Faculty Profiles
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
Catherine.BaillieAbidi@msvu.ca
Research interests: Children’s Rights, Children, Peace & Security, Violence Prevention & Transformation, Forced Migration, Gender, Youth Engagement, Participatory Social Action
Adriana Benzaquén, History
adriana.benzaquen@msvu.ca
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
susan.brigham@msvu.ca
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
mary.delaney@msvu.ca
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
gabrielle.durepos@msvu.ca
Research interests: Organizational history, critical historiography, the history of management thought, methodology and, gender and diversity
Maya Eichler, Political Studies
maya.eichler@msvu.ca
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
tammy.findlay@msvu.ca
Research interests: Canadian politics, gender and politics, gender and public policy, social policy, community engagement, multilevel governance, and representation
Tamara A. Franz-Odendaal, Biology
tamara.franz-odendaal@msvu.ca
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
marnina.gonick@msvu.ca
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
el.jones@msvu.ca
Karen MacFarlane, English
karen.macfarlane@msvu.ca
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
tracy.moniz@msvu.ca
Research interests: Gender and media, media history, writing practice and pedagogy, and narrative medicine
Deborah Norris, Family Studies and Gerontology
deborah.norris@msvu.ca
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
denel.rehbergsedo@msvu.ca
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
meredith.ralston@msvu.ca
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
ian.reilly@msvu.ca
Research interests: feminist media studies; media activism; feminist humor; feminist care in academic labour
Sarah Reddington, Child & Youth Study
sarah.reddington@msvu.ca
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
brooke.richardson1@msvu.ca
Research interests: mothering, feminisms and early childhood, mothering and child protection services; feminist child care policy
Ian Liujia Tian, Women’s Studies
ian.tian@msvu.ca
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
randi.warne@msvu.ca
Research interests: politics, religion and culture; North American cultural history, including social reform movements; material and popular culture
Martha Walls, History
martha.walls@msvu.ca
Research interests: Atlantic Canadian First Nations history, with a specialization in the historical experiences of 20th century First Nations women
Benita Bunjun, Women and Gender Studies
Benita.Bunjun@smu.ca
Research interests: colonial encounters, academic well-being of racialized students, mental health and labour, Indigenous-settler relations, (im)migrant/indentured labour, and intersectionality
Michele Byers, Women and Gender Studies
michele.byers@smu.ca
Research interests: Media and popular culture, television studies, gender and sexuality studies, feminist theories and methodologies, queer theory, disability, crip & mad studies, autotheory and other methods of self-study, knowledge translation & mobilization, research creation, monster studies and horror, serial killers, genre fiction
Bishop Owis, Women & Gender Studies
bishop.owis@smu.ca
Research interests: Gender and sexuality studies, critical disability, crip, mad and race studies, Queer and trans ethics of care, arts-based educational research, participatory, critical, qualitative methodologies, autotheory, auto/duo ethnography, digital media and popular culture, LGBTQ+ sex education
Lindsay Macumber, Study of Religion, and Women & Gender Studies
lindsay.macumber@smu.ca
Research interests: Religion and popular culture, Jewish religious tradition, mythology
Tatjana Takseva, English Language & Literature, and Women & Gender Studies
tatjana.takseva@smu.ca
Research interests: Sexual violence, trauma studies, feminist theory, feminist philosophy and ethics of care, cultural representations of motherhood, maternal ambivalence