Affiliation: Current Graduate Students

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Photo Name Title Areas of Interest
Aby Azemia-Gill (she/they) MA Student Black feminist theory; Black studies; abolition feminism; critical disability studies; feminist political economy; critical theory; The Black Radical Tradition
Adesola Anyaegbu (she/her) PhD Student Political Economy ; Marxist-Feminist Theories ; Social Reproduction ; Labour Migration ; Care Economies ; Racial Capitalism ; Middle East and Gulf Studies
Bennette Baguisa PhD Student Transnational feminism; Postcolonial Studies; The Philippines and its Diaspora; Affect Theory; Ritual as methodology
Diana Barrero (she/her) PhD Candidate Transnational feminism; Gender and Education; Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice; Cultural Studies; Critical race theory
Shalom Brown PhD Student Black and Critical Mixed-Race Studies; Research-Creation; Decoloniality; Aesthetic Inquiry; Arts-Based Methods; (Counter)Archives
Reese Carr PhD Student Trans and Queer Studies; Ethics of Care; Community Organizing and Education; Kinship
Cassie Wong-Wylie (she/her) MA Student Textile work; Feminized labour; Revolutionary praxis; Critical making; Situated knowledge
Clara Sedzro (she/her) PhD Student Social Movements; Climate Activism; Gendered protest tactics; Embodied Knowledges; Women’s activism: African Studies
Aseja Dava PhD Student Filipino/x studies; Memory and haunting; Poetics and storytelling; Black feminist thought; Transnational feminism; Monstrosity studies
Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo PhD Candidate Decolonial Science and Technology Studies; Environmental Humanities; Queer Ecologies; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Latin American Studies; Brazilian Studies
Delilah Rosier (she/her) PhD Student Performance Studies; Black Feminist Thought; Affect Theory; Queer Theory; Popular Culture; Performance Art; Contemporary Art History; Cultural Criticism; Media Studies; Appropriation; Critical Race Theory; Autoethnography; Whiteness; Blackness; Humour
Enis Demirer PhD Student Memory; Queer Aesthetic Practices; Queer Cultural Studies; Visual Studies; Aesthetics of Joy; Archives
Alex Hall (she/her) PhD Student Queer and Feminist Screen Cultures; Horror Studies; Affect Theory; Queer Film Aesthetics; (Counter) Archival Studies; Methodologies of Haunting; Decolonial Theory; Queer Ecology
Kaylee G. Hamilton PhD Student Black Girlhoods; Transnational feminisms; Critical Disability Studies; Black affect; Black fat studies
Jax Cairoli (any pronouns) MA Student Multiracial Experiences; Identity Formation and Representation; Beauty and Desirability; Queer of Colour Critique; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Wellness; Popular Culture and Film
Esra Kazanbas PhD Student Body Politics; Biopower; Spatial Theory; Violence Against Women; Transnational Feminism 
Zarah Khan PhD Student Feminist Film Studies; Memory Studies; Psychoanalysis; Visual Cultures; Aesthetic Expression 
Catherine Kyakuhaire MA Student Black Feminist Thought; Black Geographies; Critical Race Theory; Black Mental Health; Transnational Feminist Theory
Lindsay Leblanc Politics of science and technology; Feminist STS methodology; Machines and machine metaphors
Ferdinand Lopez (she/her) PhD Candidate Transnational (Filipino) Gender and Sexuality; Urban Space and Sexuality; Filipino Migrant Literatures; Philippine Culture-based Education; Philippine Literary, Media and Cultural Studies; Southeast Asian Studies
M Yule (they/them) MA Student Transnational Feminism; Social Reproduction; Artificial Intelligence; Science and Technology; Digital Labor; Labor Politics; Global Development Studies
Julie-Ann McCausland PhD Student Black Feminism; Postmodernism; Black Atlantic Theory; Transnational Feminisms; Critical Race Theory; Caribbean Studies; Anti-Colonialism; Queer Studies; Caribbean's colonial-era Homophobic Laws
Haleh Mir Miri PhD Student New Materialism and Affect Theory; Critical Trauma and Memory Studies; Transnational and Middle Eastern Feminism(s); Archival Studies; Critical Dance and Performance studies; Research-creation and Collective Processes of Knowledge Co-creation; Collective Memory Work and Collective Biography; Postqualitative Research; Cultural Studies, Social Thoughts and Criticism; Micro-historiograph(ies)
Neha Verma (they/them) PhD Student Abolition feminisms; Eco-feminisms & More-than-human relations; Embodiment & the erotic; Sexual violence survivorship; Trauma & healing; Autobiography & narrative
Nevandria Page (she/her) PhD Student Black Feminism; Black Futurity; Afrofuturism; Indigenous Futurism; Radical Imagination; Radical Hope; Outer Space
Sandra D. Noel PhD Student Gendered-based Violence; Caribbean Carnival; Child Sexual Abuse; Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies; Critical Studies; Black Diaspora and Transnational Studies; Feminism and Political Studies; Race and Cultural Studies; Human Rights
Adriana Marcela Pérez-Rodríguez (she/her/ella) PhD Candidate Border studies; Transnational feminism; NGOisation; Citizenship; Governance; Latin American feminist movements
Ryan Persadie PhD Student Caribbean Studies; Sexuality Studies; Queer Diasporas; Transnational Feminisms; Performance Studies; Popular Culture (with focus on music, dance and vocality); Sound Studies; Queer Studies; Drag Culture; Afro-Asian Studies
Mari Rossi PhD Student Psychoanalytic Theory; Affect Theory; Queer Theory; Aesthetic Expression
Sam Dolores Sanchinel PhD Candidate Trans Studies; Continental Philosophy of Religion; Latine Studies; Pedagogy
Sophie Pepper (she/her) MA Student Queer & Trans Studies; Critical Phenomenology; Embodiment; Fat Studies; Feminist Thought; Trauma & Resilience; Gender Affirming Care; Childhood Studies
Leslyn Stobbs (she/her) PhD Student erotic embodiment & knowledge production; crip theory; Black & queer aesthetics; eco-erotics & non-human kinship; play, pleasure, and meaning-making; neurodivergent (auto)poeisis
Ian Liujia Tian PhD Candidate Transnational Political Economy; Queer Asian Studies; Queer Marxisms; Social Reproduction Feminisms; Asian Canadian and American Studies; Sinophone Feminist STS; Decolonial Movements in East and Southeast Asia.
Zhangzhu 掌珠 Wan 万 (she/her) PhD Student Transnational Feminism; Geographical Politics; Infrastructures of Intimacy; Queer Kinship
Valley Weadick PhD Candidate Trans Studies; Cultural Studies
Samuel Yoon PhD Student Transnational Feminisms; Asian American and Asian Canadian Studies; Queer Diaspora; Korea and the Diaspora
Zehao Pan (she/they) PhD Student Trans Studies; East Asian Studies; Affect Theory; Posthumanism
Melissa Bush (she/her) PhD Candidate Disability Justice; Mad Studies; Memory Studies; Trauma-Informed Pedagogy; Transformative Justice; Care Work / Mutual Aid; Decolonial Theory; Witnessing / Testimony; Storytelling
Henar Perales PhD Candidate Postcolonial studies; Gift theory; Whiteness critique; Aesthetics; Philosophy