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Rineem Saleh
Rineem Saleh
Rineem is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Calgary. Here, Rineem completed a dual Bachelors in International Relations and Political Science with Minors in Rus- sian and Development Studies. She also spent three years developing Educational Development programs across international institutions, and various NGOs like Human Rights Watch (Amman), Qatar Foundation, etc. Rineem returned to UCalgary after completing her Masters in International Politics looking focusing on the Egypt-Ethiopia GERD Water Crisis at KU Leuven, Belgium, and now serves as the Sr. Specialist for the Cities and Societies portfolio under the Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship for the last three years. Her current research interests fall in Palestine studies, diaspora and transnational identity formation, decolonial methodologies, racial capitalism, social reproduction, necro- politics, and infrastructures of violence and resistance.
Dr. Ariel Ducey
Dr. Ariel Ducey
Dr. Ariel Ducey is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. Her research centers on issues of responsibility, ethicality, knowledge, and emotions in the institutions and practices of health care and medicine. Ariel has studied how frontline care providers in New York City create meaning and opportunity at the intersec- tion of two industries that are increasingly organized according to the logic of markets — health care and education. She has published two book chapters on affect and caregiving labour in early, influential collections; has led interdisciplinary, qualitative research examining values and practices in pelvic floor surgery and their impact on women’s health; and co-led a transdisciplinary, federally-funded project on medical ways of sensing and knowing, with colleagues and graduate students from sociology, family medicine, and learning sciences. In 2021, the team for this project created a free, public, interactive modelling installation at Canmore artsPlace (Alberta), called Moral Horizons of Pain.
Anuneeta Chatterjee
Anuneeta Chatterjee
Bio:Anuneeta Chatterjee is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. I grew up in India. Her research interests lies at the intersection of youth embodiments in digital spaces, racial capitalism, critical phenomenology, and Southern theory. Her work looks at the role of platform capitalism in the lives of immigrant youth of colour. Her previous degrees include a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Psychology, and English (Triple Major) from Christ University, Bangalore, and a Master of Arts in Social Work from TISS, Mumbai.
Ruqayyah Adenike Baderinwa
Ruqayyah Adenike Baderinwa
Ruqayyah Baderinwa is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary and a three-time recipient of the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES). Her research examines how race, religion, gender, and migration intersect to shape Black Muslim women’s workplace experiences. Drawing on a decolonial, Global Southern framework, her work is rooted in care and community. She holds a B.Sc. in Social Work and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Lagos. Her work advances transnational feminist analyses of labour while centering the voices and epistemologies of Black Muslim women.
Fateme Ejaredar
Fateme Ejaredar
Fateme Ejaredar is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. Her research lies at the intersection of immigration, activism, resistance movements, and nationalism. Her work focuses on the lived experiences of diasporic activists navigating the challenges of immigration, and the possibilities of learning through transnational solidarities.
Dr. Pratim Sengupta
Dr. Pratim Sengupta
Dr. Pratim Sengupta is a professor of Learning Sciences and a graduate faculty in Computational Media Design at the University of Calgary and works at the intersection of critical phenomenology, complex systems, and social justice in public education. A year- round cyclist and former Infrastructure Lead at Bike Calgary, his current scholarship and advocacy on sustainability and active mobility span Calgary and Kolkata.
Megha Sanyal
Megha Sanyal
Megha is a PhD candidate at the Werklund School of Education. Her doctoral research investigates critiques of technoscientific educational spaces through centering the experiences of newcomer youth of color in Canada. Her previous degrees are in Cognitive Science and Philosophy.
Santanu Dutta
Santanu Dutta
Santanu Dutta is an advanced stage doctoral candidate in Education Research, in Learning Sciences specialization. His research interest lies in transdisciplinary scholarship in technology, design and cinema towards exploration of social inequities, publicness and justice.
Riann Lognon
Riann Lognon
Riann is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Calgary. After completing an interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree from Quest University Canada and working in urban agriculture and resettlement services for three years, Riann completed her MA thesis research exploring community gardening and anti-racist storytelling with newcomer youth of colour as a part of the Youth Anti-Racism and Integration Collective. Building on this research and her interests in critical migration studies, Southern feminist epistemologies, and racial capitalism, Riann hopes to continue learning about racialized newcomer youth and their intergenerational, embodied foodways and connections with land in her doctoral research.
Chetna Khandelwal
Chetna Khandelwal
Chetna Khandelwal (She/Her) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. She received her BA in Sociology from the University of Warwick and her MA in Sociology from the University of Calgary. Chetna is a qualitative researcher interested in critical environmental/climate justice, Southern theory, migration, animal rights advocacy, and feminist place-making. Her doctoral work explores Southern climate imaginaries through the intersection of advocacy for environmental/climate justice and migration. Her work is influenced by her previous research projects on immigration social movements in the USA and India, and animal rights movements in the UK.
Dr. Pallavi Banerjee
Dr. Pallavi Banerjee
Pallavi Banerjee is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and University of Calgary, Research Excellence Chair. Her research is situated at the intersections of migration, anti-racism, carework, gender, families, labour studies, intersectionality and the Global South. She directs the Critical Gender, Intersectionality and Migration Research Group at the University of Calgary and is the research lead in the Youth and Anti-Racist Integration (YARI) Collective. Her research is supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Tania Villalobos Luján
Tania Villalobos Luján
Tania Villalobos Luján is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science, specializing in the Computational Media Design program. She is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of interaction design and data science. Her research engages decolonial gender theory, feminist movements, and Latin American contexts, with particular attention to feminicide, forced disappearance, and the ethics of counting. Grounded in an intersectional and care-centered approach, Tania’s work integrates data, design, and computational methods to advance gender and racial justice. Her research addresses critical social issues that are often inivizibilized or misrepresented in dominant data systems. Tania holds a BA in Design from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City) and an MD in Inclusive Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Prior to transitioning to academia full-time, she spent over fifteen years as a strategic, community-centered creative comunicator and designer.
Dr. Yahya El-Lahib
Dr. Yahya El-Lahib
Yahya El-Lahib is a long-time disability justice activist from Bedouin Arab background. His research, teaching and practice centers on interrogating colonial power dynamics, relations, and structures as they shape everyday realities of marginalized and oppressed social groups. Yahya’s academic work questions the intersection of disability and displacement to interrogate the manifestation of settler colonialism and challenge the hegemony of Western imperialism. Yahya’s current research focuses on epistemic dominance manifested through algorithmic imperialism where he calls into question the deployment of artificial intelligence as a tool for Western imperial and colonial dominance
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