Student Associates

Anupama Aery

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Public policy; urban studies; participatory decision-making; informal housing; environmental justice; transnational networks

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Hana Shams Ahmed

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Bangladesh; Chittagong Hill Tracts; violence; indigenous people; feminist political ecology; postcolonial capitalism

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Ali Al-Zaidi

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History, York University

Asian art; Orientalism; colonial history; archaeology; Britain; France

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Sarah Allen

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Water security; political ecology; urban political ecology; water governance; Vietnam

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Chan Arun-Pina

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Student Housing; geographies of gender and sexuality; post-colonial education; (alternate/non-)normative urban housing; trans* domesticities; creative research methods; India; global South

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Asma Atique

Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Environmental law and policy; justice theory; human rights; development studies

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Sanjukta Banerjee

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University

Gendered bodies and re-enactment of movements in traditional repertoires

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Sanjukta Banerjee

Doctoral Candiate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Travel writing; translation; multilingualism; early colonial India; French travelogues on India

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Shahab S. Bayani

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Masculinity; aerospace; subaltern; hegemony; humanism; Iran

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Benjamin Bongolan

Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York Unviversity

Urban inequities; urban activism; Filipino diasporas; urban and social policy planning

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Alyssa Brierley

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Public interest litigation; non-governmental organizations; development; India

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Jessica Caporusso

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Political ecology; sustainable development; transnational encounters; South Asian Diaspora

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Kenneth Cardenas

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Urban political economy; property development; capitalist class trans/formations; political ecology of disaster risk; defining and claiming new urban commons; Manila; Philippines

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Sabina Chatterjee

Doctoral Student, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical race theory; decolonization; social justice; diaspora; knowledge mobilization

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Shraddha Chatterjee

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University

Queer sexuality; India; transnationalism; globalization; neoliberalism

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Elena Chou

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

“Race” and racialization; identity and representation; cultural studies; media and popular culture; Asian Diaspora

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Guillaume Dandurand

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Political economy; political ecology; capitalism; theories of development; actor-network theory; concepts of govern mentality; habitus; India

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Zoe Dhillon

Masters Student, Department of English

postcolonial literature, diaspora literature, Dalit literature, Indian literature, orientalism, exoticism, gender roles, sexuality, cross-cultural education, power-privilege imbalances

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Hazel Dizon

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York Univeristy

Urban and the rural and their intersections with development; Philippines

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Adam Faux

Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Music

Synaesthetic and Process Composition

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Jillian Fulton

Doctoral Candidate, Social Anthropology, York University

Diasporas; Arab identities; underground dance music scenes; nostalgia; tarab

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Meghna George

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Gender identities; transnationalism; South Korea

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Kyle Gibson

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Political ecology; Historical-Geographical Materialism; modernity; Marxism; South Korea

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Abinaya Gnanasekar

Gender; agriculture; development; Indonesia

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Chaya Ocampo Go

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Critical geographies of disasters; political ecology of disaster response; feminist and decolonizing methodologies; social and climate justice

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Khem Guragain

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Postcolonial; caste; Dalit; Adivasi; tribal; indigenous; subaltern; South Asia; nation-state

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Yasir Hameed

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Public space; citizen engagement; housing equity; social justice in urban policy, planning and design

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Mohammad Hasan

Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Resource extractive industries; Indigenous peoples; Environmental Impact Assessment; environmental justice; Bangladesh

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Aqeel Ihsan

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University

South Asia; South Asian diaspora; immigration and refugee issues; partition; Pakistan; India

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Aaisha Z. Islam

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture

Diaspora; intersectionality; Muslim identity; media and representation; visible minorities; Global South, postcolonialism, politics and policy; postcolonial feminism; journalism

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Lianrui Jia

Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Culture, York University

Media policy and regulation; Internet; China; Canada

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Jolin Joseph

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University

Feminist IPE; migration and transnationalism; labour migration; migration policies; reproductive labour; precarious work

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Amardeep Kaur

Doctoral Candidate, Geography Department, York University

Power and resistance; postcolonial theory; South Asian diaspora and mobility; transnational feminism; cosmopolitanism, East Asia; Hong Kong; critical human geography; Asian urbanism; worlding

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Jihong Kim

Masters Student, Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University

History; cinema and media studies; literature; Korea; nationalism; structure and agency

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Chenxin (Vonnie) Li

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Concepts of feminine beauty in China, cosmetic surgery, health

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Eva Lu

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University

Art history; conceptual art; East Asian diaspora; feminism; modern and contemporary art; post-colonialism; visual culture

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Jun Lu

Doctoral Student, Social and Political Thought

Large-scale phenomen; human confition; how we are affected by the past

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Clarence Magpantay

Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Alternative development; diverse economies; Foucauldian governmentality; Philippine-Canadian diaspora; Philippines

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Dani Magsumbol

PhD Student, Department of Politics

Filipinx diaspora, migrant bodies as borders, migrants as capital in the global labour market, transnational motherhood/families, urbanities

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Ayyaz Mallick

Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

Urban geography; sociology; development; Marxism; class; informality; labour; global South; Pakistan

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Wendy A. Medina de Loera

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Rural livelihoods; rural transformation; socio-environmental relations; political ecology; South Sulawesi; Indonesia

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Rupinder Minhas

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

History of revolutionary movements; communist parties; trade unions; Marxism and gender; India

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Stein Monteiro

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Program in Economics, York University

Assimilation; economic, cultural, political out-migration; family migration; Nepal; India

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Zahra Nader

Master’s Candidate, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University

Gender and women’s issues, representation of women in culture and media, ethnicity, identity formation

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Khyati Nagar

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Visual culture of science; science, art and print culture in the Indian subcontinent; India; South Asian Arts and Culture; Hindi-Urdu

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Noa Nahmias

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University

Modern Chinese history; history of science; knowledge production; material culture; print culture

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Nanditha Narayanamoorthy

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Identities; South Asian (Tamil) diasporas; queer sexuality; post-colonialism; Digital Humanities; endangered languages

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Christine Nguyen

Master's Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Visual culture; perceptions of East and West; Japanese contemporary literature; cross-cultural analysis between Western painting and Japanese literature

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Izumi Niki

Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Unpaid care work (elder care and domestic work); labour; gender; immigration policy; Japan; East Asia

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Desmond A. D. O'Doherty

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Sexuality; performance; Christianity; (post)colonialism; nationalism; citizenship; Queer Theory

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Min Ah Park

Doctoral Student, Gradaute Programme in English, York University

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Hsin-Yun Peng

Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, York University

Chinese LGBTQ individuals; migration; life strategy; gender equality; career planning

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Janice Phonepraseuth

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Racial and ethnic identities; racialization; East and Southeast Asia

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Olesya Pogorelova

Masters Student, Graduate Programme in Development Studies

Economic, political and socail development in communist and post-Soviet states; Russia; China

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Nausheen Quayyum

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Labour and feminist movements in the Global South; political economy of South Asia; community and international development; Bangladesh

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Venilla Rajaguru

Doctoral Candidate, Science & Technology Studies, York University

Maritime issues; global security; international law

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Susan Rajendran

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Buddhism; humanism; modernity; postcolonial; Sri Lanka

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Dalton Rawcliffe

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in History

Transnationalism; Maoism; Cultural Revolution; Britain; China; Hong Kong; Cold War; propaganda

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K. B. Roberts

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political ecology of resource frontiers; rural livelihood change; deforestation and forest degradation; feminist research methods

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Antoniel Roca

Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Music, York University

Ethnomusicology, Filipino diaspora; identity; post-colonialism; hybridity in music; alterity

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Arianto Sangadji

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political economy; state theory; extractive industries; agrarian change; communal violence

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Cailleah Scott-Grimes

Masters Student, Graduate Programme in Film Production

Japan; women and gender studies; linguisitics; film; visual culture

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Harini Sivalingam

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Socio-legal Studies, York University

Immigration and refugee law; international and domestic human rights; national security law; South Asian Diaspora

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Ravneet Somal

Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology

Feminist activism; socio-cultural relations; South Korea

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Shabnam Sukhdev

Master of Fine Arts (Film)

Normality and Otherness; diaspora, feminism

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Kasim Tirmizey

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University

Colonialism; anti-colonialism; social movements; anti-colonial 
Marxism; agrarian political economy and ecology; critical human
geography; environmental sociology; Pakistan

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Josh Trichilo

3.11, post-disaster life, trauma, auditory culture, sound studies, culture studies, posthumanism, media studies, archive studies

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Patricia Trudel

Master's student, Graduate Programme in Anthropology, York University

Korean studies; Asian studies; Anthropology; East Asia; diaspora; identity; nationalism; ethnicity

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Sadia Uddin

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York Univeristy

Pakistan; human rights; Shia genocide; religious minorities; political development; religious extremism; governance; law

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Deepa Venkatesan

Masters student, joint program in Communication and Culture Studies, York University and Ryerson University

Feminism; postcolonial studies, migration, race, identity, memory, embodiment, culture, Indian and Asian diaspora, storytelling, film making

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Robin Verrall

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University

Taiwan; China; nationalism; protests; visual culture

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Keefer Wong

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Neoliberal ideologies; globalization; social change; knowledge production; diaspora; “identities;” transnationalism; political economy; critical theory; China

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Rachel Wong

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Asian North American diasporic literature and theory; twentieth century Canadian literature, minority writers; Post Colonial theory; Critical Race theory; cultural studies; literary representations of women and ethnic enclaves

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Harshita Yalamarty

Doctoral Candidate, Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University

Critical transnational feminist and postcolonial theories; women’s movements in India; gendered citizenship practices; religious communities in India; migration and marriage practices; South Asian diaspora

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Xiao Alvin Yang

PhD candidate in Political and Economic Science at Universität Kassel, Germany
Visiting Graduate Associate, York Centre for Asian Research

International Relations theory; global political economy; Belt and Road Initiative; China and Europe; East Asia and Southeast Asia; popular music; Chinese and European history and philosophy

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Sabrina Zhao

MFA Candidate, Film Production

Gender, Diasporic Identities, Historical Identities,

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Yikun Zhao

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Cultural and economic sociology; cultural capital; cultural industry; Chinese consumer culture; etiquette; sociological theories; climate change; digital research methods

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