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Isabella Altoé (Doctoral Student)

Isabella Altoé (PhD Candidate)

Dissertation:

Things We Don’t Perceive As Alive: Multispecies Relations In Contemporary Art

Research Interests:

Food studies; Anthropocene; human and non-human relations

Selected Publications:

Altoé, Isabella; and Gabriel Menotti. “A (re)invenção da carne:Controvérsias e potências das carnes artificiais”. Ponto Urbe, vol. 26, 2020.  [(Re)inventing meat: Controversies and potentials of artificial meats] 

Altoé, Isabella, and Elaine de Azevedo. “Estar vivo é ser afetado: as trajetórias cruzadas de plantas alimentícias e seres humanos”. Revista Iluminuras, vol. 51, 2019, pp. 278-297. [To be alive is to be affected: crossed trajectories between food plants and human beings].  

Altoé, Isabella, and Elaine de Azevedo. “Comida e afeto: As releituras dos pratos-totem na culinária vegana”. Revista Brasileira de Sociologia das Emoções, vol. 18, 2019, pp. 129-138. [Food and Affection: Remaking totem-dishes through vegan cooking]

Jessica Guilbault (MA Candidate)

MA Thesis:

The Experiences of Racialized Women Competing on the Ontario Curling Tour

Research Interests:

Intersectionality, Gender and Sport, Youth Sport, Diversity Equity and Inclusion


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Gagandeep Minhas (MA Candidate)

MA Thesis:

An Analysis of ‘White Logic’ in the Research of Kinesiology Graduate Students

Research Interests:

Intersectionality, qualitative methods, health experiences of racialized persons in Canada, colonial framework of academia, and racism and culture of Whiteness in Schools of Kinesiology.

Selected Publications: 

King, S., Minhas, G., & Öncil, G. (Accepted). Sport and class. Social Issues in Canadian Sport, edited by Marty Clark and William Bridel.

Natalia Mukhina

Natalia Mukhina (PhD Candidate)

Dissertation:

A Stranger at Home: The Experience of Russian Cancer Patients Who Have Traveled Abroad for Treatment

Research Interests:

Health, illness and medicine; biopolitics; sociocultural aspects of cancer research; health and “experimental bodies”; social implication of biomedical research; biomarkers vs personality; communications strategies in health; qualitative methods; arts-based research; knowledge translation

Selected Publications:

King, S. & Mukhina, N. (2021, August 17). Making sense of vaccine hesitancy in Russia: Lessons from the past and present. The Conversation. [https://theconversation.com/making-sense-of-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-in-russia-lessons-from-the-past-and-present-165716].

Selected Conference Presentations:

“Being Angelina Jolie”: Breast cancer previvors in Russia after a big-name celebrity’s disclosure. 2015 PCAC/ACPC Conference, Niagara Falls ON.

Presenter at 16th Annual Research Colloquium, the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON (April 2016).

Christine Moon

Christine Moon (PhD Candidate)

Dissertation:

Discourses of Wellness in Undergraduate Medical Education

Research Interests:

End-of-life, Aging, Diaspora Studies, Korea Studies

Selected Publications:

AB Thesis, Anthropology. “The Good Life at the End-of-Life: Ideals for End-of-Life for South Korean Elders Living in Toronto, Canada.”
 
MSc Thesis, Medical Science. “The Role of Family Physicians in Palliative Care: Perspectives of Patients with Advanced Cancer.”
Gözde Öncil

Gözde Öncil (PhD Candidate)

Dissertation:

An Analysis of International Graduate Student Health and Engagement in Physical Activity and Sport in Canada

Research Interests:

Critical Health Studies, Breast Cancer, Critical Sport Studies, Neoliberalism, Gender, Qualitative Research

Selected Publications:

King, S., Minhas, G., & Öncil, G. (Accepted). Sport and class. Social Issues in Canadian Sport, edited by Marty Clark and William Bridel.

Selected Conference Presentations

Öncil, G. (2020, March). Reconsidering Breasts: Breast Cancer, the Female Body, and Mastectomy Tattoos. 51st NeMLA Convention. Boston, Massachusetts.  

Öncil, G. (2019, April). Nomad patients and Disease Regimes: The Neoliberal Healthcare System in Turkey. Presented at 19th Annual Research Colloquium. The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON. 

Öncil, G. (2018, January). Oil Wrestlers through a Western Lens: What’s up with the Oil? Presented at the 16th Macintosh Sociology of Sport Day Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
 
Öncil, G. (2017, June). Slippery Perceptions about Oil Wrestling: From Terrible Turks to Objects of Desire. Presented at Corpus Historicus Conference, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Silesia.
 

Kaitlyn Seow (MA Candidate)

MA Thesis:

“As Long as it’s Free”: Exploring Racialized Immigrants’ Experiences of ACL Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

Selected Publications:

Vidotto, D., Collura, F., & Seow, K. (2020). New. Beautiful. Equal, but not on Instagram: How the ISL represents female athletes. In Walzak, L. & Recupero, J. (Eds), Sport Media Vectors: Digitization, Expanding Audiences, and Globalization of Live Sport. Illinois: Common Ground Research Networks.

Grace Wedlake

Grace Wedlake (PhD Candidate)

Dissertation:

Disaffiliated: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Individuals in Canada Who Have Left the Church

Research Interests:

Critical disability studies, Mad studies, Critical suicidology, Trauma studies

Selected Publications:

Smith, Sarah and Grace Wedlake (Spring 2024). “Mad Resilience, Mad Kinship: Alternative Responses to Crisis at Queen’s University. In Mad Scholar’s Anthology, edited by Shaya Kafai and Melanie Jones. In Press.

Selected Conference Presentations:

Wedlake, Grace. (2020, April). “Reimagining University Responses to Suicide Prevention.” Paper presented at The American Association for Suicidology, Portland, OR (via Zoom due to COVID-19 Restrictions).