Postdoctoral fellows are researchers who work on projects based at CITY and are usually supervised by a CITY Faculty Associate. They have either been awarded external post‐doctoral funding (e.g. SSHRC, Banting) or are directly employed by the university on a CITY based research project. Their membership is determined by the duration of their funding, upon completion of which, they can apply for CITY Associate status, which will need to be approved by the CITY Executive Committee.
Please fill out the attached form if you wish to become a postdoctoral fellow at the CITY Institute.
2025/2026 Postdoctoral Fellows
Mantha Katsikana is a feminist geographer, transdisciplinary artist and activist, interested in issues of social reproduction, urban justice and ethics of urban planning, affect and affective labor, feminist geohumanities and DIY media as well as collaborative and decolonial knowledge production. Her doctoral research explores the ways affective geographies of social reproduction are formed through women’s and feminized subjects’ caring and commoning practices in the urban, during the multiple, overlapping ‘crises’ and on-going austerity, post-2007, in Athens, Greece. Mantha’s post doctoral research explores the urban geographies of community based abortion care in the Greater Toronto Area, through a reproductive justice and feminist urban geography framework.
Program Name: Post-doc, the Faculty of Health
Department: School of Kinesiology & Health Science
Maryam Lashkari is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the City Institute at York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from York University. Maryam has taught city studies workshops, urban geography, and economic geography, where she designed courses on migration, urban policy, economy, and globalization. Her research examines crisis urbanism and urban geopolitics, focusing on nation-state politics and migration policies.
Contact: maryamlk@torontomu.ca
Stefan Treffers is a postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD graduate from the Sociology Department at York University. His research focuses on urban governance, housing policy, policing, and urban securitization. He has co-authored several journal articles in Urban Studies, Housing Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, and the British Journal of Criminology.
In December 2023, Chan Arun Pina completed their PhD in Urban Geography at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Their dissertation, Trans imaging of non-normative homes, offers a spatial-visual analysis of the housing experiences of LGBTQ+ postsecondary students in two Indian megacities. In doing so, the research also presents a queer and trans ecological critique of cisheteronormative planning of higher education campuses and student housing in Mumbai and New Delhi. Currently, Chan is working with professors Luisa Sotomayor and Alison Bain at the City Institute on the project “Undoing Town and Gown: Urban university campuses in Delhi and Toronto.” This transnational project aims to cross-examine how campus planning and governance, neighbourhood politics and socio-spatial conflicts are manifested at the campus edge as it tensely interfaces with the city.