We’re proud to recognize the achievements of this year’s graduates from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Throughout your time at UBC you’ve engaged deeply with complex issues and contributed to important conversations around equity and justice. Your hard work matters, and we’re excited to see how you carry it forward in the years to come.
Congratulations to you all on reaching this important milestone.
Doctoral Graduates
Dr. Maj Jensen
Supervisor: Dr. Dina Al-Kassim
Thesis/Dissertation: Critical inner experience(s) : thinking as an atelier
Dr. Sheila Sengupta
Supervisor: Dr. Leslie Robertson
Thesis/Dissertation: Revisiting the partition of Bengal in 1947 : an epistolary search for the human dimension
Master of Arts Graduates
Maya Casilda Acevedo Planter
Supervisor: Dr. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Extended Essay: Weaving Worlds : Centering Reciprocal Relationality in the shift away from the ‘Ex-Con’ Economy and Cristina Spirulina and the Circular Schema
Erin Salh
Supervisor: Dr. Alifa Bandali & Dr. Christopher Patterson
Thesis: Cinematic influence : the significance of Indian cinema on TikTok and in South Asian women’s diasporic identity
Viplav Subramanian
Supervisor: Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry
Thesis: Niyam Nritya : a dance of resisting and recreating social norms within Queer South Asian bodies!
Upandha Udalagama
Supervisor: Dr. Leonora Angeles
Thesis: Who speaks for farmers? : a feminist political ecology study of Sri Lanka’s abrupt shift to organic farming
Bachelor of Arts (GRSJ Major)
Lauren Anschell | Angella Asabaawebwa | Maelle Aubert | Saibrielle Bonner | Stefanie Bterrani | Lucia Cleland-Zarb | Sasha Cripton-Inglis | Shauya Ighani | Tendai Ingram | Amani Koorjee | Katie Lerner | Sukhraj Mahal | Jasmine Manango | Blane Mitiku | Orla Moore | Niharika Narang | Sienna Nargang-White | Cam Palacios | Romina Sanii | Mya Stanton | Patria Tica | Chloe Zhang | Nia Zilis
Bachelor of Arts (GRSJ Minor)
Madison Beaudry | Baxter Bhansali | Mikayla Chandradas | Victoria DeGroot | Rowen Francisco | Jenny Huang | Alexander Murphy | Kirsten Palmer | Aidan Pau | Aashton Prasad | Shiena Serikawa | Yoonsun Seo | Ophelia Xiner Tong
Bachelor of Arts (Critical Studies in Sexuality Minor)
Haley Miller | Jessica Pham | Kennedy Power
