Student Team Members
The Religion and Diversity Project Graduate Research Grants
Call for Proposals
The Graduate Research Grant (2012-2013) provides financial support for graduate students supervised by a Religion and Diversity Project team member to help them conduct original research (e.g. fieldwork or archival research) related to their own graduate research and within the parameters of The Religion and Diversity Project.
Applications are due January 31, 2012.
Graduate Research Grants 2012-2013 (pdf)
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Postdoctoral Fellows
| Name | University | Supervisor | Research Focus |
| Barras, Amélie | Université de Montréal | Solange Lefebvre | Exploring Religious Minorities' Understanding of Secularism in light of reasonable acommodation debates (QC) |
| Behiery, Valérie | Université de Montréal | Valérie Amiraux | The Aesthetics of Alterity. Objects of mistranslation : Representing the 'burqa' in Canadian daily newspapers since 9/11 |
| Hoverd, William | University of Ottawa | Lori Beaman | Changes in Religious Diversity in Canada and New Zealand, 1980-2010 |
Student Team Members
| Student | University and Program |
Supervisor | Research Focus |
| Audy, Emilie | Université de Montréal, PhD | Valérie Amiraux | Religious identity, Islam, Women, Public/private sphere, France-Québec |
| Baines, Charlotte | Monash University, PhD | Gary Bouma | A Socio-Legal Examination of Freedom of Religion and Belief in Australia (2000 to 2010) |
| Bartel, Rebecca | University of Toronto, PhD | Pamela Klassen | Free market spiritualities: Economic theologies and the emergence of Corporate Christianity |
| Burford-Grinnell, Jillian | Queen's University | Pamela Dickey Young |
Women's Studies |
| Carmichael, Adam | University of Victoria, PhD |
Avigail Eisenberg |
The biopolitics of normative monogamy : a critical discourse analysis of the polygamy debate and Bountiful, British Columbia |
| Charkravarty, K. Gandhar | Université de Montréal PhD | Solange Lefebvre | The Rastafari of Jamaica and the Ibandla lama Nazaretha (Nazareth Baptist Church) of Saouth Africa; a comparison on the basis of their adherence to the Laws of of the Nazirites (Num 6:1-21) |
| Connell, Katherine |
Dalhousie University, MA |
Christopher Helland |
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| Choi, Glen |
University of Ottawa, PhD | Peter Beyer | Korean Buddhists in Canada |
| Dion-Lirette, Vanessa | University of Ottawa, BA | Lori Beaman | Conflict Studies, Human Rights and International Development |
| Downie, Caitlin | University of Ottawa, MA | Lori Beaman | |
| Fisher, Amy |
University of Toronto, PhD |
Pamela Klassen | |
| Forbes, Lauren | University of Ottawa, MA |
Lori Beaman | Understanding Religion in Law: How Aborigional Beliefs are Framed in Canadian Court Cases |
| Gagnon-Tessier, Louis-Charles |
Université de Montréal, PhD | Solange Lefebvre | Catholicisme, Québécois d'origine canadienne-française et diversité religieuse. Étude sur les récentes commissions concernant la religion |
| Gallini, Tom | Queen's University, MA | Pamela Dickey Young | Identity, queer theory, LGTB, Christianity |
| Gareau, Paul | University of Ottawa, PhD | Lori Beaman | Gauging and engaging the ‘Other’: researching faith and identity amongst youth in the Catholic evangelization movement in Canada |
| Golberg, Shari | University of Toronto, PhD | Pamela Klassen | When Beruriah Met Aisha: Textual Intersections among Jewish and Muslim Women |
| Gravel, Stéphanie | Université de Montréal, PhD | Solange Lefebvre | L'impartialité de enseignant du programme d'éthique religieuse au secondaire. |
| Hameed, Qamer | University of Ottawa, MA | Lori Beaman | Muslim identity in Canada |
| Holtmann, Cathy | University of New Brunswick, PhD | Nancy Nason-Clark | Social Action and Religion, Catholicism, Immigrant Women, Family Crisis |
| Hunter, Morgan | University of Ottawa, MA | Lori Beaman | Religion and the Internet in Canada |
| King, Rebekka | University of Toronto, PhD | Pamela Klassen | The New Heretics: Popular Theology and Challenged within Contemporary Christianity |
| Matheson, Meaghan | Concordia University, MA |
Donald Boisvert | |
| Michels, David | Dalhousie University | Christopher Helland | Informed Dissent? A study of the information seeking and use of Canadian Christian churches that offer ecclesinstical santuary |
| Mosurinjohn, Sharday | Queen's University, PhD | Pamela Dickey Young | Gender, Christianities, and Neo/liberal Hegemony: An Investigation of Gender Discourse among a United Church Women's Group |
| Mulhern, Aldea | University of Toronto, PhD | Pamela Klassen | |
| Nahme, Paul | University of Toronto. PhD | Pamela Klassen | The Theological Conditions of the Political: Legitimacy and Justification as categories of Legal and Religious Reason |
| Phonevilay, Lamphone | Université de Montréal, PhD | Solange Lefebvre | Mémoire et transmission intergénérationnelle des réfugiés : le cas des catholiques laotiens de Montréal |
| Piluso, Caileigh Lyn | Queen's University, MA | Pamela Dickey Young | The role of religion in the promotion of sexual abstinence for non-heterosexual couples in the United States |
| Rangdrol, David |
University of Ottawa, PhD |
André Laliberté |
Controversies of Secularism in Post-War Japan |
| Riikonen, Tanja |
Université de Montréal, PhD |
Patrice Brodeur | Les identités religieuses et le multiculturalisme au Québec et en Finlande - Étude de cas d'étudiantes musulmanes immigrantes à Montréal et à Helsinki |
| Ruiz Fernandez, Giomny H. | Université de Montréal, PhD |
Solange Lefebvre | Religion, médias et identité. L’intégration des jeunes immigrants cubains de première génération au Canada |
| Schonthal, Benjamin J. |
University of Chicago, PhD | Winnifred Sullivan | Law, democracy and religious diversity in Sri Lanka |
| See, Erica | University of Ottawa, LLD | Pascale Fournier | The ways in which narratives of gendered and religious identities are articulated in the context of refugee determination hearings. |
| Singh, Jasjit | University of Leeds, PhD | Kim Knott | Keeping the Faith: The Transmission of Sikhism among young British Sikhs (18-30) |
| Starkey, Caroline | University of Leeds, PhD | Kim Knott and Emma Tomalin |
Female Ordination within Buddhism in Britain |
| Stein, Justin | University of Toronto, PhD |
Pamela Klassen |
Transnational religion, spirituality, healing, Japanese diaspora, New Age movement, science and religion |
| Tarif, Etienne | Université de Montréal, BA |
Barbara Thériault | Religiosity of Women in Prison |
| Tataryn, Anastasia | University of Ottawa, PhD | Pascale Fournier | |
| Thibault, Hélène | University of Ottawa, PhD | André Laliberté | Religious dynamics in post-Soviet Tadjikistan. |
| Tomlins, Steven | University of Ottawa, PhD | Lori Beaman | Atheism and identity |
| Trinh De Freitas, Josee | University of Ottawa, BA | Lori Beaman | Religious Studies and Sociology |
| Turriff, Shaun | Concordia University, PhD | Donald Boisvert | Brother André and Mother Marie-Léonie: Catholic identity, saintly persons and social issues in Québec and Canada |
| van Arragon, Leo |
University of Ottawa, PhD | Lori Beaman |
The Ontario Election of 2007: Faith based schools and the boundaries of religious freedom |
| Van Vu, Thai | Université de Montréal, PhD | Solange Lefebvre | Le bouddhisme vietnamien à Montréal |
| Wilkinson, Sarah | University of Victoria, PhD | Avigail Eisenberg | Nations and Nationalism; Citizenship; Religion and Secularism; Multiculturalism and Pluralism; Migration; Europe and North America |