{"id":1038,"date":"2015-03-23T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/socanth\/?page_id=1038"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:04:33","slug":"current-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/student-life\/graduate\/current-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Current Graduate Students\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

A<\/a> – B<\/a> – C<\/a> – D<\/a> – E<\/a> – F<\/a> – G<\/a> – H<\/a> – I<\/a> – J<\/a> – K<\/a> – L<\/a> – M<\/a> – N<\/a> – O<\/a> – P<\/a> – Q<\/a> – R<\/a> – S<\/a> – T<\/a> – U<\/a> – V<\/a> – W<\/a> – X<\/a> – Y<\/a> – Z<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amani AbuRamadan<\/strong>
Program:<\/strong>\u00a02nd Year PhD Anthropology- Specialization in Political Economy & Curatorial Studies Graduate Diploma.
Area of Interest:<\/strong>\u00a0My 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:<\/strong>
ACoRN (Advancing Children\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayder Alkilabi<\/strong>
PhD Candidate, Sociology
Area of Interest:<\/strong> Political sociology; propaganda and secrecy as practices of statecraft and power.
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Ariel Becherer<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology with Collaborative Specialization in Political Economy
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Birch<\/strong>
M.A. Anthropology student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Black<\/strong>
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Community, relational sociology; decolonial and ecological knowledge, climate action; social innovation, storytelling, arts-based practices; culture, nostalgia, and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deanna Bogaski<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Environmental anthropology; resource development and management; environmental change; built adaptation; Canadian Indigenous peoples; settler- colonialism; decolonization; food sovereignty; sustainability; policy implications; human- nature relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chelsi Bovingdon<\/strong>
PhD Sociology with a collaborative specialization in African Studies
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Sociology of museums, rural sociology, decolonization practices, archives, practice-based research, cultural theories, populism, affect theory, co-creation of knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juan Caicedo<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Juan\u2019s research focuses on how labour, organizational, and political dynamics influence the institutional cultures of North American teachers\u2019 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\u2019s Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities and Brazil\u2019s Landless Workers\u2019 Movement. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Areas of interest include: Marxism, teachers\u2019 organizations, social movement unionism, the political economy of education, education and inequality, and social reproduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Crouse<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Sociology of aging; sexuality; gender; dementia; critical disability studies; community-based research; housing; grief; death and dying; end-of-life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gabrielle Duval<\/strong>
Ph.D Sociology Student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malak El-Outa<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Twelver Shi\u2019ism; pious practice and lived religion; liberation theologies; political violence; Lebanon; Lebanese diaspora; transnational subjectivity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akke Englund<\/strong>, M.A.
PhD Sociology student
Areas of interest:<\/strong> Akke Englund, M.A., is a St\u2019at\u2019imc (N\u2019Quatqua) 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriela Ludwig Guerra<\/strong>
M.A. Sociology Student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Digital Surveillance, Security, Pacification, Marxism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seamus Hodgins<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>middle-classness; Mainstream North American culture; anthropology of consumption; the Ontario craft beer community; identity; political economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denise Humphreys<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rachel Jobson<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>crip theory; queer theory; crip\/queer futurity; marriage and the family; conjugality and conjugal law; polyamory\/ethical non-monogamy; mononormativity; kink studies; gender and sexuality; critical disability studies; chronic pain; disability and sexuality; social constructions of deviance; ethics of care; anticapitalism; parenting; mutual aid; anarchism; care networks and non-normative families; ethnography; law and social regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joy Nyokabi Karinge<\/strong>
PhD in Anthropology with collaborative specialization in African Studies
Areas of Interest<\/strong>:  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\u2019s thesis, \u201cTowards Decolonization: Migrated Kenyan Archives and the Politics of Knowledge Production\u201d<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaeyoung Kim<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of interest:<\/strong> migration and diaspora studies, constructions of citizenship and nationhood, transnationalism, transnational families, marriage, gender and sexuality, media narratives, Korean studies, East Asian studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morgan McAllister<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Fat women, critical disability studies, feminism, medical anthropology, public health, morality, body size diversity, fat activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler McCormick<\/strong>
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine Moreau<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Rural sociology; political economy of rurality; political activist research; Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ali Nazar<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong><\/strong> Anthropology of Education; Islamic Anthropology; Anthropology of Islam; Decolonizing Studies, with a focus on North America and West Asia (colonial name: Middle East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohammed Nijim<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Genocide studies, Nakba studies, Indigeneity, North America\u2019s First Nations, Israeli-Arab conflict, culture, social theory, critical political economy, capitalism, power, racism and discrimination, nationalism and Ottoman Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kemal \u00d6rdek<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology Student
Areas of interest:<\/strong> I am an academic enthusiast who has their B.A. on International Relations at Bilkent University and M.S. on Sociology at Middle East Technical University (both in Ankara, Turkey). I have deep interest in working on gender and sexuality, with specific focus on trans and queer studies. I have extensive experience in working with queer\/trans people and sex workers with diverse gender backgrounds both in my home country and globally, through my activist engagement in I\/NGOs, and academic work. My master’s thesis focuses on sex worker trans women’s navigation of femininities and masculinities in response to cis-gender oppression in Turkey. I have carried out field work on sex worker mothers’ management strategies of dual roles in their professional and family contexts. I also engaged in a field study to inquire about how gay male saunas are reproduced as heteronormative spaces in the context of male sex work in Istanbul. I have also been experienced in working with migrants and refugees as a humanitarian professional working with the UN system in Turkey. I have expertise in working with refugees and migrants who are LGBTIQ+, who sell or exchange sex or who live with HIV.
Key areas of interest: <\/strong>gender, sexuality, (re)production of space, masculinities, sex work, trans, queer, migration and refugee studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arlette Martinez Parra<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Food studies, mediatized representations, culinary tourism, digital ethnography, globalization, sensory ethnography. Arlette\u2019s 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\u2019 through food and destination marketing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reyhab Mohmed Patel<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Storytelling; Art and Religion; Islamophobia; Fashion; Sartorial Practices; Arts-based methodology; research creation; social movement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dante Pio<\/strong>
M.A. Sociology with Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility.
Research Interests:<\/strong> Accessibility; Critical Autism Studies; Critical Disability Studies; Film, Television, and Video Games; Hermeneutic Phenomenology; Higher Education; Neurodiversity Studies; Popular Culture; Social Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rana Saadi<\/strong>
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> EDI, the perspectives of allyship from BIPOC students, and the experiences of International students living in Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Scott<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Canadians’ relationships with nature, environmental degradation, and nature tourism, and the impact of those factors on environmental activism in younger generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirsten Stacey<\/strong>
M.A Anthropology student 
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> As a non-Indigenous person with lived experience in an Indigenous foster system, my research focuses on the impact of Canadian policies\u2014particularly those governing the Indigenous foster care system in Toronto\u2014on the identities of biracial youth. I aim to explore the intersections of race, culture, and policy, by investigating how state-driven categorizations influence self-perception and cultural connection. By focusing on youth’s lived experiences, I would like to highlight the gaps in current policies and advocate for a more inclusive approach that respects the complexities of biracial identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faith Stadnyk<\/strong> (she\/her)
PhD Sociology student
Area of Interest<\/strong>: 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheyanne Thomas<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Cheyanne Thomas is a band member of Couchiching First Nation in Treaty 3. She has recently received an MA in Social Justice Studies from Lakehead University and has an undergraduate degree in Indigenous Studies from Trent University. Her research interests are Indigenous Women’s Roles, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Reconciliation, Social Justice, and Post-Colonial studies. She has experience with many social justice organizations; as an employee of the Kinna-aweya Legal Clinic, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Northwestern Ontario and the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juniper Todd <\/strong>(she\/they)
M.A. Sociology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaclyn Tompalski<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Turyatunga<\/strong>
Ph.D. Anthropology student
Areas of Interest:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weiyuan (Caddie) Xia<\/strong>
Ph.D. Sociology Student
Areas of Interest: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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