PhD Student Profiles

Florence Anfaara

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis Topic: Grassroots Peace-building in a Post conflict Society: Liberian women’s activism in Peace Huts
Teaching: GSWS 2205G Making Men: Critical Studies

Arpana Awwal

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1022G Gender, Justice and Change. GSWS 1024F Intro to Equity, Diversity and Human Rights

Jemima Baada

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Examining the dual effects of climate change and multilateral investments on rural migration in Ghana
Teaching: GSWS 2220E Feminist Theory & Practice

Deeplina Banerjee

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Sexual Violence
Teaching: GSWS 1020E Intro to Women's Studies

Jacob Barry

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1021F - Intro to Sexuality Studies

Sandra Biskupski

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: The potential and limitations of Canadian women's contributions to international peacekeeping
Teaching: GSWS 1020E Intro to Women's Studies

Stephanie Brocklehurst

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Biopolitics, neoliberalism, the stigmatization of the poor and poor places and the gentrification of Canada’s urban spaces.

Andrea Burke

TA

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

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1020E - Introduction to Women's Studies

Emily Carrothers

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: (De)constructing Graduate Social Work Education: Understanding Orientations to Poverty and Marginalization in Canada
Teaching: GSWS 1020E Intro to Women's Studies

Sohini Chatterjee

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1022G Gender, Justice, Change; GSWS 2163A Sex, How To: Sex Ed

Hale Doguoglu

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist ethics; feminist epistemology; feminist moral psychology; institutional (dis)trust within the context of marginalization; collective trauma and trust
Teaching: GSWS 2164A Gender & Fashion

Kasey Egan

TA

Teaching: GSWS 2161B Women and Popular Culture; GSWS 2163A Sex, How To: Sex Ed

Jacob Evoy

Instructor; TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: A History of LGBTQ Children of Holocaust Survivors: Sexuality, Multigenerational Trauma, and Transitional Justice after the Holocaust
Teaching: GSWS 2164A Gender & Fashion; GSWS 2161B Women and Popular Culture

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

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist disability studies, feminist pedagogy, arts based research, and death and dying
Teaching: GSWS 2164A Gender & Fashion; GSWS 2161B Women and Popular Culture
Biography: Thesis topic: Picturing Disbility: Narrative Resistance in Autobiographical Comics and Zines

Arun Jentrick

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1021F Intro to Sexuality Studies; GSWS 1022G Gender, Justice, Change

Amy Keating

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis topic: Exploring queer communities of poetry and performance through queer spatiality and temporality
Teaching: GSWS 1024F - Intro to Equity, Diversity and Human Rights; GSWS 2167B Queer(ing) Popular Culture

Andrea Keber

TA

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
Teaching: GSWS 1021E - Intro to Women's Studies

Kelly McGillivray

TA

Teaching: GSWS 2164A Gender & Fashion; GSWS 2161 Women and Popular Culture

Kody Muncaster

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis topic: Queering Suicide: Why Necropolitical Archives of Trauma and Resilience in AIDS Activism Matter
Teaching: GSWS 1023G Gay Life & Culture in the 21st Century

Lutfun Nahar

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1022G Gender, Justice, Change

Nancy Osei-Kye

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1022G Gender, Justice, Change; GSWS 1024F Intro to Equity, Diversity & Human Rights

Jeanette Pickett Pierce

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Constructing Access: Providing Reproductive and Sexual Health Services for Young Women in Small Urban and Rural Settings
Teaching: GSWS 2244F Women and Health

Jennifer Marie Shaw

TA

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Canadian Jewish Women and the War Effort, 1939-1945
Teaching: GSWS 1022G Gender, Justice, Change

Gina Snooks

Research Interests / Specializations: trauma & healing, Pagan studies, arts-based methodologies, life writing

Melanie Stone

Research Interests / Specializations: Thesis: Making her life work: Re-presenting motherhood, disability and employment engagement with photovoice.

Jesse Wiley

TA

Teaching: GSWS 1020 E Intro to Women's Studies