Interdisciplinary MA/PhD Candidates
Nora Fathalipour (Interdisciplinary MA)
BA (SOAS, London)
Supervisor: Dr. Melanie Wiber
Nora’s research looks into dominant political and legal discourses and their relationship with public policy making and the role of migrant ethnic minorities in challenging the legal status quo. Her research interests include legal pluralism, jurisprudence, ethnic minorities, migration, public policy, legal discourses and their relationship with politics, Foucault, super-diversity, identity, conflict resolution, First Nations/indigenous peoples, and the future of interdisciplinary studies.
Jennifer Hutton (Interdisciplinary PhD)
BA (STU), MA (UNB)
Supervisor: Dr. Koumari Mitra
Jennifer’s research uses an ethnomedical approach to understand the role of women in the informal economy of traditional medicine in Southern Java, Indonesia. Her MA research was on changes to HPV awareness, among young women in New Brunswick, since the release of the HPV vaccine. Her research interests include gender, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), particularly how CAM is used alongside biomedicine. Additional interests include Canadian biomedical and alternative traditions, as well as ethnobotany and the historical use of plants as medicine.
Supervisor: Dr. Evelyn Plaice
Focusing on the research capacity-building among New Brunswick First Nations.
Courtenay E. Parlee (Interdisciplinary PhD)
BA (Acadia), MPhil (UNB)
Supervisor: Dr. Melanie Wiber
Courtenay's research takes place in Southwest, New Brunswick where the aquaculture industry has rapidly expanded and where traditional fisheries such as lobster, groundfish and herring continue to operate. She is interested in the subjective evaluations that underpin differing perceptions of risk and values that guide policies, regulations and management; whether emerging governance institutions are appropriately designed to deal with conflict associated with risk management; the way in which formal government is connected to governance institutions and if these connections enable support for local arrangements and local participation in management decisions. This research is funded by SSHRC and will contribute to NSERC Canadian Fisheries Research Network, Project 1.1 Enhanced Fisheries Knowledge for an Evolving Management Regime.
