Current Graduate Students
A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z
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Amani AbuRamadan
Program: 2nd Year PhD Anthropology- Specialization in Political Economy & Curatorial Studies Graduate Diploma.
Area of Interest: My doctoral research explores cultural heritage, material culture, and the political economy of humanitarian aid, with a particular focus on Palestinian mosaics as material archives of identity, memory, and resistance. My work integrates visual anthropology, decolonial theory, and heritage studies to examine how cultural production intersects with displacement, gender, and migration governance.
Conferences Attended:
ACoRN (Advancing Children’s Rights Research Network for Palestine)- University College Cork School of Law- Cork, Ireland- August 2025
International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics ICCM -Athens, Greece- October 2025.
Hayder Alkilabi
PhD Candidate, Sociology
Area of Interest: Political sociology; propaganda and secrecy as practices of statecraft and power.
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Ariel Becherer
Ph.D. Sociology with Collaborative Specialization in Political Economy
Areas of Interest: Political Economy. Social Reproduction Theory. Racial Capitalism. Class in settler colonial contexts. History of Energy workers and Energy Infrastructure in British Columbia. Democracy. Power. Dispossession. Intersectionality.
Melissa Black
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Community, relational sociology; decolonial and ecological knowledge, climate action; social innovation, storytelling, arts-based practices; culture, nostalgia, and belonging.
Deanna Bogaski
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: Environmental anthropology; resource development and management; environmental change; built adaptation; Canadian Indigenous peoples; settler- colonialism; decolonization; food sovereignty; sustainability; policy implications; human- nature relationships.
Chelsi Bovingdon
PhD Sociology with a collaborative specialization in African Studies
Areas of Interest: Sociology of museums, rural sociology, decolonization practices, archives, practice-based research, cultural theories, populism, affect theory, co-creation of knowledge.
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Juan Caicedo
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Juan’s research focuses on how labour, organizational, and political dynamics influence the institutional cultures of North American teachers’ unions. More broadly, he’s interested in how the work done by teachers and others involved in education helps us to rethink the challenges and possibilities of revolutionary social change in the twenty-first century. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from York University, where his major research paper examined the intersection of pedagogy, labour, and governance among Mexico’s Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities and Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Areas of interest include: Marxism, teachers’ organizations, social movement unionism, the political economy of education, education and inequality, and social reproduction.
Hannah Crouse
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Sociology of aging; sexuality; gender; dementia; critical disability studies; community-based research; housing; grief; death and dying; end-of-life.
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Gabrielle Duval
Ph.D Sociology Student
Areas of Interest: Science and technology studies, social media, social psychology, behavioural studies, actor network theory, social construction of technology, sociology of health and medicine, quantitative and qualitative methodology.
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Malak El-Outa
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of interest: Sociology of religion; sociocultural anthropology; political sociology; death studies; diaspora studies; Islam; Shi’ism; pious practice; martyrdom; practices of resistance; political violence; transnationalism; Lebanon.
Akke Englund, M.A.
PhD Sociology student
Areas of interest: Akke Englund, M.A., is a St’at’imc (N’Quatqua) Two Spirit, chronically ill PhD of Sociology student at Carleton University on Haudenosaunee, Algonquin, and Anishinaabe territory. Their qualitative work centers a sociology of knowledge and medicine from feminist and Crip epistemologies with a focus on chronic illness, autoimmune illness, and disability justice.
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Gabriela Ludwig Guerra
M.A. Sociology Student
Areas of Interest: Digital Surveillance, Security, Pacification, Marxism
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Seamus Hodgins
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: middle-classness; Mainstream North American culture; anthropology of consumption; the Ontario craft beer community; identity; political economy.
Denise Humphreys
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Denise is from the plains in Treaty 6 territory. Her previous professional and academic experiences have led to her current research area of genocide education. Her background includes social work, public policy, sociology, and anti-racism education. Some of her more recent projects have included curricular research related to centering Indigenous Survivor Knowledges in Canadian post-secondary genocide education and another project that uses storytelling through film for anti-racism education. Her dissertation project involves genocide education on Indigenous genocides by Canada and is connected to the project of her advisor which focuses Indigenous storytelling, settler colonialism, and horror film. A common thread in Denise’s work includes the aim to centre Indigenous Peoples, Knowledges, and Sovereignties in forms of engagement she is involved in.
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Joy Nyokabi Karinge
PhD in Anthropology with collaborative specialization in African Studies
Areas of Interest: Joy is a writer, researcher, and scholar activist. She holds an M.A in Pan African Studies, International Relations and a C.A.S in Conflict and Collaboration from Syracuse University, USA as well as a B.A in International Relations from USIU-Africa. Joy is passionate about Africa in governance, development, democracy and international affairs and carries out research and advocacy on these issues through her organization, Afrika Yangu. She wrote an award winning master’s thesis, “Towards Decolonization: Migrated Kenyan Archives and the Politics of Knowledge Production”. As a PhD student, Joy hopes to conduct research on youth protests and social movements in Africa, with a focus on how the 2024 Gen Z protests influenced political consciousness and identity among young Kenyans.
Chaeyoung Kim
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of interest: migration and diaspora studies, constructions of citizenship and nationhood, transnationalism, transnational families, marriage, gender and sexuality, media narratives, Korean studies, East Asian studies
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Morgan McAllister
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: Fat women, critical disability studies, feminism, medical anthropology, public health, morality, body size diversity, fat activism.
Tyler McCormick
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Men and masculinities, Sociology of Emotion, Affect theory, Critical masculinity studies, Gender performance, Cultural Sociology, Identity construction, Working-class and labour studies, Heteronormativity, Queer theory, Ethnography, Critical Discourse Analysis.
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Ali Nazar
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: Anthropology of Education; Islamic Anthropology; Anthropology of Islam; Decolonizing Studies, with a focus on North America and West Asia (colonial name: Middle East)
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Kemal Ördek
Ph.D. Sociology
Background: BA In International Relations, M.Sc. In Sociology
Research Interests: Gender, sexualities, masculinities, space, trans, queer, sex work, migration, refugees
Conference Presentations:
International Gender Studies Conference, Sabanci University, Istanbul/Turkey December 2024
British Journal of Sociology Conference, London School of Economics, London/UK, April 2026
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Arlette Martinez Parra
Ph.D. Anthropology
Areas of Interest: Food studies, mediatized representations, culinary tourism, digital ethnography, globalization, sensory ethnography. Arlette’s research focuses on the impact of culinary tourism in Oaxaca, Mexico by exploring the intersections of tourism, digital technologies, national identity, and consumption. She is particularly interested in the commodification of ‘cultural authenticity’ through food and destination marketing.
Reyhab Mohmed Patel
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Storytelling; Art and Religion; Islamophobia; Fashion; Sartorial Practices; Arts-based methodology; research creation; social movement
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Rana Saadi
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: EDI, the perspectives of allyship from BIPOC students, and the experiences of International students living in Canada
Erin Scott
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: Canadians’ relationships with nature, environmental degradation, and nature tourism, and the impact of those factors on environmental activism in younger generations.
Faith Stadnyk (she/her)
PhD Sociology student
Area of Interest: feminist social transformation, cross movement solidarity, critical disability studies, mad studies, fat studies, critical eating dis/order studies, critical health studies, intersectionality, political and relational orientations to cure
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Juniper Todd (she/they)
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Cultural Criminology. Art Destruction and Vandalism. Visual Culture and Power. Aesthetics of Governance. Feminist Ethics of Care. Museums, Archives, and Institutional Authority. Criminalization of Refusal and Dissent. Memory, Ruin, and Counter-Memory.
Jaclyn Tompalski
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: Originally from Edmonton, Jaclyn worked in corrections throughout her undergraduate degree. Her broad research interest is in vulnerable groups in Canada. As a proud member of the Indigenous community, she is specifically interested in initiatives that support Indigenous communities and reconciliation. Her past research experience has focused on housing challenges for urban, Indigenous youth; housing challenges for formerly incarcerated seniors; incarceration of Indigenous persons, and the lived experience of persons living in long-term care. Her other research interests include corrections, alternatives to incarceration, institutions, long-term care, and Indigenous methodology.
Vanessa Turyatunga
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: Religion and Modernity; African Feminism(s); Religion and Spirituality in Africa; African Traditional Religions (ATR); Public narratives around religion, witchcraft, and traditional religious practices in Uganda (and Sub-Saharan Africa more broadly); Practitioner narratives and lived experiences of traditional religious practices.
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Sam Walsh (they/them)
MA Sociology with collaborative specialization in accessibility
Areas of interest: As a person with lived experience being queer, non-binary, fat and living with chronic pain, Sam thrives on exploring topics they have lived experience with and with interacting with and building communities as they do so. Their interests include queer theory, 2SLGBTQIA+ young people, transgender and queer experiences, education and pedagogy, curriculum development, children’s rights, reflexive analysis, EDI, policy analysis, qualitative research, arts-based methods, community-based participatory (action) research (CBP[A]R), critical disability theory, crip studies, fat studies and chronic pain.
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Weiyuan (Caddie) Xia
Ph.D. Sociology Student
Areas of Interest: Caddie is a professional educator, with over fifteen years of field experience. As a first-generation immigrant to Canada, Caddie is passionate in the pursuit of immigrants’ integral well-being. Caddie holds Master of Education (University of New Brunswick) and Master of Arts in Sociology (Carleton University). She is currently undertaking a PhD in Sociology at Carleton University. Her research interests include migration, transnationalism, anti-racism, multiculturalism, globalization, political economy, governmentality, and education.