Students

Dissertation:

Things We Don’t Perceive As Alive: Multispecies Relations In Contemporary Art

Research Interests:

Food studies; Anthropocene; human and non-human relations

Selected Publications:

Altoé, Isabella; and Gabriel Menotti. “A (re)invenção da carne:Controvérsias e potências das carnes artificiais”. Ponto Urbe, vol. 26, 2020. [(Re)inventing meat: Controversies and potentials of artificial meats]

Altoé, Isabella, and Elaine de Azevedo. “Estar vivo é ser afetado: as trajetórias cruzadas de plantas alimentícias e seres humanos”. Revista Iluminuras, vol. 51, 2019, pp. 278-297. [To be alive is to be affected: crossed trajectories between food plants and human beings].

Altoé, Isabella, and Elaine de Azevedo. “Comida e afeto: As releituras dos pratos-totem na culinária vegana”. Revista Brasileira de Sociologia das Emoções, vol. 18, 2019, pp. 129-138. [Food and Affection: Remaking totem-dishes through vegan cooking]

MA Thesis:

The Experiences of Racialized Women Competing on the Ontario Curling Tour

Research Interests:

Intersectionality, Gender and Sport, Youth Sport, Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Dissertation:

A Stranger at Home: The Experience of Russian Cancer Patients Who Have Traveled Abroad for Treatment

Research Interests:

Health, illness and medicine; biopolitics; sociocultural aspects of cancer research; health and “experimental bodies”; social implication of biomedical research; biomarkers vs personality; communications strategies in health; qualitative methods; arts-based research; knowledge translation

Selected Publications:

King, S. & Mukhina, N. (2021, August 17). Making sense of vaccine hesitancy in Russia: Lessons from the past and present. The Conversation. [https://theconversation.com/making-sense-of-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-in-russia-lessons-from-the-past-and-present-165716].

Selected Conference Presentations:

“Being Angelina Jolie”: Breast cancer previvors in Russia after a big-name celebrity’s disclosure. 2015 PCAC/ACPC Conference, Niagara Falls ON.

Presenter at 16th Annual Research Colloquium, the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON (April 2016).

Dissertation:

Discourses of Wellness in Undergraduate Medical Education

Research Interests:

End-of-life, Aging, Diaspora Studies, Korea Studies

Selected Publications:

AB Thesis, Anthropology. “The Good Life at the End-of-Life: Ideals for End-of-Life for South Korean Elders Living in Toronto, Canada.”

MSc Thesis, Medical Science. “The Role of Family Physicians in Palliative Care: Perspectives of Patients with Advanced Cancer.”

Dissertation:

An Analysis of International Graduate Student Health and Engagement in Physical Activity and Sport in Canada

Research Interests:

Critical Health Studies, Breast Cancer, Critical Sport Studies, Neoliberalism, Gender, Qualitative Research

Selected Publications:

King, S., Minhas, G., & Öncil, G. (Accepted). Sport and class. Social Issues in Canadian Sport, edited by Marty Clark and William Bridel.

Selected Conference Presentations

Öncil, G. (2020, March). Reconsidering Breasts: Breast Cancer, the Female Body, and Mastectomy Tattoos. 51^st NeMLA Convention. Boston, Massachusetts.

Öncil, G. (2019, April). Nomad patients and Disease Regimes: The Neoliberal Healthcare System in Turkey. Presented at 19^th Annual Research Colloquium. The School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Öncil, G. (2018, January). Oil Wrestlers through a Western Lens: What’s up with the Oil? Presented at the 16^th Macintosh Sociology of Sport Day Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.

Öncil, G. (2017, June). Slippery Perceptions about Oil Wrestling: From Terrible Turks to Objects of Desire. Presented at Corpus Historicus Conference, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Silesia.

MA Thesis:

“As Long as it’s Free”: Exploring Racialized Immigrants’ Experiences of ACL Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

Selected Publications:

Vidotto, D., Collura, F., & Seow, K. (2020). New. Beautiful. Equal, but not on Instagram: How the ISL represents female athletes. In Walzak, L. & Recupero, J. (Eds), Sport Media Vectors: Digitization, Expanding Audiences, and Globalization of Live Sport. Illinois: Common Ground Research Networks.

Dissertation:

(Un)Holy Hauntings: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ People Who Have Disaffiliated from the Non-Affirming Protestant Church

Research Interests:

Critical disability studies, Mad studies, Trauma studies

Selected Publications:

Smith, Sarah and Grace Wedlake (Spring 2024). “Mad Resilience, Mad Kinship: Alternative Responses to Crisis at Queen’s University. In Mad Scholar’s Anthology, edited by Shaya Kafai and Melanie Jones. In Press.

Selected Conference Presentations:

Wedlake, Grace. (2020, April). “Reimagining University Responses to Suicide Prevention.” Paper presented at The American Association for Suicidology, Portland, OR (via Zoom due to COVID-19 Restrictions).

MA Thesis:

Investigating the Overprescription of Benzodiazepines and Psychological Medications in the Canadian Healthcare System: Exploring the Role of Social Determinants of Health and Advocating for Systemic Changes

Research Interests:

Mental Health, Health Inequities in the Canadian Healthcare System, Social Determinants of Health, Addiction and Withdrawal, Overprescription of Benzodiazepines and Psychological Medications, Upstream and Downstream Factors