Members & Visiting Scholars
Members & Visiting Scholars
Affiliated Membership
The CFR will be supported by affiliated members. Affiliated members should be actively engaged in feminist research and/or creative work and are expected to contribute to building a vibrant feminist community on campus. Affiliated members are expected to attend the Annual General Meeting of the CFR and are eligible to serve on the CFR Advisory Board.
Who Can Become an Affiliated Member?
- Faculty (including emeriti), postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Lethbridge;
- Scholars at other post-secondary institutions; and
- Representatives of feminist community organizations.
Benefits of Becoming an Affiliated Member include:
- Eligible for logistical and/or financial support from the CFR (e.g. to host an event);
- Use of the CFR listserv to promote your work; and
- Ability to nominate your students for the CFR student awards.
To become an Affiliated Member, please write to cfr@uleth.ca with a brief letter of intent on how your work, collaboration, or mentorship fit within the vision of the CFR.
Affiliated Members
| Name | Work / Expertise |
|---|---|
| Carly Adams | feminist and anti-racist approaches to Canadian sport and leisure histories; oral history methods; Japanese Canadian migration; digital storytelling; public history |
| Chloe Crosschild | critical Indigenous feminism; Red intersectionality; critical race theory; Indigenous women’s health and care practices; community-based research |
| Ryan Crosschild | |
| Arundhati Dasgupta | |
| Nicolas Dunn | AI ethics; biomedical ethics; philosophy of love; environmental philosophy |
| Athena Elafros | cultural sociology; community-based methods; qualitative interviewing; oral history; critical disability studies; access |
| Susan Findley | equitable hiring practices; equitable compensation; inclusive classrooms; STEM outreach; chemistry education |
| Emily Gale | |
| David Hobbs | |
| Jason Laurendeau | settler colonialism; Indigenous sport; girls’ and women’s sport; resurgence |
| Miranda Leibel | bureaucracy, feminist political economy, settler colonialism, political geography, critical policy studies |
| Suzanne Lenon | feminist sociology of law; marriage; inheritance; critical race theory; queer theory |
| Tara MacDonald | feminist theory; literary studies; affect theory; feminist utopias and dystopias; decolonial care practices |
| Janay Nugent | gender; children/youth; religion; history; Scotland |
| Brent Saccucci | Queer and trans studies in education; Critical and democratic pedagogy; pluralism between religious and 2SLGBTQ+ groups |
| Kaylan C. Schwarz | Feminist identities; material culture; feminist research methods; visual research methods; participatory research methods |
| Lisa Starr | gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF); sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR); gender transformation |
| Carol Williams | reproductive health history; residential school photographs; labour and settler colonialism |
| Julie Young | critical border studies; migration; policy; advocacy; feminist political geography |
Graduate Students
| Name | Work / Expertise |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Holthe | |
| Jodi Newman | dehumanization, feminist epistemology, feminist ethics, epistemic injustice, social media |
| Mary Siever | mothering; parenting; neurodivergence; child disability; Alberta |
| Allison Vonk | counter-trolling; feminist critical discourse analysis; digital misogyny; new media, netnography |
| Ariana Williams | mothering, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), Mormons, second-wave feminism, Southern Alberta |