Isabella Altoé (Doctoral Student)
Dissertation:
Ways of eating, arts of planting: The future of food in the Anthropocene
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]
Victoria Millious (PhD Candidate)
Dissertation:
Contemporary Canadian and American breastfeeding practices, health promotion, and scholarship from an anti-healthist and feminist theoretical orientation.
Research Interests:
Intersections of food, labor, health, and gender.
Selected Publications:
Brady, J. Ventresca, M. and Millious, V. (2016). Problematizing Milk: Considering Production Beyond the Food System. In Levkoe, C. Brady, J., Anderson, C. Conversations in Food Studies. Winnipeg, Canada: University of Manitoba Press.
Gagandeep Minhas (MA Candidate)
Undergraduate Thesis:
Ensuring Conformity to Whiteness: Experiences of a Racialized Undergraduate Student
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.
Natalia Mukhina (Doctoral Student)
MA Thesis:
Lost in Translation? Russian Media Portrayals and Laypersons’ Interpretations of Angelina Jolie’s Breast Cancer Discourse
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 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 (Doctoral Student)
Dissertation:
Experiences of Medical Assistance in Dying for Racialized Canadians
Research Interests:
End-of-life, Aging, Diaspora Studies, Korea Studies
Selected Publications:
Gözde Öncil (PhD Candidate)
MA Thesis:
Staying a Woman, Becoming a Patient: Experiences of Breast Cancer, Gender and Identity in Neoliberal Turkey
Research Interests:
Critical Health Studies, Breast Cancer, Critical Sport Studies, Neoliberalism, Gender, Qualitative Research
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.
Sarah Smith (PhD Candidate)
Dissertation:
Helpful or Harmful?: An Institutional Ethnography of Self-Harm and Psychiatry
Research Interests:
Mad studies, feminist/critical disability studies, medical humanities, feminist science studies
Selected Publications:
Bennett, Christopher, and Sarah Smith. “I Need to Tell My Story Properly”: Queer Narrative Production in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette.” In An Illness of Her Own: Women and Their Writing Processes and Products, edited by Rachel N. Spear. Accepted.
Smith, Sarah and Grace Wedlake. “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:
Jillian Takacs (MA Candidate)
Thesis:
Equus Therapeuticus: Understanding Equine-Assisted Therapy, the Horse, and Multispecies Healing Relationships
Research Interests:
Politics of health, critical disability studies, multispecies studies, qualitative health research
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:
Wedlake, G. (2020). Complicating theory through practice: Affirming the right to die for suicidal people. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v9i4.670
Smith, Sarah and Grace Wedlake. “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).