Zuhal Akay

Zuhal entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2022.

Supervisor: Lindsey Freeman

Patrick Begg

Patrick entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2024

Supervisor: Maureen Kihika

Mary Berger

Mary entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2023.

Supervisor: Barbara Mitchell

 Liv Bing

Liv entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2023.

Supervisor: Wendy Chan

Rincy Dominic Calamba

Rincy entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2021. She has a BA in Interdisciplinary American Studies at the University of T眉bingen in Germany and a BA in International Studies major in American Studies, with a minor in Sociology from the Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines. Her research interests are on temporary migrant labor issues and the experiences of migrant families in Canada with regards to race, gender, and citizenship issues. Other interests include: Filipino studies, Filipino diaspora and integration, sexuality and transnational movement.

Co-Supervisors: Evelyn Encalada Grez and Cindy Patton 

Madison Casper

Madison entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2024.

Supervisor: Lindsey Freeman    

Rajdeep Dhaliwal

Rajdeep entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2024.

Supervisor: Kyle Willmott

Ascher Goodman

Ascher entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2025. 

Supervisor: Kyle Willmott

William Grayer

William entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2023.

Supervisor: Pamela Stern

Audree Hutchinson

Audree entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2025. 

Supervisor: Travers

Quang Huynh

Research Interest: transnational labour, precarious work, Vietnamese migrants, mental well-being.

I graduated from UBC with a degree in psychology. My interest in Sociology came from one of my visits to a Vietnamese temple in Japan. That temple has supported many Vietnamese migrants who were unfairly fired during the pandemic. As a result, the migrants became homeless and jobless overnight. It exposed an exploitative system backed by governments to bring young Vietnamese to Japan to do dirty and dangerous work. My research focuses on how religious institutions, such as temples and churches, as well as other "third places," directly support the mental well-being of the migrants and build a sense of community among the Vietnamese population in Japan. I hope to contribute more to the existing literature about migration and precarious work by focusing more on the mental aspect of migrant workers.

Supervisor: Evelyn Encalada Grez
Committee Member: Alexia Bloch

Nelson Juma

Nelson entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2024.

Supervisor: Prof-Collins Ifeonu

Anum Khalid

Anum entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2025. 

Supervisor: Kyle Willmott

Geri Lee

Geri completed a joint degree in Sociology and Anthropology from 51社区黑料in October 2022 and entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2023. Her research interests include sex work, Indigenous women in Canada, labour precarity, and perceptions of the self and the body in relation to labour. Her proposed thesis topic explores the lived experiences of online sex workers who pivoted to the industry during COVID-19 lockdown periods, with a specific focus on the social and economic stigma-related barriers they face when transitioning to a non-sex-work related industry following the lifting of pandemic policies

Supervisor: Maureen Kihika
Committee member: Dany Lacombe

Gloria Moon

Area of study: neurodivergence, neuroqueer practices, queer theory

I am entering into the Sociology MA program in the Fall of 2024. I graduated from 51社区黑料with my BA in Sociology (Honours) and Certificate of Social Justice. My undergraduate honours thesis was completed under the supervision of Dr. Lindsey A. Freeman and Dr. Amanda Watson and explored how neuroqueer individuals engage in the process of world-making by collectively queering a space for themselves through the symbolic practices of neuroqueering. I am interested in further expanding on the practices of neuroqueering in my MA thesis.

Supervisor: Lindsey Freeman
Committee Member: Amanda Watson

Sophie Parke

Sophie entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2025. 

Supervisor: Nicholas Scott

Liam Ruel

Liam entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2025. 

Supervisor: Amanda Watson

Tahaseen Safdar

Tahaseen entered the MA program in Sociology in the Fall of 2025. 

Supervisor: Amanda Watson

Noah Sim

Areas of study: Affect, Phenomenology, Post-phenomenlogy, ANT, Feminist Loneliness Studies

Noah is an immigrant from Singapore to Canada, and finished a joint major in Sociology and Anthropology at 51社区黑料in the Fall of 2022. His studies during the pandemic sparked his interest in the issue of social isolation; it got amplified during the crisis and his volunteering at the Student Learning Commons (SLC) at 51社区黑料brought him into contact with many individuals struggling with this. His research considers how the usage of technology, specifically AI-generative chat bots, could affect how people form, experience and maintain social connections. Down the road he hopes to study more in-depth how technology has altered how people experience the world beyond considering their usage as tools and conveniences. While Noah loves all things geeky, his true passion lies in boardgames with social deception mechanics!

Supervisor: Amanda Watson
Committee Member: Lindsey Freeman

Isabella Wang

Areas of study: autotheory, contemporary poetry and poetics, experimental forms, queer activism, health policy, precarity and harm reduction for homeless youths, resistance and rebellion

Isabella the author of two poetry collections, On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press, 2019), and Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions, 2021)鈥攕hortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In the Canadian literary community, she is an editor with Room magazine, a bookseller with Massy Books, web coordinator with poetry in canada, program advisory consultant and mentor with the UBC Learner's Exchange, and directs her own non-profit writing program, 4827 Revise Revision St., which offers career consultations and mentorship services for at-risk youths free-of-charge. In her MA, Isabella hopes to develop Choreography of Forgetting, an experimental poetry manuscript that teases out the stories contained in the strokes of Chinese calligraphy, and explores the 鈥榝orgotten鈥� when China, during the Great Leap Forward, made its full transition from traditional to simplified characters.

In her undergrad, Isabella worked as the department dog sitter for 51社区黑料English.

Supervisor: Lindsey Freeman
Committee members: Stephen Collis and Amanda Watson

Samantha Wong

Samantha entered the MA program in Sociology in Fall 2022.

Supervisor: Kyle Willmott

Adam Yahav

Areas of Study: Anti-Gender Movements, Right Wing Political Movements, (Neo)-Facism, Masculinities, Childism, Queer Youth, Public Policy

After beginning my undergraduate degree at the University of Ottawa, I completed my BA in Community, Public Affairs, and Public Policy Studies with a minor in English Literature at Concordia University in August 2024. I began my MA in Sociology at 51社区黑料 shortly thereafter in September 2024.

I intend to examine how British Columbians-fathers in particular-relate to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) education in schools, considering how age, gender, nation, and other areas of difference invite or give rise to this ever-growing anti-gender political discourse. My master鈥檚 research project was inspired by my time living in both Ottawa, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec where I beared witness to the so-called Freedom Convoy in 2022 and the #1MillionMarch4Children protest in 2023, bringing to light the prominent mobilization of 鈥渁nti-rights鈥� movements in Canada.

Supervisor: Amanda Watson

Ty Bryant

Areas of study: Asian-Indigenous relationalities; Asian settler colonial critique; transpacific solidarities and imaginaries; Indigenous geopolitics and sovereignties; decolonizing diaspora and area studies; deconstructing and contesting Canadian and Taiwanese nation-building and settler colonialism; performative settler multiculturalism; border coloniality and abolition; affective economies and the politics of belonging 

Gilakas'la! Ty Bryant (he/they) is a member of We Wai Kai First Nation, an MA student in Anthropology at 51社区黑料, a community organizer, and Co-Founder, Co-Director of Asian-Indigenous Relations Collective. His scholarly work is based on ongoing fieldwork with multiple generations of the Taiwanese diaspora in colonially called 鈥渧ancouver, bc, canada鈥� on the never ceded, traditional, and stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He is focusing on how community members are doubly reckoning with (and orienting) their roles and responsibilities towards Indigenous lands and life in "canada" and Taiwan.

Supervisor: Michael Hathaway

Committee members: Kyle Willmott and May Farrales

Yueming Chen

Yueming entered the MA program in Anthropology in the Fall of 2019.

Supervisor: Jie Yang

Rajdeep Dhadwal (啜班ň啜溹é喋�啜� 啜⑧ā啜掂ň啜�)

Areas of study: ethnoecology, Punjabi cultures and diaspora, climate change, South Asia, folklore and religion, natures of being, memory (ecological amnesia), and the anthropology of loneliness

Rajdeep entered the MA program in Anthropology in Fall 2023. She received her Bachelor of Arts, Honours in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia in 2019 and an Associate of Arts in Asian Studies from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2015. Her undergraduate honours thesis explored how immigration from Punjab, India and long-time settlement in British Columbia affected relationships to and understandings of the natural world. Her current work focuses on the anthropology of loneliness among Punjabi migrants and relationships of sociality with the natural world.
Rajdeep currently works in the Faculty of Environment, School of Environmental Science at SFU.

Supervisor: Cristina Moretti

Shirley Huo

Shirley entered the MA program in Anthropology in Fall 2024.

Supervisor: Jie Yang

Carolina Miranda

Carolina entered the MA program in Anthropology in Fall 2023.

Supervisor: Kathleen Millar

Niyat Ogbazghi

Niyat entered the MA program in Anthropology in the Fall of 2021.

Co-Supervisors: Maureen Kihika and Pamela Stern