Hilary Thurston
Hilary Thurston
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate
Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
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About My background in social services provision informs my research at the intersection of theory and practice
About My background in social services provision informs my research at the intersection of theory and practice
Interests Queer and Lesbian Studies, Psychoanalytic Feminism, Critical Data Studies, Feminist Affect Theory, Critical Disability Studies, Post-secular Affective Economies, Discourse and Media Analysis
Interests Queer and Lesbian Studies, Psychoanalytic Feminism, Critical Data Studies, Feminist Affect Theory, Critical Disability Studies, Post-secular Affective Economies, Discourse and Media Analysis
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Spring 2025
Guest Lecture: "Gender and Epistemology", PS287 Psychology of Gender, Dept. of Psychology, March 2025, Wilfred Laurier University.
Guest Lecture: "Introduction to Critical Data Studies", JSC 270: Data Science I, Dept. of Statistical Sciences, March 2025, University of Toronto. [slides]
Summer 2025
Conference Talk: "Constant Craving: A Dialogic Analysis of Addiction Attribution Discourse in Feel Good", Sixth Biennial IABA Chapter of The Americas Conference, June 2025, Cape May, New Jersey. [slides]
Published: “What is Fair? Defining Fairness in Machine Learning for Health” [link] Co-authors: Jianhui Gao, Benson Chou, Zachary R. McCaw, Hilary Thurston, Paul Varghese, Chuan Hong, and Jessica Gronsbell. Statistics in Medicine. September 2025. 44(20-22).
Fall 2025
Accepted: "Queering Addiction Recovery in Neoliberal Times" [single-authored musing] accepted for publication in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, forthcoming 2026.
Accepted: “When Algorithms Infer Gender: Revisiting Computational Phenotyping with Electronic Health Records Data” [invited submission] Jessica Gronsbell, Hilary Thurston, Lillian Dong, Vanessa Ferguson, Diksha Sen Chaudhury, Braden O’Neill, Katrina S. Sha, Rebecca Bonneville, special issue: Eschewing the Binary: Sex and Gender Science in Human and Non-human Animal Research in Biology of Sex Differences. [pre-print]
Guest Lecture: "Lesbian Fantasies: Theories, Myths and Representations" AP/SXST 2600 - F/W 2025, Prof. Frances Latchford, York University, Toronto ON. [in-person] [slides]
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