Meet our participating faculty members

Faculty members who participate in our Women & Gender Studies graduate program come from a range of departments and disciplines.

Dr. Catherine Baillie Abidi, Child and Youth Study
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Research interests: Children’s Rights, Children, Peace & Security, Violence Prevention & Transformation, Forced Migration, Gender, Youth Engagement, Participatory Social Action

Adriana Benzaquén, History
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Research interests: early modern European History, history of childhood and children, history of women and gender, history of science, sexuality and the body

Susan Brigham, Education
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Research interests: Lifelong Learning; international/intercultural education; critical feminist pedagogy; teacher education; women migrants: immigrant teachers in Canada, domestic workers, “Mail-Order Brides”; school – work transitions; Africentricity in Education

Mary Delaney, Women’s Studies
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Research interests: Body image; coercion in dating and risk-taking; methodological and statistical approaches to studying change over time; identifying qualitative differences in interpersonal relationships

Gabrielle Durepos, Management
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Research interests: Organizational history, critical historiography, the history of management thought, methodology and, gender and diversity

Maya Eichler, Political Studies
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Research interests: Feminist international relations theory, gender and the armed forces, the privatization of military security, and veterans and military families

Tammy Findlay, Political and Canadian Studies
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Research interests: Canadian politics, gender and politics, gender and public policy, social policy, community engagement, multilevel governance, and representation

Tamara A. Franz-Odendaal, Biology
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Research interests: Gender Stereotypes within Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, history of women in STEM, youth perceptions of stereotypes, women in STEM in the workplace

Marnina Gonick, Education, Women’s Studies
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Research interests: Girl studies, identity, visual culture, feminist cultural studies, gender and schooling, feminist pedagogies, feminist post-structural theory, feminist qualitative research

El Jones, Political & Canadian Studies
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Karen MacFarlane, English
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Research interests: The Gothic, particularly monsters and the monstrous body in contemporary culture and late nineteenth century fiction; Theory, especially feminist and queer theories; Imperialism in fin-de-siecle popular fiction; postmodernism; Canadian women’s literature

Dr. KelleyAnne Malinen, Sociology and Anthropology

Research interests: Gender, Sexuality, and Racialization, sexual and intimate partner violence that transgresses gender norms, intersectionality and institutionalized privilege and oppressions articulate with sexual consent and sexual violence

Tracy Moniz, Communication Studies
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Research interests: Gender and media, media history, writing practice and pedagogy, and narrative medicine

Deborah Norris, Family Studies and Gerontology
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Research interests: Military families, critical theories, family relations and social support, qualitative research, health and social service needs of persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, family violence

DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Communication Studies
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Research interests: The production, distribution and reception of cultural media artifacts or products—online and in print, including: books, television, newspapers and film

Meredith Ralston, Political & Canadian Studies, Women’s Studies
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Research interests: Prostitution and sex tourism in the Philippines and Canada, feminist epistemology, women in politics, women’s rights as human rights

Ian Reilly, Communication Studies
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Research interests: feminist media studies; media activism; feminist humor; feminist care in academic labour

Sarah Reddington, Child & Youth Study
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Research Interests: inclusive education, capacity approaches to learning, children and youth’s rights and advocacy, differentiated curriculum, visual and arts-based methods, Universal Design for Learning, and critical approaches to child and youth study

Brooke Richardson, Child & Youth Study
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Research interests: mothering, feminisms and early childhood, mothering and child protection services; feminist child care policy

Ian Liujia Tian, Women’s Studies
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Research interests: gender, sexuality and labour in transnational context; queer Asian studies; queer anthropology; queer/trans approaches to community organizing; Asian Canadian Studies; Asian feminist STS; inter-Asian culture and media studies; transnational feminism; queer georgraphy

Randi Warne, Cultural Studies
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Research interests: politics, religion and culture; North American cultural history, including social reform movements; material and popular culture

Martha Walls, History
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Research interests: Atlantic Canadian First Nations history, with a specialization in the historical experiences of 20th century First Nations women