Current Graduate Students

MA Students

CURRENT MA STUDENTS                                 

Thomas Prud'homme

MA Student - Medical Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Professor Todd Meyers

thomas.prudhomme [at] mail.mcgill.ca

FRQSC Master’s Research Scholarship
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s
Bachelor of Arts & Science, McGill University

Research Interests: 

Medical /Psychological Anthropology; Therapeutic Milieux; Institutional Psychotherapy; Subjectivity; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Social Bond; Micropolitics

 

RECENT MA GRADUATES

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.

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

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

PhD Students

CURRENT PHD STUDENTS

Sarah Badr

PhD Candidate - Sociology, McGill University

Supervisor: Dr. Phoebe Friesen

Sarah.badr [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Fonds de Recherche du Quebec (FRQSC)

Master’s in Political Science
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honours), York University

Research Interests:

Psychedelic-assisted therapy; Sociology of medicine; Epistemic authority; Health equity

Abigail Beckett

PhD Candidate - Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University

Supervisor: Sebestian Kroupa

abigail.beckett [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Master of Arts 2022, Queen's University
Bachelor of Arts Honours 2021, Trent University

Research Interests:

Early modern medicine, pharmacy, and the body; history of science; history of print and book history

 

Devyn Gwynne

PhD Candidate - History & Classical Studies McGill University

Supervisors: Nicholas Dew & Sebestian Kroupa

devyn.gwynne [at] mail.mcgill.ca

BFA, Art History, Concordia [2021]
MA, History, Concordia [2024]

Research Interests:

Early Modern Medicine; Early Modern Medicine & Science; Pre-modern and Early Modern Chemical Medicine; Iatrochemistry; Lithotherapeutics

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 

Supervisor: 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.

Mikaela Kassar

PhD Student - English, McGill University

RA Supervisor: Professor Phoebe Friesen

mikaela.kassar [at] mail.mcgill.ca

M.A. English, University of Guelph
B.Sc. (Hons.) Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph

Research Interests:

Health humanities; chronic illness; memoir and autobiography; narrative ethics; decolonial studies; medical pedagogy; feminist philosophy; history of medicine; affect theory

Atefeh Kazemi

PhD Student - Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Sahar Sadjadi (Co-supervised with Diana Allen)

atefeh.kazemi [at] mail.mcgill.ca

FRQSC-funded fellowship from the Groupe de recherche sur les conditions modernes des réfugiés (GRCMR)
2025 Adnan Al Mhamied Student Essay Prize

MA in Anthropology, University of Tehran

Research Interests:

Forced displacement; urban refugees, border studies, urban marginality, social-spatial exclusion, collective memory

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.

Nicolas McGee

PhD Student - Anthropology, McGill University

Supervisor: Sahar Sadjadi

nicolas.mcgee [at] mail.mcgill.ca

SSHRC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral
FRQ-SC Master’s Research Scholarship
SSHRC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Masters

Bachelor of Arts, Honours Anthropology, McGill University

Research Interests:

Profound intellectual disability; cognitive difference and communication; care and violence; type 1 diabetes; childhood; chronic illness; treatment technologies

Enkhe-Tuyaa Montgomery

PhD student - Anthropology, McGill University 

enkhe-tuyaa.montgomery [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Committee member - Professor Todd Meyers

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

Research Interests:

Medical Anthropology; Political Anthropology; Indigenous Studies; Harm Reduction; Settler-colonialism; Indigenous cartographies

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

ramzi.nimr [at] mail.mcgill.ca

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.

RECENT PHD GRADUATES

Coline Fournout

PhD student - Anthropology, McGill University

coline.fournout [at] mail.mcgill.ca

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

 

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