Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students :
Toyin Aladejebi, PhD
Co-Supervisors: Adebiyi Boco Lars Holstrom
Megan Dobbie, MA: Beyond Opposition: Examining How Youth Social Movements are Sustained
Supervisor: Suzanne Lenon
Tyler Jacques, PhD
Supervisor: William Ramp
Blair Many Fingers MA
Supervisor: Tiffany Prete
Madison Pomreinki, MA: Where the Dead Go to Die: Queer Theory, Sex Work, and the ‘Less Dead’ in Ti West’s ‘X’ Series
Supervisor: Suzanne Lenon
Tif Semach, PhD
Supervisor: Jason Laurendeau
Riley Welchman, MA: Disability status an family income among Canadians: Evidence from the 2018 General Social Survey
Co-Supervisors: Adebiyi Boco and Tom Perks
Brian Young, MA: Inheritance as Relation: Creefoot Kinship, Governance, and Indigenous Resurgence
Supervisor: Suzanne Lenon
Past Graduate Students
Arturo Tejeda Torres (PhD '25): Framing the feminist protests in Mexico: an analysis of the polarized discursive dynamics and gender power relations on social media
Supervisor: Kim Mair
Harley Morman (PhD '25): Feeling time and change through the lenticular
Supervisor: Kim Mair
Liz Fox-Grey, MA (MA '25): Indigenous anarchism: a story of resistance, reconciliation and becoming through the decolonization of ways of knowing
Supervisor: William Ramp
Ingrid Fruhbrodt (MA '25): Becoming neoliberal: Myths, memory, and subjectivity in Los 80
Supervisor: Kim Mair
Joslin Smith (MA '22): Everyday speech in an extraordinary time: Constructing civic agency, identity, and influence in narratives of a small town's big decision
Supervisor: William Ramp
Sahar Siavashi (MA '22): Exploring identity formation of Iranian immigrant women in Canada
Supervisor: William Ramp
Tyler Stewart (MA '21): What does it mean to "stand on guard for thee"? Detuning the Canadian national anthem
Supervisor: Kim Mair
Shahina Parvin (PhD '21): Suffering and pain: Racialized immigrant women’s use of mental health services in Lethbridge, Alberta
Supervisor: Claudia Malacrida
Tatum Fraser (MA '21): Negotiating parental leaves in corporate Alberta
Supervisor: Muriel Mellow
Pinar Kocak (MA '20): Public classroom to homeschool: finding a place for AD(H)D children in Alberta in 2010
Supervisor: Trevor Harrison
Eric Keim (MA '20): Social support and the probability of depression: a longitudinal analysis
Supervisor: Tom Perks
James Vaughn (MA '20): "Futures Pitilessly Blocked and Passions Violently Choked:" Narrating Fatalism in Non-Resident Fatherhood
Supervisor: William Ramp
Tanner Layton (MA '19): The Peripheralization of Structural Realities: A Critical Social Theory of Well Being
Supervisor: Kim Mair
Jake Vinje (MA '19): Making Live and Letting Die: Theorizing Biopolitics Through the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015
Supervisor: Kim Mair
Sydney Cabanas (MA '19): A Place to Call Home? Recent Immigrant Integration Experiences in Lethbridge, AB
Supervisor: Trevor Harrison
Jami Albright-Tolman (MA '19): Living the Code: How Identity Practices of Female Corrections Officers Reinforce Hegemonic Masculinity in the Officer Subculture
Supervisor: Rob Wood
Jasmine Saler (MA '19): Theorizing Palimpsestuousness through Bodies and Form
Supervisor: Jason Laurendeau
Katelynn Mitchell (MA '19): "It was everyone's judgement": Experiences seeking abortion in Southern Alberta (2007-2017)
Supervisor: Claudia Malacrida
Dan Konecny (MA '18): "Yes, Your Fears are Correct. He is Disturbed, Whether it's Diagnosable or Not": Risk Discourse in Parenting Guides
Supervisor: Jason Laurendeau
Emmanuel Oben-Mireku (MA '17): Christian-Muslim Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Ghana and Nigeria
Supervisor: Reg Bibby
Emily Kirbyson (MA '17): "Hauntings on Blackfoot Land: Theorizing the Hinterlands of Native Teacher Education Programming at the University of Lethbridge"
Supervisor: Kara Granzow
Shahina Parvin, MA 2016 -" Like us, Secure your Opportunity of Having a Child: The discourse of Arts in Bangladesh".
Vanja Spiric, MA 2016 - "Disability and Difference in Higher Education: Case of Accomodation at the University of Lethbridge".
Aileen Ledoux, MA 2015 - "Heterotopic Postmemories of an Actual Homeland: Recollections and Reclamations of Hawai'i".
Nathan Wong, MA 2015 - "Social Surrogates or Posthuman Lovers?: Love Dolls in the "Robotic Moment".
Abe Tinney, MA 2015 - “The Discourse of Economic Crises: Policy Making in Alberta 1983 - 1993”.
Alan Santinele Martino, MA 2014 - “’It is totally a power struggle’: Struggles over the sexuality of some intellectually disabled individuals in Southern Alberta”.
Tiffani Semach, MA 2014 – “’They USE Space’: Youth affected by attentional and behavioural challenges and spatial boundaries in the classroom”.
Rachel Sheilds, MA 2012 - "(Re)Imagining history and subjectivity: (Dis)Incar-nations of racialised citizenship"
Gillan Ayers, MA 2012 – “’I could be a father, but I could never be a mother’: Values and meanings of women’s voluntary childlessness in Southern Alberta”.
Carlin Sharpe, MA 2012 – “Top hat and cane show: Gendered emotional labour in kayak guiding”.
Tamara Larter, MA 2011 – “More than ‘Whore’: A discourse analysis on the media coverage of the murders of sex trade workers in Edmonton, Canada, 2001-2008”.
Michael Granzow, MA 2010 – “Bringing people to the park: Inclusion and exclusion in the production of public space”.
Natasha Fairweather, MA 2009 – “Religion and trust in Canada”.
Kristen Desjarlais-DeKlerk, MA 2009 -"The impact on religious involvement of women in the paid labour force, 1975-2005."
Jill Veenendaal, MA 2008 – “Lost voices: How print media and municipal policy ignore the needs of the inadequately-housed in Calgary, Alberta”.
Tyson Will, MA 2007 – “With God on our side: The discursive construction of religious and national identity within the sermons of The Crystal Cathedral Ministry”.
Jennifer Franks, MA 2007 - "Scripted service encounters: Frontline employee experiences of the Mystery Shopper Program".
Tiffany Boulton, MA 2007 – “Cuts both ways: Women’s experiences of cosmetic breast surgery”.
Teri-Lynn Fox, MA 2004 – “Intergenerational communication & well-being in aboriginal life”.