
Jasmine Ahmad
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Development Studies, York University
Research keywords: refugee; Afghan community; diaspora; policy

Hana Shams Ahmed
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; Indigenous Peoples; postcolonial state; governmentality; articulation

Sayyid-Ali Al-Zaidi
Doctoral student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Buddhist art from the Kushan Dynasty and its influences on Persian Art; Seljuk, Ilkhanate, and Timurid art and architecture; Chinese art and archaeology; and Islamic history

Joddi Alden
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Global labour migration; transnational trajectories of careworkers

Areej Alshammiry Alshammiry
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Nation-state; citizenship; (im)migration; statelessness; Arab Gulf; Canada

Kaede Ashizawa
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture
Research keywords: Asian diaspora; transgenerational inheritance, dissipation or transformation; diasporic youth; identity politics; modern media

Monique Attrux
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Chinese Canadian literature; Asian Canadian literary theory; diasporic theory; postcolonialism; multilingualism; Hakka literature; Canada; China

Arpita Bajpeyi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Research keywords: South Asia; India; kathak; dance; gender; caste; performance; ethnography; research creation; nationalism; decolonizing methodologies; embodied histories

Christopher Balcom
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
Research keywords: Marxist political theory; intellectual history

Shahab S. Bayani
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Aerospace and identity; mobility and humanism; technology dominance; masculinity in aviation; subaltern; hegemony

Jenna Blower
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Transnational migration; mobility; Filipina nurses and their transnational families; Canada; Philippines

Lucy Lu Cai
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies
Research Keywords: Transnational Chinese feminism; digital feminist activism; post-war nationalism; East Asian Diaspora

Jessica Caporusso
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology; science studies; expertise in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts; Mauritius

Kenneth Cardenas
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: New geographies of class power; Filipino conglomerates; neoliberalism; globalization; urbanization; Philippines

Ashlynn Chand
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Programme in Development Studies
Research Keywords: Work; labour; digital sexual violence; migrant workers; feminist; Indonesia migrant women; Malaysia; Southeast Asia; migration; gender; technology; gender-based violence

Sabina Chatterjee
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization

Seemil Chaudhry
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Production and performance of identity; role of cultural workers and social movements; socio-political formation of communal identity in colonial contexts

Aadita Chaudhury
PhD student
Science and Technology Studies, York University
Research keywords: Cultural, material and environmental meaning-making; combustion; fire management; fire ecology; wildfire management; racial capitalism; colonialization; Indigeneity; urban areas; India

Natasha Amjad Chawdhury
Master’s Candidate
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Gender-based violence; international relations; sexual violence policy; South Asia; Pakistan; critical feminism; international human rights; security conflict; intersectionality

Myla Chawla
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Women; gendered work during conflict and peace; identity; Moro conflict; Philippines
Boxi Chen
Doctoral Student
Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture, York University and Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Keywords: Social media; privacy; surveillance; surveillance capitalism; policy studies

Yu-Chen Chen
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Digital transnational authoritarianism; dual citizenships and nationalities; Chinese-language diaspora; disinformation; xenophobia

Moon-Kyoung Cho
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Subject and authority; visibility and invisibility; marginalization; East Asian diaspora artists; Canada

Amy Choi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research Keywords: Internalized racism; critical consciousness; immigration; public policy

Elena Chou
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Race and racialization; social inequality; identity and representation; cultural studies and popular culture; global Asian diaspora

Yao Cui
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Research keywords: Chinese instrumental ensembles and orchestras in the Greater Toronto Area

Bonita Das Bhatla
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management
Skilled migrants; diaspora; globalization; identity; diversity

Alireza Gorgani Dorcheh
PhD student
Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Marginalization; oppression; undocumentedness/precarious status; performance ethnography; queer youth

Ria Jhoanna Ducusin
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Climate change; political ecology; floods; Philippines

Leanna Durdle
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University
Research keywords: MDA; multimodality; discourse; discourse analysis; autoethnography; digital media; orientalism; Thailand; postcolonialism; globalization; education; embodiment; positionality

Adam Faux
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Research keywords: Liquid Composition; South Asian and Buddhist thought; Philippine Rondalla and Gangsa; Sanskrit language and Devanagari script

Dominik Formanowicz
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Transnational ties; Global South and North; rural-urban migrations within and outside of the Global South

Mengzhu Fu
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Chinese Diaspora; transnationality; Indigenous sovereignty

Andrew Fuyarchuk
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought
Research Keywords: Daoism; Heidegger; Neo-Confucianism; Gadamer

Selay Ghaffar
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Development Studies
Research Keywords: Women Human Rights Defenders; Afghan women refugees; women’s agency; resettlement and Integration; immigration

Shreya Ghimire
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Political Science. York University
Research Keywords: Gender and development; feminist political economy; Nepal; Canadian international development policy; feminist development; international development volunteerism

Vedanth Sachdeva Govi
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Queer desire; intellectual property rights; India

Jasmine Gui
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Literary and media studies; digital and print cultures

Yasir Hameed
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Research keywords: Public space; housing; safety; marginalization; resistance; social justice; cities

Masihullah Hanif
Master’s Student
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Great power politics; civil wars; modes of governance and government; Afghanistan

Fan He
Master’s Student
Gradaute Programme in Social Anthropology
Research Keywords: Cultural consumption; urban space; subject formation; commercialization; shopping mall; China; Shanghai

Htet Min Lwin
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Religion and politics; religious ideology; Buddhism; social movements; participatory democracy; decentralization/federalism; culture; Burmese political philosophy; Southeast Asia

Sheila Htoo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology of war; armed conflicts and resources; ceasefire capitalism; peace; peacebuilding; indigenous conservation; Salween Peace Park; Karen State, Myanmar/Burma; Southeast Asia

Su Huai
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Science and Technology Studies
Research Keywords: Transnational history; scientific translation; history of science; intellectual history

Aqeel Ihsan
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Migration; food history; South Asian Diaspora in Canada

Cindy Jiang
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Critical Disability Studies, York University
Research keywords: Diaspora; health policy; disability health; health promotion; mental health; stigma; racialization
Bettina Juszak
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Speculative fiction; mythology; comparative; translation; Chinese

Shruti Kalyanaraman
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Motherhood; pandemic; Indigenous-immigrant relationalities

Mi Lan Kang
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Colonialism; colonized history; decolonization; anti-racism; intersectionality social action; social movement; Indigenous activism; Asian Canadian; migration; Asian immigrants; dual identities; immigration; solidarity

Laraib Khan
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Islamophobia; social justice; transnational feminism; South Asian culture

Jihong Kim
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: History; cinema and media studies; literature; Korea; nationalism; structure; agency

Kutay Kutlu
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Socio-Legal Studies, York University
Research Keywords: Environmental justice; environmental litigation; renewable energy; land grabbing; law and social movements; green neoliberalism

Esmond Lee
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Migration; class and capitalism; settler colonialism; informal spatial (re)production; Toronto’s urban periphery

Seulsam Lee
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Social class; labour; gender; race/ethnicity; im/migration; Asian/Korean diasporas

Chenxin Vonnie Li
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Feminine beauty and health; cosmetic surgery; southern China

Xiaoming Li
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Language teaching methodology; language professional’s pedagogical beliefs and practices; learner autonomy; assessment; effects of language on integration of immigrants to Canada

Eva Lu
PhD student
Visual Art & Art History, York University
Research keywords: Art history; curatorial studies; modern art; contemporary art; visual culture; new media theory and art; sound studies; feminism; diaspora and transnationalism; postcolonialism; globalization; East Asia; Taiwan; Korea; Japan; China

Jun Lu
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Research keywords: Individual and collective experience; trauma; literary texts; cultural expressions; Chinese Diaspora

Mallory MacDonnell
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Political ecology; Critical Physical Geography; labour relations; fisheries; Taiwan; Thailand

Nadjie Danielle (Dani) Magsumbol
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Filipinx diaspora; migrant bodies as borders; migrants as capital in the global labour market; transnational motherhood/families; urbanities

Irfana Majumdar
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Devised theatre; physical theatre; Hindustani music; decolonizing performance; performance ethnography; South Asia; cross-cultural performance; collective creation, vocal performance

Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Sand mining; rural livelihoods; rural transformations; socio-environmental relations; political ecology; Jeneberang river; South Sulawesi; Indonesia

Carli Melo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Critical geographies of labour and migration; feminist political economy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar/Burma; Thailand

Melik Nasar
Master’s Student
Master’s Programme in Public and International Affairs, Glendon College, York University
Research Keywords: Indo-Pacific; hegemony; multilateralism

Rajat Nayyar
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Voice; vocal traditions; digital practices; possible/impossible world-making; fiction film/future-making; rural north India

Trung Ngo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Research keywords: Phenomenology; hermeneutics; early Buddhism; comparative continental and Indian philosophy

Nikki Pagaling
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Filipino diasporas; labour; gender; migration

Ari Para
Doctoral Student
Faculty of Education, York University
Research Keywords: Queer theory; critical race theory; auto-ethnography; storytelling; narrative inquiry

Shyam Patel
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Education, York University
Research keywords: Antiracism; critical race theory; diasporic studies; queer(ing) pedagogies; radical feminism; South Asianness

Prateeksha Pathak
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Material culture; visual arts; memory studies; geographies of violence; South Asian studies

Janice Phonepraseuth
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Racial and ethnic identities; racialization; East and Southeast Asia
Monisha Poojary
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Race; ethnicity; migration; panethnicity; transnational; social inequality; diaspora

Sheetal Prasad
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Education, York University
Research keywords: Research creation; archives; history education; social justice education; aesthetic experience

Helen Price
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Education, York University
Research Keywords: Social identities; inter-cultural processes; ballet; dance education; study abroad

Romeo Joe Quintero
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research Keywords: Politics of bodies and borders; Forced Migration Studies; transnational feminism; Philippine Studies

Susan Rajendran
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Buddhism; humanism; modernity; postcolonial; Sri Lanka

Antoniel Roca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Research keywords: Filipino diaspora; identity; post-colonialism; hybridity in music; alterity

A. A. Nedra Rodrigo
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Tamil Studies; translation

Shreya Sangai
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Transnational representations of war and resulting trauma in comics; India; Sri Lanka; state-sponsored violence; debilitation of bodies and dismembering of memories in conflict zones; forced displacement; memorialization of pain

Aparna Sengupta
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Disaster anthropology; anthropology of policy and bureaucracy; risk, Indigenous communities, and knowledge; India; environmental management; information-communication technology (ICT); cartographic mapping; Geographic Information System (GIS)

Omid Shakiba
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Cinema and Media Studies, York University
Research Keywords: Transnational cinema; transnational feminism; Kurdish cinema; Kurdish women movement; stateless cinema; New Neorealist Cinema

Aarushie Sharma
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Anthropology of infrastructure; state; urban sociology; gender and public space; caste; ethnography

Kanishka Sikri
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Research keywords: Violability

Zhi Ming Sim
Doctoral Student
Graduate Program in Political Science, York University
Research keywords: Decolonial feminism; Southeast Asian politics; international relations; gender-based violence; conflict-impacted communities

Jagteshwar Singh Sohi
Doctoral Student
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Research keywords: Environmental law and policy; environmental justice; tribal; India

Gobika Sriranganathan
Doctoral Candidate
Socio-Cultural and Policy Studies, Graduate Programme in Kinesiology and Health Science, York University
Research keywords: Sport; diasporic studies; leadership; postcolonial feminism; research methodologies; data analysis; social capital; program evaluation; well-being

Shabnam Sukhdev
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Theatre & Performance Studies, York University
Research keywords: Identity; culture; environment; mental health; human rights

Geetha Sukumaran
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Contemporary Tamil poetry; women’s writing; trauma literature and translation

Huiyao Sun
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Artist communities; Beijing

Ritika Tanotra
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research Keywords: Race; racism; ethnicity; nationalism; resistance; South Asians; immigrants

Aidin Torkameh
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Research keywords: Iranian state formation

Patricia Trudel
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Korean studies; postcolonialism; feminist theory; Korean diaspora; identity; cultural studies

Sadia Uddin
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Postcolonial literature; public policy; gender violence; cultural studies; Islam; Pakistan

Catherine Umolac
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Memoir; archive; Japanese Canadians; Jewish Canadians; Indigenous Peoples; Residential Schools

Daniel Uy
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Research keywords: Queer Asian diaspora; sexual, gender, and racial identifications; health and fitness; language use

Christopher Vogel
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research keywords: Late Qing sexuality; homosexuality; gender

Wang Zi
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History, York University
Research Keywords: Print culture; ethnomusicology; language acquisition; translation studies; internet literature in China; Asian Diaspora; Chinese Diaspora; Migration studies; grassroots activism; queer fan culture; food culture

Qi Ping Wang
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Art History & Visual Culture, York University
Research keywords: Feminist theories; gender and sexuality studies; East and South Asian studies; Asian-Canadian diasporic identities

Sachin Wanniarachchi
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Ethnocentrism; language myths; second language acquisition and dominant ideologies

Sahan Wanniarachchi
Master’s Student
Graduate Programme in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University
Research keywords: Identity; resistance; subalternity; world Englishes

Megan Whitney
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Research keywords: Animal labour; political ecology; Thailand; Southeast Asia

Salvo Wiseman
Doctoral Student
School of Social Work, York University
Research keywords: Social justice and solidarity; homelessness and mental health; decolonizing Western healthcare systems

Keefer Wong
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University
Research keywords: Neoliberal ideologies; globalization; social change; knowledge production; diaspora; “identities;” transnationalism; political economy; critical theory; China

Rachel Wong
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in English, York University
Research keywords: Activism; literature in the Chinese Canadian community; Asian Canadian Studies

Josephine Francis Xavier
Doctoral Candidate
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University
Research keywords: South Asia; India; fathers; childbearing period (pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum); gender; immigrant; diaspora

Ani Yedigaryan
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Research keywords: Memory studies; genocide studies; historical memory; politics of trauma; identity formation; identity politics; transnationalism; grassroots activism; social justice; pedagogy, ethics; philosophy; forgetting; politics of commemoration; politics of denial; forgiveness; responsibility; accountability; critical theory; ethnographic and qualitative research

Yuxi (Sebastian) Zhao
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University
Research Keywords: Intercultural communication; Chinese Diaspora; new media; identity; popular culture