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Sarah Leamon
Sarah Leamon obtained her Master of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 2010. Prior to that, she had studied law in Australia and earned a Juris Doctor from Bond University. Sarah’s academic studies were focused on miscarriages of justice, popular culture, horror and the macabre. Following her graduation from UBC, Sarah articled […]
Z. Khan
Bio My interest in GRSJ arises from lived experiences. Many people remark that a B.S. in Civil Engineering is not a traditional starting point for the kinds of research I wish to pursue. For a long time my research interests could only exist as hobbies. Being at UBC gives me the chance to explore them […]
Hedda Hakvag
Contact Information hakvag@alumni.ubc.ca Bio Hedda Hakvag graduated with an MA at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. She holds a BA with distinction in Women’s Studies and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta. Her research interests are diverse and include social discourses of the body/embodiment, consumerism, children’s toys and teen culture, gender […]
Chaya Ocampo Go
Contact Information Supervisor: Dr. Leonora Angeles chaya.go@ubc.ca Awards UBC Arts Graduate Research Awards UBC International Scholars
Serah Gazali
Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Creese Thesis: Digital Burqa or Business Suit: Social Media and the Gender Digital Divide Among Resettled Iraqi Women Awards Arts Graduate Student Research Awards Charlotte Douglas Fee Graduate Award
Katherine Fobear
Contact Information Supervisor: Dr. Leslie Robertson / Dr. Erin Baines kfobear@ubc.ca Bio M.A., Honors Research Masters in Social Science,University of Amsterdam (2010) B.A., Honors Anthropology, Sociology, & Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Michigan (2008) C.S.S., Certificate in Social Science, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest (2006) A.A., Honors Liberal Arts in Science, Delta College, USA […]
Luna Ferguson
Biography LUNA M. FERGUSON (Ph.D.) is a trans (they/them) filmmaker, writer, artist, and advocate. Their advocacy for non-binary legal recognition has contributed to policy changes in Canada. Ferguson’s filmmaking includes the award-winning Whispers of Life (2013); Limina (2016), which was shown at festivals around the world and praised for its trans inclusivity; and the queer love story Henry’s Heart (2019). Their writing and advocacy […]
Evelyn Elgie
Contact Information ev.elgie@gmail.com Research I am interested in the intersections of asexuality, queer discourse, and the impact that language plays when navigating queer identity theory, particularly asexual discourse, as well as the implications the existence of an asexual population must have for an amatonormative culture. I am specifically interested in the gendered subject, particularly in […]
Amel Eldihaib
Contact Information Supervisor: Dr. Gillian Creese amel_aldehaib@yahoo.com Biography Amel Eldihaib is a researcher and social activist. Over the last ten years she worked and volunteered with different international and national civil society organizations in Sudan (both South and North), as well in other countries in the Horn of Africa and Yemen. Her work and activism […]
Aidan Davis
Bio Supervisor: Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry BA, Women’s Studies, Colgate University (2016) M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2019) Thesis: The case for black girl joy in America