Graduate Student Supervision

Senior Supervisor

Sabrina Ngo, PhD candidate (in progress). [Research interests: Decolonizing vocational education]. eTAP, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Carolyn Tinglin, PhD candidate (ABD). [Research interests: special education; neurodiverse youth and intersectional racism/ disableism]. eTAP, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Reema Faris, PhD candidate (ABD). Reading women: Negotiating the intoxicating morass of ‘happily ever after’ and ‘happy for now.’ Dept. of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, FASS, SFU.

Sabah Ghouse, MA (in progress). [Research interests: anti-religious oppression programs]. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Anna Razzell, MEd (in progress). [Research interests: school level social justice initiatives] Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Balroop Dhanoa, MEd (in progress). [Research interests: professional development of racially minoritized teachers for anti-oppressive practice] Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Bal Dhillon, MA (in progress). [Research interests: racialized & immigrant youth; hip hop pedagogies]. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Ki Wight, PhD (2022). Media industry inequities in educational pipelines and pipedreams: A critical discourse analysis of Canadian post-secondary media production program website text. Faculty of Education, SFU.

Marc Legacy, MEd (2022). Curriculum & Instruction; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Noor ul ain Zaib MEd (2022).. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Rowan Burdge, MA (2021). Cripping accommodation and inclusion: A critical discourse analysis of accommodations policies and inclusion discourses at BC’s three largest post-secondary institutions. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Natasha Dandiwal, MEd (2021). BC’s Grade 10 Sexual Health Education: Race, Culture, Equity for a Comprehensive Pedagogy. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Chanelle Paul, MEd (2021). Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Trainings: A Critical Examination of Professional Development for Social Change. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Cathy Duerksen, MEd (2019). Mentorship in Nursing Education. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Hollman Lozano, MA (2018). Unforgiveness: An alternative space for people who cannot forgive. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Jyoti Panesar, MEd (2017). A critique and constructive interventions into BC’s Social Justice 12 curriculum. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Shiva Manavipour, MEd (2016). Media representations of Muslim students. Equity Studies in Education, SFU

Dilek Kayaalp, PhD (postdoc fellow 2014-2015). The young and the stateless: Male Kurdish youth in Canada after 9/11. Faculty of Education, SFU.

Paulina Michalak, MA (2012). “We can Wear any Shirt that we Want”: Girls’ Understanding, Negotiation, and Resistance of Girlhood. C&I: Inclusion & Diversity; Faculty of Education, SFU

Nisha Parhar, MA (2008). Culturally responsive pedagogy in practice: Teachers’ conceptions of their work and its challenges. C&I: Inclusion and Diversity; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Monica Anderson, MEd (2008). What Difference Does it Make? The importance of understanding racial and cultural difference when working for inclusion in schooling and education: An analysis of the discourses of difference in schools and society. C&I: Inclusion & Diversity. Faculty of Education SFU

Lianne Nosyk, MEd (2008). Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice. Understanding media and popular culture as pedagogical texts: An analysis of the discourses that media and popular culture associate with tween-girl identity. C&I: Inclusion & Diversity. Faculty of Education SFU

Geetu Parmar, MEd (2008). A shifted teaching philosophy: Challenging dominant discourses and the struggle for equity in education. C&I: Inclusion & Diversity. Faculty of Education SFU

Raj Sanghera, MEd, (2008). Barriers to and opportunities for implementing anti-oppressive curriculum and pedagogy. C&I: Inclusion & Diversity. Faculty of Education SFU

Committee Member

Nikki Mann, PhD student (in progress). [Research interests: Race/ism in mathematics education]. Math Education, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Robbi Davey, PhD student (in progress). [Research interests: Métis women’s access to and experiences with online postsecondary discussion forums]. Educational Technology and Learning Design, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Erin Biddlecomb, PhD candidate (in progress). [Research interests: Student affairs leadership navigating institutional social justice and equity mandates]. eTAP, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Harshaan Randhawa, MA (in progress). Equity Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Somayeh Bayrami, PhD (in progress). [Research interests: Diaspora Iranian women; race and class intersections]. Dept. of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, SFU.

Kendra Calhoun, PhD (2021).  Competing discourse of diversity and inclusion: Institutional rhetoric and graduate student narratives at two minority serving institutions. Dept of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Tzara Emanuelli. MEd (2021) Scrutinizing screens in schools: Using critical media literacy to deconstruct portrayals of disability and race. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Namorsh Reddy MEd (2021) BC’s PE curriculum through a social justice lens. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

William Ho MEd (2020) Socialization of Chinese Canadian Male Youth. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Hitaf Kady, PhD (2020). Constructions of peoples of Arab descent in social studies textbooks and teachers’ talk in secondary schools in British Columbia. Dept. of Educational & Counselling Psychology and Special Education, UBC.

Aleesa Sutton, MA (2018). A ghost at church: A narrative inquiry into how single LDS (Mormon) women make meaning of their sexuality. Counselling; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Noha Mohamed Ghaly, PhD (2018). International Muslim students with a globalized educational context. Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico

Shannon Leddy, PhD (2018). Starting from now, learning to see: Introducing preservice teachers to the process of Indigenous education through a phenomenological art inquiry. Faculty of Education, SFU.

Sarah Shove, MEd (2017). A critique of BC’s new elementary Aboriginal Education curriculum. Equity Studies in Education; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Willow Allen, PhD (2016). White Euro-Canadian women in transracial/cultural families: Lived experiences of race and difference. Languages, Cultures, and Literacies; Faculty of Education, SFU.

Somayeh Bahrami, MA (2014). Iranian women in the diaspora. Dept of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies SFU

Dilek Kayaalp, PhD (2011). Turkish youth and social exclusion in a cross-comparative context. Dept of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, UBC

Examiner

Ebru Bağ, PhD (2021). Reproducing, resisting, challenging, and changing: Intersectionality and narratives of women school principals in Turkey. Dept. of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto.

Shadi Mehrabi, PhD (2018). Middle Eastern international students’ identity in Canada. Educational Policy Studies. Faculty of Education. University of Alberta.

Syeda Nayab Bukhari, PhD (2017). Mapping the terrain: South Asians and ethnic media in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. SFU

Sheelah McLean, PhD (2016). Disturbing praxis: A Foucaudian analysis of student subjectivities and classroom pedagogies
in public schools.  Educational Foundations. Faculty of Education. University of Saskatchewan

Afshan Amjad, PhD (2016). Multicultural education and immigrant children: The case of Muslim children in Canadian schools.Elementary Education. Faculty of Education. University of Alberta

Milan Singh, PhD (2015). The bombing of Air India flight 182: Demanding justice, public inquiries, and acts of citizenship. School of Communication, SFU

L. James Climenhage, PhD (2014). Gender difference in prejudice toward redheads. Psychology, SFU

Maryam Nabavi, PhD (2011). (Un)Learning citizenship in Canada: Iranian immigrant youth’s silences, contradictions, and expressions. Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, UBC

Natalie Helen Coulter, PhD (2009). Tweening the girl: The crystallization of the tween market 1980-1996. Communication, SFU

Catherine Broom, PhD (2007). A historical study of citizenship education in British Columbia social studies guides. Education, SFU

Catherine McGregor, PhD (2007). Bring it to life: Youth performing socio-politically in a Northern urban environment. Education SFU

Thomas Falkenberg, PhD (2006). Caring and human agency: Foundations of an approach to teacher education. Education SFU

Zijad Delic, EdD (2006). Hermeneutics of Islamic education and the construction of new Muslim cultures in the West: Faithful but reformed. Education SFU

Krista Baliko, MA (2014). Media (mis)representations and the Muslim body: A lived curriculum. Education, University of Regina

Parisa Erfani, MA (2012). Azeri morphosyntax: The influence of Persian on a Turkic language. Linguistics, SFU                                    

Cara Ng, MA (2012). Adolescent motherhood and food-and body-related anxieties: At the crossroads of maternal obligation and teenage uncertainty. Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, SFU

Giti Eghbal, MA (2010). Iranian immigrant women in Canada: Economic security among Iranian immigrant lone mothers.  Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, SFU.