Graduate Students
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Prof-Collins IfeonuSupervisor: Dr. Sandra Bucerius I have a keen interest in studying Africans in the homeland and diaspora, with a particular focus on how their identities (i.e. minority status) are experienced within and outside the workplace. |
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Bridget Okwuchi AlichieDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Temitope Oriola Research Interests: Criminology, human rights, sexuality/gender studies, religion and new media studies. My current research is on the phenomena of lynching and mob violence in Nigeria. I am particularly interested in exploring the knowledge and perceptions of lynching and mob culture; the roles of state and non-state actors in enabling or constraining such extrajudicial alternatives in urban spaces. |
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Wendy AujlaDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr Jana Grekul |
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Damilohun Damson AyoyoDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology (Criminology & Socio-legal Studies) Supervisor: Dr. Temitope Oriola Title: The Evolution of the Biafran Secessionist Movement, 1960-2019 I am interested in exploring the differential impacts of political movements, insurgencies and terrorism, and policing. My current research explores the political process/opportunity affecting the Biafran movement. |
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Samantha CimaDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Jana Grekul Research Interests: Sexual violence; intimate partner violence; gender and sexuality; victimology; male survivors of sexual or intimate partner violence; social support and networks; rape myths and victim blaming. |
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Jean-Philippe CreteDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr George Pavlich |
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Lauren DormerDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology My research interest lies within sociology of health and illness, with specific interests in investigating mental health and mental illness. My work has a focus within an (ice) hockey context; therefore, my research looks to intersect concepts such as sociocultural aspects of sport. gender, health behaviours, and Canadian identity. |
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Tyler DunfordDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Rezvaneh Erfani Hossein PourDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Ken Caine Area of research: Environmental Sociology, Development, Power, Post-colonial Theory
Tentative Topic: Environmental Movements in the Middle East
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Nicole EshkakoganDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Area of research: My research focuses on Indigenous social epidemiology, community-based research, health equity and anti-oppression praxis. Over the last 15 years, I have been dedicated to advancing the national agenda on incorporating Indigenous Ways of Knowing into scientific methodologies that inform evidence-based decision making and evaluation of programming to improve the overall health and well-being of Indigenous people in Canada. |
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Mahmood Exiri FardDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Emily GerbrandtDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Research Interests: Violence Against Women, Sexual Violence, Law and Society, Inequality, Critical Criminology, Qualitate Inquiry, Intersectionality My current research investigates socio-legal responses to sexual violence in the wake of the #metoo movement. I am particularly interested in questions surrounding anti-feminist backlash in digital spheres, as well as techniques and strategies of digital feminisms to both promote and undermine intersectional knowledge paradigms. |
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Lorielle GiffinDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Bucerius Research Interests: Criminology, 'crimmigration', human rights, interpersonal violence, perceptions of state legitimacy, state-perpetrated violence |
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Jeongwon GimDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Juan GuevaraDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Rob Shields Research interests: marginalization, relations Humans and Non-Humans, critical disability and urban spaces. My doctoral project seeks to understand the socio-material culture of urban informality through the mobilities, rhythms and time-space of informal spatial practices. |
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Nicholas HardyDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Research interests concern urban visual culture in the age of neo-liberalism and poetic experience as negentropy. His M.A. thesis dealt with the legacy of Walter Benjamin's thought to Sociology, with a focus on cinema, photography, fascism, consumerism and the decay of aura. |
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Nicole HillDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Amy Kaler Research Interests: Sociology of health, cultural studies, gender & feminist studies, qualitative research methods, public sociology |
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Elif Yagmur Karagol DemirDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Takara KetchellDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology My research relates to exploring the influences and implications of certain types of institutions on identity formation and enactment. Specifically, I am interested in the ways that history and cultural institutions such as festivals shape the way people understand their identity and how this is enacted/preformed. |
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Joao KriegerDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Ashley KyleDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr.Sandra Bucerius Ashley Kyle is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholar currently working on her specialization exam on environmental sociology. Ashley is a senior researcher and the head quantitative research analyst for the University of Alberta Prison Project. Her MA thesis examined how protective custody classification affects how incarcerated men relate to each other and negotiate their own sense of identity within the larger inmate hierarchy. Her other research interests include gangs, queer theory, and globalization. |
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Shingirai MandizadzaDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Drs Amy Kaler & Ken Caine My research project aims at investigating how land is gendered and how it is central to relations of power in land reform programs. |
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Rebekah McNeillyDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Lauren MenzieDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. George Pavlich Research Interests: Socio-legal theory; queer theory; gender and sexuality; marginalized sexualities; evolution of criminal law; governance of sexuality; online communities; virtual engagements with law |
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Barbara MilmineDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Sara Dorow Barbara Milmine is a Vanier Scholar whose research interests include urban Aboriginal populations and policy, the racialization of space, the intersection of race, gender and identity, and contemporary applications of traditional indigenous knowledge. |
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Sadaf MirzahiDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Temitope Oriola My dissertation investigates experiences of gang-involved women. My other research interests include right-wing extremism, prisons and imprisonment, gender and punishment, and intersections of race, gender, and religion. |
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Abu NurullahDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Herb Northcott |
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Burcu OzdemirDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology (Theory and Culture) Supervisor: Dr Richard Westerman |
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David ParentDoctor of Philosophy - SociologyDavid's research interests include Metis studies, migration, urbanity, masculinity and gender relations, Indigenous methodologies as they relate to modernity and technology, and the influence of Indigenous onto-epistemologies on structural and post-structural thought. |
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Sonja SapachDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Sara Dorow & Geoffrey Rockwell |
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Isabel Scheuneman ScottDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology (Criminology) Supervisor: Dr. Michelle Meagher Area of Research: My work examines Indigenous women's prison writing in the Canadian context. I am interested in how incarcerated Indigenous women express their experiences of (state) violence, criminalization, and incarceration in prison newsletters, and how these expressions relate to and/or draw on various issues pertaining to gender, Indigeneity, resistance, and decolonization. |
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William SchultzDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Bucerius |
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Ivan ShmatkoDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Bucerius |
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Charles StubblefieldDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology |
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Justin TetraultDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr Kevin D. Haggerty |
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Angela WilsonDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr Stephen Kent Title: (Tentative) Anti-Science as Pseudoreligiosity - Explanations for the Rejection of Scientific Consensus |
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Luke WonneckDoctor of Philosophy - Sociology Supervisor: Dr. Ken Caine Research Interests: Environmental sociology, sociology of agriculture, social practice theory, network analysis, mixed methods, wetland governance My doctoral research will explore the reproduction of conventional cropping practices in Alberta, with a focus on their relation to wetland drainage. Specifically, my research aims to address the following questions: how and why does wetland drainage in Alberta's cropland emerge, persist, evolve, and fragment; and what roles do and can existing programs, policies, and other practices play in these dynamics? |
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