Current Students
Curricula Vitae
Please scroll down to find CVs of candidates for, and graduates of, the Interdisciplinary PhD degree. You can click on the blue hyperlink of a person's name to view their CV.
Announcements
- Congratulations to Andrew Dixon for becoming the new Senior Research Officer at the For Diverse Youth (4DY) initiative (co-led by Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA) and the University of Toronto檚 Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources).
- Congratulations to Angela Antle on the publication of her book The Saltbox Olive which can be found here: (shortlisted for the Winterset Prize, set to be awarded on April 9, 2026).
- Congratulations to Opeyemi Jaunty-Aidamenbor for having successfully defended her PhD thesis on December 15, 2025.
- Congratulations to Janelle Skeard for having successfully defended her PhD thesis on June 19, 2025.
- Congratulations to Alexis (Ali) Maureen McGill, a recent graduate of our IDPhD program, on becoming the first Chair-holder of the new Research Chair in Health Innovation at the University of New Brunswick:
Welcome to New Students of the 2026-2027 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Baharehsadat Razavian |
Dr. Kirk D. Anderson, Faculty of Education, 91亚色 Dr. Patrick Gamsby, Department of Sociology, 91亚色 Dr. Amy Hudson, School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies, 91亚色 |
| Martin Poole |
Dr. Andrei Igamberdiev, Department of Biology, 91亚色 Dr. Peter Trnka, Department of Philosophy, 91亚色 Dr. Jonathan Fawcett, Department of Psychology, 91亚色 |
| Mary Kate Kopec |
Dr. Jennifer Jewer, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Kyle Pushkarenko, School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, 91亚色倐倐倐 Dr. Jennifer Rowsell, School of Education, University of Sheffield Dr. Liz Durden-Meyers, School of Education, Bath Spa University
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Students of the 2025-2026 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Aimee Melissa Roebothan |
Dr. Christopher B.R. Smith, School of Social Work, 91亚色 Dr. Gillian Kolla, Faculty of Medicine, 91亚色 Dr. John T. Weber, School of Pharmacy, 91亚色
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| Hashna Binte Nahar |
Dr. Armin Hatefi, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 91亚色 Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Jacqueline Blundell, Faculty of Science, 91亚色
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| Nasim Makaremi Nia |
Dr. Andrew Testa, School of Fine Arts (Grenfell Campus), 91亚色 Dr. Gerard Curtis, School of Fine Arts (Grenfell Campus), 91亚色 Dr. Jennifer A. Selby, Department of Religious Studies, 91亚色
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Students of the 2024-2025 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Amie Florance Richards |
Dr. Harris Berger, School of Music, 91亚色 Dr. April Pike, Faculty of Nursing, 91亚色 Dr. Jennifer Dyer, Department of Gender Studies, 91亚色
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| Chau Bao Phung |
Dr. Octavia Dobre, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91亚色 Dr. Trung Duong, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91亚色 Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色
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| Jesse Schnobb |
Dr. David LeFrancois, Department of Education, University of Quebec at Outaouais Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Hannah Snyder, Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School
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Keith Matthews |
Dr. Edward Kendall, Faculty of Medicine, 91亚色 Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Sean Cadigan, Department of History, 91亚色
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Miriam Bowlby
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Dr. Barry Stephenson, Department of Religious Studies, 91亚色 Dr. Nicholas Lynch, Department of Geography, 91亚色 Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色
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Patience Ahiaku |
Dr. Octavia Dobre, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91亚色 Dr. Trung Duong, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91亚色 Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Nathan Grieve, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Acadia University
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Shelley Neville
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Dr. Jacqueline Blundell, Department of Psychology, 91亚色 Dr. Jane Leibel, School of Music, 91亚色 Dr. David Buley, Faculty of Education, 91亚色
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| Tisia Stemp |
Dr. Harris Berger, School of Music, 91亚色 Dr. Daniel Peretti, Department of Folklore, 91亚色 Dr. Carlos Bazan, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色
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Students of the 2023-2024 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Jonathan Dredge |
Dr. Chansoo Park, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Dale Kirby, Faculty of Education, 91亚色 Dr. Andrea Migone, Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
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| Somina Eka |
Dr. Kimberly Jarvis, Faculty of Nursing, 91亚色 Dr. Eric Tenkorang, Department of Sociology, 91亚色 Dr. Paul Issahaku, School of Social Work, 91亚色
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Yiyin Liu |
Dr. Dianne P. Ford, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Vicki Sara Hallett, Department of Gender Studies, 91亚色 Dr. Amanda Bittner, Department of Political Science, 91亚色
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Melika Sefidari |
Dr. Shannon Hoff, Department of Philosophy, 91亚色 Dr. Jennifer Dyer, Department of Gender Studies, 91亚色 Dr. Nancy Pedri, Department of English, 91亚色
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| Megan MacKinnon |
Dr. Meghan Burchell, Department of Archaeology, 91亚色 Dr. Suzanne Dufour, Department of Biology, 91亚色 Dr. Alan Wanamaker, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University
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| Courtney Lancaster |
Dr. Anne Burke, Faculty of Education, 91亚色 Dr. Todd Hennessey, School of Fine Arts, 91亚色 Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色
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| Christine Fearing |
Dr. Leah Lewis, Faculty of Education, 91亚色 Dr. Giovana del Negro, Department of Gender Studies, 91亚色 Dr. Eliza Chandler, School of Disability Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University |
Students of the 2022-2023 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Esraa Abouamin |
Dr. Desai Shan, Faculty of Medicine, 91亚色 Dr. Kim Cullen, School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, 91亚色 Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色
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| Christine Goudie |
Dr. Carlos Bazan, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Stephen Czarnuch, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91亚色
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| Giorgia Mezzetti |
Dr. Sergio Caprara, Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. David Orrell, Systems Forecasting
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| Hadi Moradi |
Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色 Dr. Ivan Saika-Voivod, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, 91亚色
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| Giuseppe Pasqualino |
Dr. Amy Hurford, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 91亚色 Dr. Jane Heffernan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University Dr. Amy Greer, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
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| Christy Walters |
Dr. David Churchill, Department of Computer Science, 91亚色 Dr. Dale Kirby, Faculty of Education, 91亚色 Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91亚色
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Students In Progress
- Andrew Dixon
- Angela Antle
- Angela Barbara Power
- Apu Akbar
- Christine Goudie
- Francis Anokye
- Ian Petty
- Jalaleddin Afzal
- Javier Rojas
- Jeffrey J. Howard
- Jesse Schnobb
- Marlene Power
- Melika Sefidari
- Shannon Christine Fraser
- Shelley Neville
- Ukeme Eka
- Urmila Palit
- Wendy Reid Fairhurst
Graduates
- Ali McGill
- Amy Hudson
- Ashok Pandey
- Brennan Lowery
- Brian MacIsaac
- Brit Kolditz
- Carol-Ann Galego
- Chris Alyward
- Cristina Fabretto
- Entessar Al-Harahsheh
- Janelle Skeard - awarded the Smallwood Research Grant
- Kat Lord
- Kellie Baker
- Kristen Lowitt
- Lori Clarke
- Margot Maddison-McFadyen
- Opeyemi Jaunty-Aidamenbor
- Pam Hall
- Peter Duchemin
- Rona Rangsch
- Sarah Minnes
- Sharon Halfyard
- Sharon Trenholm
- Sherine Khattab
- William Hicks