Fall 2020 Graduation Celebration
It’s time to celebrate our Fall 2020 graduates!
On October 30, 2020, Carleton University’s Senate officially conferred the degrees of 752 undergraduate students and 484 graduate students.
Join the Department of Sociology and Anthropology on social media by using the hashtag #CarletonGrads2020

Video Message from Blair Rutherford, Chair and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Words From Our Faculty and Staff
Click through the gallery below to read through messages of congratulations from our faculty and staff!




















Congratulations to our Fall 2020 Graduates!
Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy
| Emily Claire Hersey Master of Arts Anthropology A New Normal for Ethnography? Instagram as a Fieldsite and Decoloniality during COVID-19 and #BLM | Emilie Hill-Smith Master of Arts Anthropology “They Just Don’t Get It”: Snapshots from Siblings of Children with Life Limiting Conditions | Ekaterina Huybregts Master of Arts Sociology Healing From Shame: An Analysis of the Experience of Fat Shame in Fat Positive Memoirs |
| Lindsay Colleen Knowles Johnstone Master of Arts Sociology Exclusionary Inclusion?: The Realities of Academic Accommodation at University for Students with Invisible Physical Chronic Conditions | Zoey Jones Doctor of Philosophy Sociology Pleasure, Community, and Marginalization in Rope Bondage: A Qualitative Investigation into a BDSM Subculture | Natalia Solveig Manning Master of Arts Sociology Investigating Indigeneity within Incarceration: Healing Lodges in the Canadian Media |
| Phillip André Primeau Doctor of Philosophy Sociology The Business of Resilience: Philanthropy, Partnerships, and Politics | Matthew Daniel Sanscartier Doctor of Philosophy Sociology Populist Counterpublics: Exploring Populist Mobilization, Crises of Representation, and Popular Subjectivities in Canadian Politics | Olivia Lynn Stavretis Master of Arts Sociology An Examination of the Desistance and Risk Paradigms in Correctional Service Canada Policies |
| Rhys Steckle Doctor of Philosophy Sociology Rule of the Routes: Infrastructure, Colonization, and ‘the Social Science’ in the Canadas from Conquest to Confederation | Mitsuyoshi Yabe Master of Arts Anthropology Landless Souls Are Still Living: The Kwupahag and Muanbissek |
Bachelor of Arts
| Nora Abushaban Bachelor of Arts Honours With High Distinction Sociology | Chelsea Imbo Alasa-As Bachelor of Arts Anthropology with a Minor in Architecture and a Minor in Psychology | Mahamed Ali Bachelor of Arts Sociology |
| Courtney June Armstrong Bachelor of Arts Sociology | Shanique Cammock Bachelor of Arts Sociology | Chantal Jennifer Anne Campeau Bachelor of Arts Honours Anthropology and Psychology with a Minor in Sexuality Studies and a Minor in Women’s and Gender Studies |
| Emily Mae Collins Bachelor of Arts Sociology with a Minor in American Sign Language and a Minor in Law | Charysse Griffith-Rowley Bachelor of Arts Sociology | Samantha Lynn Marriott Haskins Bachelor of Arts Honours With High Distinction Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies |
| Gyathri V. Kitnasamy Bachelor of Arts Honours With High Distinction Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement Sociology | Christos James Koritsaris Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies Honours Communication and Media Studies and Sociology | Jordana Magwood Bachelor of Arts With High Distinction Sociology with a Minor in Political Science |
| Karen Jane Perras Bachelor of Arts With High Distinction Anthropology | Rikkat Tazin Rahman Bachelor of Arts Sociology | Reanna Marie Rosso Bachelor of Arts Honours Sociology |
| Claudia Rutherford Bachelor of Arts Sociology | Urvasi Surti Bachelor of Arts Honours Sociology | Margaret Anika Rooney Warrick Bachelor of Arts Sociology |
| Emily White Bachelor of Arts Sociology | Ream Zreik Bachelor of Arts Sociology with a Minor in Psychology |