Community Bridge Lab Members/Fellows

Since Summer 2022, the Community Bridge Lab has supported a number of students with community-engaged research projects, including lab space to work in, mentoring talks and events,
 

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Fellow designations, and in some cases funding. As appropriate, student projects can be connected with Independent or Applied Studies, Co-op jobs, Chinook research awards, Honours Theses, volunteer work, tutoring, Agility projects, etc.

SUMMER 2026 CBL FELLOWS

Allison Vonk, “Misandrist Weapons of the Weak: Feminist Countertrolling”
Percy Potiuk, “Portrayals of Queerness and People with HIV/AIDS in Lethbridge and Area during 1994”
Brian Young, "Inheritance as Relation: Creefoot Kinship, Governance, and Indigenous Resurgence”
Lily Overacker, "Making Place in North County Cork: Exploring the Intersections of Folklore, Aforestation, and Contemporary Living Landscapes”
Kate Tucker, “Mapping Access: A Qualitative Study of the Abortion Pill Prescribing and Dispensing in Urban Southern Alberta”
Deanna Andreschefski, “Anthropology of Outdoor Recreation”
Krys Sanchez, “Experiences of Im/Migrant and Refugee Meat Plant Workers in Accessing WCB”
Taiah Krivoshein, “Student Experiences in Cooperative Student-Academic Staff SoTL Research”
Caitlin McGonigal, “Urban Rail Geography”
Leya Emond,  “Alberta’s Active Role In Gender-Based Violence Policies And Its Passive Effect”
Josephine Bachman-Conrad, "Finding Future Paths: Assessing user values and community priorities to inform future planning of the Fort Macleod River Valley Wilderness Park"
Dara Boras, "Stewardship Through Story: A Digital Approach to Blackfoot Language Preservation and Land-Based Learning" 
Alexandra Lennox, “Co-op Work Experience II”
Ariana Williams, CBL Lab Manager,  “LDS Mothering and the Second Wave: Prescriptions VS Lived Experience”

WINTER 2026 CBL FELLOWS

Allison Vonk, “Misandrist Weapons of the Weak: Feminist Countertrolling”
Percy Potiuk, "Queer Histories and HIV/AIDS in Southern Alberta”
Brian Young, "Inheritance as Relation: Creefoot Kinship, Governance, and Indigenous Resurgence”
Lily Overacker, "Making Place in North County Cork: Exploring the Intersections of Folklore, Aforestation, and Contemporary Living Landscapes”
Josephine Bachman-Conrad, “Sustainability and Craft Production"
Deanna Andreschefski, “Anthropology of Outdoor Recreation”
Alexandra Lennox, Co-op Work Experience I:  "Labour Market Turnover of K-12 Teachers in Alberta"
Taiah Krivoshein, “Student Experiences in Cooperative Student-Academic Staff SoTL Research”
Jaxon Overacker, “Sharing the Headwaters: Understanding anthropogenic factors affecting the ecology of the Upper Oldman Watershed”
Ariana Williams, CBL Lab Manager,  “LDS Mothering and the Second Wave: Prescriptions VS Lived Experience”

FALL 2025 CBL FELLOWS

Deanna Andreschefski: Anthropology of Outdoor Recreation
Miriam Chatterton-Taylor: Making the Invisible Visible: Representing and Including People with Disabilities through Marginalizing Knowledge 
Taiah Krivoshein: Student Experiences in Cooperative Student-Academic Staff SoTL Research 
Alexandra Lennox: Community and Change Industry Research Project:  "Literacy and Life Paths: Educational and Labour Market Outcomes in Rural Alberta" 
Yumeka Ogita: Modernity and Secularism in Japan: Perceptions of Tourism at Buddhist Temples 
Jaxson Overacker: Sharing the Headwaters: Understanding anthropogenic factors aff ecting the ecology of the Upper Oldman Watershed 
Percy Potiuk: Queer Histories and HIV/AIDS in Southern Alberta 
Ariana Williams: Studies into Second Wave Feminism and Mormon Motherhood in Southern Alberta 
Janelle Waugh, CBL Lab Manager.

SUMMER 2025 CBL FELLOWS

Deanna Andreschefski: Geospatial and Qualitative Analysis of Recreation in the Old Man River Headwaters
Jaxson Overacker: Sharing the Headwaters: Understanding anthropogenic factors affecting the ecology of the Upper Oldman Watershed.
Christian Hill: Sport, Youth, and Crime Prevention
Megan Dobbie: Beyond Opposition: Examining How Youth Progressive Social Movements are Sustained in Alberta
Percy Potiuk: Queer Histories and HIV/AIDS in Southern Alberta
Miriam Chatterton-Taylor: Making the Invisible Visible: Representing and Including People with Disabilities through Marginalizing Knowledge
J. Lawrenz Decano, MA Geography Candidate, Visiting Fellow from York University: Exploring the geographies of im/migrant labour in southern Alberta feedlots
Janelle Waugh, CBL Lab Manager.

WINTER 2025 CBL FELLOWS: Name and Project Title

Wallie Desruisseaux: Fantasy, Space and Place: Urban Planning in Imaginary Worlds.
Megan Dobbie: Beyond Opposition: Examining How Youth Progressive Social Movements are Sustained in Alberta
Rebeca Spencer: The Political Ecology of a River Under Threat. CBL Lab Manager.
Jaxson Overacker: The Anthropology of Recreation and Camping.
Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal: Beekseeksseenaiks ki Namskeeks (“Snakes and Lizards” from a Blackfoot Perspective).
Madison Abar: Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Yumeka Ogita: Influences of Globalized Discourse on Japanese Religions and Perceptions of Culture
Rebeca Spencer, CBL Lab Manager.

FALL 2024 CBL FELLOWS

Carter Utke: Research Assistant – Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Jade Oldfield: Examining the Impact of an Educational Neuroscience Professional Development Series on Teacher Efficacy.
Madison Abar: Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Rebeca Spencer: The Political Ecology of a River Under Threat. CBL Lab Manager.
Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal: Beekseeksseenaiks ki Namskeeks (“Snakes and Lizards” from a Blackfoot Perspective).
Wallie Desruisseaux: The Efficacy of Anti-Homeless Policy Planning: A Case Study on Fresh Water and Bench Seating in Downtown Lethbridge.
Rebeca Spencer, CBL Lab Manager.

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