People
Graduate Students
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PhD Students
Arthur, Mathew
he/him
Mathew is editor-in-chief of Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry and director of Doing STS. He works across feminist technoscience and affect studies to explore ordinary multispecies practices like composting and fermenting.
Khurram, Kuu
he/any pronouns
Kuu is a poet. As an artist-academic he enjoys working with MenEngage Global Alliance in community-focused projects. Kuu’s research interests lie at the intersection of disability studies, environmentalism, and decolonial practices. He has a deep-seated fondness for manga & anime, and loves going to the movies.
Michels, Cameron
she/her
Cameron is interested in exploring the intersection of sports, gender, sexuality, and bodies. Her research focuses on queerness and trans athlete inclusion and exclusion in women’s rugby.
Rann, Shanny
she/her
Shanny Rann is a gold-medallist Taijiquan artist and dance anthropologist. Originally from Penang, Malaysia, she grounds her artistry in the island way of living and intercultural collaborations. She has competed and performed internationally, and teaches at the unceded territories of Coast Salish peoples in Vancouver, Canada. Shanny completed her Bachelor of General Studies at Simon Fraser University and went on to obtain a Master of Arts in Dance Studies from York University and Erasmus Mundus Masters in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage (Choreomundus). Her previous research on ‘cham, a Tibetan Buddhist dance ritual, was conducted in the Himalayas with refugee monks and was published in ausDance and Recherches en Danse. She is happy to be back at Simon Fraser University and is completing her PhD dissertation on women and Taiji.
Reed, KJ
they/them
KJ's SSHRC-funded doctoral work explores privacy and disclosure decisions in the lives of trans, non-binary, two spirit, and other gender non-conforming youth.
MA Students
David-McIsaac, Jamie
she/her
Jamie’s inspiration to join this program came from her work within the field of women’s health care. In this program, Jamie hopes to explore health inequity through a feminist lens, while expanding her knowledge and engagement in women’s health care and reproductive health. Jamie hopes to contribute to a more informed and compassionate health care system.
Gutierrez Heredia, Ana Paola
she/her
Ana is a historian, an avid reader of historical drama, and an advocate of feminism. She graduated top of her class from the UNAM and later worked as an English teacher in an elementary school in Mexico, where she taught a feminist version of history, constantly encouraging her students to be autonomous and to question gender stereotypes. She is recognized as the favorite teacher of her students, who remember her when hearing Taylor Swift.
Her field of research focuses on the study of women in Mexico and Regency England, especially through the literature of the period, emphasis on Jane Austen.
Rohlf, Linds
they/she
Linds began her academic career in Marine Science at the University of Hawaii. While she is undergoing a large shift into GSWS from Marine Science, the motivations for entering each field are very similar. Linds prioritizes social justice and environmental advocacy and is focusing on learning how to apply what they learn in academia to direct action activism.
Linds is especially interested in research that centers trans and nonbinary people in order to broaden the societal discussions and understanding of gender non-conformity, as well as the impacts of human-caused pollution and climate change on communities of colour.
Wei, Yaqi
she/her
Yaqi is interested in race, migration, colonial archives, and the intersections of sex, gender, and labor. Her research focuses on the complexities of immigrant cultural identity and the body within Canadian society, with particular attention to how history and knowledge related to Chinese immigrants are produced, recorded, selectively erased, or remembered.