Faculty

Lara Campbell: SSHRC: Heroes, Havens, Cowards: Gender and Politics of Draft Resistance in Canada (2009-2012).

Jacqueline Levitin: SSHRC: Video Ethnography of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside ( 2006-2009).

Catherine Murray: SSHRC: Cultural Work, Urban Infrastructure and the Creative Economy in Canada ( 2009).

Mary Lynn Stewart: SSHRC: The Gender of Journalism in France.  (2010-2013)

Habiba Zaman: SSHRC: Accreditation and Labour Market an Exploratory Study of Skilled Pakistani Immigrant Women (2009).

Associate Faculty:

Genevieve Johnson: SSHRC: Deliberative democratic practices in areas of Canadian public policy, including social housing, energy generation, and nuclear waste management

Graduate Students' Thesis

PhD Students

Syeda Bukhari: Gender and International Development; race, class and gender relations, immigration studies and management of social enterprises.

Silke Frischmuth: Violence against Women in Mexico and Community Responses to it.

Patricia Garner: Stitching Up the Natural.

Jessica Haddon:”Excavating the Unfathomable” Tracking Elusive Asexual Texts, and Asexuality’s Emergence as a Paradoxical Sexual Orientaion.

Xinying Hu: Domestic Work as Precarious Work in China.

Natasha Patterson: Focusing on Reality TV: An Exploration of Women's Participatory Media Culture.

Beth Pentney: Mapping the Discourse of Makeover Culture and Contemporary Feminism.

Mary Shearman: Historical and contemporary manifestations of feminist theatre in burlesque and cabaret performances.

Joy Walcott-Francis: Social and Cultural Health Studies.

Masters Students

Mignon Alphonso: Evaluating Poverty Strategies in the Global Political Economy: Case Studies from Bangladesh, Bolivia, and India.

Karen Eggerman: Impact of Globalization on Women from a Transnational Feminist Perspective.

Giti Eghbal Kalvir: Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada: Economic Security Among Iranian Immigrant Lone Mothers.

Maryam Kiani: The Consumption of Cosmetics in Iran after the Islamic Revolution.

Rahela Nayebzadah: (Un)veiling the Veiled Subject.

Cara Ng: Adolescent Mothers’ Narratives on Food and Their Bodies: Distinct Anxieties at the Crossroads of Youth and Maternal Obligations.

Research Interests in Girls

Ann Travers, Marina Morrow and Rodney Hunt - Children and Gender Justice Research Initiative

Brian Burtch and Rebecca Haskell - high school bullying and gender issues involving youth

Beth Pentney - looking at young women and body image, especially attitudes towards cosmetic surgery in popular cultural texts and on line support groups.

Mary Lynn Stewart - adolescent girls and sexual instruction in France in the early twentieth century (scary indeed) and am episodically working on the new girl novels of the early twentieth century, in France of course.

Ozlem Sensoy has just published Muslim Voices in School which has a section on young women’s narratives of identity and pluralism in Canada.

Catherine Murray - WS310 course on Women in Politics especially explores the basis of political mobilization among young women, and men

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