Affiliation: Current Graduate Students

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Photo Name Title Areas of Interest
Adesola Anyaegbu-Lamuye (she/her) PhD Student Political Economy; Marxist-Feminist Theories; Social Reproduction; Labour Migration; Racial Capitalism; Middle East and Gulf Studies; Black Radical Tradition
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
Bailey Bird (they/them) MA Student Disability Studies; Erotics and Pleasure; Film Studies; Horror; Indigenous Studies; Queer and Trans Studies; Sexuality
Shalom Brown PhD Student Black and Critical Mixed-Race Studies; Research-Creation; Decoloniality; Aesthetic Inquiry; Arts-Based Methods; (Counter)Archives
Melissa Bush PhD Candidate Disability Justice; Mad Studies; Memory Studies; Trauma-Informed Pedagogy; Transformative Justice; Care Work / Mutual Aid; Decolonial Theory; Witnessing / Testimony; Storytelling
Reese Carr PhD Student Trans and Queer Studies; Ethics of Care; Community Organizing and Education; Kinship
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 Student Decolonial Science and Technology Studies; Environmental Humanities; Queer Ecologies; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Latin American Studies; Brazilian Studies
Enis Demirer PhD Student Memory; Queer Aesthetic Practices; Queer Cultural Studies; Visual Studies; Aesthetics of Joy; Archives
Hazal Halavut PhD Student Collective memory; Aesthetics of mourning; Critical literary theory; Trauma and literature; Psychoanalysis; Genocide studies; State violence
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
Camila Justino (she/her) MA Student Transnational Feminisms; Migration and Disapora; Latinx Studies
Micah Kalisch (she/they) MA Student Sexualized Violence Studies; Decolonial, Indigenous, Feminist Research Methodologies ; Childhood Studies ; Queer Ecologies ; Sexual and Reproductive Health ; Transformative Justice and Anti-Carceral Feminisms; Poetry and Visual Studies ; Trauma Informed and Survivor Centric Praxis, Disability Justice ; Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in Post Secondary Institutions ; Feminist trauma research ; Politics of Believability; Affect Theory; Somatic and Embodiement research; Biomedical Discourse
Esra Kazanbas PhD Student Body Politics; Biopower; Spatial Theory; Violence Against Women; Transnational Feminism 
Zarah Khan PhD Student Land Relations; Memory Studies; Genocide Studies; 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
Ferdie Lopez PhD Student Transnational (Filipino) Gender and Sexuality; Urban Space and Sexuality; Filipino Migrant Literatures; Philippine Culture-based Education
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)
Jade Nixon PhD Student Transnational Feminism; Black Studies - Black Geographies; Performance Studies; Cultural Studies
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
Henar Perales PhD Candidate Postcolonial studies; Gift theory; Whiteness critique; Aesthetics; Philosophy 
Adriana M. Pérez-Rodríguez PhD Student Critical border studies; NGOs and human rights; Nation-state and governance; Citizenship; Transnational feminism; 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
Stephanie Sawah (she/her) MA Student Queer diaspora, Black radical feminism, indentureship studies, queer of colour critique, visual 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; Queer Diasporas; Identity Formation under Censorship; Queer Media Representation
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