Current PhD Students

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Feminist disability theories, Post-conflict Reconstruction and Transitional Justice.

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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.

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Transgender Liberation, Asexuality, Queer Studies, Feminist Community Care, Arts-Based Activism, Queer Social Justice, Queer Literature, Queer Education.

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Queer ecology, gender and the environment, queer temporalities, sexual violence prevention, the politics of reproduction, and gender and labour.

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Discourse; conceptualizations of precarity in helping professions; LGB and T affirmative praxis; gender, sexuality and queer theory; Foucauldian notions of power/knowledge and governmentality; biopower and the taxonomy and governance of life at the site of the body

Teaching

WS 2260 - Women, Law & Social Change (2018/2019) WS 1020E - Introduction to Women's Studies (2017/2018)

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Feminist ethics; feminist epistemology; feminist moral psychology; institutional (dis)trust within the context of marginalization; collective trauma and trust.

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Feminist disability studies, feminist pedagogy, arts based research, and death and dying.

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Ecocriticism, environmental humanities, medical humanities, posthumanism, and popular culture in East Asia.

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My Doctoral research aims to examine how discourses and practices associated with menstrual activisms in Ontario and Montevideo produce, reproduce, resist, and transform normative understandings of menstruation, menstruators, and menstruating bodies. My previous work has explored social representations of menstruation and their relationship to Value-Added Tax (VAT) on menstrual products, VAT as a form of gender and economic violence, and androcentric and feminist epistemologies in the construction of menstrual discourses.

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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.

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Decolonial theories and epistemologies, African women, Gender and Sexual-Based Violence.

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Climate Change and Food/Water Insecurity; Women’s Reproductive and Maternal Health; Sanitation and Waste Management; Physical and Sexual Violence.

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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.

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My research focuses on the resistance movements of Kashmiri women and how they challenge the Indian occupation in Jammu and Kashmir. My research interests include decolonial studies, resistance studies, South Asian studies, postcolonial studies, and conflict and genocide studies.

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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.

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Akola's research explores the intersections of reproductive justice, extractivism, and environmental harm. A 2023 recipient of The Commonwealth Youth Award for Gender Equality, Akola has led impactful projects on LBT+ sex education, GBV+ guide app creation, and policy reform. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Sussex and is currently pursuing a PhD in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Western University (Environment & Sustainability).