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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: Climate Change and Health; Fertility; Climate Disasters; Population Dynamics; 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; Quantitative methods; Life-Course.
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Khandys Agnant

Khandys Agnant
She/Her

Email Address: mahjoube.amanichakani [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology- Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA in Social Sciences (Social Planning), University of Tehran; MA in Demography, University of Tehran
Research Interests: Transition to Adulthood, Demography, Quantitative methods, life-course transitions, Adolescence, Event History Analysis, Migration, Population dynamics, Family Changes

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Mahjoube AmaniChakani

Email address: sarah.badr [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: MA Political Science, York University; BA Political Science (Honours), York University
Research Interests: Sociology of science; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of culture; Social theory



Sarah Badr

 

Email: erkin.basar [at] mail.mcgill.ca 
Degree: PhD  

Previous degrees: MA in Cultural Studies, Sabancı University (2025) BA in Sociology & Psychology (Double Major), Koç University (2022) 
Research Interests: Sociology of gender; men and masculinities; neoliberal subjectivities; post-neoliberalism; sociology of the body; qualitative research. 


Erkin Basar
(He/Him)

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: helena.villacardona [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: Ph.D. in Sociology with the Option of Women and Gender Studies (2023-) 
Previous degrees: BA (Honors) in Modern Languages and Cultural Management at Anáhuac Norte University (2016-2020).  Master’s Degree in Gender Studies at El Colegio de México (2020-2022). 
Research Interests: gender studies, gender backlash, LGBTQ+, gender violence, far-right movements, book banning, Latin America, and qualitative methods. 

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Helena Villa Cardona

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: su-wei.chiang [at] mail.mcgill.casu-wei.chiang [at] mail.mcgill.ca "> 
Degree: PhD- Population Dynamics Option 
Previous degrees: B.A. in Diplomacy (major) and International Business (minor), National Chengchi University (2018); M.A. in Education, Sociology of Education, National Taiwan Normal University (2024) 
Research Interests: School-to-Work Transition, Work-Family Trajectory, Gendered Wage Gap, Fertility, Longitudinal Data Analysis 

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Su-Wei Chiang
 (she/her) 
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 Conway

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: 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: Political sociology; Social Movements; Civil Society, foreign aid & governance, MENA (Lebanon), Mixed-Methods
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Charlotte Gaudreau-Majeau

Email Address: rebecca.haines [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology , Concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies
Previous Degree: MSc. in Gender, Development, and Globalization, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Research Interests: Social Movements; Feminist Social Movements/Social Movements for Gender Equality; Gender Dynamics of Resistance Movements; International Development/Aid Dynamics
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Rebecca Haines
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: esme.hood [at] mail.mcgill.caesme.hood [at] mail.mcgill.ca "> 
Degree: PhD 
Previous Degrees: MA in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (UCL) BA in International Relations and Anthropology (University of Sussex) 
Research Interests: Digital Community, Online ethnography, Radicalisation, Gender Studies, Pornography  




Esme Hood
They/Them/Theirs and She/Her/Hers

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: Social Movements; Unions and Labour Movements; Computational Methods; Causal Inferences; Comparative Historical Analysis
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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: maya.krishnan [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Option in Gender and Women’s Studies
Previous Degrees: B.A. International Relations (Honors), American University, 2019. M.A. in International Relations (Honors), University of Chicago, 2022.
Research Interests: gender-based violence, violence in mass-media, collective behavior and social movements, South Asia and Asian America, political sociology, international development, ethnography, mixed-methods.

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Maya Krishnan
(She/Her)

 

Email: trent.lebans [at] mail.mcgill.catrent.lebans [at] mail.mcgill.ca  ">  

Program: PhD- Population Dynamics Option 
Previous Degrees: BA, Sociology, University of British Columbia (2021); MA, Sociology, University of Western Ontario (2023) 
Research Interests: Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Racial and Ethnic Inequalities, Life Course, Quantitative Methods 

 


Trent Lebans
He/Him/His

Email Address: gabriel.levesque2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program:: PhD
Previous Degrees: M.A Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal (2021); B.A Political science, Université du Québec à Montréal (2018)
Research Interests: Political sociology, Medical sociology, Sociology of science.
I study regulatory power, the politics of science and expertise, and the social construction of risk. In my dissertation, titled Structures of Latency: The Protraction of Regulatory Controversies over Toxic Substances, I investigate regulatory change and inertia with a substantive focus on environmental and occupational exposures to toxics in Canada and the United States. 

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Gabriel Lévesque

(He/HIm)

Email Address: zekai.lu [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degree: MA in Sociology, McGill University (Fast Track to PhD); LL.B. in Sociology, Guangzhou University
Research interests: Sociology of Health & Medicine (Health Inequality, Indigenous Peoples' Health); Computational & Digital Sociology (Problematic Social Media Use, Infodemiology); Sociology of Sexuality (Asexuality, Sexual Attitudes); Criminology & Deviance (Substance Use, Drug Policy).
Psychology: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) & Life Course Trauma; Mental Health & Psychopathology; Addictive Behaviors. 

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Zekai Lu

Zekai Lu

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 Lunot

Julia Marie Lunot
(she/her)

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

Ezelbahar Metin
(she/her)

Email Address: Michaela.Michalopulos [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD  
Previous Degrees: BAH Sociology, Queen’s University (2020); MA Sociology, University of Ottawa (2022)  
Research Interests: Surveillance; AI; Social Media; Criminology; Sociology of Law; Consumer Culture; Privacy  




Michaela Michalopulos (she/her)

Email Address:meng.ng [at] mail.mcgill.ca "> meng.ng [at] mail.mcgill.ca   
Program: PhD  
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology, National Taiwan University; MRes Sociology, The University of Edinburgh  
Research Interests: Colonialism, Nationalism, Comparative-Historical Sociology, East Asia 

 

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Meng Hin Ng

Email: sol.park [at] mail.mcgill.ca 
Degree: PhD, Population Dynamics 
Previous degrees: MSc in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University; BA in Psychology, McGill University 
Research interests: Population change, Family sociology, Child and youth well-being, Gender roles and attitudes, Racial and ethnic inequalities, Immigrant and refugee integration, Cross-cultural parenting, Program implementation and evaluation 

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Sol Park 
She/Her/Hers
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: rudranil.raha [at] mail.mcgill.ca//rudranil.raha [at] mail.mcgill.ca "> 
Program: PhD  
Previous Degrees: BA in Sociology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous) - Kolkata; MA in Development Policy, Planning and Practice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 
Research Interests: Development, Globalization, Political Economy, World Systems, Philanthropies, NGOs, Sociology of Knowledge, South Asia, Qualitative Methods 

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Rudranil Raha 
They/Them/Theirs  He/Him/His

Email: rachel.rammal [at] mail.mcgill.ca 
Program: PhD 
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) Psychology, Concordia University; MA Fashion, The Creative School at TMU 
Research Interests: Sociology of the Second Generation; Sibling Acculturative Variation; Family Resource Mobilization and Cultural Transmission; Quantitative Methods; France.  

Rachel Rammal

Rachel Rammal

Email: alisa.sanchez [at] mcgill.caalisa.sanchez [at] mcgill.ca "> 
Degree: PhD in Sociology, Gender and Women’s Studies 
Previous Degrees:  BA Law and Society, Minor in Development Studies, University of Calgary (2021); MA Sociology, University of Calgary (2023) 
Research Interests: Masculinity, gender, youth, education, ethnography 


Alisa Sanchez 
She/Her/Hers

 

Email: Zeina.seaifan [at] Mail.mcgill.ca 
Degree (MA or PhD): PhD 
Previous degrees: HBSc in Diaspora Transnational Studies and Environmental Science at the University of Toronto; MES in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Toronto 
Research Interests: Political sociology, social change and movements, environmental justice, diaspora and transnationalism, Middle East 

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Zeina Seaifan
She/Her/Hers
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] mail.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.

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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

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Ian Van Haren

Ian Van Haren
(he/him)

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

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Taisto Witt

Taisto Witt
(he/him)

 

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