Alexander Chaisson

Thesis Supervisor: Carly Daniel-Hughes

Alexander Chaisson is beginning their M.A. in Religions and Cultures at Concordia.  Having completed their B.A. at Saint Mary's University, Chaisson holds an honours in the Study of Religion, with a double major in Anthropology and Public Humanities, and a minor in French Studies.

Chaisson is interested in the place and the process of others/othering' that takes place within religion, especially religious offshoots, studying how the minorities of religions operate as agents of their faith.

Beginning their graduate studies at Concordia, their primary academic interests follow the prejudiced environments of patriarchal institutions and societies which seek control of the sexuality and sexual nature of marginalized groups through sexualization and desexualization of their bodies.