Maj Britt Jensen
Student
Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)
Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice
The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice offers a Graduate Program in an open and mutually supportive atmosphere. Members of the Institute are engaged in theoretical and empirical work that contributes to the advancement of current knowledge and relevant dialogues around culture, politics and public policy in local, global and transnational contexts.
The program has an award-winning faculty and faculty associates from across disciplines and departments, with areas of expertise in gender and development, critical studies in sexuality, decolonizing and post-colonial methodologies, race, gender and cultural studies, critical race theory, gender and Canadian history and literature (in English and French), transgender studies, gender issues in health, and feminist legal studies. Students may draw on faculty associates’ expertise when seeking research supervisors and committee members.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Catungal, John Paul | queer of colour geographies, critical race and ethnic studies, diaspora and transnationalism, critical pedagogy, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the lived geographies of sexual and racial minorities in educational spaces |
| Chaudhry, Ayesha | Islam, Muslims, religion, gender, human rights, family and children, discrimination, social justice |
| Mahtani, Minelle | critical mixed race theory; cultural forgetting; Social justice |
| Patterson, Christopher | Transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films |
| Pierre, Jemima | relationship of political economy to race; migration, transnationalism, and diaspora; ethics and politics of western knowledge production and disciplinary formation |
| Puar, Jasbir | |
| Riano-Alcala, Pilar | Lived experience of violence, Historical Memory and the politics of commemoration and witnessing, Forced migration (internal displacement and refuge), Critical and participatory methodologies, Community organizing, everyday resistance and social repair, Public art |
| Sia, Rosanne | Sociology; Cold War cultural history; Performance studies; critical race studies; queer studies |