The following PhD. students are currently enrolled in our department's Sociology PhD. program.
Tichana Adam
adam112@uwindsor.ca
Area of Interest: Classical sociological theory, metatheory, Hegelianism, Kantianism, Marxism, political economy, and philosophical sociology
Andrew Chapados
Jennifer Halliday
Areas of Interest: environmental and animal well-being and conservation, ethics and morality, environmental racism, and the representation of diverse ontologies and epistemologies in policy.
Laisa Massarenti-Hosoya
Area of Interest: As an interdisciplinary researcher, my interests encompass decolonial studies, gender, feminism, social movements, human rights, dam impacts,
land rights, Indigenous Peoples, traditional knowledge, domestic violence, and public policy.
Cai Kellier
Area of Interst: Power/Knowledge, Surveillance, Governance, Mobility, Migration
Bridget Nicholls
Area of Interest: animal protection organizations, equity, diversity, and inclusion, human-animal work and humane jobs, human-animal violence link, organizational challenge and change, and sociolegal organizations and leaders.
Tarran Maharaj
Area of Interest: Food Poverty, Food Literacy, Social Innovation, Global Indigeneity, Community-Service-Learning, On-Campus Food-Systems-Programs, Self-Reflective Experiential Learning / Lived-Experiences, Professional Academic Micro-Aggressional-Behavioural-Patterns, Modern-Day Passive Aggressive Socio-Academic Racist Practices
Diwen Shi
Aread of Interest: Gender Studies, Intimate Relations, East Asian Culture, Ethnography
Samantha Wauthier-Paspuleti
Area of Interest: While my research interests tend to vary, I have a longstanding interest in all things liminal - be they spaces, research methods or otherwise.
Although my previous academic record derives from the disciplines of Anthropology and Sociology, my approach to research stems from a combination of social scientific disciplines,
such as history, archeology, religious studies, and anthrozoology. I have an interdisciplinary interest in qualitative approaches to identity, space/place, symbolism, ritual, and belief.
Dara Vosoughi
Interest Areas: migration, border dynamics, the lived experiences of migrants and refugees. Furthermore, I am interested in examining, understanding,
and breaking down societal constructions of criminality, exploring its practical manifestations and implications on the lives of those vulnerable to criminalization.
I strive to better understand how social and legal frameworks of citizenship and legal-personhood affect individual and communal experiences with belonging,
integration and identity, particularly within the context of involuntary migration. My research goals aim to unravel the often-conflated concepts of criminality and illegality.