Welcome to the 2024-25 Social Justice Fellows

Welcome to the 2024-25 fellows of the Social Justice Centre. We are happy to announce the recipients of our fellowships. 

Barry Pashak Graduate Student Fellows

Moe Clark (MA - Indi) tastawayihk-iyiniwak wâhkôhtowin / Two-Spirit Drumming: Resurgent Practice of Reclamation and Cultural Continuity - Supervised by Catherine Richardson

Marcus-Xavier Granada (MA - Philosophy), Giving Up the Grip: Habits, Racism, and Radical Self-Transformation (Critical phenomenology and Philosophy of Race) - Supervised by David Morris

Elham Mohtashamzadeh (PhD - Socio and Anth.), The Girls of Enqelab Street: Fractured Voices, Shared Struggles Iranian Women's social movements and the question of Collective Identity - Supervised by Chris Hurl

Varda Nisar (PhD - Art History) The Museum is Weaponized: Understanding Museums within the Military-Cultural Complex in Pakistan – Supervised by Alice Ming Wai Jim

Nabiha Yahiaoui (PhD - Socio and Anth.), Demystifying a world upside down: Islamophobia, sexual nationalism, and neoliberalism in Quebec – Supervised by Beverly Best and Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum

Barry Pashak Postdoctoral Fellows

Niloofar Golkar (PhD in Politics, York University) - Project: Towards Decolonial Praxis: Interrogating Settler Colonialism, Commons and Cooperatives

Bermal Küçük (PhD in Sociology, Koç University) – Project: Reframing Feminist Movements as Catalysts for Social Justice Struggles in Authoritarian Neoliberal Turkey

Postdoctoral Fellows

Eleni Schirmer (PhD Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Project: Choked: Debt, Public Education, and the Rise of Inequality - Financed by the Fonds de recherche du Québec

Frédéric Côté-Boudreau (PhD Philosophy, Queen’s University) - Philosophie politique et animaux & Spécisme et capacitisme: autonomie et interdépendance with the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Ethics (UQTR) and the Research Centre in Ethics (CRÉ)

Erik Chevrier (PhD Food Studies, Concordia) – Project: Food Sovereignty on Campus in collaboration with MITACS and the Concordia Food Coalition (CFC)

See their profiles online: Fellows - Social Justice Centre

The graduate fellows will present their research on April 4 and April 16, 2025 at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation.