Current PhD Students

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Email Address: khandys.agnant [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) in International Development and Globalization, University of Ottawa; MSc in Health and International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Social and Health Inequalities; Racial and Ethnic Inequalities; Nutritional Health; Childhood and Adult Malnutrition; Population Health; Global Health and Population Change; Sexual and Reproductive Health; International Development and Globalization; Research Design for Policy, Health and International Development Programme Evaluation.
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Khandys Agnant

Khandys Agnant

Email Address: chris.borst [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Economics, Carleton; MA Philosophy, Toronto; MPhil Philosophy & Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Research Interests: Ideology/Culture/Knowledge; History, Philosophy, and Sociology of the Social Sciences; Democracy; Children & Childhood; Education; Social Policy & Evaluation; Computational text analysis
Website: https://imageofthechild.org

Chris Borst

Chris Borst

Email Address: michaela.bunakova [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2018), University of Manchester, UK; MSc Comparative Social Policy (2019), University of Oxford, UK ; MSc Epidemiology (2021), McGill University
Research Interests: sociodemographic determinants of health disparities, social policy, welfare regime analysis, comparative medical sociology, quantitative methodology
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Michaela Bunakova

Michaela Buňáková

Email Address: yvonne.chang [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Biochemistry, Barnard College, Columbia University (2008); MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2013)
Research Interests: migration, immigrant integration, & cultural citizenship; racial/ethnic relations; mass incarceration & prisoner reentry; social determinants of health; community & minority health; social support; qualitative & mixed methods
Yvonne Chang
Email Address: kaitlin.conway [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) International Development Studies, McGill University (2012); MSc Global Health, King's College London (2016)
Research Interests: Social inequalities in health; Population health; Health policy; Quantitative methods
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Kaitlin Conway

Kaitlin Elizabeth Conway

Email Address: jean-denis.david [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) of Social Sciences in Criminology, University of Ottawa; MA in Criminology, University of Ottawa
Research Interests: Police-citizen relations; Rural criminology; Collective efficacy
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Jean Denis David

Jean-Denis David

Email Address: rebecca.daviddi [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Geography, University of Leicester (2012); MA International Relations, University of Bologna (2014)
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Culture; Religion; Central and Eastern Europe; Qualitative Methods
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Rebecca Daviddi

Rebecca Daviddi
(she/her)

Email Address: alessandro.drago [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: Masters in Sociology (McGill), 2016-2017.
Research Interests: Social Movements; Political Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Right-Wing Movements
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Alessandro Drago

Alessandro Giuseppe Drago
(he/him)

Email Address: patricia.elungata [at] mail.mcgill.ca Patricia Elung'ata
​Email Address: charlotte.gaudreau [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal (2019); MA Sociology, McGill (2020)
Research Interests: Social Movements; Political sociology; Middle East; Comparative Historical Methods

Charlotte Gaudreau-Majeau

Charlotte Gaudreau-Majeau

Email Address: ann-marie.helou [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Psychology and Sociology (2017); MA Sociology: Criminology and Law, Queen's University (2019)
Research Interests: Sociology of Law; Judicial Discourse and Discretion; Sentencing; Crime; Policing; Prisons; Corruption and Law; Lebanon; Quantitative Methods; Mixed-Methods

Ann-Marie Helou

Ann-Marie Helou

Email Address: madeleine.henderson [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA Psychology, The University of British Columbia (2012)
Research Interests: Development; gender; sexual and reproductive health;
social epidemiology; religion

Madeleine Henderson

Madeleine Henderson

Email Address: celine.hequet [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD 
Céline Hequet

Email Address: yi-cheng.hsieh [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA, Civic Education and Leadership, National Taiwan Normal University (2015); MA, Sociology, National Taiwan University (2019).
Research Interests: Labor Unions; Social Movements; Organizational Institutionalism; Comparative Methods; Education and Curriculum Policy/Teaching; Nationalism and Culture Politics in Taiwan
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Yi-Cheng/Ken Hsieh

Yi-Cheng/Ken Hsieh

Email Address: maike.isaac [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Ethnology, Leipzig University; MA Peace & Conflict Studies, European Peace University; LL.M. International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, European University Viadrina
Research Interests: care work, gender, racialized masculinities, citizenship, welfare states, labour, migration & social policy, ethnography

Maike Isaac

Email Address: tay.jeong [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
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Tay Jeong

Email address: maya.krishnan [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: B.A. International Relations, American University, 2019, M.A. in International Relations, University of Chicago, 2022.
Research Interests: Media Sociology and Violence in Media; Race, Gender, and Class; Collective Behavior and Social Movements; Asia and Asian America; Global and Transnational Sociology; Sociology of Development; Qualitative Methods; Mixed Methods.
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Maya Krishnan

Maya Krishnan
(she/her)

Email Address: freya.lambrechts [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA); Research Master Social Sciences (RMSS) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Research Interests: Sexuality; Gender; Conflict and Violence; Sports; Crime; Qualitative Methods; Mixed Methods
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Freya Lambrechts

Freya Lambrechts

Email Address: gabriel.levesque2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program:: PhD, Richard H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellow
Previous Degrees: M.A Political science, Université du Québec à Montréal (2021)
Research Interests: Political sociology, Medical sociology, Sociology of science

I study public health controversies and the role of science in politics. The bulk of my past work examined the formulation and implementation of legal cannabis policies in Canada, and has appeared in venues such as Politics & Policy, Critical Policy Studies, and Gouvernance. In my current research, I seek to understand patterns of risk invisibilization in controversies over occupational and environmental health in Canada and the U.S.

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Gabriel Lévesque

Gabriel Lévesque

Email Address: william.marshall2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology, King's University College (@013), MA Sociology, University of Western Ontario (2015)
Research Interests: Demography; Migration and Mobility; Rural Sociology; Quantitative Methods
William Zachary Marshall

Email Address: Abigail.Meza [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Option in Population Dynamics
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (hons), with a minor in Hispanic studies (2020); Master of Arts in Sociology with a Specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations (2022)
Research Interests: Demography; Immigration; Housing; Life-Course; Research Methods

Abigail Meza

Abigail Meza

Email Address: Michaela.Michalopulos [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: Queen’s University BAH Sociology (2020); University of Ottawa MA Sociology (2022)
Research Interests: Surveillance; National Security; Intelligence; Policing; Social Media; Criminology;
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Michaela Michalopulos

Michaela Michalopulos (she/her)

Email Address: ka.u.ng [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology - Option in Population Dynamics
Previous Degrees: BA in Political Science and Sociology, National Taiwan University (2013); MA in Sociology, National Tsing Hua University (2017)
Research Interests: Demography; International Migration; Family Dynamics; Political Sociology
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Karl Ng

Ka U (Karl) Ng

Email Address: colby.pereira [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BAH; MA (Queen’s University)
Research Interests: Militarization of Canadian Policing; US-Canada Police Comparison.
Colby Pereira
Email Address: alicia.poole [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) Sociology, Communication Studies, Memorial University (2017); MA Sociology, McGill (2019)
Research Interests: International migration; Conflict migration; Migration decision-making; Migrant categorization; Qualitative methods

Alicia Poole

Alicia Poole

Email Address: komin.qiyomiddin [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: B.A Sociology, King’s University College (2020); M.A Sociology, University of Toronto (2021)
Research interests: Sociology of Education; Social Stratification and Mobility; Income Inequality; Quantitative Methods

Komin Qiyomiddin
Komin Qiyomiddin
Email Address: rachel.rammal [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) Psychology, Concordia University (2018); MA Fashion, Ryerson University (2020)
Research Interests: Sociology of the second generation; Immigration; Family; Race and Ethnicity; Mixed-methods

Rachel Rammal

Rachel Rammal

Email Address: lymanrstone [at] gmail.com
Program: PhD - Option in Population Dynamics
Previous Degrees: BA Economics, Transylvania University (2013); MA International Trade Policy, George Washington University (2015)
Research Interests: Fertility, quantitative methods, values systems and attitudes, mortality and physical insecurity, institutions

Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone

Email: Zitian.sun [at] mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degree: B.A. International Studies, American University, 2018, M.A. International Affairs, American University, 2019, M.A. Political Science, New York University, 2022
Research Interests: Contentious Politics, Radicalization in Social Movements, and State Repression

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Zitian Sun

Program: PhD in Sociology - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) Sociology, Crandall University; MA Sociology, University of Toronto
Research Interests: Migration, demography, research methods, social policy

Ian Van Haren

Ian Van Haren

Email Address: taisto.witt [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) Sociology, University of Victoria (2018), MA Interdisciplinary; Power, Conflict, and Ideas, University of British Columbia (2020)
Research Interests: Extremism; Far-Right Movements in North America; Online Radicalization; Masculinities; Ideological Formation; Social and Political Movements; Hate-Motivated Violence; Qualitative Methods

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Taisto Witt

Taisto Witt
(he/him)

Email Address: chih-lan.yang [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology - Graduate Option in Gender and Women's Studies
Previous Degrees: BA in Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences (2014), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; MSc in Sociology (2015), University of Oxford
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Gender and Work; Marriage and Family; Social mobility; Mixed methods.

Winnie Yang

Winnie Yang
(she/her)

Email Address: irem.yildirim [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BS Sociology, Middle East Technical University (2013); MA Sociology, Bogazici University (2016)
Research Interests: Political sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Labor unions; Political parties; Law and society; Crime and deviance
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Irem Yildirim

Irem Yildirim

 

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