Graduate Student Profiles

Our Students

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.