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Dr. Maya Eichler, Co-director
Mount Saint Vincent University

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Dr. Maya Eichler is the director of the Centre for Social Innovation and Community Engagement in Military Affairs at Mount Saint Vincent University. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Social Innovation and Community Engagement and is an associate professor of Political and Canadian Studies and Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on gender and the armed forces, military sexual violence, military-to-civilian transitions, and community stories of war and peace.

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Dr. Tammy George, Co-director
York University

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Dr. Tammy George is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Science, School of Kinesiology at York University and is currently a psychoanalytic psychotherapy candidate at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  Her current research lies at the intersection of critical military studies, racial violence and mental health and explores the reconfiguration of racial and national subjectivities in an era of neoliberalism.

 

Dr. Nancy Taber, Co-director
Brock University

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Dr. Nancy Taber is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University. Her research explores the ways in which learning, gender, and militarism intersect in daily life, popular culture, museums, militaries, and educational institutions. She has a particular focus on women’s experiences in the Canadian Armed Forces as relates to organizational culture, official polices, and informal everyday practices, with respect to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. She is a retired military officer who served as a Sea King helicopter air navigator. Along with publishing in traditional forms, she is conducting fiction-based research to disseminate her findings in the form of short stories and novels.

Read more about Dr. Taber.

Email: ntaber@brocku.ca

Kimberley Smith-Evans, Network Manager
Mount Saint Vincent University

Photograph of Kimberley Smith-Evans is a close-up of a smiling woman with dark shoulder-length hair. The darkness of her shirt and hair contrasts the light background.Kimberley Smith-Evans is Research Manager at the Centre for Social Innovation and Community Engagement in Military Affairs at Mount Saint Vincent University. She holds a BA (Hons.) in Psychology and a MA in Family Studies and Gerontology. Her MA thesis research examined the role of spousal support in the development of post-traumatic growth among military Veteran couples living with post-traumatic stress disorder. In her role as TMC Network Manager, she oversees and manages the administrative and financial aspects of Network activities.

Email: kimberley.smith.evans@msvu.ca

Elisabeth Héroux Rhymes, Network Coordinator            Mount Saint Vincent University

Elisabeth (Lis) Heroux Rhymes holds a BA in Women & Gender Studies with a minor in Sociology from Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU). She has professional experience with university research administration, communications, and events. Some of Lis’ research interests include transformative feminist theories and the study of the rise of the far-right and anti-feminism. As the TMC Network Coordinator, Lis provides administrative support, coordinates events and communications, and supports other Network activities.

Email: elisabeth.heroux-rhymes@msvu.ca

Ash Grover, Research Assistant/Doctoral Student
Brock University

Photograph of Ash Grover shows a smiling woman with long dark hair wearing glasses and a white top. The backdrop is multi-coloured on a neutral palette. Ash Grover is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at Brock University, where her research focuses on the intersection of trauma-informed and culturally sustaining pedagogies in the university context. Ash is also a Curriculum Development Specialist in the department of Learning Services at Brock, and her goal is to enhance the learning experience for all students through addressing the barriers that equity seeking communities often face when accessing post-secondary education. Her interest in transforming military cultures is inspired by her ongoing research with Dr. Nancy Taber in the areas of feminist anti-militarism, public pedagogies and militarism in academic life, as well as decolonial and                                                                intersectional feminist praxis.

Email: ag16jk@brocku.ca

Lea Aluie, Network Assistant/Masters Student
Mount Saint Vincent University

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Lea Aluie is a graduate student in Public Relations at Mount Saint Vincent University, and she holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Lea also has over 7 years of professional experience in Media Analysis and Digital Advertising. As the network assistant, she works on brand management, web design, email marketing, and digital communications, as well as copyediting and formatting research papers.

 

Email: lea.aluie@msvu.ca