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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Min Ah

Phd Student, Department of English

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Hana Shams Ahmed

PhD Student, Social Anthropology

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

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Nabeel Ahmed

Master's Candidate, Environmental Studies Programme, York University

Urban planning; social movements; neoliberal urban development; international aid; governance

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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 Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

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

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Asma Atique

PhD student, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

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

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Sanjukta Banerjee

Doctoral Student, Dance

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Sanjukta Banerjee

Doctoral Student, Department of Humanities, York University

Travel writing; translation; colonial history; India; France

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Shahab S. Bayani

PhD student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Masculinity; aerospace; subaltern; hegemony; humanism; Iran

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Alyssa Brierley

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of 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 Student, 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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Myles Carroll-Preyde

PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, York University

Marxian political economy; Japanese politics; political ecology; feminist theory; Japan

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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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Katherine Cheng

Master's Student, Development Studies Programme

China; global health; development; South Asia; Southeast Asia; political economy; medical anthropology; international relations

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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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Catherine Cua

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Études francophones, Glendon College, York University

Cultural and aesthetic hybridity; literature; East Asian Diaspora; Social semiotic; Visual culture; Children’s literature, Cultural representation, Multiculturalism, Cultural translation

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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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Claire Deng

Doctoral Candidate, Schulich School of Business

Knowledge diffusion; actor-network theory; linguistic anthropology; management accounting; international accounting; cultural significance of accounting

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Sara Farhan

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in History, York University

Iraq; Middle East; Hashemite Monarchy; medicine; class struggle; identity formation; knowledge production; gender and sexuality

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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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Zhipeng (Simon) Gao

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Psychology, York University

History of education; history of psychology; theoretical psychology; qualitative research; China

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Meghna George

PhD Student, Social Anthropology, York University

Gender identities; transnationalism; South Korea

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Kyle Gibson

Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Studies

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

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Hansika Gunaratne

Master's Candidate, Development Studies programme, York University

Healthcare; human development; Sri Lanka

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Khem Guragain

Doctoral Student, English, York University

Nepal; South Asia; Buddha; Dalit; Hinduism; identity; representation; nationhood; diaspora

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Yasir Hameed

Doctoral Student, Environmental Studies

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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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Jassi Ranauta

Master's Student, Environmental Studies

Decoloniality; Environmental Justice; Punjab; Sikh Diaspora in Canada; Lived Experience, Migration and Transnationalism

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Lianrui Jia

PhD Student, 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

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

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Hamza Karamally

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Contemporary American and South Asian literature

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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

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Jun Lu

Doctoral Student, Social and Political Thought

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Ayyaz Mallick

Doctoral Student, 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

Indonesia; socio-environmental relations; large-scale mining operations; political ecology; rural transformation

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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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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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Anh Ngo

Doctoral Candidate, School of Social Work, York University
Lecturer, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Newcomer settlement; mental health; Southeast Asian Diaspora

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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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Desmond A. D. O'Doherty

PhD Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

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

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Chaya Ocampo Go

PhD Student, Geography, York University

critical geographies of disasters; political ecology of local resource management; feminist and decolonizing methodologies; social and climate justice

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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

Master's Candidate, Department of Sociology, York University

Asian-Canadian ethnicity, symbolic belonging, race and racism, identity formation, ethnic student organizations, and post-secondary institutions

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Maxime Polleri

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University

Cultural politics of exclusion; belonging; citizenship; Japan

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Tiffany Pollock

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

Dance; affect; tourism; Thailand; cross-cultural encounter

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Nausheen Quayyum

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of 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, Humanities, York University

Buddhism; humanism; modernity; postcolonial; Sri Lanka

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Jacqueline Ristola

Master's Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies, York University

Anime; film; new media; Japan

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K. B. Roberts

Doctoral Student, Department of Geography, York University

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

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Arun Nedra Rodrigo

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Multiculturalism; Asian Diaspora

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Fumi Sakata

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Race; identity; ethnicity; Japan

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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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Thrmiga Sathiyamoorthy

Master's student, Interdisciplinary Studies, York University

Aging refugees; refugee status; access and utilization of health and social care; Tamil Diaspora

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Laura Schoenberger

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University

Political ecology; agrarian transformations; state power; conflict; land

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Saher Shaikh

Master's Candidate, Development Studies Programme, York

Gender equality; aid programming; education policy; holistic child development; Pakistan

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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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Stacey Bliss

Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Education

Cross-cultural ethnography, Levinasian philosophy, contemplative education, possibilities in conceptualizing contemplative literacies, silence and sound in meditative practices

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Ishrat Zakia Sultana

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Rights; citizenship; children and youth; governance; immigration; Bangladesh

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Tasnuva Tanzim

Masters Candidate, Development Studies Programme, York University

Information Communications for Development (ICT4D); human development; rural development and agriculture for development; communication for development; South Asia

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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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Sadia Uddin

Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York Univeristy

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

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Robin Verrall

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in the Department of Politics, York University

Taiwan; China; nationalism; protests; visual culture

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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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Jie Wu

Master's Student, Communication and Culture

Place, space, environment, Chinatowns, multiculturalism, settler-colonialism, arts, activism

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Lydia Wytenbroek

PhD Candidate, Department of History, York University

Colonial Medicine; nursing history; gender history; history of global health; Iran

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Jing Xu

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University

Northeast China; postcolonial culture; architecture; literature; film

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Harshita Yalamarty

Doctoral Student, 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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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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