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Wesley Oakes is the Director, Equity and Indigenous Engagement at Genome Canada
Sean Brotherton has been appointed to the faculty of New York University as Professor of Anthropology
Remi Warner has been named director, Human Rights Services at Toronto Metropolitan University
Maxime Polleri has been appointed to a faculty position in the Anthropology Department at Laval University
Kathleen Downie (MA 2021) has written an article for Culture Magazine
Alumni List
| Name | Class Of | Theses |
|---|---|---|
| Katheryne Gray | 2017 | Exquisite Happenings: A Sensuous Ethnography of Many Voices |
| Justine Conte | 2017 | Galleries of Emotion: Temporality, Attunement, and Affect in Confessional Storytelling |
| Radha Shah | 2016 | Hamdard and Unani: The Contested Terrain of Indo-Muslim Medical Knowledge’ |
| Daniel Faranda | 2016 | Bean There, Grind That: Queer Coffee Culture and the Politics of Place, Belonging and Representation’ |
| Angeli Humilde | 2016 | Creating Imagined Homelands and the Politics Behind the Balikbayan Identity” |
| Elaine Cagliostro | 2015 | You Owe it to Yourself: Discourses of Hope and Work in Brain Injured Individuals’ Experiences with Brain Training Games |
| Simon Posner | 2015 | Mythologizing a ‘Zone City’: Urban Fantasies of and in Songdo, South Korea |
| Jayne Malenfant | 2015 | Anarchism in the Boonies: Place-Making, Technology and Resistance in Rural Canada |
| Faarah Ibrahim | 2015 | The Effects of the Mobile Phone on Social Etiquette: A Study Pertaining to the Guyanese Baby Boom Generation |
| Joseph Wickenhauser | 2012 | Surprisingly Unexpected: Moose Jaw, Metronormativity and LGBTQ Activism |
| Mary Jean Hande | 2012 | The Canadian Libertation Therapy Movement: Mapping the New Terrain of Patient Activism |
| Kaila Simoneau | 2012 | Getting the Click: Producing and Practicing Documentary Photography |
| Ian Puppe | 2012 | Shivering in Brent, Ontario: Haunted Recreation in Algonquin Park |
| Robert Ferguson | 2011 | Crowdsourcing Health Information: An Ethnograpic Exploration of Passive and Active Partisipation and Personae as Biosocial Identity on PatientsLikeMe.com |
| Courtney Nickerson | 2011 | Connections, Practices, and the Particular: A Multispecies Ethnography of the South Western Shore of Nova Scotia |
| Jessica Caporusso | 2011 | Tuning In: Sonic Atmoshere and Affective Labour in Recording Studio Life |
| Susie Morgado | 2011 | The ‘Working Class Culture’ of a Group of Portuguese Canadian Women: ‘The Girls’ at Home, Leisure and Work |
| C. Niki Thorne | 2011 | An Experiment in Liberation Fuelled by Love: Hamilton Freeskool, Prefigurative Politics and Anthropological Practices |
| Daniele Coghlan | 2010 | Unsettling Sensations: Trauma in the Lives and Works of Four Canadian Artists |
| Lauren Harding | 2010 | Hiking Along the Great Divide: Exploring Socio-Natures in the Canadian Rockies |
| Ben. Prichard | 2010 | Prescription Opiate Abuse in Rural Canada: An Anthropological Perspective |
| Karen Angus | 2010 | Dancing Caricatures: Race and Gender in Ballroom Dancing |
| Siobhan McCollum | 2009 | What is Poverty in this Place? Discourses of Poverty in a Belizean Village |
| Melissa Atkinson-Graham | 2009 | The Body in and of Craniosacral Therapy: An Ethnographic Examination |
| Jeremy Elder-Jubelin | 2009 | Fac (ebook) ing a Crowd?: An Exploration of Audience, Context, Privacy and Self-Presentation on Facebook |
| Susan Rice | 2009 | A Window to the Water: An Examination of the Historical Themes of Ethiopian Colonialism for Oromo Refugees |
| Kate M. Arcus | 2008 | The Tween Category: Tween Girls and Their Relationship with Material Culture |
| A. Theema Mohamed | 2008 | Exploring ‘Development’: Subjective Experiences of Tourism Development in Addu, Maldives |
| Serena Thomas | 2008 | Les Pieds La Avec Les Tetes Ailleurs: Mapping Diasporic Weavings of Blackness and Belonging in a Parisian Hair Salon |
| Melanie Hammond | 2008 | Twenty Two Lenses for a Single Diagnosis: An Ethnography of ADHD |
| Andrea Cole | 2008 | Thresholds of Hospitality in Dutch-Surinamese Relations, 1667-2000 |
| Beth Dewitt | 2008 | I Swam Across All That, An Ethnography of Cambodian Women’s Strength |
| Gloria Adagbon | 2007 | Multilevel Marketing: The Paradox of Autonomy |
| Secil Dagtas | 2007 | Married to the Military: Family, Nationalism and Women’s Political Agency in Turkey |
| Karen O’Connor | 2007 | Nationalism and State Violence as a ‘Moral’ Practice: Sex Work and Urban Regeneration in Machala, Ecuador |
| Jennifer Bisch | 2007 | Memory in Ruins: Images of History in a Rural Western Canadian Town |
| Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum | 2007 | On the Borderzone: Toronto’s Diasporic Queer Muslims |
| Maya Shapiro | 2007 | Activism at the Grassroutes: Working for Change with Migrant Agricultural Labourers in Canada |
| Alexandre Beliaev | 2006 | Aethetics of Temporality: Reflections on Sexuality and Aging In Toronto |
| Bertie Friedlander | 2006 | Successful Aging: An Analysis of People and Places Dedicated to Learning Programs for Seniors |
| Jaime Yard | 2006 | Rehearsing Politics: Explorations of North American ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ Praxis as Embodied Pedagogy |
| Caglayan Ayhan | 2005 | In 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 | 2005 | Being the Global Truths We Speak: Articulating Flobal Identities Through Anti-Globalization |
| Susan McNaughton | 2005 | Sacralization of Space: The Play of Gender and Kinship in South Indian Temple Ritual |
| Andrew Taylor | 2005 | Negotiating Harm Reduction: Risk, Bodies and Youth Substance Users |
| Arun Chaudhuri | 2005 | Culture, Identity, and the Space of Sound: South Asian Urban Electronic Music in Toronto |
| Shadi Eskandani | 2004 | Diasporic Weaving’s of Identity: Orientalist (Re) Articulations of Persianness Amongst Persian Carpet Merchants |
| Danielle Bryant | 2004 | Developing Backwards: Heritage, Hierarchy and Tourism Development at a Barbadian Tourist Site |
| Rodolfo Valentim | 2003 | Portuguese Food in Toronto: Exploring the Relationship Between Food Practices and Ethnic Identification |
| J. Schoemaker | 2003 | Both Sides of the Beach: Public Nudity and Discourses of Sexuality on the Nude Beach |
| D. Kramer | 2003 | In the House but Not at Home: House-Girls in Vanuatu |
| Radhika Johari | 2003 | Of Sanctions and Sanctuary-Making: The Cultural Politics of Nature in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India 1850-2000 |
| Nadia Ejaz | 2003 | Legal Interventions: Race, Space and Legal Aid in the New South Africa |
| Saul Cohen | 2002 | Hiding Contestations: An Evaluation of Community Based Wildlife Management in Botswan |
| Ilana Dadds | 2002 | A Place Called Port Hope: Identitiy and Activism in a Southeastern Ontario Town |
| Claire Montgomery | 2002 | Learning Common-Sense: A Study of Class Consciousness Among a Male Network of Friends |
| Jeremy Coombs | 2002 | Franz Boas and George Hunt: Uncovering the Relationship between Anthropologist and his Collector |
| Irma Molina-Alfaro | 2001 | Viva Zapata! Envisioning Social Change in Chiapas, Mexico |
| Sam Dunn | 2001 | Keeping the Pain: Health, Belonging and Resilience Among Guatemalian Immigrant Men |
| Frank Scherer | 2000 | A Culture of Erasure: Orientalism and Chineseness in Cuba 1847-1997 |
| Micheal Nahman | 2000 | Embodied Stories, Pragmatic Lives: Intersex Body Narratives on the Net |
| Gul Jafri | 2000 | Constructing Identities and Religious Meanings: Ithna-Ashari Shi’s Women Raised in the West |
| Johanna Faigleman | 2000 | Constraining Abandon: Ideologies of Community and Internal Hierarchies in the Rave Scenes of Toronto and Montreal |
| Bruce Trono | 1999 | Dos Vuelts en el Aire: Sex and Gender Diversity in Juchitan, Oaxaca |
| Anke Schwittay | 1999 | Between San Andre’s and Buenos Aires: Memory, Practice and Articulation of an Indigenous Land Struggle in Northwestern Argentina |
| Alessand Miklavcic | 1999 | The Mauritians in Canada: Between Globalization and Nation-State Building |
| Joanne Lebert | 1999 | Negotiating Angolan-ness in Diaspora |
| Eden-Margaret Hall | 1999 | Ethogenesis and Identity: Toronto’s Changing Francophone Community |
| Jackie Esmonde | 1999 | Neoliberalism, Youth Poverty and Washing Windshields: An Ethnographic Study of Squeegeeing in Toronto |
| Marc Abramiuk | 1999 | Reliability Modeling Development at Ek Xux |
| Shiho Satsuka | 1998 | Re-creation through Landscape: Subject Production in Canadian Cottage Country |
| Simone Ruff | 1998 | After the Crisis: An Exploration of Humanitarian Workers’ and Somali Refugee Women’s Narratives of Health |
| Alberto Guevara | 1998 | Playing in the Margins, An Ethnography in Two Acts: A Presentation of A Performance of Social Action Theatre In Montreal |
| Angie Danyluk | 1998 | Living Feminism and Orthodoxy: Orthodox Jewish Feminists |
| Adriana Premat | 1998 | Feeding the Self and Cultivating Identities in Havana, Cuba |
| Lyndon Phillip | 1998 | The Caribana Festival: Continuity, Change, Crisis and an Alternative Music |
| S. Brotherton | 1998 | Contagious Bodies: Multiple Narratives From a Jamaican HIV/AIDS Hospice |
| J. Manson-Hing | 1996 | In Vitro Fertilization: The Manufacturing of a Biological Identity |
| Louise Hamilton | 1996 | Identity and Intergenerational Conflict among Cambodian Youth in Toronto |
| Leah Jaunzems | 1996 | An Esoteric-Exoteric Examination of Identity Labels Regarding Black Canadians |
| Carmen Cayer | 1996 | Coming Full Circle: Religion and Identity Among Second Generation Muslim Women of Indo-Pakistani Origin in Toronto |
| Jacquelyne Luce | 1996 | Visible Bodies: Revealing the Paradox of Pregnancy |
| Joseph Macchiusi | 1996 | Fearing the Unknown: British Hygienic and Sanitary Policy in the Colonial New Hebrides 1900-1940 |
| Roy Dudgeon | 1996 | The Pattern which Connects: Ecology, Anthropology, & Postmodernity |
| John King | 1995 | Power and Identity: Inalienable Possessions in an Anthropology of Ancient Maya Caches |
| Micheal Stainton | 1995 | Return Our Land: Counterhegemonic Presbyterian Aboriginality in Taiwan |
| Pia Kontos | 1995 | Constructing Old Age in a Place Called Home |
| Robin Whitaker | 1994 | Staying Faithful: Challenges to Newfoundland Convents |
| Andrea McIntosh | 1994 | Constructing the Identity of the (female) Combat Arms Officer |
| Ian Brown | 1994 | Eckankar: A Postmoderm Spiritual Path of Therapeutic Consumption |
| Jonathan Haxell | 1993 | The Commitment to Small Scale Agriculture in the Parry Sound Area |
| Shelley Butler | 1993 | Contested Representations: Revisiting “Into the Heart of Africa |
| Anna Ning | 1993 | Regulating Health Professions and Chinese Medicine in Ontario |
| Marie Foley | 1992 | Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: An Ethnography of a Food Bank |
| Gina Castillo | 1992 | Amethyst: Contested Meanings Within a Commune Setting |
| Terri Aihoshi | 1992 | The Best Place To Be: Keeping Cowboy Through Narratives of Place, Experience, and Identity |
| Charles Menzies | 1991 | People Not Money Build Co-operatives: The Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-operative Association |
| Marilyn McKnight | 1991 | Context and The Construction of Fetal Characterizations I’m Constructing this Image |
| Maria-Ines Arratia | 1991 | Cultural Action and Cultural Synthesis? Participatory Methodologies and the Aymara of Northern Chile |
| Daniel Yon | 1991 | Migration, Schooling and the Politics of Identity, A Case Study of Caribbean Students in a Toronto High School |
| Diane Broom | 1991 | Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada with a Focus on the Inuit of Nunavut |
| Ronald Thurgood | 1991 | Sometimes I Wonder if I Spent Too Much: Expressing Value at Country Auctions in Eastern Prince County, P.E.I. |
| Colin Gomez, | 1991 | Sacrifice and Cultural Violence in the Central Andes |
| Annabelle Sabloff | 1991 | Re-Ordering the Natural World: Human-Animal Relations in a Canadian Urban Setting |
| Mona Perusse | 1991 | The Dispute Over Housing for Consumers of Mental Health Services in a Toronto Neighbourhood |
| Poppy Cobanoglu-Padley | 1990 | A Study of Greek Migrant Families in Hamburg, West Germany: A Multivariate Approach To Cultural Adaptation and Conjugal Relationships |
| Rosalind Morris | 1989 | New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography, and the Representation of Northwest Coast Cultures |
| Carol Dignam | 1988 | Candida Albicans in Anthropological Perspective |
| Steven Parr | 1988 | Rights Fighters: An Exploratory Study of Human Rights Worker Voluntary Associations in Ontario |
| Janet McLellan | 1987 | The Ethno-Religious Identity of Tibetans in Lindsay, Ontario |
| Chantel Matthews | 1987 | A Comparative Analysis of the Form and Content of Dispute and Customary Dispute Settlement Agencies in Three South-central African Societies |
| L. Eppheise | 1987 | The Underside of Knowledge Construction: Sexual/Textual Politics of Female Anthropologists. Life Stories as Negotiated Dialogue |
| Derek Friend | 1986 | Social Life of Elderly Ojibwa |
| David Parry | 1986 | Assertions of Power: An Examination of Marginal Negotiations Between Police Officers and Citizens |
| Steve Gaetz | 1985 | Youth Expression in the Eighties: A Network Analysis of the Punks of Toronto |
| Patricia Desjardin | 1985 | Domestic 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 |
| 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 |
| Michelle Switzer | 2015 | Pulp Friction: Nature, Politics and Plantation Forestry in Soriano, Uruguay |
| Rhiannon Mosher | 2015 | Speaking Together: Exploring Discourses of ‘Dutchness’ in Language Learning, Voluntarism, and Active Citizenship |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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