MA Graduates
2022-23 Cohort
Hanieh Bakhtiari
Independent Research Project: Feminism and Its Usability: A Study of Iranian New Men and Their Claim to Feminism
Porter Belanger
Independent Research Project: Decolonizing carcerality: Reimagining Two-spirit and Indigenous women’s sovereignty in Canadian prisons
Lilly Compeau-Schomberg
Independent Research Project: Things Being What They Are Not: Contextualizing the “Lesbian Earring” Trend
Elizabeth Kilborn
Independent Research Project: Self-care, vicarious trauma and neoliberalism: A close textual analysis of victim service worker handbooks
Madison Monk
Independent Research Project: Neopronoun discourse in online space: Constructing queer and autistic identity
Ashton Pugh
Independent Research Project: What Feminist TikTokers Want ‘For You’: Ditch the Instagram Mood Boards for Some Critical Conversation
2021-2022 Cohort
Isabelle Di Giuseppe
Independent Research Project: Hidden in queer sight: A digital discourse analysis of queer parent and family groups on Meetup
Sarah Langill
Independent Research Project: “The First White President”: Right-Wing Populism and Divisions of Race and Gender in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Nicole Paldino
Independent Research Project: Stop Protecting Your Rep, Start Protecting Us: A Discourse Analysis of the Aftermath of the September 2021 Sexual Assaults at Western University
Alessia Servin
Independent Research Project: An Academic "Sin Hogar"
Callie Whalen
Independent Research Project: I am IN FACT Trans: The Construction My Own Transfeminine Identity
2020-2021 Cohort
Grace Young
Independent Research Project: Contemporary Youth Climate Activism in Canada: Shifting Frames and Mobilizing for a Fossil Free Future
Jessica Ip
Independent Research Project: Co-Constructing "Subtle Asian Traits" Online: Exploring the Role of Digital Diaspora for Children of Asian Immigrants
Katarina Grambow
Independent Research Project: Examining Cis, Het, Patriarchal Masculinities in YA Literature to Envision Gender Expansiveness that Promotes Boys’ Mental Wellness and Well-Being
Natasha Germana
Independent Research Project: "On the border of borderline”: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder in Western Psychiatry and Self-Help Literature
Nicole Kaniki
Independent Research Project: A Black Feminist Narrative Analysis about Diversity work in a Canadian University
Peyton Campbell
Independent Research Project: “I’m an Accountant:” Sex Worker’s Engagement in Discourses of Labour on the Online Platform TikTok
Sabrina Lamana
Independent Research Project: Overcoming Settler-Colonial Power Relations: An Investigation of the Relationship between the ‘Politics of Recognition’ and Reclaiming Power and Place: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Sarah Caldwell (course-based)
2019-2020 Cohort
Alex MacDonald
Independent Research Project: “Those Seasonals”: Examining PEI Residents' Reactions to Seasonal Residents Returning to PEI During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brienna French
Independent Research Project: Equitable Employment in Mining: Examining Indigenous Women and Persons with Disabilities’ Participation in the Canadian Mining Industry
David Semenov
Independent Research Project: “Are You a Transtrender?”:Transnormativity and Intracommunity Identity Policing on YouTube
Jamie Kim
Independent Research Project: The Biometric Occupation: Settler Colonialism, Protocological Violence, and Racializing Surveillance in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Kody Muncaster
Independent Research Project: #TruvadaWhore: Gay, Bisexual and Queer men’s slut-shaming of HIV PrEP use on Grindr
Mark Shelvock
Independent Research Project: Green Death Practices: Consciously Dying
Serena Rahhal (course-based)
Katrina Fortner (course-based)
