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Wangui Kimari

Wangui Kimari

Wangui Kimari has been named to the Board of Trustees for the Urban Studies Foundation

Wesley Oakes

Wesley Oakes

Wesley Oakes is the Director, Equity and Indigenous Engagement at Genome Canada

Sean Brotherton

Sean Brotherton

Sean Brotherton has been appointed to the faculty of New York University as Professor of Anthropology

Remi Warner

Remi Warner

Remi Warner has been named director, Human Rights Services at Toronto Metropolitan University

Maxime Polleri

Maxime Polleri

Maxime Polleri has been appointed to a faculty position in the Anthropology Department at Laval University

photo of Kathleen Downie

Kathleen Downie

Kathleen Downie (MA 2021) has written an article for Culture Magazine

Alumni List

NameClass OfTheses
Katheryne Gray2017Exquisite Happenings: A Sensuous Ethnography of Many Voices
Justine Conte2017Galleries of Emotion: Temporality, Attunement, and Affect in Confessional Storytelling
Radha Shah2016Hamdard and Unani: The Contested Terrain of Indo-Muslim Medical Knowledge'
Daniel Faranda2016Bean There, Grind That: Queer Coffee Culture and the Politics of Place, Belonging and Representation'
Angeli Humilde2016Creating Imagined Homelands and the Politics Behind the Balikbayan Identity'' 
Elaine Cagliostro2015You Owe it to Yourself: Discourses of Hope and Work in Brain Injured Individuals' Experiences with Brain Training Games
Simon Posner 2015Mythologizing a 'Zone City': Urban Fantasies of and in Songdo, South Korea
Jayne Malenfant 2015Anarchism in the Boonies: Place-Making, Technology and Resistance in Rural Canada
Faarah Ibrahim 2015The Effects of the Mobile Phone on Social Etiquette: A Study Pertaining to the Guyanese Baby Boom Generation
Joseph Wickenhauser2012Surprisingly Unexpected: Moose Jaw, Metronormativity and LGBTQ Activism
Mary Jean Hande 2012The Canadian Libertation Therapy Movement: Mapping the New Terrain of Patient Activism
Kaila Simoneau  2012Getting the Click: Producing and Practicing Documentary Photography
Ian Puppe 2012Shivering in Brent, Ontario: Haunted Recreation in Algonquin Park
Robert Ferguson2011Crowdsourcing Health Information: An Ethnograpic Exploration of Passive and Active Partisipation and Personae as Biosocial Identity on PatientsLikeMe.com
Courtney Nickerson 2011Connections, Practices, and the Particular: A Multispecies Ethnography of the South Western Shore of Nova Scotia
Jessica Caporusso 2011Tuning In: Sonic Atmoshere and Affective Labour in Recording Studio Life
Susie Morgado2011The 'Working Class Culture' of a Group of Portuguese Canadian Women: 'The Girls' at Home, Leisure and Work
C. Niki Thorne 2011An Experiment in Liberation Fuelled by Love: Hamilton Freeskool, Prefigurative Politics and Anthropological Practices
Daniele Coghlan2010Unsettling Sensations: Trauma in the Lives and Works of Four Canadian Artists
Lauren Harding2010Hiking Along the Great Divide: Exploring Socio-Natures in the Canadian Rockies
Ben. Prichard2010Prescription Opiate Abuse in Rural Canada: An Anthropological Perspective
Karen Angus 2010Dancing Caricatures: Race and Gender in Ballroom Dancing
Siobhan McCollum2009What is Poverty in this Place? Discourses of Poverty in a Belizean Village
Melissa Atkinson-Graham2009The Body in and of Craniosacral Therapy: An Ethnographic Examination
Jeremy Elder-Jubelin 2009Fac (ebook) ing a Crowd?: An Exploration of Audience, Context, Privacy and Self-Presentation on Facebook
Susan Rice2009A Window to the Water: An Examination of the Historical Themes of Ethiopian Colonialism for Oromo Refugees
Kate M. Arcus 2008The Tween Category: Tween Girls and Their Relationship with Material Culture
A. Theema Mohamed 2008Exploring 'Development': Subjective Experiences of Tourism Development in Addu, Maldives
Serena Thomas 2008Les Pieds La Avec Les Tetes Ailleurs: Mapping Diasporic Weavings of Blackness and Belonging in a Parisian Hair Salon
Melanie Hammond 2008Twenty Two Lenses for a Single Diagnosis: An Ethnography of ADHD
Andrea Cole2008Thresholds of Hospitality in Dutch-Surinamese Relations, 1667-2000
Beth Dewitt2008I Swam Across All That, An Ethnography of Cambodian Women's Strength
Gloria Adagbon2007Multilevel Marketing: The Paradox of Autonomy
Secil Dagtas2007Married to the Military: Family, Nationalism and Women's Political Agency in Turkey
Karen O'Connor 2007Nationalism and State Violence as a 'Moral' Practice: Sex Work and Urban Regeneration in Machala, Ecuador
Jennifer Bisch2007Memory in Ruins: Images of History in a Rural Western Canadian Town 
Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum2007On the Borderzone: Toronto's Diasporic Queer Muslims
Maya Shapiro 2007Activism at the Grassroutes: Working for Change with Migrant Agricultural Labourers in Canada
Alexandre Beliaev 2006Aethetics of Temporality: Reflections on Sexuality and Aging In Toronto
Bertie Friedlander2006Successful Aging: An Analysis of People and Places Dedicated to Learning Programs for Seniors
Jaime Yard 2006Rehearsing Politics: Explorations of North American 'Theatre of the Oppressed' Praxis as Embodied Pedagogy
Caglayan Ayhan2005In the Name of Modernity, For the Sake of the Nation: Madness, Psychiatry and Politics from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic (1500s-1950s)
Matthew Lawrence 2005Being the Global Truths We Speak: Articulating Flobal Identities Through Anti-Globalization
Susan McNaughton2005Sacralization of Space: The Play of Gender and Kinship in South Indian Temple Ritual
Andrew Taylor 2005Negotiating Harm Reduction: Risk, Bodies and Youth Substance Users
Arun Chaudhuri2005Culture, Identity, and the Space of Sound: South Asian Urban Electronic Music in Toronto
Shadi Eskandani 2004Diasporic Weaving's of Identity: Orientalist (Re) Articulations of Persianness Amongst Persian Carpet Merchants
Danielle Bryant 2004Developing Backwards: Heritage, Hierarchy and Tourism Development at a Barbadian Tourist Site
Rodolfo Valentim 2003Portuguese Food in Toronto: Exploring the Relationship Between Food Practices and Ethnic Identification
J. Schoemaker2003Both Sides of the Beach: Public Nudity and Discourses of Sexuality on the Nude Beach
D. Kramer 2003In the House but Not at Home: House-Girls in Vanuatu
Radhika Johari 2003Of Sanctions and Sanctuary-Making: The Cultural Politics of Nature in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India 1850-2000
Nadia Ejaz 2003Legal Interventions: Race, Space and Legal Aid in the New South Africa
Saul Cohen2002Hiding Contestations: An Evaluation of Community Based Wildlife Management in Botswan
Ilana Dadds2002A Place Called Port Hope: Identitiy and Activism in a Southeastern Ontario Town
Claire Montgomery2002Learning Common-Sense: A Study of Class Consciousness Among a Male Network of Friends
Jeremy Coombs2002Franz Boas and George Hunt: Uncovering the Relationship between Anthropologist and his Collector
Irma Molina-Alfaro2001Viva Zapata! Envisioning Social Change in Chiapas, Mexico
Sam Dunn 2001Keeping the Pain: Health, Belonging and Resilience Among Guatemalian Immigrant Men
Frank Scherer2000A Culture of Erasure: Orientalism and Chineseness in Cuba 1847-1997
Micheal Nahman2000Embodied Stories, Pragmatic Lives: Intersex Body Narratives on the Net
Gul Jafri2000Constructing Identities and Religious Meanings: Ithna-Ashari Shi's Women Raised in the West
Johanna Faigleman2000Constraining Abandon: Ideologies of Community and Internal Hierarchies in the Rave Scenes of Toronto and Montreal
Bruce Trono1999Dos Vuelts en el Aire: Sex and Gender Diversity in Juchitan, Oaxaca
Anke Schwittay 1999Between San Andre's and Buenos Aires: Memory, Practice and Articulation of an Indigenous Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina
Alessand Miklavcic 1999The Mauritians in Canada: Between Globalization and Nation-State Building
Joanne Lebert1999Negotiating Angolan-ness in Diaspora
Eden-Margaret Hall 1999Ethogenesis and Identity: Toronto's Changing Francophone Community
Jackie Esmonde1999Neoliberalism, Youth Poverty and Washing Windshields: An Ethnographic Study of Squeegeeing in Toronto
Marc Abramiuk1999Reliability Modeling Development at Ek Xux
Shiho Satsuka 1998Re-creation through Landscape: Subject Production in Canadian Cottage Country
Simone Ruff1998After the Crisis: An Exploration of Humanitarian Workers' and Somali Refugee Women's Narratives of Health
Alberto Guevara 1998Playing in the Margins, An Ethnography in Two Acts: A Presentation  of A Performance of Social Action Theatre In Montreal
Angie Danyluk 1998Living Feminism and Orthodoxy: Orthodox Jewish Feminists
Adriana Premat 1998Feeding the Self and Cultivating Identities in Havana, Cuba
Lyndon Phillip 1998The Caribana Festival: Continuity, Change, Crisis and an Alternative Music
S. Brotherton 1998Contagious Bodies: Multiple Narratives From a Jamaican HIV/AIDS Hospice
J. Manson-Hing 1996In Vitro Fertilization: The Manufacturing of a Biological Identity
Louise Hamilton1996Identity and Intergenerational Conflict among Cambodian Youth in Toronto
Leah Jaunzems 1996An Esoteric-Exoteric Examination of Identity Labels Regarding Black Canadians
Carmen Cayer 1996Coming Full Circle: Religion and Identity Among Second Generation Muslim Women of Indo-Pakistani Origin in Toronto
Jacquelyne Luce1996Visible Bodies: Revealing the Paradox of Pregnancy
Joseph Macchiusi 1996Fearing the Unknown: British Hygienic and Sanitary Policy in the Colonial New Hebrides 1900-1940
Roy Dudgeon 1996The Pattern which Connects: Ecology, Anthropology, & Postmodernity
John King 1995Power and Identity: Inalienable Possessions in an Anthropology of Ancient Maya Caches
Micheal Stainton 1995Return Our Land: Counterhegemonic Presbyterian Aboriginality in Taiwan
Pia Kontos1995Constructing Old Age in a Place Called Home
Robin Whitaker1994Staying Faithful: Challenges to Newfoundland Convents
Andrea McIntosh 1994Constructing the Identity of the (female) Combat Arms Officer
Ian Brown 1994Eckankar: A Postmoderm Spiritual Path of Therapeutic Consumption
Jonathan Haxell1993The Commitment to Small Scale Agriculture in the Parry Sound Area
Shelley Butler1993Contested Representations: Revisiting “Into the Heart of Africa
Anna Ning 1993Regulating Health Professions and Chinese Medicine in Ontario
Marie Foley 1992Beggars Can't Be Choosers: An Ethnography of a Food Bank
Gina Castillo1992Amethyst: Contested Meanings Within a Commune Setting
Terri Aihoshi1992The Best Place To Be: Keeping Cowboy Through Narratives of Place, Experience, and Identity
Charles Menzies 1991People Not Money Build Co-operatives: The Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association
Marilyn McKnight1991Context and The Construction of Fetal Characterizations I'm Constructing this Image
Maria-Ines Arratia1991Cultural Action and Cultural Synthesis? Participatory Methodologies and the Aymara of Northern Chile
Daniel Yon1991Migration, Schooling and the Politics of Identity, A Case Study of Caribbean Students in a Toronto High School
Diane Broom 1991Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada with a Focus on the Inuit of Nunavut
Ronald Thurgood1991Sometimes I Wonder if I Spent Too Much: Expressing Value at Country Auctions in Eastern Prince County, P.E.I.
Colin Gomez, 1991Sacrifice and Cultural Violence in the Central Andes
Annabelle Sabloff 1991Re-Ordering the Natural World: Human-Animal Relations in a Canadian Urban Setting
Mona Perusse1991The Dispute Over Housing for Consumers of Mental Health Services in a Toronto Neighbourhood
Poppy Cobanoglu-Padley1990A Study of Greek Migrant Families in Hamburg, West Germany: A Multivariate Approach To Cultural Adaptation and Conjugal Relationships
Rosalind Morris 1989New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures
Carol Dignam1988Candida Albicans in Anthropological Perspective
Steven Parr1988Rights Fighters: An Exploratory Study of Human Rights Worker Voluntary Associations in Ontario
Janet McLellan 1987The Ethno-Religious Identity of Tibetans in Lindsay, Ontario
Chantel Matthews1987A Comparative Analysis of the Form and Content of Dispute and Customary Dispute Settlement Agencies in Three South-central African Societies
L. Eppheise 1987The Underside of Knowledge Construction: Sexual/Textual Politics of Female Anthropologists. Life Stories as Negotiated Dialogue
Derek Friend 1986Social Life of Elderly Ojibwa
David Parry 1986Assertions of Power: An Examination of Marginal Negotiations Between Police Officers and Citizens
Steve Gaetz1985Youth Expression in the Eighties: A Network Analysis of the Punks of Toronto
Patricia Desjardin 1985Domestic Labour: An Anthropological Perspective
Name Class Of Dissertations
Jillian Fulton-Melanson 2021 The Post-Tarab Soundscape: Underground Electronic Dance Music Culture and the Arab-Canadian Diaspora
Maxime Polleri 2019 Radioactive Governance: The Politics of Expertise after Fukushima
Lea Alilovic 2018 Tapija and the Politics of Communal Care
Guillaume Dandurand 2018 The Techno-Politics of Food Security in New Delhi: The Re-Materialization of the Ration Card
Nicole McFadyen 2018 Rights and Rescue: Ethical World Making in the Anti-Trafficking and Sex Worker Rights Movements in Canada
Ryan James 2017 Keeping the Kids out of Trouble: Extra-Domestic Labour and Social Reproduction in Toronto's Regent Park, 1959-2012
Wangui Kimari 2017 ‘Nai-rob-me’ ‘Nai-beg-me’ ‘Nai-Shanty’ Historicizing Space-Subjectivity Connections in Nairobi From its Ruins
Nayrous Abu-Hatoum 2016 Visuals of the Wall and the Vanishing Landscapes in Palestine
Melissa Atkinson-Graham 2016 Surviving Oncology: Living and Dying with Cancer in the Wake of Integrative Care
Rhiannon Mosher  2015 Speaking Together: Exploring Discourses of 'Dutchness' in Language Learning, Voluntarism, and Active Citizenship
Allison Odger 2015 Governance and Empowerment in Clinical Encounters: An Ethnography of Toronto's Sexual Health Landscape
Michelle Switzer  2015 Pulp Friction: Nature, Politics and Plantation Forestry in Soriano, Uruguay
David Ian Cosh 2014 Killing Matters: Canadian War Remembrance and the Ghosts of Ortona
Sharaf Oshurbekov  2014 Places, Memories and Religious Identity: Muslim Places of Worship in Badakhshan Region of Tajikistan
Khairul Chowdhury 2014 The Making of Political Forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: The State, Development and Indigenity
Michelle Wyndham-West 2014 Is it Worth the Shot? Ontario Women's Negotiations of Risk, Gender and the Human Papillomavirous (HPV) Vaccine
Sarah Yusuf 2014 God Willing, I Will Do Something Else: Affective Intensities in Cruise Ship Tourism Encounters in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Catherine Sutton  2013 From the Ground Up: Archeology as a Colonial Knowledge Production in Upper Canada, 1830 - 1860
Nelson Ferguson 2013 From Coal Pits to Tar Sands: Examining Labour Migration between the Athabasca Oil Sands and an Atlantic Canadian
Maya Shapiro 2013 The Politics of Intimacy: An Ethnography of Illegalized Migrant Women and their Undocumented Children in Tel Aviv, Israel
Micheal Connor Jackman 2013 Bawdy Politics: Remembering Sexual Liberation
Marc Lafleur 2012 Proliferations of Indistinction: Nuclear Spectacle, Sovereignty and the Sensuous Politics of National Security in America
Arun Chaudhuri  2012 American Hindu Activism and the Politics of Anxiety
Jaime Yard 2012 Working Natures: An Ethnography of Love, Labour and Accumulation on the British Columbian Coast
Gamal Adam  2012 Living in Limbo with Hope: The Case of Sudanese Refugees in Cairo
Elysee Nouvet 2011 Poverty & Pain: Materializing Forces of Distress in Contemporary Nicaragua
Robert Snyder 2011 Becoming Groundfishers in an Era of Depletion in the Northeastern United States
Laura Eramian 2010 Situating Ethnic Difference: Personhood, Power, and the 1994 Genocide in Butare, Rwanda
Brian Freer 2010 Future Remains: Industrial Heritage at the Hanford Plutonium Works
Vivian Khouw 2010 Strategies off the Menu: Gastrospaces and Negotiating Expectations of Chinese Food
Marta Castilho Da Silva 2009 Audiovisual Indigeneities and Cosmopolitics: Shifting Political Grounds in the “New Landscapes of Communication” and Resources of Hope in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Lisa Cooke  2009 North to Yukon: (Beyond) the Frontier in Canadian National-Cultural Imaginaries
Lynda Mannik 2009 Photography, Memory and Refugee Identity: The Voyage of the S.S. Walnut, 1948
Wesley Oakes 2009 To be Black in this Skin: Anti-Black Racism and How Heterosexual Black Men Engage with HIV Vulnerability in Toronto
Maria Ordonez 2009 Affective Departures
Maggie Cummings 2009 Looking Good: Women's Dress and the Gendered Cultural Politics of Modernity, Morality, and Embodiment in Vanuatu
Ron Cadieux 2008 The Cult of Virabhadra and The Guru King: Asceticism, Eroticism, and Violence in a Hindu Monastary
Alexandra Widmer  2007 Genealogies of Biomedicine: Formations of Modernity and Social Change in Vanuatu
Clara Sacchetti-Dufresne 2007 Problematics of Identity: Being and Becoming Italian-Canadian
Mary-Lee Mulholland 2007 Mariachi in Excess: Performing Race, Gender, Sexuality and Regionalism in Jalisco, Mexico
Remy Warner  2007 Battles Over Borders: Hiphop and the Politics and Poetics of Race and Place in the New South Africa
Karl Schmid 2006 Losing Your Place Tourism and the Making of Enclaves in Luxor, Egypt
David Thorsen-Cavers 2006 Entanglements: Tradition, Modernity and Globalization in Cape Coast
Adriana Premat 2004 Cuban Counterpoint of the Public and the Private: Reflections on the Making of Urban Agriculture Sites in Havana, Cuba
Gabriela Torres  2004 The Paper Trails of Counterinsurgency Violence: The Documented Design and Implementation of Political Violence in Guatemala, 1976-1984
Natasha Pravaz  2003 Performing Mulatice: Hybridity as Identity In Brazil
Julia Murphy  2003 Ethnography and Sustainable Development in the Calakmul Model Forest Campeche, Mexico
Kathy Gordon  2003 Reluctant Entrepreneurs: Doing Business in the Marketplace Challapata, Oruro, Bolivia
Karen McGarry  2003 Performing Nationalisms: Spectacle and Identity in High Performance Canadian Figure Skating
Sue Frohlick 2002 A World of Mountaineering: Transnationality of Mt. Everest& Other High Himalayan Spaces
Katja Neves-Graca 2002 A Whale of a Thing: Transformations From Whale Hunting to Whale Watching in Lajes do Pico
M. Jean Mitchell 2002 Roads, Restlessness, and Relationships: An Urban Settlement in Post-Colonial Vanuatu
Jacquelyne Luce 2002 Queer Conceptions: Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women, Assisted Reproduction and the Politics of Kinship
Shelly Butler 2002 Post-colonial Challenges: Reinventing Museums in Post-Aparheid Cape Town
Andrea N. Walsh 2001 Contemporary Aboriginal art Texts: Intersections Of Visual Culture
Gina Castillo 2000 Looking for the Papers that God Forgot: An Ethnography of Environmental Change
H. Young-Leslie  1999 Inventing Health: Tradition, Textiles and Maternal Obligation in the Kingdom of Tonga
Anna Ning 1999 Embodying the Myth of Healthiness: Conformity, Resistance and Complicity in Narratives of Addiction and Recovery
Maggie MacDonald 1999 Expectations: The Cultural Construction of Nature in Midwifery Discourse in Ontario
Timothy Epp 1999 People First: Voicing Disability, Embodied Identity and Social Policy in Ontario
Linda Epp 1997 Violating the Sacred? The Social Reform of Devadasis Among Dalits in Karnataka, India
Pamela Downe 1997 Contagion and Violence: The Words of Women in Costa Rica
B. Lynne Milgram 1997 Crossover, Continuity and Change: Women's Production and Marketing of Crafts in the Upland Philippines
Guang Tian,  1996 Presenting New Selves in Canadian Context: The Adaptation Processes of Mainland Chinese Refugees in Metro Toronto
Lindelwa Ntutela,  1996 Knowing Thyself: An Afro centric Feminist Analysis of Bifurcated Consciousness among Eight Black Women, Nova Scotia, 1930-1994
Virginia Caputo 1996 Musical Matters: Performativity, Gender and Culture in an Anthropology of Urban Canadian Childhoods
Daniel Yon 1996 Unstable Terrain: Explorations in Identity, Race and Culture in a Toronto High School
Kathleen M'Closkey 1996 Myths, Markets and Metaphors: Navajo Weaving as Commodity and Communicative Form
Vineetha Menon 1995 Experiencing Health: An Exploration into the Health Culture of Keralaâs Forest-Dwelling Kanikkar
Henri Bastaman  1995 Development and Its Meaning in Upland Citanduy River Basin, West Java
J. McLellan 1993 Many Petals of the Lotus: Redefinition's of Buddhist Identity in Toronto
L. Rue Anderson  1993 The Corset of Compromise: negotiating social and spatial boundaries in two artists' housing cooperatives in Toronto
Marilyn Walker 1992 Thai Elites and the Construction of Socio-Cultural Identity Through Food Consumption
Maria-Ines Arratia 1991 Cultural Action and Cultural Synthesis? Participatory Methodologies and the Aymara of Northern Chile
Steve Gaetz  1990 Community Action and Youth Provision in Cork, Ireland
Meredith Evans  2021 Music Therapy, Clinical Aesthetics, and the Biopolitics of Care

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