Ph.D. Student Profiles

Achelpohl, Milton

Information: Whiteness, Masculinities, Black Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory

Belliard-Quiroga, Camila

Information: Caribbean Diasporas and Migration; Black Caribbean Studies; Blackness and Racism; Structural violence; Black Feminisms, Racialization and embodiment, Resilience and Self-Making, Spirituality and mental Health, Decolonial and Feminist Research Methodologies.

Biswas, Arpita

Information: Nationalism, South Asian studies, visual culture, aesthetic theory, “bodyscapes”/cartographic bodies

Brooks, Sam

Information: Trans History & Prison Studies

Burgos, Carlos

Information: Masculinities; Race; Puerto Rico/Ricans; History of slavery in the Caribbean and Education

Cannon, Jasmine D.

Information: Black Feminist Thought, Black Feminist Health and Science Studies, 19th and 20th Century American History, Material Culture Studies, Digital Humanities, and Feminist Love Studies

Carre, David

Information: Black queer ontology, hauntology, anti-Blackness, queer antagonism, antihumanism, counterhumanism, fugitivity, affect, worlding

Carson, Tyler

Information: Queer theory, Childhood studies, Sex panics, Psychoanalysis, American studies

Dudzak, Lauren

Information: Women’s economic rights, social justice, collective bargaining, women’s advancement in work and education, and access to higher education.

Fatima, Rawshan E.

Information: Globalization; Political economy of labor; Biopower; Transnational feminist praxis; Critical development studies

Gray, Katherine

Information: Film studies, queer theory, transnational theory.

Gresham, Sarah-Anne

Information: Istwa/Feminist historiography; Gender Performativity; Women's fiction; Caribbean feminisms, Wadadli feminism; Intersectionality; Transformative justice

Jiang, Jennie

Information: Feminist science studies, toxicity, pollution, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, biopolitics, decolonial thought, racial capitalism

Jones, Carmen

Information: Prison Abolition; Affect; Transformative Justice; Feminist Media; Critical Race Theory

Ling, Michelle

Information: East Asian racialization and sexualities, settler colonialism and capitalism in the Pacific, surplus populations, comparative racial studies, Marxist Feminist analysis of labor and reproduction, women of color feminism and queer/trans of color critique, disciplinarization/institutionalization of knowledge.

McCullough, Molly

Information: Childhood Studies; Global Orphanhoods; Decolonial Ecologies; Affect Theory; Biopolitics and Racialization

Naser, Nehal

Information: Islamic, Indigenous and Black Radical world making, futurism, wellness and healing

Otasevic, Snezana

Information: Philosophy, contemporary feminist theory, dance, and disability Studies.

Perryman, Sara

Information: Affect, animality, architecture, and critical geography.

Pivazyan, Arev

Information: Nation building, citizenship and identity, human rights discourses, queer theory, transgender studies, the Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Randolph, Joshua (J)

Information: Queer theory; Spirituality and religion; Affect; Language and literature; Disease; Temporality

Reed, Erica

Information: Motherhood Studies; Maternal Grief

Sherman, Zandi

Information: Negotiations of identity and belonging in the queer African diaspora

Tam, Louise

Information: Critical race and ethnic studies; political economy of disability; history of psychiatry; social organization of mental health services; institutional ethnography; mental health evidence in Canadian immigration law; Canadian settler colonialism, multiculturalism, and public health.

Uzumcu, Meryem

Information: Nationalism, erasure, and genocide; Disability studies; Gender-based Violence; Memory studies, multicultural futurity; Oral history

Valentin, Alessa

Information: feminist media; media literacy; animated cartoons and video games; gender identity, sexual orientation, race, class, size and ability in popular culture.

Vilchez, Jennifer

Information: Latinx studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, history of technology, and humanistic data analysis

Wolfe, Taida

Information: Intersection of race, class, gender in reproductive experiences.

Zaslow, Rachel

Information: Narratives of women's health in Northern Uganda and issues of representation in humanitarian aid.

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