Student Team Members
The Religion and Diversity Project Graduate Research Grants
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.
The 2012 - 2013 Grants have been awarded! Congratulations to the following students:
| Name | Institution | Supervisor |
| Årsheim, Helge | University of Oslo | Winnifred Sullivan |
| Fernandez, Giomny Ruiz | Université de Montréal | Solange Lefebvre |
| Holtmann, Cathy | University of New Brunswick | Nancy Nason-Clark |
| Rangdrol, David | University of Ottawa | André Laliberté |
| Riikonen, Tanja | Université de Montréal | Patrice Brodeur |
Remember! The next session of the workshop series is being held at the Université de Montréal. This workshop will be facilitated by Kim Knott (Lancaster University) from May 15-16, 2012. To consult the report from the first workshop, please click here.
For more information about Student Team Member activity, including upcoming events and pictures from previous events, visit our Facebook page, which is administered by student caucus leader Cathy Holtmann.
Postdoctoral Fellows
| Name | University | Supervisor | Research Focus |
| Al-Dabbagh, Harith | Université de Montréal | Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens | La réception en Occident des institutions du droit musulman de la famille: heurs et malheurs d'un compromis. |
| 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. |
| Dejean, Frédéric | Université de Montréal | Valérie Amiraux | Géographie des religions, communautés évangéliques et pentecôtistes. |
| Hoverd, William | University of Ottawa | Lori Beaman | Changes in Religious Diversity in Canada and New Zealand, 1980-2010. |
| Nabti, Mehdi | Université de Montréal | Patrice Brodeur | Présence de la culture arabo-maghrebine au QC: le cas des musicien(ne)s. |
Student Team Members
| Student | University and Program |
Supervisor | Research Focus |
| Alfani Bantea, Roger | Université de Montréal, PhD | Patrice Brodeur | Religious Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region in Africa. The Role of the Church in the Conflicts in Bunia, Bukavu, and Goma (1992-2010). |
| Attia, Assia | Université de Montréal, MA | Patrice Brodeur | Identité et transmission dans une mosquée montréalaise. |
| Aubin, Michel | Université de Montréal, PhD | Solange Lefebvre | Religion et Internet. Explorer les meilleures pratiques déployées par les gestionnaires de sites Internet religieux. |
| Audy, Emilie | Université de Montréal, PhD | Valérie Amiraux | Religious identity, Islam, Women, Public/Private Sphere, France-Québec. |
| Bahova, Snezhana | Université de Montréal, MA | Solange Lefebvre | Explorer le rite kolédouvané bulgare. Dimension sociale, individuelle et cosmologique. |
| 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. |
| Bourgeois, Isabelle | Université de Montréal, LL.M | Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens | Droit étatique et droit religieux en Inde. |
| Bourque, Frédérique | Université de Montréal, LL.M | Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens | Liberté de religion en droit international. |
| 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 | Rastafari of Jamaica and South Africa. Comparison on the basis of their adherence to the Laws of the Nazirities. |
| Choi, Glen | University of Ottawa, PhD | Peter Beyer | Korean Buddhists in Canada. |
| Chouinard, Carmen | Université de Montréal PhD | Patrice Brodeur | La triple occultation contemporaine des femmes croyantes au Québec : Analyse des perspectives de solutions proposées par Norma B. Joseph (juive), Denise Couture (chrétienne) et Lynda Clarke (musulmane). |
| Connell, Katherine |
Dalhousie University, MA |
Christopher Helland |
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| Dada, Isaïe | Université de Montréal, PhD | Patrice Brodeur | Réduction de la violence au Nigeria : Curriculum interreligieux d'éducation à la paix dans les formations religieuses avancées. |
| Dion-Lirette, Vanessa | University of Ottawa, BA | Lori Beaman | Conflict Studies, Human Rights and International Development. |
| Downie, Caitlin | University of Ottawa, MA | Lori Beaman | |
| Dufresne, Fred | Université de Montréal, LL.M | Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens | La question du port des signes religieux dans la sphère publique : une réflexion à partir du droit international et d’une comparaison du Canada, des États-Unis, de la France et de la Suisse. |
| 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 et postmodernité. Analyse derridienne des commissions sur la religion et l'école. |
| 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. |
| Grigoire, Monica | Université de Montréal, PhD | Barbara Thériault | Croyances populaires et pratiques religieuses dans l'orthodoxie. La religion dans les prisons. |
| Gravel, Stéphanie | Université de Montréal, PhD | Solange Lefebvre | L'impartialité de enseignant du programme 'Éthique et culture religieuse' au secondaire. |
| Hameed, Qamer | University of Ottawa, MA | Lori Beaman | Muslim identity in Canada. |
| Hmimssa, Azeddine | Université de Montréal, MA | Patrice Brodeur | La citoyenneté vue par les Musulmans du Québec. |
| 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. |
| LeBrun, Erin | Université de Montréal, MA | Solange Lefebvre | Religion et santé. Gestion politique de la diversité. |
| 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 Laotiens catholiques 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 | Politiques multiculturelles et identités religieuses en Finlande et au Québec: Étude de cas d’étudiantes musulmanes immigrées à Helsinki et à Montréal. |
| 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). |
| Sparkes, Jason | Université de Montréal, MA | Patrice Brodeur | Analyse comparative de la doctrine et des pratiques contemporaines de la voie soufie Burhaniya: Égypte, Soudan, Occident. |
| 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 |
| Tahari, Makram | Université de Montréal, LL.D | Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens | La gestion juridique du fait religieux islamique au Québec et en Afrique du Nord. |
| 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 | Catholicisme québécois. |
| 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. |