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SOSA had a bumper harvest of MA and PhD graduands at Fall convocation on October 22! One Social Anthropology PhD, one Sociology PhD, two Social Anthropology MAs, and five – count ’em, five! – Sociology MAs crossed the stage in person or in spirit on Tuesday morning.
Where are they going next, you might ask?
Pinash Akter (MA SOAN) has just started working as the National Gender-Based Violence Project Coordinator for the YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth’s Centre for Immigrant Programs. In this role, she is leading the development of tools and coordinating with partners and care-holders across Canada to raise awareness and improve resources for tackling gender-based violence in the settlement sector. Pinash’s thesis is entitled Informality and the Double Day: The Case of Part-time Domestic Workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Victory Angeli (MA SOCI) plans to start a PhD in Health Services Research in September 2025 at the University of Toronto, focusing on Canadian Integrated Youth Services (IYS), an emergent form of mental health resource provision in which young people can access a range of psychiatric and social services through a single resource hub. In the meantime, they are writing up their thesis for publication and working on knowledge translation with Canadian not-for-profit groups. Victory’s current roles include Director of Accessibility at Free Your Mind, a youth-led organisation based in Alberta, and peer educator through Jack Talks. Their thesis is Diversifying Discourse: Best Practices for the Effective Engagement of Equity-Deserving Youth in Mental Health Advocacy.
Hannah Crouse (MA SOCI) has started a PhD in Sociology at Carleton University, exploring inclusive dementia care for 2S/LGBTQ+ adults and their carers. Hannah’s thesis is Lesbian, Bisexual, and Two-Spirit Women’s Experiences of Congregate Later-Life Housing in an Atlantic Canadian Continuing Care Organization.
Joseph Lahey (MA SOCI), who worked as a student advisor at Dalhousie during his studies, has started work as an Academic Advisor at Mount St Vincent University. Joseph’s thesis is In, Out, and In Between: Coming Out and the Wellbeing of Young Queer People in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Our other graduands and their thesis titles were:
Elias Galindo Paredes (PhD SOAN) The Making of a Ramsar Site: A Marxist Ecology Approach to Conservation, Corruption, and Leadership in a Colombian Amazonian Indigenous Resguardo
Mychaela Igarik (MA SOAN) Comprehensive Sex Education: Does one size fit all?
Hannah Main (PhD SOCI) The Heart of the Community? Rural School Closure Conflicts and Rural Identity in Nova Scotia
Paul Pike (MA SOCI) Experiences of Aging and Older Adults’ Identity Tensions Across Socio-Economic Lines
Henry Stine (MA SOCI) World Culture and the United Nations
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