Student Profiles

Farzana Ahmed

Farzana Ahmed (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Bernadette P. Resurrección
Start:  September 2022
Email:  20fja@queensu.ca

The concept of power is intriguing to me, as it is inherent and impactful but yet often subtly overlooked. To overlook how difference can limit or amplify access is to overlook power. This form of delusion, strengthens the status quo. My research interest is embedded in addressing power in international aid, particularly in relation to decision making, governance and accountability to affected communities.

In my last professional assignment, I worked with more than 47 member agencies, both local and international in Bangladesh, to identify gaps in their accountability mechanisms and co-create an accountability framework. My work sparked my interest in exploring the political governance of aid and how representation is politicised, particularly related to power politics between local and international NGOs, community participation and broadly the economic and social costs of aid.

Hannah Ascough

Hannah Ascough (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor:  Marc Epprecht
Start:  September 2018
Email:  17ha10@queensu.ca

My research centers on environmental charities, in South Africa and internationally. Specifically, I am interrogating how these ENGOs are framing a just recovery from COVID-19, and what that recovery means for ENGO beneficiaries, employees, and donors – capturing the juxtaposition between large- and small-scale environmental charitable work. Ultimately, my project concerns itself with both projected and experienced “futures” that emerge from development institutions’ imaginaries, and so locates itself within the intersections of feminist political ecology, degrowth, eco-socialism, and post-development theory.

Nodir Ataev

Nodir Ataev (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor:  Marcus Taylor
Start:  January 2023
Email: 22na13@queensu.ca

I am broadly interested in transboundary relations. Specifically, my research focuses on examining transboundary water relations from a political-economy perspective in the Fergana Valley, a densely populated region divided between the modern states of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. By studying water, livelihoods, climate, and power relations, I hope to unveil who has access to and control over water and other crucial resources in the region.

Allyson Dafoe

Allyson Dafoe (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor:  Susanne Soederberg
Start:  January 2022
Email: 13akd@queensu.ca

My research interests centre around the military-industrial complex and the involvement of private military and security companies (PMCs/PSCs) in extractive industries. Situated in the context of extensive and continued environmental degradation, my research will consider what available information on PMCs/PSCs in extractive industries tells us about access to and control over resources.

Veronique Dryden

Veronique Dryden (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Susanne Soederberg
Start:  September 2021
Email:  20vmd@queensu.ca

My research interests lie in unpacking the contradictions inherent in the use of neoliberal ideas to drive development policies and planning in the Global South. I plan to study the intersections of political ecology, political economy and social reproduction in order to consider the tensions inherent in the treatment of land, labour and money as commodities using a multi-scalar critique and utilizing a Marxist feminist approach. In so doing, I will explore the role of ideology and knowledge production in global development to break down some of the main tropes in institutional development policy. Geographically, this research will focus on post-colonial Manila.

Janette Haase

Janette Haase (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Marcus Taylor
Start:  September 2020
Email:  21jth1@queensu.ca

I propose to explore the use of regenerative and no-till agriculture in Ontario and Quebec through research and interviews with farmers and government and non-governmental agencies involved in this work. I seek to better understand the motivations, challenges, and experiences of transitioning to this type of agriculture and the conditions for its successful adoption. Agriculture is an incredibly complex social practice, deeply rooted in local cultures but also highly manipulated by large corporate interests. Current research on alternative agriculture highlights themes of social and environ-mental justice, climate change, food sovereignty, inequality and the ownership of both knowledge and nature. I seek to learn more about debates over sustainable agriculture and rural development and apply them to current agricultural models and our (in)ability to realize meaningful food system transformation close to home.

Avanthi Jayasuriya

Avanthi Jayasuriya (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Susanne Soederberg
Start:  September 2021
Email:  20anj2@queensu.ca

My research interests are grounded within Feminist Political Economy and social policy. Broadly, my research focuses on the political economy of social policy and its impact on marginalised populations paying attention to the intersections of gender, race and class.

Alyssa Jeavons

Alyssa Jeavons (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor:  Marcus Taylor
Start:  September 2022
Email:  11ajj2@queensu.ca

My research interests lie within the themes of agroecology, feminist political ecology, repeasantization and sustainable agriculture. Generally, I wish to examine the power relations that govern access to natural resources. More specifically, I am interested in conceptions of food sovereignty and agroecology as endorsed by the global peasant movement, La Via Campesina, and its member institutions. I am interested in how the field of agroecology must increasingly integrate feminist theory and praxis to effectively transform dominant power relations within food systems. I wish to examine how women’s social reproduction and agroecological contributions are evaluated, and under what circumstances they are acknowledged.

 

 

So Youn Kim

So Youn Kim (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor:  Marcus Taylor
Start:  September 2022
Email:  42syk@queensu.ca

My research interest is smart indoor farming and urban climate food security. Smart indoor farming has many benefits such as: less use of pesticides; less influence from extreme natural disasters and weather events as a result of climate change; less use of transportation to transport vegetables from rural to urban places; less use of lands by cultivating vegetables, for example, in the underground; use of technologies requiring less labours; supplies of fresher and less expensive vegetables to the customers living in cities; community cohesion through autonomous indoor house farming; improved aesthetics of cities with greener spaces; equitable food distribution among marginalized groups of people; opportunities for peripheral regions to utilization of space (e.g. alternative agriculture products); and self-sufficient cities with rising of their political, cultural and economic importance. I am in speculation of taking up how to imagine the global perspectives of applying indoor farming techniques and methods to diverse cities around the world in the developmental context.

Zilong Liao

Zilong Liao (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Susanne Soederberg
Start:  September 2020
Email:  20zl34@queensu.ca

Generally, I am interested in almost everything related to capitalism and modernity. Currently, my academic interest lies in the political economy of profit, which is also the focal point of my doctoral research. Due to the fact that the explanation of profit, a cornerstone around which the whole economic activities are built, is astonishingly overlooked by mainstream economics, it is meaningful to seriously delve into this subject. My research will draw on radical economics and institutionalism, seeking to demonstrate that profit is a category and phenomenon embedded with abundant social connotations far richer than what the equilibrium methodology can reveal. One important dimension of those social connotations is power. Power is a force that shapes social institutions. Institutions, in turn, dictate the specific expression and morphology of power. “Financial capitalism”, characterized by financial deregulation, dollar standard, unbridled monetary stimulus, etc., to a large extent, has altered the logic of profit/capital accumulation of “commodity capitalism”. My research attempts to disclose how power is wielded in this special institutional setting in favor of profiting. In a general sense, it echoes Marxism in understanding profit from a political perspective, contrasting the depoliticizing trend in mainstream economics. Yet it significantly differs from critical economics for it understands profit or the expression of power as constantly rheological in its content, which is paralleled with and influenced by the evolution of social institutions.

Sandra McKay

Sandra McKay (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Rebecca Hall
Start:  September 2021
Email:  21srm12@queensu.ca

I am interested in the mining and development debate. My research looks at the conditions that influence the role that artisanal and small-scale gold mining has in improving local sustainable livelihoods in Peru. These include issues such as the negotiation and conflicts between large-scale mining and community-based small-scale mining, trade and cooperation between Canada and Peru, and private governance initiatives.

Meghan Mendelin

Meghan Mendelin (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Rebecca Hall
Start:  September 2021
Email:  14mkm8@queensu.ca

My research centres around the social reproductive functions of non-profit organizations, with a focus on how localized approaches to community care support the everyday gendered labours that reproduce our society. My project explores how different scales of non-profit organizations operating in Canada represent their charitable care work to the public, and what this elucidates about particular notions of caring in the context of a global crisis of care. By considering non-profit organizations through a feminist political economy lens, my research draws attention to the capitalist discourse of dominant development interventions which purport a depoliticized, individualized and purely financial way of caring for fellow global citizens, and considers how community-based approaches to care may differ or depart from those of large-scale, international non-profit organizations.

Wondimnew Mersha

Wondimnew Mersha (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Marc Epprecht
Start:  September 2022
Email:  21wkm2@queensu.ca

My current research focuses on the interplay between conflict-induced internal displacement and disability protection. Along the way, it will unpack the policy, legal and institutional landscapes on internal displacement. Moreover, it will indulge in examining the real-life conditions and treatment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in general and those with disabilities in East Africa (Ethiopia). It will further dis-aggregate the experiences of women, children, and the elderly as it is imperative to investigate the intra-group distinctions for a more complete understanding of the matter. The effect of ethnic affiliation on differential treatment of IDPs in the study area also forms a part of the proposed study. Overall, the proposed study applies a human rights-based approach to the assessment of the global and national responses to internal displacement.

Daniel Ortiz Gallego

Daniel Ortiz Gallego (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Diana Córdoba
Start:  September 2021
Email:  daniel.ortizgallego@queensu.ca

My research focuses on alternatives to agribusiness development that challenge the dominant neoliberal food regime and contribute to potential sustainable transitions. Particularly, I am interested in understanding the complex working of power in oil palm and soybean agribusiness for their consolidation in Colombia and Bolivia and the strategies of resistance of grassroots organizations aimed at eroding this power, such as the peasant economies, agroecology, and food sovereignty.

Brandon Pryce

Brandon Pryce (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Rebecca Hall
Start:  September 2018
Email:  11bp16@queensu.ca

My research focuses on critical engagements with the history of Canada as an extractive state. I take a historical materialist approach to the origins of extraction throughout Canada but particularly in the North and how it has impacted Indigenous and minority communities. In addition to extraction and resources, my work also investigates the political economy of tourism and hospitality in rural, remote, and indigenous communities. Alongside my supervisor Dr. Rebecca Hall, we work with Dene communities in the Northwest Territories on post-extraction development and Indigenous-led alternative development. Overall, I utilize a Marxian political-economy framework as well as critical decolonization studies to approach the topic of development.

Maya Saryyeva

Maya Saryyeva (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: Kyla Tienhaara
Start:  September 2019
Email:  19ms59@queensu.ca

I study governance frameworks surrounding sustainable finance, and in particular the transparency and effectiveness of green bond projects.

Simran Sharma

Simran Sharma (PhD Candidate)
Supervisors: Rebecca Hall and David McDonald
Start:  September 2023
Email:  22ss67@queensu.ca

My research revolves around understanding the ecological and social dynamics of water dispossession and water knowledges in South Asia through the lens of political economy and decolonial theory.

Jordan Stark

Jordan Stark (PhD Candidate)
Supervisor: David McDonald
Start:  September 2019
Email:  19jds1@queensu.ca

Broadly, my research lies at the intersection of data, development, and the city. My research project contributes to scholarly understandings of data justice and the ways in which it can be supported in the context of open data initiatives in South Africa (with implications for other cities in the global South). Focusing on open data in Cape Town, one of the first municipal open data initiatives in the global South, I ask how access to knowledge and the benefits of open data can be more equitably distributed in conditions of extreme inequality.

Alina Dixon

Alina Dixon, PhD (2023)
Supervisor:  Allison Goebel
Dissertation Title: Not ‘Just’ a Kid: Knowledge Politics and Youth Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

Katelin Boles

Katelin Boles (MA Candidate)
Start:  September 2023
Email:  18knb2@queensu.ca

My research interests center on resource extraction, settler colonialism, and environmental justice, specifically within the context of Canada’s extractive industries. I would like to apply a feminist political ecology framework to explore the complexities of gender, youth, and socio-ecological impacts of mining operations within extractive-affected Indigenous communities. I hope to explore these intersections, as well as examine the role of Canadian policy in shaping the processes and impacts of extraction.

Ivanna Kazantsev

Ivanna Kazantsev (MA Candidate)
Start:  September 2023
Email:  18ink@queensu.ca

My research interests are concerned with how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will require an adaptation in development projects, specifically in the area of the political economy. I hope to examine AI surveillance technologies in the workplace and how their use will impact and shape our relationship to labour, including how we value and conceptualize human labour. As current AI technologies possess the capacity to recreate biases, future economic development projects and policies will need to consider the unique and novel challenges emerging technology will pose. My research will use an intersectional feminist lens in order to parse out how these technologies may exacerbate existing, or produce new, structural barriers for those subject to its use.

Megan Zelle

Megan Zelle (MA Candidate)
Start:  September 2023
Email:  18mtrz@queensu.ca

My research interests focus on the intersections between climate change, (climate) refugees, health, and critical tourism studies. I am interested in exploring these themes within the geographical and historical contexts of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Using a political ecology framework, I hope to bring in discussions of power, along with the lived experiences of communities within these regions.

Azra Alavi

Azra Alavi MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Kilian Atuoye
Second Reader:  Bernadette Resurrección
MRP Title:  Learning From The Community: Immigrant Women Withering The Impact Of COVID-19 On Food Security in Toronto

Evelyn Baker

Evelyne Baker MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Diana Córdoba
Second Reader:  Rebecca Hall
MRP Title:  Women's Empowerment Through Coffee Cooperatives: Collective action in Nicaragua from 1979 onwards

 

Emma Bouillard

Emma Bouillard MA (2024)
Supervisor:  Reena Kukreja
Second Reader:  Vanessa Thompson
MRP Title:  Racism Reborn: Deportability and Unfree Mobility of Roma Migrants in France (2007-2016)

Claire Cornacchia

Claire Cornacchia MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Rebecca Hall
Second Reader:  Bernadette Resurrección
MRP Title:  Indigenous Futures in the Canadian State: An Examination of State-Imposed Education and Training on Dene Youth in the Northwest Territories

Cheyenne Kammerer

Cheyenne Kammerer (MA Candidate: Thesis Option)
Start:  September 2022
Email:  17cek@queensu.ca

My research interests are geared toward sustainable development and global health. I come from a background in Biology. This interdisciplinary background has provided me with a multifaceted lens that considers development in a holistic way. My goal is to look at global health with biological and social sciences in mind, examining how the two are connected and how they impact one another through the frameworks of embodiment and ecosocoial theory. My current research project is focused on investigating the impacts of aquaculture as an adaptation to the environmental degradation caused by hydropower dams in Thailand. Current practices allow communities to be disproportionately affected as we accelerate into the Anthropocene and face the challenges of climate change. I intend to evaluate different sustainable processes that can lessen this effect in a resilient way and the impacts of aquaculture on the communities' physical and mental wellbeing.

Alexandria Leduc

Alexandria Leduc MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Ayca Tomac
Second Reader:  Scott Rutherford
MRP Title:  “I’LL BE A GOD EXACTING MY RETRIBUTION”: Understanding The Relationship Between Incel Violence And Incel Constructions Of Gender

Shivangi Mistry

Shivangi Mistry MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Karen Dubinsky
Second Reader:  Jeffrey Brison
MRP Title:  Trends, Impacts, & Influences of The Guggenheim Museum Franchise: A Cultural Political Analysis of Contemporary Debates

Pamela O'Brien

Pamela O'Brien MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Rebecca Hall
Second Reader:  Allison Goebel
MRP Title:  The Rescaling of Indigenous Childhood: The effects of diamond mining on Indigenous youth, and a future grounded in youth autonomy and Indigenous resurgence

Ivy Yang

Ivy Yang MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Scott Rutherford
Second Reader:  Rebecca Hall
MRP Title:  Water politics during COVID-19 in Canada, focus on Treaty 9

Asvini Uthayakumaran

Asvini Uthayakumaran MA (2023)
Supervisor:  Mark Hostetler
Second Reader:  Paritosh Kumar
MRP Title:  Tamil self-determination and the pursuit of post-conflict unity in Sri Lanka

 

Makiko Brown

Makiko Brown (MA Candidate: Thesis Option)
Start:  September 2021
Email:  21meb20@queensu.ca

My research interests include migration, diasporas and how remittances can support economic development. I would like to examine formal and informal networks within diasporas that encourage migration and the transfer of wealth between countries. I would like to apply an interdisciplinary approach to examine economic issues and the politics of citizenship. I am interested in the intersection of race, gender and immigration policies that affect documented and undocumented workers.

Kelsey Jennings

Kelsey Jennings (MA Candidate)
Start:  September 2021
Email:  13krj1@queensu.ca

In 2020 alone, Canada saw three major Indigenous resistances, the Mi'kmaq lobster dispute, the Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Coastal Gas Line project and 1492 Land Back Lane. These resistances provide a vital opportunity to look at the movement of Indigenous people and communities to return to self-determinacy. For my research, I am primarily interested in evaluating Indigenous livelihoods and self-determination in Canada. Looking at key settler-colonial conflicts, I am also interested in assessing the effects that the actions of the Canadian Government, primarily when related to economic development, have had on the ability of Indigenous communities to construct and sustain livelihoods. As a part of this, I am also interested in critically analyzing Canada's adoption of and promise to implement the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) and the evolution and history of Indigenous rights in Canada.

Holly Laurenzio

Holly Laurenzio MA Thesis (2023)
Supervisor:  Diana Córdoba
Thesis Title:  Small-scale cocoa farming and mechanisms of access to support services bridging producers with high-value market participation: a comparative analysis between Ecuador & Peru
 

Reily Morrison

Reily Morrison MA (2022)
Supervisor: 
Paritosh Kumar
Second Reader:  Samantha King
MRP Title:  Ethical Consumption of Plan-based Milks and Corporate Environmentalism

Alexa Platt

Alexa Platt MA (2022)
Supervisor: 
Paritosh Kumar
Second Reader:  Mark Hostetler
MRP Title:  Tensions in the Food Sovereignty Movement in Canada

Jenna Reid

Jenna Reid (MA Candidate)
Start: 
September 2021
Email:  17jmer@queensu.ca

My research interests focus on decolonizing peacebuilding practices and the process of reconciliation in the interests of global human rights and security, to emphasize culturally appropriate responses to conflict and reconciliation. In this process, I hope to examine sociolegal factors that contribute to global war crimes, the weaponization of gendered violence in war, as well as the roles which social movements, non-governmental organizations, and governments play in the various processes of global development.

Caroline Trippenbach

Caroline Trippenbach MA (2022)
Supervisor: 
Rebecca Hall
Second Reader:  Kyla Tienhaara
MRP Title:  Paving the Path to "Self-Sufficiency?" The Federal Government's Response to the Impacts of Mining on Indigenous Women in Remote Communities

Jacira Werle Rodrigues

Jacira Werle Rodrigues MA (2022)
Supervisor: 
Diana Córdoba
Second Reader:  Jorge Legoas
MRP Title:  Framing bioeconomy in Brazil: a sustainable path for the Amazon?

Claire Geneste

Claire Genest MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Susanne Soederberg
Second Reader:  Dan Cohen
MRP Title:  Social Impact Bonds as the Failing Forward of Neoliberal Restructuring:  A Canadian Case Study

Bessie Hodder Olivera

Bessie Hodder Olivera MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Reena Kukreja
Second Reader:  Mark Hostetler
MRP Title:  U.S. Detention Centres impact on the physical and mental health of Latin migrant women: a case study investigation of the coerced hysterectomies performed in U.S. detention facilities in 2020

Avanthi Jayasuriya

Avanthi Jayasuriya MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Susanne Soederberg
Second Reader:  Rebecca Hall
MRP Title:  Relief For Whom? A Feminist Historical Materialist Account of the Covid-19 Relief Measures in Toronto

Muhammad Khan

Khan, Muhammad (MA Candidate)
Start:  September 2020
Email:  19MK47@queensu.ca

I am a photographer and my research interests are surrounding climate change and its effect on the social movements in the middle east. My undergrad research was based around middle eastern social and cultural politics and I hope to continue that by researching how climate change is effecting those movements.

Kylie McNeil

Kylie McNeil MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Susanne Soederberg
Second Reader:  Rebecca Hall
MRP Title:  Can You Pay for Success? An investigation and Critical Analysis into the Nature of Social Investment Bonds Centred Around the Chicago Pay-for-Success Bond

Ana Mejicano Greenberg

Ana Mejicano Greenberg MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Reena Kukreja
Second Reader:  Alexandra Pedersen
MRP Title:  The Making of the “Perpetually Displace-Able”: Investigating the Role of the Guatemalan and the Canadian States in the (Re)production and Maintenance of Racialized Guatemalan Temporary Foreign Workers as a Latent Relative Surplus Population from 1960-Present

Carleigh Milburn

Carleigh Milburn MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Celeste Pedri-Spade
Second Reader:  Lindsay Morcom
MRP Title:  Toward the Inclusion of Indigenous Women’s Arts in Ontario Secondary Schools and its Role in Developing Education for Reconciliation

Ethan Mitchell

Ethan Mitchell MA Thesis (2022)
Supervisor: Susanne Soederberg
Thesis Title:  Building Alternatives: Community Land Trusts, Neoliberal Governance, and Transforming Housing Relations
 

 

Madalyn Neilson

Madalyn Neilsen MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Marcus Taylor
Second Reader:  Diana Córdoba
MRP Title:  The re-introduction of Indigenous breeds of dairy cattle for increase climate resilience in Karnataka, South India

Sinead O'Hara

Sinead O'Hara MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Rebecca Hall
Second Reader:  Susan Bartels
MRP Title:  The Weaponization of Sexual Violence:  An Analysis of Women and Girls Healing in the Democrtatic Republic of the Congo

Kenna Panikkar

Kenna Panikkar MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Scott Rutherford
Second Reader:  Ayca Tomac
MRP Title:  Redefinding what constitutes a "developed nation" in the context of United States with the rescente rise of right wing politics/nationalism.

Jessica Phillips

Jessica Phillips MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Bernadette Resurrección
Second Reader:  Reena Kukreja
MRP Title:  Migration in the Context of Climate Change:  Cases in the Philippines

Kabir Shahani

Kabir Shahani MA (2021)
Supervisor:  Kyla Tienhaara
Second Reader:  Mark Hostetler
MRP Title:  The Role of Ecotourism in the Development of the Global SouthL  A Case Study on hte Republic of Palau

Tianna Tischbein

Tianna Tischbein MA (2021)
Supervisor: Kyla Tienharra
Second Reader:  Mark Hostetler
MRP Title:  Degrowth post Covid-19

 

Charlotte Akin

Charlotte Akin, MA (2020)

Supervisor:  Reena Kukreja
Second Reader:  Colleen Davison
MRP Title:  Protection & Punishment - The Impacts of the Hotspot Approach on the Rights and Status of Unaccompanied Children in Greece.

 

Matthew Dunbar

Matthew Dunbar MA (2023)
Supervisor:  David McDonald
Second Reader:  Marcus Taylor
MRP Title:  The Political Economy of the AIIB and the Belt and Road Initiative

Emily Edwards

Emily Edwards, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Colleen Davison
Second Reader:  Reena Kukreja
MRP Title:  The Neoliberal Market Relations of Global Commercial Surrogacy – A Postcolonial Analysis of Stateless Babies, Outsourced Wombs, and Conflicting Regulations

Jessica Gentile

Jessica Gentile, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Diana Córdoba
Second Reader:  Allison Goebel
MRP Title:  Not Worth a "Dam" - A Socio-Environmental Analysis of the Experience of Displaced Women Along the Congo River

Brigid Goulem

Brigid Goulem MA Thesis (2021)
Supervisor:  Reena Kukreja
Thesis Title:  Health and Healthcare Access for Undocumented Migrant Agricultural Workers in Greece
 

Rae Jardine

Rae Jardine, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Mark Hostetler
Second Reader:  Marc Epprecht
MRP Title:  "We Shall Not Wait for Karamoja to Develop":  A Critical Discourse Analysis

Ainsley Johnston

Ainsley Johnston, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Marcus Taylor
Second Reader:  David McDonald
MRP Title:  The Exploration of Racial Bias in the US Federal Responses to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Maria

Alexandria Knipp

Alexandria Knipp, MA (2020)
Supervisors:  Rebecca Hall and Diana Córdoba
MRP Title:  LIFE IN A NATIONAL SACRIFICE ZONE: How the Settler-Colonial State Perpetuates Slow Violence Through Extraction in the Northwest Territories and Appalachian Kentucky

Kristen Ouimet

Kristen Ouimet, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Diana Córdoba
Second Reader:  David McDonald
MRP Title:  A Conflict of Worlds: Expressions of Buen Vivir in Resistance to the Yanacocha Mine

Michelle Awusu-Ansah

Michelle Owusu-Ansah, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Marc Epprecht
Second Reader:  Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
MRP Title:  Unmasking the Ghanaian State Analysis of the Ghanaian state's performative nature in addressing domestic and sexual violence (DSV) against women and women's response to the state and DSV through activism

 Julianna Rapper

Julianna Rapper, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Elia Zureik
Second Reader:  Mark Hostetler
MRP Title:  Strategies of Occupation in Apartheid Israel

Shanaya Singh

Shanaya Singh, MA (2020)
Supervisors:  Marcus Taylor and Allison Goebel
MRP Title:  Assessing the Potential for Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy to Support Maasai Women’s Land Rights in Northern Tanzania

Camille Slack

Camille Slack, MA (2020)
Supervisor:  Marcus Taylor
Second Reader:  Scott Rutherford
MRP Title:  The Potential of Food Sovereignty to Inform the Policy Response to Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic

Prateek Sood

Prateek Sood, MA (2020)
Supervisors:  John Harriss and Marcus Taylor
MRP Title:  The Potential of Food Sovereignty to Inform the Policy Response to Climate Change in the Canadian Arctic