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We’re proud of our students! Meet the talented scholars enrolled in the Institute of Political Economy’s MA graduate program. Read about why they chose to study at the Institute, where their diverse research passions lie, and what their secrets are for mastering graduate school. Click here to learn more about our MA program.

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Masters & Diploma Students 2024

Haniel Sorensen

  • Political Economy of Gender; Gender and Sexuality; Science and Technology Studies (STS); Critical Studies; Capital Accumulation; Provincial Ontario Politics; Disability Studies; Decarcerality

Lauren O’Reilly

  • Organizational Structures; Hospitality Management; Service Labour; Tipping and Gratuities; Labour Conflicts and Relations; Labour Standards and Laws; Working Conditions
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Owen Cober

  • Critical criminology, Indigenous hypercriminalization, income assistance/welfare and crime, decommodification, settler colonialism, addiction and mental health policy, cycles of poverty, neoliberal discourses of race and crime.
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Masters & Diploma Students 2023

Benjamin Faveri

  • Private governance; standards; certifications; artificial intelligence; regulation; incorporation by reference

Fiona Doyle

  • Settler colonialism, land-class relations, extractivism, conservation, and human/non-human relations

Taylor Welsh

  • Deindustrialization; Labour Market Restructuring; Gig Work/Gig Economy; Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence; Postal Banking; Colonial Primary Accumulation; Community and Industrial Unionism.

Masters & Diploma Students 2022

Jacob Wilson

  • Housing, effective political action and the State, worker rights and labour policy, cooperatives and unions, and finance capital

Josée Lalonde

  • “Un-skilled” labour migration, securitization studies, and Latin American politics.

Rachel Woods

  • Food systems; power asymmetries; food sovereignty; social reproduction; climate change; social impact investing; privatization; water justice,;community-based alternatives and decolonial feminist theory.

Masters & Diploma Students 2021

Andre Carazza

  • Financial citizenship, critical pedagogy, history of soccer, and the Global South.
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Ariel Becherer

  • The climate crisis. Market Fundamentalism. Capitalism as a cause of climate crisis. Resource exploitation. The gap between climate science & government action, particularly in British Columbia, Canada.
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Catherine Littlefield

  • relational and transformative change. sustainable and equitable food systems, social and environmental policy, socioecological well-being, participatory governance, and decolonial movements.
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Davide Ventrone

  • Labor, Capital, Finance and Socialist Transition

Julia Sterling

  • discourse analysis, ecofeminism, environmental justice, crisis response, interconnections between COVID 19 response and the climate crisis response
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Nathan Prokipcak

  • Indigenous Political Economy, Economic Policy, Global Finance, Economics of Resource Extraction, Labour History, and the study of political parties, both in Canada, and internationally.

Masters & Diploma Students 2020

Danielle Saj

Kenya Thompson

  • Feminist Political Economy, Social Reproduction, Unpaid Domestic Labour, Time Use, Social Policy & the Politics of Care and Parenthood
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Kevin Matthews

  • Union Power, Neoliberalism, Left-Progressive Cultural Work & the Informalization of Labour.
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Valerie Gilbert

  • Global Governance, International Institutions, Power & Discourse
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Masters Students 2019

Abram Lutes

  • Dependency theory, Latin American studies, social movements, hegemony and counter-hegemony, and political anthropology

Amina Kane

  • International development, global finance and environmental sustainability

Clay Duncalfe

  • Social movements, global economic structures and social policy

Francis Dawson

  • critical data studies, global finance, political economy of technology

Isaac Botham

  • Structures of power in online discourse and the potential implications for the development of contemporary political movements

Madeleine Henderson-Tweedie

  • Refugee Rights, Humanitarian Policy Development & Impact of Global Economic Forces
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Masters Students 2018

Dana Somerville

  • Public discourse, environmental policy and elections within the neoliberal paradigm of resource-dependent economies

Daniel Baptiste

  • Economic development, sustainability, tourism research

Patricia Wallinger

  •  Informal/marginalized economies

 

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