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. Khandys Agnant's Linkedin profile	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
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 Michaela Buňáková's LinkedIn profile	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 Kaitlin Elizabeth Conway's LinkedIn Profile	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 Jean-Denis David's ResearchGate Profile	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 Rebecca Daviddi's LinkedIn Profile	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 Alessandro Giuseppe Drago's LinkedIn Profile	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
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
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
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 Yi-Cheng/Ken Hsieh's LinkedIn Profile	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 Tay Jeong's Personal Website	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. Maya Krishnan's LinkedIn Profile	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 Freya Lambrechts's LinkedIn Profile	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. ResearchGate Google Scholar	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
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; Michaela Michalopulos's LinkedIn Profile	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 Ka U (Karl) Ng on Google Scholar	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
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
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
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
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	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
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 ResearchGate LinkedIn	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 (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 Irem Yildirim's Academia.edu Profile	Irem Yildirim

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