Anderson, Mary:
B.A. Honours Women's and Gender Studies, University of Saskatchewan
B.F.A. Candidate, Photography Studies, Ryerson University
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Identity formation, whiteness and racism, class, able-bodiedness, ageism, women's health, motherhood, visual arts, photovoice, unpaid/paid "work," cultural studies, and gender and religion.

Banfield, Hannah:
BA Honours Sociology, Acadia University
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Women and healthcare, specifically women and the overprescription of psychotropic drugs.

Francis, Toni:
BA Honours Communications and International Development Studies, York
University
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Representations of marginalized women in the media; identity politics; feminist postcolonial theory; how women in Southern Africa gain access to and use Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for their activism and as a means to network with other women; transnational feminism; African feminism.

Franklin, Erica:
BA Women's Studies, Trent University
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Migration, Immigration, Global Political Economy, Critical Anti-Racist Feminism.

Gibbs, Jennifer
BA Psychology, Concordia University
BA Honours Philosophy, Concordia University
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Feminist political economy, democratic theory, economic alternatives to neo-liberal globalization, gender and policy issues, and transnational feminisms.

Martin, Jessica:
BA Honours Psychology, University of Victoria
Advanced Certificate, Women’s Studies, York University
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
The increasing pornification and sexualization of our culture and their effects on the sexuality of youth; the pornography debates within feminism; pornography as a site of inquiry into a culture’s borders, anxieties, and contradictions; sex education policy and program development; critical media studies in education; the politics of sex work.

Mertiri, Denisa:
BSc. Honours Psychology/Women and Gender Studies/Philosophy, University of Toronto
MA Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
The effects of political economy, globalization, neo-liberalism, militarism, and hegemonic discourse on masculine psychologies and patriarchal relations in the Global South.

Samuels, Stella:
BA Honours English, University of Guelph
Certificate in Book and Magazine Publishing, Centennial College
MA Candidate, York University

Research interests: Queer theory, queer history, culture, and activism, femme gender and subjectivities, cultural representation of disability,
cultural production, enfreakment, monstrosity and the grotesque, moral panic, and fat feminism.

Ureta, Ximena:
BA, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Currently completing her MA at Universidad de la República, but is at York on exchange for the fall term

Research Interests:
Gender issues, more precisely childcare, household labor and women's leisure.

Yorke, Cody Mike Kolsteren

BA Women's and Gender Studies and Critical Studies in Sexuality, University of British Columbia

MA Candidiate, York University

Abbas, Saba

BA French Language and Literature, University of Jordan

MA Women's Studies, University of Jordan

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Transnational feminisms, postcolonial theory, gender and citizenship issues, women and political Islam, and veiling and questions of gaze and (in)visibility.

Aberman, Tanya:
BA Honours Political Science, Concordia University
MA Gender and Development, University of Sussex
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Gender, forced migration, Canadian immigration and refugee policy and discourse, transnational feminisms, women's experiences of migration.

Adeniyi Ogunyankin, Grace
BA Honours Psychology and Global Development Studies, Queen's University
MPA , Queen's University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Gender and development planning, women's reproductive health and policies in Nigeria, women's political movements in Africa, and African feminisms.

Ahmed, Mawahib

BSc Economics & Honours Political Science, University of Khartoum (Sudan)

MA Development Studies, Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, Netherlands)

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Gender, feminisms, women in the third world, nationalism, women's movements, and transnationalisms.

Bhanji, Nael

BA Honours Women's Studies, Ceritficate in Sexual Diversity Studies, Queen's University

MA Women and Gender Studies, Univeristy of Toronto

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Transsexuality and transgender studies, gender theory, queer theory, diaspora, psychoanalysis, cultural geographies, affect, cultural studies, postcolonial studies.

Crewe, Carolina

BA Political Science, Mount Allison University

MA Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Feminist political economy, midwifery, breastfeeding, reproductive health, women's and children's health and security, violence against women, single mothering, unpaid caregiving, mothering, and poverty.

Cummins, Kathleen
BA Film Studies, York University
MFA Film Production, York University
PhD Candidate. York University

Research Interests:

Feminist film practices, feminist cinema, representation of gender in film and television, and history on film.

de Leon, Conely:
BA Honours Women’s Studies and English Language and Literature, Queen’s University
MA Sociology and Equity Studies in Education and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Critical race studies, Philippine studies, Asian Canadian studies, transnational feminist praxis, gender and migration.

Devi Chandrashekar, Jessica
BSc Human Biology, Women's Studies, and South Asian Studies, University of Toronto

MA Women's Studies, University of Toronto

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Media representations of racialized youth, anti-terrorism legislation as an extension of Canadian colonialism, Immigration and Refugee law, refugee and immigrant youth, and intersections of gender, class, race, and sexuality.

de Szegheo Lang, Tamara:
BA Women's Studies, University of Guelph
BSES Environmental Geography, University of Guelph
MA Candidate Women's Studies, York University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Queer theory, 20th century queer history/history of sexuality, affect, queer collective memory and community embodiment.

Doiron, Fabienne
BA Multidisciplinaire (History, Visual Arts, Political Science), Université de Moncton

MA International Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Feminicide in Guatemala; Feminist theories of armed conflict, militarization and violence against women; Genocide; Women’s experiences of war.

Ezer, Ozlem

BA English Language and Literature, Bogazici University Turkey

MA Women and Gender Studies, International Fraun Universitaet Germany and The Middle East Techincal University Turkey

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Womens' life writing and travel writing, transnational feminisms, orientalism and occidentalism(s).

Friedman, May
BA, York University
MA, Carleton University
MSW, Carleton University

Research Interests:

The cultural artifact of the mommyblog and feminist motherhood studies.

Gartner, Jennifer:
BA Honours English and Drama, Queen's University
MA Theory and Criticism, The University of Western Ontario
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Transgender studies, queer theory, feminist theory, human rights discourse, gender and public policy, feminist pornography.

Grigorovich, Alisa

BSc Honours Psychology and Archaeology, University of Toronto

BA Honours Women's Studies, York University

MA Women's Studies, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Health, health care services and policy, long term care, aging, women's health and health care, LGBT health and health care, gendr and public policy, feminist and queer theories, gender, and sexuality.

Hodes, Caroline

BA, University of Toronto

MA, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Feminist Sociolegal perspectives, constitutional law, feminist engagements with international law, equality, and identity.

Husain, Abhar Rukh

BSS Economics, University of Rajshahi Bangladesh

MA Economics, University of Connecticut

MA Economics, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Feminist political economy, transnational migration, gender and public policy, and transnational feminisms.

Ikeda, Naoko
BA English and Women's Studies, the University of Albany and State University of New York at Albany
MA Women's Studies, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Gendered and racialized processes of US military occupation of Okinawa, and women's local anti-base activism.

Jafri, Beenash
BES Environmental Studies, York University
MA Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and University of Toronto

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Race, nation, and citizenship; indigenous studies; postcolonial theory; diaspora studies; psychoanalysis; cultural studies; environmental justice; social movements and organizing

Kachuk, Patricia:
BA Anthropology, York University
MA Anthropology, University of British Columbia
PhD Anthropology, University of British Columbia
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Gender dynamics of war; violence against women; refugee women from armed conflict zones; gender, public policy and feminist legal perspectives; transnational feminisms; feminist political economy.

Lowe, Leyna
BA Women's Studies and English Literature, Laurentian University

MA Candidate, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Girls' studies, cultural production and feminist politics, modernity and social movements, feminist theories of love, feminist pedagogy, and female friendship.

Mahalingam, Abetha
BA Honours Law and Society and Women's Studies, York University
MA Women's Studies, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Canadian immigration and refugee law and policy, gender, international human rights, anti-racist feminism, transnationalism, social justice, and public Policy.

Mancuso, Josie

BA Honours Women's Studies, Trent  University

MA Women's Studies & Feminist Research, The University of Western Ontario

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Women's (im)migration, transnational feminisms, women's health, mothering, "cross-cultural" caregiving, women's unpaid labour, media based representations of (im)migrant women, state-sponsored labout schemes, feminist theory, and feminist methodologies.

Manning, Elizabeth (Eli):
BA Native Studies, University of Manitoba
BSW University of Victoria
MSW University of Victoria
PhD Candidate, York University

Research interests:
Sex, gender, sexuality, discourse analysis, HIV/AIDS, sexual health assessments, poststructuralist strategies, and anti-racist and anti-colonialist practices.

Nakagawa, Shihoko
BA Political Science, University of Tsukuba

MA Political Science, Kwansei Gakuin University

MA Women's Studies, University. at Albany, SUNY

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Gender, poverty, public policy, and social movements, single mothers' movements, and social welfare policy in the US, Canada, and Japan.

Veronika Novoselova
BA with Distinction, Journalism, Ural Federal University, Russia
MA Women's Studies, York University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Gender and technology, digital media, Internet-based research methods, feminist blogging, and blogger-audience interactions.

Petrica, Oana
BA, Babes-Boylai University Roamnia

MA, Babes-Bolyai University Romania
PhD Candidate, York University

Research interests:

Gender, migration, political economy of Eastern Europe, transnational feminist theories and practices.

Reimer, Vanessa:
BA Honours Communication, University of Windsor
MA Communication, University of Ottawa
PhD Candidate, York University

Research interests:
Mass media representations of gender normative behaviour, gender performativity, women's sexual health, women and religion.

Rosser, Emily
BA Honours History and Women's Studies, McGill University
MA Women's Studies, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Gender, nationalism and militarisation, especially in Latin America, theories of sexual violence, racism, genocide and human rights, truth commissions, memory, testimony,and trauma.

Sanlos, Lisa

Diploma in Dance, George Brown College

MA Dance, York University

EMA (Expressive Movement Analyst

CMA (Certified Movement Analyst), Laban Institue of MOvement Studies

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Ecstatic dance practices, Community dance, mothering, representations in dance, psychology, dance/movement therapy.

Thompson, Healy

BA Economics and Women's Studies, Williams College (Massachusetts)

MA Women's Studies, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Global justice, social movements, sexual and reproductive health and rights policy, global HIV/AIDS policy, international 'development' theory and policy, women's and gender history, postcolonial thought, queer theory, activism and the academy, critical approaches to Northers intervention in the world, U.S. foreign policy, etc.

Townsend, Leeann

PhD Candidate, York University

Reserach Interests:
Guyana, transnational sexuality, development, popular culture, transnational feminism, anti-racism, and feminist methodologies.

Travis, Kathryn:
BA Honours Women's Studies, Queen's University
MA Women's Studies, York University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research interests:
Feminist and emotional geographies, gender theory and the construction of urban/suburban spaces, theories of affect, nationalism, citizenship and violence against women.

White, Melissa Autumn
BA, University of Calgary

MA, York University

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

Feminist and queer theory, epistemology, research methods; affect, archives, sexualities; transnational migration, critical multicultural, critical citizenship studies; political economy, cultural studies, governance, and security studies. Her qualitative dissertation research explores LGBT family-class migration in Canada.

Winstanley, Viola

BA Honours Sociology and Women's Studies, McMaster University

MA Women's Studies, Mount Saint Vincent, Dalhousie, and St. Mary's University (Inter-universtiy degree)

PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:

The relationship(s) between global economic change and women's experiences of work in banks in Canada.

Zanin, Andrea:
BA Translation and Women's Studies, Concordia University
MA Women's Studies, York University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research Interests:
Feminist and queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, sadomasochism, history of sexuality (particularly in Canada), oral history, anti-racism, transgender politics and activism, media and cultural studies.

Ziaee, Donya:
BA Political Science, University of Toronto
MA - Political Science, York University
PhD Candidate, York University

Research interests:
Feminist political economy; public social reproduction; neoliberalism and labour fragmentation; anti-racist marxist feminist thought.