Graduate Students

Alicia's current research seeks to explore the employment experiences of lesbian health care workers. Her research aims to better understand how lesbian health care workers manage their sexual identities within the workplace and how these individuals navigate experiences of acceptance or discrimination.

Using the theoretical framework of feminist political ecology, and discourse from anthropology of gender and environmental anthropology, Leanna's research focuses on the impacts of climate change on women farmers in Ladakh, India. Particular attention is placed on women's interaction's with their environment through their daily responsibilities as farmers and caregivers, and the impacts that place-specific environmental stress has had on undertaking such tasks.

violence against women, safety planning, feminism, sociology of space/place, decolonization, qualitative methods

Homelessness, Poverty Intervention, Policy, Public Spaces.

Police/policing, missing person's reports, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, violence against women, feminism, intersectionality, decolonization, settler colonialism.

women, work, education, race, diversity, culture, LGBTQ2S, identities, ethnicity, social change, marginalization, feminist theory, critical race theory, intersectionality, marxism, mixed methods, and community based research.

Cass' research interests include: material culture studies,  anthropology of care/elder care, critical medical anthropology, engaged and collaborative scholarship, arts based and sensorially focused ethnographic methods, as well as how ethnographic knowledge is disseminated, understood and instrumentalized.

Haley's research explores the experiences of students with special needs within the educational system. She explores how different educational approaches (stand alone schools, integration) can influence students behaviours (positively or negatively). Currently, Haley's research is focusing on how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting students with special needs. Her interests also include youth justice, disability studies, marginalized youth and disability education.

My research examines the impacts of an "X" gender marker on government-issued IDs for nonbinary Ontarians.

Indigenous Storytelling, climate change, decolonization, Indigenous knowledge

Amanda's research examines the regulation of public space and homelessness. Her ongoing master's research investigates how homeless persons are excluded from the public realm through the use of the outdoor built environment.

Trisha's current research focuses on educational pathways and labour market outcomes for non-traditional students and disadvantaged/marginalized groups. Her dissertation research utilizes linked survey data to examine pathways and outcomes of adult learners, non-binary individuals, individuals with exceptionalities and disabilities, those with mental health issues, recent immigrants, Indigenous persons, visible minorities, and more.

Dilshan Fernando's research focuses on political economic analysis of digital work and its impact on development. He has field-work experience in Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka conducting research about how the emerging technologies change the lives of marginalized persons. He is a Research Fellow at LIRNEasia, a regional policy think tank based in Colombo.

Lidia's research aims to answer what role do men's understanding of their emotions play in the construction of their masculinities and the prevention of sexual and emotional violence while dating.

Alain's research explores the use of migrant labour under the Caporalato system, an Italian-based system of agricultural labour exploitation. Alain remains committed to transformative research in operationalizing anthropological knowledge to address ongoing issues of agricultural labour exploitation. His research interests include Mediterranean food systems and social relationships of food production.

Olivia's research examines how registered sex offenders are socially constructed in Canadian news media. In addition, her research aims to understand how the media facilitates the production of information that gives a false reality of online-only sexual offenders. Research interests: sexual offending, media constructions of sexual offenders, online-only sexual offenders.

Valérie's dissertation explores experiences of violence and resistance in the lives of women with disabilities in Canada. She adopts an intersectional approach to better understand how multiple systems of oppression shape agency and collective resistance. Valérie is committed to transformative research with the goal of amplifying the voices of women with disabilities in feminist activism and scholarship about gender-based violence. Her research interests also include healthcare violence, eugenics, and transnational feminism.

Devan's current research interests include copresence in everyday life, intergenerationality, embodiment, critical social theory and community-based arts organizations. Her previous MA work focused on the values, meanings and lifestyle practices of vegans and how gender identity intersected with this.

First Nations, Inuit, and Métis views of justice, Specialized Indigenous Courts, Indigenous Methodologies, Gladue Rights, Decolonization.

Varun's area of interest is on Green Criminology, specifically the intersection of critical animal and carceral studies. He is partnering with Evolve Our Prison Farms to advocate for the abolition of the ongoing For Profit Prison Farms at the men's federal penitentiaries in Kingston, Ontario. An animal rights approach is integrated into his work to advocate for both prison worker rights and the abolition of animal exploitation simultaneously. Other research interests include environmental sociology, violence, and settler decolonization.