Meet our participating faculty members

Faculty members who participate in our Women & Gender Studies graduate program come from a range of departments and disciplines.

Dr. Catherine Baillie Abidi, Child and Youth Study
Catherine.BaillieAbidi@msvu.ca

Research interests: Children’s Rights, Children, Peace & Security, Violence Prevention & Transformation, Forced Migration, Gender, Youth Engagement, Participatory Social Action

Adriana Benzaquén, History
adriana.benzaquen@msvu.ca

Research interests: early modern European History, history of childhood and children, history of women and gender, history of science, sexuality and the body

Susan Brigham, Education
susan.brigham@msvu.ca

Research interests: Lifelong Learning; international/intercultural education; critical feminist pedagogy; teacher education; women migrants: immigrant teachers in Canada, domestic workers, “Mail-Order Brides”; school – work transitions; Africentricity in Education

Mary Delaney, Women’s Studies
mary.delaney@msvu.ca

Research interests: Body image; coercion in dating and risk-taking; methodological and statistical approaches to studying change over time; identifying qualitative differences in interpersonal relationships

Gabrielle Durepos, Management
gabrielle.durepos@msvu.ca

Research interests: Organizational history, critical historiography, the history of management thought, methodology and, gender and diversity

Maya Eichler, Political Studies
maya.eichler@msvu.ca

Research interests: Feminist international relations theory, gender and the armed forces, the privatization of military security, and veterans and military families

Tammy Findlay, Political and Canadian Studies
tammy.findlay@msvu.ca

Research interests: Canadian politics, gender and politics, gender and public policy, social policy, community engagement, multilevel governance, and representation

Tamara A. Franz-Odendaal, Biology
tamara.franz-odendaal@msvu.ca

Research interests: Gender Stereotypes within Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, history of women in STEM, youth perceptions of stereotypes, women in STEM in the workplace

Marnina Gonick, Education, Women’s Studies
marnina.gonick@msvu.ca

Research interests: Girl studies, identity, visual culture, feminist cultural studies, gender and schooling, feminist pedagogies, feminist post-structural theory, feminist qualitative research

Reina Green, English
reina.green@msvu.ca

Research interests: Contemporary film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays; open air productions of Shakespeare, including the work of actor/director Ben Greet; and gendered constructions of space, particularly domestic space or “home,” in contemporary Canadian drama by women

El Jones, Political & Canadian Studies
el.jones@msvu.ca

Karen MacFarlane, English
karen.macfarlane@msvu.ca

Research interests: The Gothic, particularly monsters and the monstrous body in contemporary culture and late nineteenth century fiction; Theory, especially feminist and queer theories; Imperialism in fin-de-siecle popular fiction; postmodernism; Canadian women’s literature

Dr. KelleyAnne Malinen, Sociology and Anthropology

Research interests: Gender, Sexuality, and Racialization, sexual and intimate partner violence that transgresses gender norms, intersectionality and institutionalized privilege and oppressions articulate with sexual consent and sexual violence

Tracy Moniz, Communication Studies
tracy.moniz@msvu.ca

Research interests: Gender and media, media history, writing practice and pedagogy, and narrative medicine

Deborah Norris, Family Studies and Gerontology
deborah.norris@msvu.ca

Research interests: Military families, critical theories, family relations and social support, qualitative research, health and social service needs of persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, family violence

DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Communication Studies
denel.rehbergsedo@msvu.ca

Research interests: The production, distribution and reception of cultural media artifacts or products—online and in print, including: books, television, newspapers and film

Meredith Ralston, Political & Canadian Studies, Women’s Studies
meredith.ralston@msvu.ca

Research interests: Prostitution and sex tourism in the Philippines and Canada, feminist epistemology, women in politics, women’s rights as human rights

Ian Reilly, Communication Studies
ian.reilly@msvu.ca

Sarah Reddington, Child & Youth Study
sarah.reddington@msvu.ca

Research Interests: inclusive education, capacity approaches to learning, children and youth’s rights and advocacy, differentiated curriculum, visual and arts-based methods, Universal Design for Learning, and critical approaches to child and youth study

Brooke Richardson, Child & Youth Study
brooke.richardson1@msvu.ca

Anna Smol, English
anna.smol@msvu.ca

Research interests: Tolkien, Medievalism, Old English Literature, and Pedagogy

Ian Liujia Tian, Women’s Studies
ian.tian@msvu.ca

Randi Warne, Cultural Studies
randi.warne@msvu.ca

Research interests: politics, religion and culture; North American cultural history, including social reform movements; material and popular culture

Martha Walls, History
martha.walls@msvu.ca

Research interests: Atlantic Canadian First Nations history, with a specialization in the historical experiences of 20th century First Nations women

Rhoda Zuk, English
rhoda.zuk@msvu.ca

Research interests: Feminist theory, cultural studies, women’s literary tradition, children’s literature, popular culture, contemporary feminist literature