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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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Sheheryar Ahmed
Master's student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
South Asian nationalism; colonial history; religion; literature
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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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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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Arpita Bajpeyi
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
South Asia; India; kathak; dance; gender; caste; performance; ethnography; research creation; nationalism; decolonizing methodologies; embodied histories
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Sanjukta Banerjee
Doctoral Candidate, 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
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
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 Candidate, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
India; citizenship; nationalism; subjectivity
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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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Zoe Dhillon
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in English, York University
Postcolonial literature; diaspora literature; Dalit literature; Indian literature; orientalism; exoticism; gender roles; sexuality; cross-cultural education; power-privilege imbalances
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Peter Duker
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; livelihood; conservation; development; Thailand
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Adam Faux
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Music, York University
Synaesthetic and process composition
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Mengzhu Fu
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
Indigenous and Asian diaspora solidarity; diasporic Asian activism; gender-based violence; migrant justice; decolonization and anti-racism
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Jillian Fulton
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Diasporas; Arab identities; dance music; nostalgia; tarab; social violence; indeterminacy
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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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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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Vedanth Sachdeva Govi
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Queer desire; intellectual property rights; India
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Yilin Guo 郭易霖
Undergraduate student, Department of History, York University
Political history in the late Qing Dynasty (1800–1912)
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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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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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Lianrui Jia
Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Culture, York University
Media policy and regulation; Internet; China; Canada
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Cindy Jiang
Doctoral student, Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy Management, York University
Diaspora; health policy; disability health; health promotion; mental health; stigma; racialization
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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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Shruti Kalyanaraman
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, York University
Settler colonialism; economic immigration policy; labour market integration; immigrant women
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Meera Kanageswaran
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Dance, York University
Bharathanatyam; Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora
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Jihong Kim
Master's 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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Bill Lu
Bill Lu
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Public & International Affairs, Glendon College, York University
Public policy; Canada; Asian Diaspora; China; social determinants of health
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Eva Lu
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Art History and Visual Culture, York University
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
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Jun Lu
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, York University
Large-scale phenomena; human condition; how we are affected by the past
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Mallory MacDonnell
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; Critical Physical Geography; labour relations; fisheries; Taiwan; Thailand
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Dani Magsumbol
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Filipinx diaspora, migrant bodies as borders, migrants as capital in the global labour market, transnational motherhood/families, urbanities
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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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Carli Melo
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Critical geographies of labour and migration; feminist political economy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar/Burma
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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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Rajat Nayyar
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies, York University
Vocality; everyday resistance; collaborative filmmaking; performative spaces; folklore; decolonization
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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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Min Ah Park
Doctoral Student, Gradaute Programme in English, York University
Korean-Canadian diaspora; Asian-Canadian studies; immigration histories; socio-cultural politics, lived experiences; literary expression
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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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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, Graduate Programme in Science & Technology Studies, York University
Space security; maritime security; cyber nexus; international law and security
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Vidya Rajasingam
Vidya Rajasingam
Master's Candidate, Urban and Regional Planning, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies, York University
Japan; urban planning; social housing; psychology; community development; education; evaluation
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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, York University
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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Arun Nedra Rodrigo
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Tamil refugee narratives; translation
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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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Philip Sarrazin
Master's Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Global production networks; Olympics; ice hockey athletes; Canada; China
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Cailleah Scott-Grimes
Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Japan; women and gender studies; linguisitics; film; visual culture
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Aparna Sengupta
Master’s student, Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, York University
Disaster anthropology; urban governance; Indigenous communities and knowledge; India; environmental management; Information-communication technology (ICT); cartographic mapping; Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Reena Shadaan
Reena Shadaan
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies
Environmental justice; environmental health; data justice; occupational health; reproductive justice
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Zhi Ming Sim
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Feminism; international relations; political violence; conflict; post-conflict reconciliation
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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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Gobika Sriranganathan
Doctoral student, Socio-Cultural and Policy Studies, Graduate Programme in Kinesiology and Health Science, York University

Sport; diasporic studies; leadership; postcolonial feminism; research methodologies; data analysis; social capital; program evaluation; well-being
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Shabnam Sukhdev
Master's candidate, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
Normality and otherness; diaspora; feminism
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Geetha Sukumaran
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
Contemporary Tamil poetry; women's writing; trauma literature and translation
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Josh Trichilo
Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Humanities, York University
3.11; post-disaster life; trauma; auditory culture; sound studies; culture studies; post-humanism; media studies; archive studies; Japan
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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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Derek Verbakel
Derek Verbakel
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Militarism; (in)security; conflict; India; Israel; transnational; nationalism; violence
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Robin Verrall
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in Politics, York University
Taiwan; China; nationalism; protests; visual culture
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Megan Whitney
Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Political ecology; wildlife tourism; critical geographies of labor and migration; climate change; Thailand; Southeast Asia
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Salvo Wiseman
Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, York University
Social justice and solidarity; homelessness and mental health; decolonizing Western healthcare systems
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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, Graduate Programme in 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
Visiting Graduate Associate, York Centre for Asian Research
Doctoral Candidate, Political and Economic Science, Universität Kassel, Germany
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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Summaiya Zaidi
Doctoral Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Legal education; socio-legal theory; law and policy reform; Pakistan
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Sabrina Zhao
Master's Candidate, Production, Graduate Programme in Film, York University
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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