Graduate Students

New Graduates
Doctoral Dissertation
Got Milk? : The Public Relations of Infant Food Insecurity in Canada

Master's Thesis
Who is the Expert of Experience? Legal vs. Individual Definitions of Culture in the Canadian Courtroom

Master's Thesis
Being well in the digital age: A Sociological Examination of the Interplay between the Internet and Personal Well-being in New Brunswick
Master's Thesis
Positive Psychology as a Scientific Movement: A Case Study in the Rational Dialectic of Scientific Legitimacy
Current Graduate Students
- Hassan Arif, PhD Candidate, Centralization or Amalgamation: Local Governance and Urban Decay in Detroit, Michigan.
- Shaun Bartone, PhD Candidate, Environmental sociology; urban planning; social theory; gender; and mental health.
- Ashley Calhoun, MA Candidate, Immigrants’ integration into Canadian society, particularly their integration into the education system.
- Rose Cole, MA Candidate, Social economy, economic sociology, social policy, home care, health care and feminist theory.
- Rebecca Coleman, MA Candidate, Women’s Rights and Social Justice for Canadian Society.
- Curtis Couillard, MA Candidate, The experiences of individuals who are residential care home workers.
- Alekhya Das, PhD Candidate, WJanice Noelomen's health-seeking behavior, gender and health, south Asia, and marginalized populations.
- James Dunbar, MA Candidate, Exploring family socioeconomic characteristics in relation to the timing of offspring transition to adulthood.
- Sherri Egers, MA Candidate, Sociology of Family Violence
- Lesley Frank, PhD Candidate, The role of nutrition in the relationship between socio-economic status and health.
- James Freeman, MA Candidate, Social movements theory.
- Catherine Holtmann, PhD Candidate, Sociology of Religion.
- Karen Hutton, Phd Candidate, Symbolism and ritual.
- Elaine Jones, PhD Candidate, Sociology of the family, sociology of gender, aging, and disability; the intersection of long-term inter-familial dependency and social policy.
- Frank Lavandier, PhD Candidate, Victimization: the relationship between First Nations communities and police.
- Kyle Lewis, MA Candidate, Gender, policy, aboriginal women: The status of different minority women and where they stand today in addition to what issues continue to endure in the twenty-first century.
- Christopher Long, MA Candidate, Judo – Japanese Canadians in internment camps during World War II.
- Natalie Longaphy, PhD Candidate, Feminist theory, qualitative methods, violence against women and children; sexual assault and human rights issues; reproductive and sexual autonomy of women in Africa; the relationship between Aids and attitudes towards African women.
- Cyril MacDonald, PhD Candidate, Sociology Media and Communications
- Sasha McEachern-Caputo, MA Candidate, Journalism and communications
- Mary Milliken, PhD Candidate, The Internet, globalization, neoliberal economic policies, and the evolution of select public service broadcasting mandates and institutions in light of recent changes associated with the ‘information age’ and ‘network society.’
- Barbara Morrisey, PhD Candidate, A study of the institutionalized system of long-term care for people with disabilties in the province of New Brunswick.
- Gloria Nickerson, PhD Candidate, Multimedia studies and communications. To explore the dynamic nature of qualitative sociology with a fusion of media, photography and visual theory.
- Duncan Philpot, Social theory, media and communications, and online vigilantism, social media and protest.
- Ian Rice, PhD Candidate, Foster care and social policy.
- Anthony Roberts, PhD Candidate, Sex and sexuality, gender, technology and the intersection with the body, identity.
- Jolyne Roy, PhD Candidate, Political and ecological sociology, because water is a necessity for all human life.
- Donna Safatli, PhD Candidate, Health and Health Policy. Public Drug coverage systems in Canada.
- Carolyn Szuter, MA Candidate, Gender Entrepreneurship.
- Lisa Thompson, PhD Candidate, Women’s health studies.
- Laura Winters, PhD Candidate, The sex trade in the province of Newfoundland & Labrador.
- Angela Wisniewski, PhD Candidate, Sociology of communication, sociology of culture, qualitative methods.
- Kyle Zelmer, PhD Candidate: Environmental sociology, consumerism, food consumption, social status, identity.



Jonathon Simmons