The JHI is pleased to announce our 2024-25 Working Groups. Each academic year, the JHI sponsors interdisciplinary working groups composed of graduate students and faculty who conduct research or engage in other scholarly exchange. The groups and leads for 2024-25 are:
Asexuality and Aromanticism Studies (new)
- Liza Blake, UTM English & Drama
Classics and the Black Atlantic (new)
- Letticia Cosbert Miller, Ph.D. student, Classics
- Kenneth Yu, A&S Classics
Emerging Interventions in Contemporary Chinese Studies (renewal)
- Anup Grewal, UTSC Historical & Cultural Studies
Figural Analysis (new)
- Thomas Quist, Ph.D. candidate, Cinema Studies
- Elizabeth Wijaya, UTM Visual Studies
Hong Kong-Canada Connections (new)
- Mitchell Ma, Ph.D. student, Anthropology
- Chris Song, UTSC Language Studies
Medieval World Drama (renewal)
- Matthew Sergi, A&S English & Drama
Public Writing in the Humanities (renewal)
- Christie Anderson, A&S Art History
- Camille Bégin, independent scholar
Scribbling Academia: Comic Art and Theory (new)
- Maya El Halou, Ph.D. student, Anthropology/Sexual Diversity Studies
- Amira Mittermaier, A&S Study of Religion
Theories and Praxis of Digital Labour: The Fault Lines in Digital Capitalism (new)
- Julie Chen, UTM Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology
The Looting Lab (new)
- Isra Saymour, Ph.D. student, Sociology
- Alexandra Gillespie, UTM English & Drama / Vice-President & Principal, UTM
The Other Sister: New Research on Non-Cloistered Religious Women (renewal)
- Isabelle Cochelin, A&S Medieval Studies/History
- Alison More, SMC Comper Professorship of Medieval Studies
Theorizing Scholar-Activism and the Global Food Sovereignty Movement (renewal)
- Jayeeta Sharma, UTSC Physical & Environmental Studies
- Jaclyn Rohel, postdoctoral researcher, UTSC Culinaria Research Centre