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
Pedro Daher
Contact Information Supervisor: Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva Bio B.A., Journalism – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) (2013) Postgraduate in Literature, Art and Contemporary Thought M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia (2018) Thesis: Finish the eulogy, Brazil: A call for the end of the subject Research I will […]
Chany Chea
Bio B.A., Double Major Political Science and Pacific & Asian Studies, University of Victoria 2007-2012 M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2015) Thesis: Postmemory work in the Cambodian diaspora: Using the past to access the present Research Chany Chea’s research examines postmemory work on the Cambodian genocide produced by second generation Cambodian diaspora members […]
Kristi Carey
Contact Information Supervisor: Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva Bio B.A., Educational Studies & Peace & Conflict Studies, Colgate University (2015) M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2017) Thesis: Resistance in and of the university: Neoliberalism, empire, and student activist movements Research In a time of neoliberal global precarity that follows from perpetual war, flexible […]
Shruti Buddhavarapu
Contact Information Supervisor: Dr. Dina Al-Kassim / Dr. Judy Segal shrutirao1988@gmail.com Education B.A., English (Hons), Delhi University, India (2009) M.A., English Literature, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2011) M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2017) Research Shruti’s intended area of research is in the field of health and rhetoric, when seen especially through the […]
Simone Bridgewater
Contact Information http://www.simonebridgewater.portfoliobox.me/ Education B.A., Honours in Communication, Media & Culture joint Publishing Media, Oxford Brookes University (2013) A.A., Sociology, The College of The Bahamas (2007) M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2016) Research Simone is currently interested in exploring within Bahamian Canadian diasporic community’s the negotiation and performativity of the sexual identity […]