Completed Doctoral Students
Sarah Smith Ph.D. (2023)
Dissertation:
Helpful or Harmful?: An Institutional Ethnography of Self-Harm and Psychiatry
Where are they now?
Research Associate
Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
Andrea Reid Ph.D. (2022)
Dissertation:
Fantasies of containment: Entanglements between the nuclear family and therapeutic culture in the making of the self
Where are they now?
Post-doctoral Fellow
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Queen’s University
Adam Ali Ph.D. (2019)
Dissertation:
“Something got into their minds” : The rise of radicalization discourse in Canada
Where are they now?
Assistant Professor
School of Kinesiology
Western University
Andrea Phillipson Ph.D. (2017)
Dissertation:
Incorporated: Student mental health discourse and higher education in Canada.
Where are they now?
Associate Professor
Mount Royal University
Scott Carey Ph.D. (2017)
Dissertation:
Embodying acne: Skin, subjectivity, and dermatological science.
Where are they now?
Grant Writer
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Gavin Weedon Ph.D. (2016)
Dissertation:
The will to overcome: Essays on mud running, modernism, and the renaissance of physical culture. School of Human Kinetics: University of British Columbia. (co-supervision)
Where are they now?
Senior Lecturer
School of Science and Technology
Nottingham Trent University
Matthew Ventresca Ph.D. (2016)
Dissertation:
Mo Bros: Masculinity, irony, and the rise of Movember.
Where are they now?
Researcher: Sport, Society, and Technology
School of History and Sociology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert Millington Ph.D. (2015)
Dissertation:
The United Nations and sport for development and peace: A critical history
Where are they now?
Assistant Professor
Department of Kinesiology
Brock University
Jill Takacs (2023). “It’s not just about petting horses”: Understanding Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Horse-Human Healing Relationships. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Taylor Burke (2020). Disabling Canadian Nationalism: Mariatu Kamala and the myth of multiculturalism. (Major research paper, supervisor) Department of Gender Studies.
Andrew Surya (2019). The kneel for social justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and an analysis of race-based protest. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Hayley Sullivan (2017). An anti-colonial analysis of Indigenous mascots. (Major research paper, supervisor). Department of Gender Studies.
Roxanne Runyon (2016). Exhausting affects: The negotiation of affective labour, neoliberal subjectivity, and feminist politics among anti-violence workers. Department of Gender Studies.
Natalia Mukhina (2016). Lost in translation? Russian media portrayals of lay persons’ interpretations of Angelina Jolie’s breast cancer discourse. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Naila Jinnah (2014). Racking up the hockey points. How professional hockey player identities are affected by Twitter usage. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Carolyn Prouse (2011). ‘Celebrate Africa’s Humanity’ or dispossess South Africa’s citizenry? Rogue sovereignty, governmentality and the constitution of bare life through 2010 FIFA World Cup. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Maxwell Adam (2011). The Gueguencista expereince: Masquerade, embodiment, and decolonization in early twenty-first century Western Nicaragua. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
K. Heintzman (2010). Civilizing madness: Sadomasochism, imperialism, and German national identity, 1880-1914. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Rob Millington (2009). Basketball with(out) borders: Interrogating the intersections of sport, development, and capitalism. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Benjamin Tollestrup (2009). Murderball: Masculinity and disability in popular culture. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Nicola Potopsingh (2007). Reading pole-fitness in Canadian media: Women and exercise in an era of “raunch”. School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Fannie Valois-Nadeau
FQRSC Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen’s University and Concordia University