Faculty Research Fields
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Nadine Attewell
- Queer and feminist histories of empire and decolonization
- Literary and cultural studies
- Photography studies
- Intimacy, carework, and other forms of reproductive labour
- Migrant, diasporic, and refugee experience
- Inter-Asias and Global Asias approaches to the study of Asia and Asian diasporas
May Farrales
- Queer approaches in geography
- Transnational feminisms
- Filipinx diaspora studies
- Community-engaged research
- Racialized and relational geographies in and beyond settler colonialism
Carman Fung
- Cultural Studies
- Queer Theory and Trans Theory
- Audience Reception Studies and Fan Studies
- Media Globalization and Transnational Screen Cultures
- Queer Asia, Sinophone, Inter-Asia Studies
Mariam Georgis
- Global Indigeneities, empires, colonialism
- Global Indigenous approaches to nationhood, sovereignty, and decolonization
- Indigenous, decolonial, and transnational feminist theories, approaches, methods
- Politics of the global South: conflict, violence, intervention, displacement
- Politics of Southwest Asia (Middle East): transformative civil society, resistance and solidarity movements
- Decolonial feminist approaches to the study of the Global War on Terror
Amy Krauss
- Medicine, technology, and embodiment
- Social and political dimensions of pain and illness
- Questions of labor and reproduction within and beyond racial capitalism
- Latin American and transnational feminist theory and movements
- Ethnography and memoir, poetic and critical methods
Helen Leung
- Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
- Queer and Trans Theory, LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies
- Sinophone, Inter-Asia, and Transpacific Studies
Megh Marathe
My research seeks to foster inclusion in the tools and practices that experts—such as doctors and engineers—use to make decisions about people’s lives. I am currently investigating: (a) the uneven representation of transgender people in digital infrastructures, and (b) ways to help epilepsy patients understand data generated by medical devices. My work advances the fields of human-computer interaction and science & technology studies.
- Digital identity infrastructures, including identity documents and information systems, in relation to trans and gender diverse people in North America and South Asia.
- Medicine, technology, and society, with a focus on how doctors and patients navigate technologized forms of care.
- Disability studies, especially epilepsy and other chronic episodic conditions.
- Ethnographies that involve expert practitioners and marginalized people.
Jen Marchbank
- 2SLGBTQ+ elder abuse
- 2SLGBTQ healthy aging/aging in place
- 2SLGBTQ youth
- 2SLGBTQ refugees and newcomers settlement in Canada
- Gender based violence & resistance
- Gender and politics
- Gender and labour
- Brokered marriage (mail order brides)
Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
My research interests focus on cities and urban change: in particular, I’m interested in how people who have historically been left out of city planning & decision-making negotiate cities and work in and with municipalities to make them livable and welcoming places for all residents.
- Women in cities (Belonging, mobility, safety)
- Equity & accessibility in cities (equity & inclusion, GBA+)
- Intersectional urban analysis
- Geographies of sexualities
- Social policy and municipal governance
- Critical participatory/ community-engaged research methodologies
Coleman Nye
Feminist science and technology studies
Performance studies
Medical anthropology and humanities
Comics-based research and multimodal methods
Vaibhav Saria
- Medical Anthropology- HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Mental Health, Medical Assistant in Dying
- Queer and Trans Studies
- South Asian Studies
- Childhood Studies
June Scudeler
- Indigenous literature and film
- Métis Studies
- Indigenous horror
- Two Spirit / Indigiqueer studies