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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

Email Address: mahjoube.amanichakani [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology-Population Dynamics
Previous Degrees: BA Social Sciences, University of Tehran; MA Demography, University of Tehran
Research Interests: Demography, Quantitative methods, life-course transitions, Migration, Population dynamics, Family Changes

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

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Michaela Buňáková

Email: helena.villacardona [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: Ph.D. in Sociology – Women and Gender Studies
Previous Degrees: BA (Honors) in Modern Languages and Cultural Management, Anáhuac Norte University, Master’s Degree in Gender Studies, El Colegio de México.
Research interest: gender studies, emotions, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, culture and arts, social movements, qualitative methods.

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Kaitlin Conway

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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Ann-Marie Helou

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

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

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
(she/her)

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 toxic substance regulation, the politics of public health and the role of science and expertise in political processes.

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Gabriel Lévesque

Email Address: julia.lunot [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) Sociology, Minor in English, Simon Fraser University
Research Interests: Environmentalism; Food Justice; Food Movements; Local Food; Social Movements; Stratification; Ethnic, Culture and Race Studies; Embodied Neoliberalism; Urban Agriculture; Auto-Ethnography; Narrative Ethnography; Affectivity; Place-Making; Decolonial Methodologies;

Julia Marie Lunot
(she/her)

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

Email Address: ezelbahar.metin [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Psychology & Honours Sociology, McGill University (2022)
Research interests: Gender and sexuality, crime and deviance, sexology, culture, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Ezelbahar Metin
(she/her)

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)

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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

Rachel Rammal

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, Social Movements, and State Violence.

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

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Ian Van Haren
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Email Address: kaitlin.wannamaker [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology (Honours Spec.), Minor in Political Science, University of Western Ontario (2021); MA Sociology (Thesis), University of Western Ontario (2023)
Research Interests: welfare policy and administration; political sociology; universalism; quantitative methods, Indigenous communities; Indigenous methodologies; policy evaluation; poverty

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Kaitlin Wannamaker

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; Online Social Movements; Online Radicalization; Masculinities; Ideological Formation; Hate-Motivated Violence; Far-Right Terrorism; Social and Political Movements; Qualitative Methods

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