Affiliated Faculty
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Dr. Sirma Bilge
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Dr. Arseli Dokumaci
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Dr. Monika Kin Gagnon
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Dr. Shannon Hebblethwaite
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Dr. Gada Mahrouse
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Dr. Nalini Mohabir
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Dr. Alessandra Renzi
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Dr. Ted Rutland
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Dr. Daniel Salee
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Dr. Kim Sawchuk
Dr. Shannon Hebblethwaite
Dr. Gada Mahrouse
Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
Dr. Daniel Salee
Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs & Political Science
Professor, Communication Studies
Director, Ageing + Communication + Technologies – www.actproject.ca
Students
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Davis HepnarMA Student
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Mackenzie LadUndergrad Student
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Sasha LipskaiaMA Student
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Maha TaziPhD Student
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Shanice BernickyMA Student
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Aurelia TalvelaMA Student
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Maya Youngs-ZaleskiMA Student
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Nicole TaylorMA Student
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Katayoun HashemiMA Student
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Maya HeyPhD Student
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Bipasha SultanaMA Student
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Shawn Suyong Yi JonesPhD Student
Davis Hepnar
Davis Hepnar
Our inferiority was not a scientific fact but a political fiction written by representatives of the systems that oppressed us. - Kamal Al-Solaylee
Mackenzie Lad
Mackenzie Lad
Mackenzie Lad is a photographer, writer, and journalism student at Concordia University in Montreal. Before that, she grew up in the peripheral of Toronto feeling like she was missing out on something. These days she is most often found behind a camera or with a notebook in hand, asking too many questions to quell her insatiable curiosity. Her interests include art and activism, gender and sexuality, media criticism, diaspora communities, and immigration.
She is the Editor of Photography at The Concordian. Her photography and writing has appeared in various publications online and in print.
Sasha Lipskaia
Sasha Lipskaia
Projects
- Undoing The Russian Doll: the performance component of “Becoming a Russian Doll”: A research-creation MA thesis project by Alexandra Macias Lipskaia, Concordia University, 2018, Montreal, Quebec.
- Photo Portfolio
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. - Elif Shafak, The 40 Rules of Love
Maha Tazi
Maha Tazi
Maha Tazi is a Ph.D. student in the Communication Studies Program at Concordia University. Her research interests focus on the recent developments of the feminist movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where the rise of fourth wave feminism is concomitant with the Arab Spring and its aftermath. She is interested in exploring how feminist activists are fighting on several fronts in the MENA region today, incorporating aspects of conflict-resolution, good governance, human rights and social justice to women’s rights advocacy. Currently, Maha is also teaching (TA) a Media Criticism course at Concordia University.
Previously, Maha studied International and Middle Eastern Studies in Morocco, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Women’s Studies at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris. She also worked and volunteered with several women’s NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa region, such as Association Solidarite Feminine in the city of Casablanca, where she helped single mothers learn a new profession and re-integrate into a society that once shattered them. She was also a volunteer writer with Ananke Mag, an online interactive platform based in Dubai and engaging women across the MENA (and beyond) on issues pertaining to women’s rights. More recently, she held the position of Program Manager with Empowering Women in the Atlas, a social initiative which aims to engage rural women in economic growth and sustainable development in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, prior to moving to Canada.
Marginality as site of resistance. Enter that space. Let us meet there. Enter that space. We greet you as liberators. - bell hooks
Shanice Bernicky
Shanice Bernicky
When she is not in the CJ building at Loyola Campus (which is rare), she works as a video editing assistant. One project through editing can become many, it is all about rearranging the scaffolding to access new levels of engagement.
Projects
- Hot Mess: a short documentary on the culture and community of the waacking dance scene in Montreal.
- Invisible Women: a short documentary about the story of Rose Henry and discussing the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada
- CDN
If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.
Aurelia Talvela
Aurelia Talvela
Previously, she worked in a research group that produced a report called Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Press Coverage, which was presented at the EU as well as in events related to the ethics of journalism. Aurelia has a multi-cultural background having grown up, worked and studied in several countries.
Projects
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Press Coverage: A comparative content analysis of texts published in Helsingin Sanomat and Aamulehti (FI), The Guardian and The Times (UK) and Le Soir and De Morgen (BE) newspapers in the time period from 1 January to 31 January 2016
Identities are formed at the unstable point where personal lives meet the narrative of history. Identity is an ever-unfinished conversation. Stuart Hall
Maya Youngs-Zaleski
Maya Youngs-Zaleski
In her spare time, Maya likes walking and listening to comedy podcasts, reading about fashion and design, and drinking coffee with her friends.
You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I'll rise. - Maya Angelou
Nicole Taylor
Nicole Taylor
Nicole possess an insatiable hunger for literature, having a BA in English literature, and you can either find her with her nose in a book or drafting up a story.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. - Bruce Feirstein
Katayoun Hashemi
Katayoun Hashemi
Her current research is on visual media discourse analysis concerning race and representation in media advertisements.
Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain, and mend, categories always leak. - Trinh T. Minh-ha
Maya Hey
Maya Hey
She is co-founder of Food, Feminism, and Fermentation, author of the experimental cookbook EAT M.E., and researcher at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology. Prior, she has conducted various research projects related to food: on a post-Fukushima food system, on Japanese ferments with the Nordic Food Lab, and on the antioxidant scavenging power of polyphenols in grapefruits at the University of Notre Dame. She completed her master’s degree in Food Culture and Communications at the University of Gastronomic Sciences and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics and biochemistry.
Projects
- Food, Feminism, and Fermentation: an organization dedicated to bringing together scholars and makers working at the intersections of food, feminism, and fermentation.
- EAT M.E.: an experimental cookbook exploring the use of microbes as food ingredients.
If you want something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. - Thomas Jefferson
Bipasha Sultana
Bipasha Sultana
Some of her passions involve discussion and awareness of a melange of subjects including politics, literature, food, health and psychology! En plus, elle parle quatre langues.
Shawn Suyong Yi Jones
Shawn Suyong Yi Jones
In addition to his work with the Intersectionality Hub, he is also a research member of the Speculative Life cluster at the Milieux Institute. He holds an MA in International Communications from Communication University of China and an MA in Communication Studies from Simon Fraser University where he has conducted research on gay pornography in both the Chinese and Canadian contexts, respectively.