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Current PhD Students

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Email Address: khandys.agnant [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) in International Development and Globalization, University of Ottawa; MSc in Health and International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Social and Health Inequalities; Racial and Ethnic Inequalities; Nutritional Health; Childhood and Adult Malnutrition; Population Health; Global Health and Population Change; Sexual and Reproductive Health; International Development and Globalization; Research Design for Policy, Health and International Development Programme Evaluation.

Khandys Agnant

Khandys Agnant

Email Address: mahjoube.amanichakani [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology- Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA in Social Sciences (Social Planning), University of Tehran; MA in Demography, University of Tehran
Research Interests: Transition to Adulthood, Demography, Quantitative methods, life-course transitions, Adolescence, Event History Analysis, Migration, Population dynamics, Family Changes

A photo of Mahjoube Amani Chakani

Mahjoube AmaniChakani

Email address: sarah.badr [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: MA Political Science, York University; BA Political Science (Honours), York University
Research Interests: Sociology of science; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of culture; Social theory

Sarah Badr

Email Address: chris.borst [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Economics, Carleton; MA Philosophy, Toronto; MPhil Philosophy & Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Research Interests: Ideology/Culture/Knowledge; History, Philosophy, and Sociology of the Social Sciences; Democracy; Children & Childhood; Education; Social Policy & Evaluation; Computational text analysis
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Chris Borst

Chris Borst

Email Address:Ìýmichaela.bunakova [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (2018), University of Manchester, UK; MSc Comparative Social Policy (2019), University of Oxford, UK ; MSc Epidemiology (2021), ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù
Research Interests: sociodemographic determinants of health disparities, social policy, welfare regime analysis, comparative medical sociology, quantitative methodology

Michaela Bunakova

Michaela Buňáková

Email: helena.villacardona [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: Ph.D. in Sociology – Women and Gender Studies
Previous Degrees: BA (Honors) in Modern Languages and Cultural Management, Anáhuac Norte University, Master’s Degree in Gender Studies, El Colegio de México.
Research interest: gender studies, emotions, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, culture and arts, social movements, qualitative methods.

Helena Villa Cardona

Helena Villa Cardona

Email Address: yvonne.chang [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Biochemistry, Barnard College, Columbia University (2008); MPH, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2013)
Research Interests: migration, immigrant integration, & cultural citizenship; racial/ethnic relations; mass incarceration & prisoner reentry; social determinants of health; community & minority health; social support; qualitative & mixed methods
Yvonne Chang
Email Address: kaitlin.conway [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) International Development Studies, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù (2012); MSc Global Health, King's College London (2016)
Research Interests: Social inequalities in health; Population health; Health policy; Quantitative methods

Kaitlin Conway

Kaitlin Conway

Email Address: jean-denis.david [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) of Social Sciences in Criminology, University of Ottawa; MA in Criminology, University of Ottawa
Research Interests: Police-citizen relations; Rural criminology; Collective efficacy

Jean Denis David

Jean-Denis David

Email Address: rebecca.daviddi [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Geography, University of Leicester (2012); MA International Relations, University of Bologna (2014)
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Culture; Religion; Central and Eastern Europe; Qualitative Methods

Rebecca Daviddi

Rebecca Daviddi
(she/her)

Email Address: alessandro.drago [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: Masters in Sociology (²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù), 2016-2017.
Research Interests: Social Movements; Political Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Right-Wing Movements; Qualitative Methods, Computational Social Science


Alessandro Drago

Alessandro Giuseppe Drago
(he/him)

​Email Address: charlotte.gaudreau [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal (2019); MA Sociology, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù (2020)
Research Interests: Social Movements; Political sociology; Middle East; Comparative Historical Methods

Charlotte Gaudreau-Majeau

Charlotte Gaudreau-Majeau

Email Address: rebecca.haines [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology , Concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies
Previous Degree: MSc. in Gender, Development, and Globalization, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Research Interests: Social Movements; Feminist Social Movements/Social Movements for Gender Equality; Gender Dynamics of Resistance Movements; International Development/Aid Dynamics

Rebecca Haines
Email Address: ann-marie.helou [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Psychology and Sociology (2017); MA Sociology: Criminology and Law, Queen's University (2019)
Research Interests: Sociology of Law; Judicial Discourse and Discretion; Sentencing; Crime; Policing; Prisons; Corruption and Law; Lebanon; Quantitative Methods; Mixed-Methods

Ann-Marie Helou

Ann-Marie Helou

Email Address: celine.hequet [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhDÌý
Céline Hequet

Email Address: yi-cheng.hsieh [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA, Civic Education and Leadership, National Taiwan Normal University (2015); MA, Sociology, National Taiwan University (2019).
Research Interests: Social Movements; Unions and Labour Movements; Computational Methods; Causal Inferences; Comparative Historical Analysis

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Yi-Cheng/Ken Hsieh

Yi-Cheng/Ken Hsieh

Email Address: maike.isaac [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Ethnology, Leipzig University; MA Peace & Conflict Studies, European Peace University; LL.M. International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, European University Viadrina
Research Interests: care work, gender, racialized masculinities, citizenship, welfare states, labour, migration & social policy, ethnography

Maike Isaac

Email address: maya.krishnan [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Option in Gender and Women’s Studies
Previous Degrees: B.A. International Relations (Honors), American University, 2019. M.A. in International Relations (Honors), University of Chicago, 2022.
Research Interests: gender-based violence, violence in mass-media, collective behavior and social movements, South Asia and Asian America, political sociology, international development, ethnography, mixed-methods.

Maya Krishnan

Maya Krishnan
(she/her)

Email Address: gabriel.levesque2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program:: PhD, Richard H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellow
Previous Degrees: M.A Political science, Université du Québec à Montréal (2021)
Research Interests: Political sociology, Medical sociology, Sociology of science

I study toxic substance regulation, the politics of public health and the role of science and expertise in political processes.


Gabriel Lévesque

Gabriel Lévesque

Email Address:Ìýzekai.lu [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degree: LL.B Sociology, Guangzhou University
Research interests: Medical Sociology; Abnormal Psychology; Computational sociology; Quantitative Methods



Curriculum Vitae

Zekai Lu

Zekai Lu

Email Address: julia.lunot [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) Sociology, Minor in English, Simon Fraser University
Research Interests: Environmentalism; Food Justice; Food Movements; Local Food; Social Movements; Stratification; Ethnic, Culture and Race Studies; Embodied Neoliberalism; Urban Agriculture; Auto-Ethnography; Narrative Ethnography; Affectivity; Place-Making; Decolonial Methodologies;

Julia Lunot

Julia Marie Lunot
(she/her)

Email Address: william.marshall2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology, King's University College (@013), MA Sociology, University of Western Ontario (2015)
Research Interests: Demography; Migration and Mobility; Rural Sociology; Quantitative Methods

William Zachary Marshall

Email Address: ezelbahar.metin [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Psychology & Honours Sociology, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù (2022)
Research interests: Gender and sexuality, crime and deviance, sexology, culture, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Ezelbahar Metin

Ezelbahar Metin
(she/her)

Email Address: Abigail.Meza [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD - Option in Population Dynamics
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (hons), with a minor in Hispanic studies (2020);ÌýMaster of Arts in Sociology with a Specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations (2022)
Research Interests: Demography;ÌýImmigration;ÌýHousing;ÌýLife-Course;ÌýResearch Methods

Abigail Meza

Abigail Meza

Email Address: Michaela.Michalopulos [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: Queen’s University BAH Sociology (2020); University of Ottawa MA Sociology (2022)

Michaela Michalopulos (she/her)

Email Address: colby.pereira [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BAH; MA (Queen’s University)
Research Interests: Militarization of Canadian Policing; US-Canada Police Comparison.
Colby Pereira
Email Address: alicia.poole [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) Sociology, Communication Studies, Memorial University (2017); MA Sociology, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù (2019)
Research Interests: International migration; Conflict migration; Migration decision-making; Migrant categorization; Qualitative methods

Alicia Poole

Alicia Poole

Email Address: komin.qiyomiddin [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: B.A Sociology, King’s University College (2020); M.A Sociology, University of Toronto (2021)
Research interests: Sociology of Education; Social Stratification and Mobility; Income Inequality; Quantitative Methods

Komin Qiyomiddin
Komin Qiyomiddin
Email Address: rachel.rammal [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Honours) Psychology, Concordia University (2018); MA Fashion, Ryerson University (2020)
Research Interests: Sociology of the second generation; Immigration; Family; Race and Ethnicity; Mixed-methods

Rachel Rammal

Rachel Rammal

Email Address: lymanrstone [at] gmail.com
Program: PhD - Option in Population Dynamics
Previous Degrees: BA Economics, Transylvania University (2013); MA International Trade Policy, George Washington University (2015)
Research Interests: Fertility, quantitative methods, values systems and attitudes, mortality and physical insecurity, institutions

Lyman Stone

Lyman Stone

Email: Zitian.sun [at] mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degree: B.A. International Studies, American University, 2018, M.A. International Affairs, American University, 2019, M.A. Political Science, New York University, 2022
Research Interests: Contentious Politics, Social Movements, and State Violence.

A photo of Zitian standing in a courtyard wearing a suit.

Zitian Sun

Program: PhD in Sociology - Population Dynamics Option
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) Sociology, Crandall University; MA Sociology, University of Toronto
Research Interests: Migration, demography, research methods, social policy



Ian Van Haren

Ian Van Haren
(he/him)

Email Address: kaitlin.wannamaker [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD Sociology
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology (Honours Spec.), Minor in Political Science, University of Western Ontario (2021); MA Sociology (Thesis), University of Western Ontario (2023)
Research Interests: welfare policy and administration; political sociology; universalism; quantitative methods, Indigenous communities; Indigenous methodologies; policy evaluation; poverty

Kaitlin Wannamaker

Kaitlin Wannamaker

Email Address: taisto.witt [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA (Hons.) Sociology, University of Victoria (2018), MA Interdisciplinary,ÌýUniversity of British Columbia (2020)
Research Interests: Online Social Movements; Masculinities; Ideological Formation; Radicalization; Political Extremism; Far-Right Movements; Non-State PoliticalÌýViolence;ÌýSocial and Political Movements; Qualitative Methods;ÌýAffect



Curriculum Vitae

Taisto Witt

Taisto Witt
(he/him)

Email Address: chih-lan.yang [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD in Sociology - Graduate Option in Gender and Women's Studies
Previous Degrees: BA in Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences (2014), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; MSc in Sociology (2015), University of Oxford
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Gender and Work; Marriage and Family; Social mobility; Mixed methods.

Winnie Yang

Winnie Yang
(she/her)

Email Address: irem.yildirim [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BS Sociology, Middle East Technical University (2013); MA Sociology, Bogazici University (2016)
Research Interests: Political sociology; Comparative Historical Sociology; Labor unions; Political parties; Law and society; Crime and deviance

Irem Yildirim

Irem Yildirim

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