Become an Intersections of Gender Affiliate (IG Affiliate)
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Intersections of Gender Affiliate Program Overview
As a Signature Area of research and teaching excellence, Intersections of Gender (IG) recognizes the existing extensive intersectional gender expertise of the University of Alberta community. To fulfill our priorities of further nurturing intersectional gender research, we created the IG Affiliate Program so as to allow faculty members (continuing as well as Academic Teaching Staff), postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to become formally affiliated with IG.
The primary goals of the IG Affiliate Program are to:
- promote existing areas of intersectional gender research expertise;
- build new networks and collaboration among researchers from across all disciplines and Faculties at the University of Alberta;
- foster engagement in IG activities; and
- formalize researchers’ relationship with IG.
IG Affiliates actively contribute to furthering the goals of IG.
Terms
Affiliate Commitments
Faculty Affiliates are appointed to a renewable four‐year term.
Post-Doctoral Fellows and Graduate Students are appointed for the time of their tenure at the UofA.
We ask IG Affiliates to commit to actively contributing to the Signature Area in any of the following ways, including but not limited to:
- Enhance Intersections of Gender research, for example, by:
- building intersectional research in your area;
- nurturing collaborative research across disciplines;
- providing feedback on grant applications.
- Further intersectionality and gender teaching and training, for example, by:
- teaching a course with significant intersectional gender content;
- mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows;
- organizing and contributing to curricular transformation;
- serving on supervisory committees.
- Participate actively in IG operations, for example:
- sharing information about and attending our events;
- organizing and contributing to IG activities (workshops, events, conferences, etc.),
- serving on a committee;
- providing input and expertise to leadership.
- Promote IG locally, nationally, and internationally, for example, by:
- sharing your relevant research news with IG;
- acknowledging your IG affiliation in your bio;
- sharing IG promotional materials and resources with students and colleagues;
- helping us expand our growing network.
IG Commitments
In recognition of your contributions to the IG Signature Area, we will:
- Name your Affiliate status on the Intersections of Gender website;
- Invite you to have your name and IG-related research added to our Researcher Directory; our directory is currently under construction but we will let you know when we go live!
- Keep you up to date on all IG events, news, opportunities, and collaborations via our newsletter;
- Provide you with access to IG resources;
- Acknowledge your IG-related initiatives to your Chair or Dean.
We look forward to forging a meaningful relationship with our affiliates. Please feel free to contact intersectionsofgender@ualberta.ca if you have any questions about or suggestions for this program.
Members List
Alexandra Fidyk, Faculty Member, College of Education, Secondary Education - Body; Voice; Body-mapping; Girls and Youth; Arts-integrated Methods; Body-centred Practices; Trauma-sensitive Pedagogy; Interdisciplinary
Alexis De Villa , Graduate Student, Material Culture, Human Ecology - Textiles; East-asian/Pilipinx Diasporas, Complex Theory, Queer Of Colour Critique
Anisha Jain, Graduate Student, Law; Feminist Legal Theory; Jurisprudence Of Intersectionality; Expression Of Lived Experiences; Surrogacy Laws; Reproduction
Anita Khakh, Graduate Student, Educational Policy Studies, Social Justice And International Studies - Intersectional Feminism; Health And Physical Education Curriculum; Girls; Gender; Race; Class; Eating Disorder; Intersectional Body Becoming Frameworks
Arshad Said Khan, Graduate Student, English and Film Studies - Hijra; Trans; Queer; India; Citizenship; Subaltern
Beverly Lemire, Faculty Member, History & Classics - Material Culture, Radicalization / Resistance; Gendered And Radicalized History Of Br Empire; Material Culture
Bridget Alichie, Graduate Student, Arts/Sociology - Criminology; Gender And Social Legal Studies
Bukola Salami, Faculty Member, Nursing - Immigrant Health; Intersectionality
Carla Hilario, Faculty Member, Nursing - Health Equity; Intersectionality; Anti-racism; Inclusive Health Services; Youth
Carolyn Carpan, Librarian, Arts/Library - Women's Health; Endometriosis; Misogyny; Library & Information Science; Women's Studies
Carrie Karsgaard, Graduate Student, Educational Policy Studies, Education - Anti-colonial Environmental Justice; Anti-colonial Digital Methods; Climate Justice; Public Pedagogy; Extractivism
Carrie Smith, Faculty Member, Arts (Vice-dean) / Mlcs (Professor) - Digital Feminism; Feminist Media Studies; Performance Art Activism; Feminist Leadership
Cary Brown, Faculty Member, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Medicine - Sleep; Aging; Human-animal Bond
Cassandra Anastacio, Graduate Student, Educational Policy Studies - Intersectional Feminism; Health and Physical Education Curriculum; Girls; Gender; Race; Language
Chen Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinesiology, Sport, And Recreation - Settler Colonialism, Sport For Social Change, Ecological Justice, Decolonization
Clara Iwasaki, Faculty Member, East Asian Studies - Queer Sinophone Literature, Queer Sinophone Cinema, Queer Chinese Cinema, Modern Chinese Womens Writing, Transpacific Studies
Comfort Verissimo, Graduate Student, Department Of English And Film Studies - Representation, Power, Gender, Class, Trauma
Courtenay Chan, Graduate Student, English and Film Studies - Mixed Race; Chinese Canadian; Asian Diaspora; Life Writing; Anti-racism; Canadian Literatures
Cressida Heyes, Faculty Member, Arts/Political Science, Adjunct Philosophy - Gender, Sexuality, Queer, Philosophy, Political Theory, Race, Embodiment, Subjectivity
Danielle Peers , Faculty Member, Kinesiology, Sport, And Recreation - Disability Justice; Overlapping Systems Of Oppression; Sport; Art; Recreation
Deb Verhoeven, Faculty Member, Women’s and Gender Studies/Office of Information Services - Intersectionality; Data Interoperabilty
Denise L. Spitzer, Faculty Member, School Of Public Health - Intersectionality; Migration; Participatory Research
Ekua Agyemang, Resident Physician, Faculty of Medicine/ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine - Anti-Black Racism, Black Women, Health Equity, Addiction and Mental Health
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Adjunct Faculty, Mlcs And Sociology - Decoloniality, Critical Migration Studies, Affect And Labour
Evelyn Hamdon, Senior Advisor, Equity And Human Rights, Office Of The Provost - Gendered Orientalism, Gendered Racism, Racism, Feminist Postcolonial Theory In Anti Racism Education, Gender And Islamophobia
Felice Lifshitz, Faculty Member, Women's And Gender Studies - Construction And Representation Of The Past, Religion
Heidi Cossey, Graduate Student, Engineering/Civil & Environmental Engineering / Geoenvironmental Engineering - Diversity, Inclusion And Equity In Engineering
Holly Mathias, Graduate Student, School of Public Health - Caregiving, Rural Communities, Substance Use
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez, Faculty Member, Political Science - Indigenous Feminism, Body Land Relationships, Community Research Engagement, Gender And Indigeneity
Janice Miller-Young, Faculty Member, Mechanical Engineering - Underrepresented Students, Engineering Education, Belonging, Identity, Self-efficacy
Jean O'Hara, Faculty Member, Department Of Drama - Two-spirit Plays, Performance, History And Literature; Intersection Of Drag And Critical Race, Class, Gender, Sexualty And (Dis)Ability Theory, Desire
Jennifer Tomaszewski, Academic Teaching Staff, Law - Substantive Equality, Human Rights, Law, Race, Sexual Orientation, Reproductive Justice, Sexual Assault
Jessica Vandenberghe, Academic Teaching Staff, Engineering - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion; Indigenous; Community Based Learning; STEM Careers
Jessica Zychowicz, Postdoctoral Scholar, CIUS: Canadian Institute Of Ukrainian Studies - Activism; Feminism; Visual Culture; Transnational; Post-soviet; Eastern Europe; Russia; Ukraine
Jordana Salma, Faculty Member, Faculty Of Nursing - Aging, Migration, Chronic Disease Management
Judy Davidson, Faculty Member, Kinesiology, Sport, And Recreation - Sport And Sexuality Studies, Homonationalism, Queer Theory, Leisure Studies, Critical Sports Studies
Julie Rak, Faculty Member, Arts/English And Film Studies - Autobiography; Identity; Mountaineering; Canadian Literature
Katherine Binhammer , Faculty Member, Arts/English & Film Studies - Feminist Literary History; Gender And Sexuality Cultural Studies
Katy Mackay, Academic Teaching Staff, History, Classics, and Religion - Sex in Classical Antiquity, Sexuality, Constructed Gender, Women's Voices
Kevin Chavez Laxamana, Graduate Student , Arts / Anthropology - Gender; Queer; Transgender; Sex Work; Singapore; Indonesia
Kimberly A. Noels, Faculty Member, Arts/Psychology, Masculinity, Language, Ethnicity, Acculturation
Laura Beard, Associate Vice President (Research), Mlcs/Arts And Ovpri - Life Narrative; Indigenous Literature, Nation And Narration, Stories; Women Writers In The Americas
Lebogang Disele, Graduate Student, Arts/Drama - Gender, Performance, Arts-based-research, Race
Lisa Willis, Faculty Member, Science/Biological Sciences - Sex Differences, STEM EDI
M.A. Murphy, Graduate Student, Gender And Social Justice Program - Settler Responsibiity; Indigenous-settler Relations; Transformative Justice; Intersectional Feminist Art As Praxis; Community Building
Marian C. Sanchez, Graduate Student, School of Public Health - Decolonization, Indigenization, Intersectional Policy Analysis, Indigenous Health, Land and Health, Foragers' Health, Development and Justice, Philippines
Mary Olukotun, Graduate Student, Nursing - Health Disparities and Inequities; Racism; Migration; Maternal and Child Health
Megan Perram, Graduate Student, Modern Languages And Cultural Studies - Health Humanities; Gendered Illness; Hyperandrogenism; Illness Narratives
Michèle L. Hébert, Academic Teaching Staff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Occupational Therapy - Disability; Neurodiversity; Intersectionality; Indigeneity; Mothers; Fathers
Michelle Meagher, Faculty Member, Women's And Gender Studies - Print Culture; Feminist Seventies; Feminist Art; Feminist Cultural Production
Mirjana Uzelac, Academic Teaching Staff, Anthropology - Anthropology, Science And Technology Studies, Science And Gender, Ethnomedicine, Health Studies, Power Relations In Science And Medicine
Nicole Eshkakogan, Graduate Student, Sociology - Indigenous Gender And Wellness
Olga Plakhotnik , Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty Of Arts/ Canadian Institute Of Ukrainian Studies - Sexual Citizenship, Lgbtq Activism, Eastern Europe, Borderland, Queer Feminist Studies
Pascal Lupien, Faculty Member, Campus Saint-Jean - Indigenous Women, Political Participation, Power, Digital Technologies
Peter Hurd, Faculty Member, Science / Psychology - Brain, Sex, Social Behaviour
Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, Faculty Member, Arts/Women's And Gender Studies - Migration, Gender Relations, Social Markers, Gender And Development
Pirkko Markula, Faculty Member, Kinesiology, Sport, And Recreation - Dance; Aging; Exercise
Prof-Collins Ifeonu, Graduate Student, Sociology - Social Exchanges; Race, Gender; Immigrant Status; Conformity; Organizational Justice. Citizenship Status
Qingyan (Yan) Sun, Graduate Student, Education/Educational Policy Studies/Social Justice And International Studies In Education - Masculinity; Intersectionality; Chinese Diaspora; Sport
Rhonda Breitkreuz, Faculty Member, Human Ecology, ALES - Maternal Employment; Child Care Policy; Social Policy; Gender Equality
Robyn Lee, Faculty Member, Arts/Sociology - Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Embodiment
Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay, Academic Teaching Staff, Women's and Gender Studies - Women of Color Feminisms; Migration and Working-class Women; Subaltern Studies; Anti-racist and Decolonial Feminist Praxis
Saleema Allana, Graduate Student, Nursing - Intersectionality; Heart Failure Care; Immigrants; Ethnic Minorities; Rural; Sexual Minorities
Samantha Wesch, Graduate Student, Women's And Gender Studies - Cultural Studies; Eminem; White Rappers; White Masculinity; White Working-class; Working-class Masculinity; Pierre Bourdieu; Class Studies; The New Racism
Samira Elatia, Faculty Member, Faculté Saint-Jean - Gender, Women, Leadership, Education, Assessment
Sara Dorow, Faculty Member, Sociology, Arts - Migration And Mobility, Kinship And Care, Racialization, Work, Ethnography
Shirley Anne Tate, Faculty Member, Sociology - Racism, Body, Affect, Black Diaspora, Black Beauty, Race Performativity, Mixed Race
Simone Pfleger, Faculty Member, Women’s And Gender Studies - Gender Studies; Sexuality Studies; Queer Studies; Precarity; Temporality
Susanne Luhmann, Faculty Member, Arts/ Women’s and Gender Studies - Gender; Sexuality; Feminism; Feminist And Queer Pedagogy; EDI And Intersectionality; Trauma And Cultural Memory; Social Justice; Institutional Transformation
Temitope Oriola, Faculty Member, Arts/Sociology - Terrorism, Sexual & Gender-based Violence By Terrorist Groups, Female Suicide Terrorism, Race And Gender In Schools, Policing
Thane Chambers, Librarian, Libraries - Scientometrics; Bibliometrics; Research Impact; Science Of Science
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Graduate Student, English And Film Studies - Masculinities, Gender, Sexualities, African Literature, Ethics
Victoria Ruetalo, Faculty Member And Associate Dean, FGSR,Arts/ Mlcs/ FGSR - Sexploitation, 1960s And 1970s Film, Latin American Cinema, Sex On Screen, Intersectional Analysis, Censorship
Wendy Aujla, Graduate Student, Arts/Sociology/Criminology - Domestic Violence, Honour-based Violence, And Forced Marriages
Zubia Mumtaz, Faculty Member, School Of Public Health - Maternal Health; Sexual And Reproductive Health, Health Systems
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Intersections of Gender Affiliate Program Application Form
Final decisions regarding affiliate status are made by the Director and Associate Director of Intersections of Gender under advisement from an advisory committee.
If you have questions about the IG Affiliate Program, please email: intersectionsofgender@ualberta.ca.
We look forward to forging a meaningful relationship with Affiliates!