Email: katyayni.seth [at] mail.mcgill.ca Program:PBEEE Bourses postdoctorales en recherche pour étudiants(es) étrangers(ères) Previous Degrees:PhD Anthropology (Brown University); MA Anthropology (Brown University); MSc Global Health and Population (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health); BA Economics and International Studies (Colby College). Research Interests:My work is an attempt to accompany and write about people who are looking after severely ill children. My current book project, Imagine a Room: Paediatrics and Its Publics in Contemporary North India, centres around families and medical residents in a government hospital. In my next project, I will examine the role Sufi shrines play in the management of difficult childhood afflictions. My research is grounded in the city of Meerut, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Rates of morbidity and mortality for children in UP are among the highest in the world. Recent publications:
Anger at the Hospital: Emotional Responses and Affective Citizenship in a North Indian Medical Institution. 2026. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 49(2): 492–511.
Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India. 2022. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 47,176-194.
Dr. Katherine McNally
Email: katherine.mcnally [at] mcgill.ca Program: L4E Postdoctoral Fellow Previous Degrees: PhD Anthropology (Yale University); MPhil Anthropology (Yale University); BA Anthropology (Bates College). Research Interests: Moving between academic writing and ethnographic art, I attend to the ways communities in the rural north experience entrapment in, and abandonment by, extractive industries. My current book project, Newfoundland Ghost Nets, traces the social origins and effects of lost industrial fishing nets on the island of Newfoundland, drawing on a decade of conversations with fishing families about their shifting relationships with the ocean, technology, social structures, and one another.
Recent Post-doctoral scholars
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Dr. Paul Codjia
Email: paul.codjia [at] mail.mcgill.ca ; paul.codjia [at] hotmail.fr Program: Postdoctoral Fellow (Fyssen Foundation) Previous Degrees: BSc Physics (Université de Bordeaux), MA Philosophy of Science (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), MA Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-EHESS), PhD Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-EHESS) Research Interests: Affect and emotions, Ritual, Speech act and pragmatics, Indigenous politics, Self-determination movements, Amazonian territorialities, human/nonhuman interactions, Wampis (Aent Chicham), Peru.
Dr. Émile Duchesne
Email: emile.duchesne [at] mcgill.ca (Émile Duchesne) Program: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Previous Degrees: PhD Anthropology (Université de Montréal); MA Anthropology (Université de Montréal); BA Anthropology (Université de Montréal). Research Interests: Innu; Algonquian peoples ; cosmology; mythology; oral history; narratives ; indigenous history; collaborative research; comparison; boreal forest.
Janique Johnson-Lafleur
Email: janique.johnson-lafleur [at] mail.mcgill.ca Program: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research and Action on Social Polarizations Team - RAPS (Public Safety Canada Funding) Previous Degrees: Anthropology, Université Laval (BA); Anthropology, Université de Montréal (MSc); Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University (PhD). Research Interests: Critical Medical Anthropology; Intercultural Training; Cultural Safety and Youth Mental Health Care; Images, Narratives and Discourse; Social Polarisations and Violent Extremism; Gender Studies; Arts; Participatory Research; Clinical Ethnography; Nunavik; Québec
Dr. Marie Lecuyer
Email:marie.lecuyer2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Marie Lecuyer) Program: Le Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC)– postdoctoral fellow Previous Degrees: Research Fellow at the School of Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong); PhD Social and Cultural Analysis (Concordia University); MA Anthropology (University of Ottawa); BA International Development (McGill University). Research Interests: Spectral anthropology; waste, water and ghosts; conservation and contamination; energy transitions and climate regimes; media ecology; oceanic and underground perspectives; multisite and multimedia ethnographies; Southeast Asia; North America.
Dr. Martin Miller
Email: martin.miller [at] mcgill.ca (Martin Miller) Program: L4E Postdoctoral Fellow Previous Degrees: PhD Anthropology (New York University); MPhil Anthropology (New York University); BA Anthropology (Rice University). Research Interests: Environmental Anthropology; Science and Technology; Religion and Secularism; Moral Ecology; Spirituality; Soils; Multispecies Ethnography; The Netherlands; Europe
Jasmine C. Pisapia
Program: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Previous Degrees: BA Literature and Humanities (Université de Montréal), MA Comparative Literature (Université de Montréal), PhD Sociocultural Anthropology (Columbia University) Research Interests: aesthetics; toxicity and environmental crisis; deindustrialization; Italy; literature, poetics, media and performance; experimental ethnographic writing; memory and the archive; historical anthropology; feminist psychoanalysis; cinema, theater and documentary arts.
Dr. Guillermo Ramon Celis
Email: paul.codjia [at] mail.mcgill.ca ; paul.codjia [at] hotmail.fr Program: Postdoctoral Fellow (Fyssen Foundation) Previous Degrees: BSc Physics (Université de Bordeaux), MA Philosophy of Science (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), MA Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-EHESS), PhD Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-EHESS) Research Interests: Affect and emotions, Ritual, Speech act and pragmatics, Indigenous politics, Self-determination movements, Amazonian territorialities, human/nonhuman interactions, Wampis (Aent Chicham), Peru.
Dr. Sam Victor
Dr Victor is now a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal. You can reach him at: victor.samuel [at] courrier.uqam.ca
Program: FRQ-SC Postdoctoral Fellow Previous Degrees: BA French Studies (Concordia University), MSc Anthropology (Université de Montréal), PhD Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge) Research Interests: Value conflict; Strategies of influence and persuasion; Epistemic countercultures; Religious pluralism; Religion and rationality; Social epistemology; Evangelicalism in the United States and Canada; Liberalisms; Laïcité; Christianity and capitalism. Recent publications: “Checking the Fruit: Skepticism as Epistemic Politics in American Evangelicalism” 2025. Journal of the American Academy of Religion
