Current Students
Curricula Vitae
Please scroll down to find CVs of candidates for, and graduates of, the Interdisciplinary PhD degree. You can click on the blue hyperlink of a person's name to view their CV.
Announcements
- Congratulations to IDPhD student and St. John's singer/actor Shelley Neville for being shown on the New York Times video "Come From Away comes home" (Michael Paulson & Gabriel Blanco - Sept. 4, 2026). It has been 25 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the New York Times showed up to do their own stories on Gander and the people who helped. Shelley plays Beulah and others in the Gander production of the Broadway musical Come From Away. The show is in its fourth consecutive year at the Arts & Culture Centre in Gander, NL.
- Congratulations to Andrew Dixon for becoming the new Senior Research Officer at the For Diverse Youth (4DY) initiative (co-led by Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA) and the University of Toronto’s Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources).
- Congratulations to Angela Antle on the publication of her book The Saltbox Olive which can be found here: (shortlisted for the Winterset Prize, set to be awarded on April 9, 2026).
- Congratulations to Opeyemi Jaunty-Aidamenbor for having successfully defended her PhD thesis on December 15, 2025.
- Congratulations to Janelle Skeard for having successfully defended her PhD thesis on June 19, 2025.
- Congratulations to Alexis (Ali) Maureen McGill, a recent graduate of our IDPhD program, on becoming the first Chair-holder of the new Research Chair in Health Innovation at the University of New Brunswick:
Welcome to New Students of the 2026-2027 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Baharehsadat Razavian |
Dr. Kirk D. Anderson, Faculty of Education, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Patrick Gamsby, Department of Sociology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Amy Hudson, School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies, 91´«Ã½ |
| Martin Poole |
Dr. Andrei Igamberdiev, Department of Biology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Peter Trnka, Department of Philosophy, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Jonathan Fawcett, Department of Psychology, 91´«Ã½ |
| Mary Kate Kopec |
Dr. Jennifer Jewer, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Kyle Pushkarenko, School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, 91´«Ã½â€‚      Dr. Jennifer Rowsell, School of Education, University of Sheffield Dr. Liz Durden-Meyers, School of Education, Bath Spa University
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Students of the 2025-2026 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Aimee Melissa Roebothan |
Dr. Christopher B.R. Smith, School of Social Work, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Gillian Kolla, Faculty of Medicine, 91´«Ã½ Dr. John T. Weber, School of Pharmacy, 91´«Ã½
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| Hashna Binte Nahar |
Dr. Armin Hatefi, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Jacqueline Blundell, Faculty of Science, 91´«Ã½
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| Nasim Makaremi Nia |
Dr. Andrew Testa, School of Fine Arts (Grenfell Campus), 91´«Ã½ Dr. Gerard Curtis, School of Fine Arts (Grenfell Campus), 91´«Ã½ Dr. Jennifer A. Selby, Department of Religious Studies, 91´«Ã½
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Students of the 2024-2025 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Amie Florance Richards |
Dr. Lisa-Jo van den Scott, Department of Sociology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. April Pike, Faculty of Nursing, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Jennifer Dyer, Department of Gender Studies, 91´«Ã½
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| Chau Bao Phung |
Dr. Octavia Dobre, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Trung Duong, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½
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| Jesse Schnobb |
Dr. David LeFrancois, Department of Education, University of Quebec at Outaouais Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Hannah Snyder, Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School
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Keith Matthews |
Dr. Edward Kendall, Faculty of Medicine, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Sean Cadigan, Department of History, 91´«Ã½
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Miriam Bowlby
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Dr. Barry Stephenson, Department of Religious Studies, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Nicholas Lynch, Department of Geography, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½
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Patience Ahiaku |
Dr. Octavia Dobre, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Trung Duong, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Nathan Grieve, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Acadia University
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Shelley Neville
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Dr. Jacqueline Blundell, Department of Psychology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Jane Leibel, School of Music, 91´«Ã½ Dr. David Buley, Faculty of Education, 91´«Ã½
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| Tisia Stemp |
Dr. Harris Berger, School of Music, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Daniel Peretti, Department of Folklore, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Carlos Bazan, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½
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Students of the 2023-2024 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Jonathan Dredge |
Dr. Chansoo Park, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Dale Kirby, Faculty of Education, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Andrea Migone, Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University
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| Somina Eka |
Dr. Kimberly Jarvis, Faculty of Nursing, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Eric Tenkorang, Department of Sociology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Paul Issahaku, School of Social Work, 91´«Ã½
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Yiyin Liu |
Dr. Dianne P. Ford, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Vicki Sara Hallett, Department of Gender Studies, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Amanda Bittner, Department of Political Science, 91´«Ã½
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Melika Sefidari |
Dr. Shannon Hoff, Department of Philosophy, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Jennifer Dyer, Department of Gender Studies, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Nancy Pedri, Department of English, 91´«Ã½
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| Megan MacKinnon |
Dr. Meghan Burchell, Department of Archaeology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Suzanne Dufour, Department of Biology, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Alan Wanamaker, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University
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| Courtney Lancaster |
Dr. Anne Burke, Faculty of Education, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Todd Hennessey, School of Fine Arts, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½
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| Christine Fearing |
Dr. Leah Lewis, Faculty of Education, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Giovana del Negro, Department of Gender Studies, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Eliza Chandler, School of Disability Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University |
Students of the 2022-2023 Academic Year
| Student Name | Supervisory Committee |
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| Esraa Abouamin |
Dr. Desai Shan, Faculty of Medicine, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Kim Cullen, School of Human Kinetics and Recreation, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½
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| Christine Goudie |
Dr. Carlos Bazan, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Stephen Czarnuch, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, 91´«Ã½
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| Giorgia Mezzetti |
Dr. Sergio Caprara, Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. David Orrell, Systems Forecasting
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| Hadi Moradi |
Dr. Emmanuel Haven, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Ivan Saika-Voivod, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, 91´«Ã½
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| Giuseppe Pasqualino |
Dr. Christopher Prior, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University (UK) Dr. Myongin Oh, Department of Chemistry, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Rashmi Panigrahi, Department of Human Biosciences, 91´«Ã½
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| Christy Walters |
Dr. David Churchill, Department of Computer Science, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Dale Kirby, Faculty of Education, 91´«Ã½ Dr. Tom Cooper, Faculty of Business Administration, 91´«Ã½
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Students In Progress
- Andrew Dixon
- Angela Antle
- Angela Barbara Power
- Apu Akbar
- Christine Goudie
- Francis Anokye
- Ian Petty
- Jalaleddin Afzal
- Javier Rojas
- Jeffrey J. Howard
- Jesse Schnobb
- Marlene Power
- Melika Sefidari
- Shannon Christine Fraser
- Shelley Neville
- Ukeme Eka
- Urmila Palit
- Wendy Reid Fairhurst
Graduates
- Ali McGill
- Amy Hudson
- Ashok Pandey
- Brennan Lowery
- Brian MacIsaac
- Brit Kolditz
- Carol-Ann Galego
- Chris Alyward
- Cristina Fabretto
- Entessar Al-Harahsheh
- Janelle Skeard - awarded the Smallwood Research Grant
- Kat Lord
- Kellie Baker
- Kristen Lowitt
- Lori Clarke
- Margot Maddison-McFadyen
- Opeyemi Jaunty-Aidamenbor
- Pam Hall
- Peter Duchemin
- Rona Rangsch
- Sarah Minnes
- Sharon Halfyard
- Sharon Trenholm
- Sherine Khattab
- William Hicks