Current Graduate Students

Sarika Beauchamp:

Current MA Student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Todd Meyers

sarika.beauchamp [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Daisy Couture:

Current MA student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Lisa Stevenson

McCall MacBain Scholar

B.A. University of British Columbia (Psychology & English Literature)

daisy.couture [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

Medical/Psychological Anthropology; Feminist STS; Clinical Ethnography; Psychiatry; Neuroscience; Brain Health; Medically Unexplained Symptoms; Contested Illnesses; Uncertainty; Medical Epistemologies.

Sarah Wishloff:

Current MA student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Todd Meyers

B.A. Amherst College (Anthropology)

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sarah.wishloff [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

Medical/Psychological Anthropology; Anthropology of Mental Health; Psychiatry; Violence and Subjectivity; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness; Fiction

Coline Fournout:

Current PhD student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Todd Meyers

Research Interests:

Medical anthropology, medical humanities, archives, poetry and poetics.

Anne-Sophie Guernon:

Current PhD student - Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Sahar Sadjadi (MD, PhD)

B.A. Anthropology, McGill University

M.Sc. Medical Anthropology, St Cross College, University of Oxford

anne-sophie.guernon [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

Medical Anthropology; Phenomenology; Affect Theory; Diabetes; Illness Experience; Illness Narratives; Bioethics; Public Health

Jonathan Harper:

Current PhD student - Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University

Supervisor: Dr Thomas Schlich

B.A. (Hons.) History, University of Calgary
M.A. History of Medicine, McGill University

jonathan.harper [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

My main areas of research are the histories of modern surgery and psychiatry. Topics of interest to me include periods of therapeutic transition, interactions between societal and medical discourses, marginalized or stigmatized patient populations, and the relationship between mainstream and peripheral forms of medical practice. While much of my current research focuses on Canada, I also have research experience and an abiding interest in healthcare in mainland China as well as global health more broadly.

Cynthia Lazzaroni:

Current PhD student - Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Todd Meyers

BA (Hons) (Anthropology, McGill University), BA (Psychology, International Relations & Public Relations, University of Quebec)

cynthia.lazzaroni [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

Medical Anthropology; Anthropology of Aging; Critical Phenomenology; Home Care; Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Sophia Motluk:

Current PhD student - History, McGill University

Supervisor: Dr Thomas Schlich

Bachelor Of Arts: Honours in History from Dalhousie University (2017), MA History (Thesis) with a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies from McGill (2021)

sophia.motluk [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Research Interests:

The history of the relationship between the female body and the evolving medical profession of the 19th century, currently focusing on the defining and policing of prostitution by doctors in the mid to late 1800s

Stephanie A. Nairn:

Current PhD candidate - Sociology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Alberto Cambrosio

BA (Hons) (Political Science & Sociology, McMaster University), MA (Sociology, Queen's University)

Lead Researcher & Coordinator (Psychiatry), CHU Ste-Justine & University of Montreal

Research Interests:

Sociology of Food Allergy; Sociology of Scientific and Medical Knowledge; Sociology of Food and Consumption, Sociology of Drug use and Addiction; Risk and Uncertainty.

Ramzi Nimr:

Current PhD candidate - Anthropology, McGill University

Committee member: Professor Todd Meyers

BA (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University), MA (Religious Studies, University of Chicago)

Research Interests:

Anthropology of Mental Health; Anthropology of Clinics; Medical Experience; Disorganized Thinking; Stigma; Grief and Mourning; Fiction.