People

Director

Dr. Pallavi Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

Co-Investigator (YARI-Collective)

Dr. Pratim Sengupta, Professor of Learning Sciences and STEM Education at the University of Calgary's Werklund School of Education

Doctoral Students

Sepideh Borzoo 

Project: Painted Faces: A Study of Gendered and Racialized Beauty Service Work

Fateme Ejaredar

Project: “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Utopia or Reality? 

Chetna Khandelwal 

Project: Multisited Feminist Activism and Its Meanings

Pedrom Nasiri

Project: Writing PolyQueer Worlds: Controlling Images, Material Practices, and Intimacies of Citizenship

Carieta Thomas 

Project: Technologies of Surveillance: An Intersectional Analysis of Undocumented Caribbean Women Careworkers in the Labour Markets in Canada and the U.S.

Masters Students

Riann Lognon

Project: Newcomer Youth and Land-Based Expressions of Anti-Racism

Souzan Korsha, M.S. Engineering.  (Co-supervising with Dr. Laleh Behjat

Project: Use of drones in delivering essentials to displaced people in areas of humanitarian crisis. 

Tanner Short

Project: Exploring Pandemic Impacts on Canadians’ Public Discourse about Refugee Individuals: A Mixed Methods Study using Twitter Data


Undergraduate Honours Student


Sheema Ahmed 


Project: Immigrant Youth and Islamophobia


Affiliated Researchers


Dr. Soulit ChackoAssistant Professor of Sociology, Boise State University, U.S.A. 

Past Research Coordinator and collaborator for CGIM Research Group, Rohingya Resettlement and Intersectionality Project, U.S.A. (2019-2021)


Santanu Dutta: Ph.D. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.

Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project


Basak Helvaci Özacar:  Ph.D. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.

Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project


Megha Sanyal, Ph.D. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.

Research Assistant and Co-author on papers on Southern Orientations in Gender and Migration Research

Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project


Sophia Thraya, M.A. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education

Research Assistant on Refugee Resettlement and Intersectionality Project 

Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project


Alumni

Graduate Students

Chetna Khandelwal (Graduated 2022)

Project: Technological Influences upon immigration social movements in India and the USA

Melanie Jong, M.A.  (Graduated 2021)

Project: Race Talk in a Multicultural Canada: How Canadian Children are being Racially Socialized


Isabel Fandino, M.A.  (Graduated 2021)

Project:  Lost in Translation: The (Unseen) Experiences of International Graduate Students and Families

Negin Saheb Javaher, M.A.  (Graduated 2020)

Project: Under the Neoliberal Blanket: Maternal Strategies in the Resettlement of Yazidi Refugees in Calgary



Undergraduate Honours Students Alumni

Rupinder Brar (Graduated 2021)

Project: The Intersectional Inequalities Faced by South Asian Women in Canada: A Study on the Work and Home Lives of South Asian Immigrant Women


Juliana Castillo (Graduated 2020)

Project: The Poverty Industry and its Impact on Refugees in Canada: A Study on Syrian and Yazidi Refugees

Kennedy Novak  (Graduated 2019)

Project: Facebook, News, and You: A Study of Online News Content


Auska Adhikari (Graduated 2018)

Project: Representation of South Asians in North American Media in 2017


Isabel Fandino,  (Graduated 2018)

Experiences of International Graduate Students Families