MA Graduate Students
Miguel Bernard Bravo

Research interests: Education, Student Employment, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
mberna46@uwo.ca
SSC 5332
Victoria Borowski

Research interests: Gender and Risk Assessment; Masculinities; Actuarial Risk Tools; Policing in Canada; Inequality.
Supervisor: Dr. Dale Ballucci
vborowsk@uwo.ca
SSC 5320
Brendan Costello

Research interests: Evidence-based policing, crime reduction, crime mapping, addictions, harm-reduction.
bcostel@uwo.ca
SSC 5419
Aline Da Costa

Research interests: Postcolonial Thought, Political Sociology, the Environment and Neocolonialism, Social Change, and Disability
Supervisor: Dr. Scott Schaffer
adacost8@uwo.ca
SSC 5419
Erika Dempsey

Research interests: Indigeneity, social inequality, and social demography
Supervisor: Dr. Howard Ramos
edempse@uwo.ca
SSC 5230
Brayden Dueck

Research interests: Queer theory, discursive analysis, epistemology.
bdueck@uwo.ca
SSC 5419
Lindsay Finlay

Research interests: immigration, migration, immigrant settlement, and rural Canada.
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Haan
lfinlay6@uwo.ca
SSC 5225E
Sydney Joao

Research interests: race, gender, inequality, workplace, education, discrimination.
Supervisors: Dr. Kate H. Choi & Dr. Patrick Denice
sjoao@uwo.ca
SSC 5525
Yuchen Li

Research interests: immigration policy and temporary foreign workers; labour market integration of immigrants
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Haan
yli4644@uwo.ca
SSC
Jason Lo

Research interests: Social Theory; Social Inequality; Political and Fiscal Sociology
jlo73@uwo.ca
SSC 5311
Laura McLauchlan

Research interests: Criminology, socio-legal responses to gender based violence, human trafficking, trauma-informed policing, jury decision-making behaviours
Supervisor: Dr. Dale Ballucci
lmclauch@uwo.ca
SSC
Abigail Meza

Research interests: Housing; Immigration; Immigrant settlement.
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Haan
amezakau@uwo.ca
SSC 5207
Lisa-Lee Newell

Research interests: Sociology of Disability (specifically disability vs. impairment), Intersectionality, Social Constructionism, and Inequality.
Supervisor: Dr. Kim Shuey
lnewell2@uwo.ca
SSC 5408
Jessica Omorodion

Research interests: immigrant identity, mental health, social inequality, and racialized individuals.
jomorodi@uwo.ca
SSC 5408
Xiao Peng

Research interests: Migration; Immigrant Integration; Mental Health of Immigrants; Social, Economic, and Cultural Integration of Children of Immigrants
Supervisor: Dr. Teresa Abada
xpeng83@uwo.ca
SSC
Kayla Scheer

Research interests: Risk assessment tools for Indigenous Offenders.
Supervisors: Dr. Janice Forsyth and Dr. Dale Ballucci
kscheer@uwo.ca
SSC 5320
Joanne Silva

Research interests: Criminology, feminist perspectives in law, victimization discourses, and police perceptions of gender-based crimes
Supervisor: Dr. Dale Ballucci
jsilva45@uwo.ca
SSC
Spiro Vassallo

Research interests: Social inequality, Racial and socioeconomic disparities, Social policy, Class, Race, and Critical theory.
Supervisor: Dr. Scott Schaffer
svassal5@uwo.ca
SSC 5408
Kaitlin Wannamaker

Research interests: Political sociology, social inequality, and sociology of work.
kwannam2@uwo.ca
SSC 5408
Stefanie Weighell

Research interests: Sociology of the Family, Social Inequality of first-generation post-secondary students; Sociology of Health Inequalities.
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Zajacova
sweighel@uwo.ca
SSC 5408
Alyssa Yourkin

Research interests: criminology, social inequality, gender, crime and victimization.
ayourkin@uwo.ca
SSC
Brett Zeleznik

Research interests: labour and employment, quantitative methods.
Supervisor: Dr. Anders Holm
bzelezni@uwo.ca
SSC 5225