Current Graduate Students

Madeline Engen:

MA Student - Architecture, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Annmarie Adams

madeline.engen [at] mail.mcgill.ca

John Adjeleian Fellowship
SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Master’s
Bachelor of Architectural Studies, University of Waterloo

Research Interests: 

Memory Care; Long Term Residential Care; Therapeutic Architecture; Dementia; Architecture and Memory; Building Component Reuse; Adaptive Reuse; Circular Economies

Taylor Wasserman:

M.Arch Student - Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Annmarie Adams

taylor.wasserman [at] mail.mcgill.ca

CIHR Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Masters Recipient
McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) Clean Tech UG Award Recipient
Class of Architecture 1975 SURE Award Recipient
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, McGill University

Research Interests:

Co-design; Integrative Care Approach; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; Therapeutic Architecture; Holistic Design

Sarika Beauchamp:

MA Student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Todd Meyers

sarika.beauchamp [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Daisy Couture:

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:

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:

PhD student - Anthropology

Supervisor: Professor Todd Meyers

B.A. Philosophy, Sorbonne University
M.A. Philosophy, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris

Research Interests:

Anthropology & philosophy of madness; archival anthropology; psychic life; aftermaths, afterlives, and other things that linger; poetics

Jonathan Harper:

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.

Anna Horton:

PhD student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University 

Committee member: Professor Todd Meyers

anna.horton [at] mail.mcgill.ca

MA Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
MSC Family Medicine, McGill University

Research Interests:

Throughout my academic and professional career, I have been concerned to investigate lived experiences of neoliberal policies, particularly in healthcare settings. My current PHD research investigates patient-citizen identities in the context of public-private healthcare hybridity in the United Kingdom. I draw on anthropological literature concerning hauntology, islands and identity enactment to explore the National Health Service in the UK as a haunted system, engaging with collective memories, human and non-human agencies and the spectral presence of private companies in post-socialist healthcare environments.

Fiona Kenney:

PhD student -Architecture, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Annmarie Adams

fiona.kenney [at] mail.mcgill.ca

B.A. (Hons), Toronto Metropolitan University
MDes (History and Philosophy of Design), Harvard University

Research Interests:

end-of-life architecture; death studies
care, relationality, and care ethics
medical architecture
feminist theory
moral philosophy

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.

Ehnke-Tuyaa Montgomery:

PhD student - Anthropology, McGill University 

Committee member - Professor Todd Meyers

BS (Biological Sciences, University of Chicago)
MPH (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University)

Sophia Motluk:

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

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.