the context of marginalization; collective trauma and trust.
Kasey Egan
Research Interests / Specializations: sexual and gender-based violence, critical media studies & pop culture, violence in family structures, trauma studies, & front-line feminist communities. Thesis topic: Experiencing, Witnessing, Reporting: Teaching Assistants Institutional Knowledge of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Canada.
Teaching: GSWS 2161B Women and Popular Culture; GSWS 2163A Sex, How To: Sex Ed
Jacob Evoy
Research Interests / Specializations: Queer theory; queer history; oral history; queer narrativity; trauma studies; Holocaust and genocide studies; intergenerational trauma; HIV/AIDS history and activism; transitional justice; pop culture. Thesis Title: Queer(ing) Post-Holocaust Experiences: An Oral History with LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors.
Teaching: Adjunct Assistant Professor: GSWS 1023G Introduction to Gay Life in the 21st Century; GSWS 2164A Gender and Fashion; GSWS 3163G Queer Contemporary Topics
Emily Field
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: State Narratives and HIV-Positive African, Caribbean, and Black Migrant Women’s Stories of HIV/AIDS, Migration, and Service Provision Needs.
Jill Madelynne Hoffman
Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist disability studies, feminist pedagogy, arts based research, and death and dying.
Biography: Thesis topic: Picturing Disbility: Narrative Resistance in Autobiographical Comics and Zines
Arun Jentrick
Research Interests / Specializations: Arun's PhD dissertation delves into the challenges encountered by women-headed households (WHHs) in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Focusing on diverse ethnicities, his research identifies and compares challenges, explores opportunities, and suggests interventions. Arun's work addresses the scarcity of empirical data, contributing valuable insights for post-conflict settings globally. His findings aim to inform Canadian foreign policy and humanitarian assistance strategies.
Amy Keating
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Exploring queer communities of poetry and performance through queer spatiality and temporality.
Andrea Keber
Research Interests / Specializations: Language use, communication, representation, and knowledge transmission over time amongst queer and feminist folk of different generations in a Canadian context; queer temporalities; queer words/queer worlds; lesbian feminism.
Cynthia Lam
Research Interests / Specializations: ecological studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, popular culture, technoscience, posthumanism. Thesis topic: the potential coalition between ecofeminisms and queer ecologies.
Kody Muncaster
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Queering Suicide: Why Necropolitical Archives of Trauma and Resilience in AIDS Activism Matter.
Lutfun Nahar
Research Interests / Specializations: Gender and racially motivated violence, networked masculinity, misogyny, the manosphere, technology and social media, online violence, hate speech, freedom of expression, human rights laws, ideology, and discourse. Thesis title: Intersectional analysis of virtual masculinity and the relation between online hate speech and hate crimes: A comparative study of Canada and India through Feminist and Legal lens.
Kat Newman
Research Interests / Specializations: Kat's research looks at how climate change effects transgender individuals through quantitative and qualitative methods. Namely, looking into health outcomes, urbanization, and vulnerability risk in social-ecological-geographical terms. Their work draws upon social and queer ecologies viewed through one lens.
Nancy Osei-Kye
Research Interests / Specializations: Decolonial theories and epistemologies, African women, Gender and Sexual-Based Violence. Thesis: Centering African Women in Discourses on Campus Sexual Violence.
Victoria Ocran
Research Interests / Specializations: Climate Change and Food/Water Insecurity || Women’s Reproductive and Maternal Health || Sanitation and Waste Management|| Physical and Sexual Violence.
Michael Osei
Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous Female healers and their contributions to the Traditional Medical System of Ghana, Female Education, Welfare and Community Development in Colonial Ghana. Queer History of Indigenous African Societies.
Jeanette Pickett Pierce
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Constructing Access: Providing Reproductive and Sexual Health Services for Young Women in Small Urban and Rural Settings.
Jennifer Marie Shaw
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Canadian Jewish Women and the War Effort, 1939-1945.
Melanie Stone
Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Making her life work: Re-presenting motherhood, disability and employment engagement with photovoice.
Mehnaz Tabassum
Research Interests / Specializations: I am a first-generation immigrant in Canada from Bangladesh. My research examines the experiences of academic immigrants in North America, with a focus on their trailing partners and their trials and challenges as family members and mothers in the process of migration.
Jesse Wiley
Research Interests / Specializations: Jesse’s research focuses on the kinship practices of community members, volunteers, and/or staff within queer student centres (QSCs) in Ontario universities, and the institutional relationships between QSCs and universities. Jesse draws on his experiences as a community worker, public educator, and library worker to inform their trans/feminist research practices.
