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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]

John Hannant-Minchel

John Hannant-Minchel (MA Candidate)

Thesis:

Who Cares? Gendered Practices and Meanings of Care Among Summer Camp Staff

Research Interests:

Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities, Gender, Physical Cultural Studies, Recreation and Leisure studies, Ethnography, Creative Methodologies

Selected Conference Presentations:

Hannant-Minchel, J. (2018). Masculinities at summer camp: An ethnofiction. Presented at the Bertha Rosenstadt National Undergraduate Research Conference, Toronto, ON, March 23.

Victoria Millious

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.

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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

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

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:

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 (Doctoral Student)

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. 

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.
Andrea Reid

Andrea Reid (PhD Candidate)

Dissertation:

Unsettling Whiteness: An Investigation into a Nuclear Family’s History, Aspirations, and Desires

Research Interests:

Feminism; subjectivity; embodiment; family; reproductive politics; fat studies

Selected Publications:

Power, E., Reid, A., & Patterson, S. K. (2020). BICN Covid-19 stories report. Basic Income Canada Network.

Selected Conference Presentations:

Understandings of Self in a Canadian Yoga Community. Presented at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, November 2017.
 
Unraveling the Atomized Self Through Ashtanga Yoga. Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Conference, August 2017.

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:

“Mental Illness, Meaning Making, and the Material Mind.” Crossroads Interdisciplinary Health Research Conference, Halifax, NS, March 15-16.

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

Grace Wedlake (Doctoral Student)

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).