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Program Faculty 

- Women & Gender Studies, Atlantic Canada Studies
Graduate Program Coordinator

Research Area: 

• Media and popular culture
• Television studies
• Cultural studies
• Social theory
• Gender and sexuality
• Feminist theory
• Queer theory
• Critical methodologies

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Tatjana Takseva - English, Women & Gender Studies

Research Area:

• Sexual violence
• Trauma studies
• Feminist theory
• Feminist philosophy and the ethics of care
• Cultural representations of motherhood
• Maternal ambivalence and feminist mothering

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- Social Justice & Community Studies, Women & Gender Studies

Research Area:

• Indigenous and Settler Relations
• Feminist Organizational Studies; Social Movements
• Race, Chattel Slavery, and Indenture Labour; Migration and Racialized Gendered Labour;
• Racial Profiling and Violence; Colonial Gendered Encounters; Racialization and Feminization of Poverty
• Mental Health, Labour and Nation-Building
• Migration, Diaspora, and Youth; Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

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- Women & Gender Studies

Research Area:

• Gender and sexuality studies 
• Critical disability, crip, mad and race studies   
• Queer and trans ethics of care 
• Arts-based educational research 
• Participatory, critical, qualitative methodologies  
• Autotheory, auto/duo ethnography 
• Digital media and popular culture
• LGBTQ+ sex education 

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Administrative Staff:

Maria Shaw wgst@smu.ca