{"id":35,"date":"2015-03-30T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T19:02:34","slug":"graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gpratt\/graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Current Ph.D. Students<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Jisun Lee<\/span><\/td>\nTemporary Migrants in Rural South Korea<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kyle Loewen<\/td>\nWarehousing, supply chains, politics and logistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Pangilinan<\/td>\nHistories of Humanitarianism in Philippines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poorna Patange<\/span><\/td>\nCanadian Immigration Policy as Rural Development Strategy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Current MA Students<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Finn Meiklejohn<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Claire Seaman\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\nDocumentary Film and Imagining New Futures for the Icicle Creek Watershed\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Completed Supervisions<\/span><\/h3>\n

University of British Columbia<\/h4>\n

Ph.D.<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2025<\/p>\n

2025<\/td>\n

Rachel Brydolf-Horwitz<\/p>\n

Kirsten McIllveen<\/span><\/td>\n

Caring Technologies? Speculation, surveillance and new cultures of care<\/p>\n

Disappeared Behind Prison Walls: Geographies of (Dis)location<\/span><\/td>\n

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Instructor, Capilano University<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2021<\/td>\nCavlan Erengezgin<\/td>\nColoniality and Solidarity: Relationship between the Turkish Feminist Movement and the Kurdish Women’s Movement since the 1980s<\/span><\/td>\nSessional Instructor, UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nKelsey Johnson<\/td>\nBlood work: Racial economies of plasma extraction in the American South<\/span><\/td>\nUniversity of Toronto Postdoc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nVanessa Banta<\/a><\/td>\nRisky Investments: Turning Return Migrants and National Heroes Into Entrepreneurs in the Philippines<\/span><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, National University of Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nJuliane Collard<\/a><\/td>\nConceiving Abnormality<\/span><\/td>\nProfessor, Vancouver Island University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nJessica Hallenbeck<\/a><\/td>\nThe Water We Call Home: Five Generations of Indigenous Women’s Persistence Along the Salish Sea<\/span><\/td>\nBanting Postdoc.; Producer, Owner, Lantern Films<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nSarah Zell<\/a><\/td>\nOutsourcing the Border: Recruiters and Sovereign Power in Labour Migration to Canada<\/span><\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Dept of Urban and Inner City Studies, University of Winnipeg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nMay Farrales<\/a><\/td>\nBasketball, Beauty Pageants and the Sexualities of Filipinos in Canada<\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Simon Fraser University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nElizabeth Lee<\/td>\nForeign-Born Soldiers and the Ambivalent Spaces of Citizenship<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nCaleb Johnston<\/a><\/td>\nUnmapping the Metropolis: urban restructuring, governmental logics, and Adivasi rights in liberalizing Ahmedabad<\/td>\nSenior Lecturer, University of Newcastle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nChris Harker<\/a><\/td>\nPlacing Palestine: Homes, Families and Mobilities in Birzeit<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, UCL Institute of Global Prosperity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nJade Boyd<\/a><\/td>\nDancing Out of Place: Geographies of Performance and Vancouver\u2019s Independent Nightlife<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, BC Centre of Substance Use, UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nCheryl Dunkley<\/a><\/td>\nNature Discipline: The Practice of Wilderness Therapy at Camp E-Wen-Akee<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, U of Vermont<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nEric Olund<\/a><\/td>\nWhite-watching<\/td>\nLecturer, University of Sheffield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nMary Subedar<\/td>\nWhen States Design: Making Space on Native Reserves<\/td>\n\u00a0Architect<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nNadine Schuurman<\/a><\/td>\nCritical GIS: Theorising an Emerging Science<\/td>\nProfessor, Simon Fraser University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nDeborah Leslie<\/a><\/td>\nAdvertising: Between Economy and Culture<\/td>\nProfessor, University of Toronto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nRobyn Dowling<\/a><\/td>\nPlacing Identities<\/td>\nProfessor, Associate Dean Research, Sydney University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nMichael P. Brown<\/a><\/td>\nLocating Citizenship Across the City Politics of AIDS in Vancouver<\/td>\nProfessor, University of Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nStacy Warren<\/a><\/td>\nThe City as Theme Park<\/td>\nProfessor, University of Eastern Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\"books_articles\"<\/a>\"schuurman_thumbnail_GIS\"<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
MA<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2025<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

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2024 <\/span><\/td>\n

Angel Bella<\/p>\n

Gillian Der<\/p>\n

Erika Siao<\/p>\n

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Lorah Steichen<\/span><\/td>\n

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Haunted Geographies: Revealing a Palimpsest of Diasporic Pilipino Food Knowledge in Metro Vancouver<\/p>\n

Wildfire Intimacies: Investigating the Emotional Landscapes of the 2023 Downtown Lake Wildfire<\/p>\n

Building Otherwise: Queer Activism, Worldmaking, and Climate Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area<\/span><\/p>\n

The Insidious Nature of Defense: Military-Conservation Alliance in the United States<\/span><\/td>\n

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Researcher, Climate and Community Institute<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2024<\/span><\/td>\nAbena Somiah<\/span><\/td>\nExploring Black Tokyo: Africo-Japanese Placemaking in Urban Japan as Black Pacific Inquiry<\/span><\/td>\nPhD Candidate, McGill University<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023<\/span><\/td>\nYardain Amron<\/span><\/td>\nHousing Language in Vancouver<\/span><\/td>\nJournalist<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/span><\/td>\nGabriele Dumpey Woolever<\/span><\/td>\nFugitivity, Sound, Sanctuary: Listening for Stories Beyond the Bounds of Citizenship<\/span><\/td>\nResearch Manager, UBC Centre for Migration Studies<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nJonas Pinzon Osorio<\/td>\nGeographies of Waiting: The (Im)mobilities of Venezuelan Migrant Women in Colombia<\/td>\nResearcher, Wosk Centre for Dialogue, SFU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nNicole Molinari<\/td>\nBare Care: Working Within\/Reworking Restructured Long-term Care<\/td>\nResearcher, Hospital Employees Union<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nBelle Cheung<\/td>\nStill Different: Exploring the Relationship between Multiculturalism, Cultural Policy, and Artistic Expressions of Diversity in Vancouver Theatre<\/td>\nSocial\/Cultural Planner, City of Vancouver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nDebolina Majumder<\/td>\nFootnotes to a Conflict? Rethinking Questions of Class and the State in Post Accession Jammu and Kashmir<\/td>\nPostdoctoral F. Manchester University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nKelsey Johnson<\/td>\nPerforming the Nation at the Frontier: Filipino Migration and Settlement in Whitehorse, Yukon<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nJuliane Collard<\/td>\nTracing knowledge of the law: The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry<\/td>\n\u00a0Completed Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nMichael Thomason<\/td>\nThe Politics of Accounting for Refugees<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nMay Farrales<\/td>\nHolding Spaces: Geographies of Filipino-Canadians\u2019 Educational Experiences<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nRoza Tchoukaleyska<\/a><\/td>\nOrganic Food Production in France<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at Sheffield University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nDeborah Watt<\/td>\nAn interrogation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s The Gates<\/em>, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005, or a spectral of socialist realism in the new economy<\/td>\nInternational Research Development UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nCaleb Johnston<\/a><\/td>\nTheatre in Praxis: situating Boal, grassroots democracy and transnational connections.\u00a0 Published as ‘Fieldnote: Gujarat, India’ Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/em> 34 (2006), and as co-authored papers: G. Pratt and C. Johnston, \u2018Turning Theatre into Law, and Other Spaces of Politics\u2019 Cultural Geographies<\/em> (2007); G. Pratt and C. Johnston ‘Putting Play to Work’ in Politics and Practices in Economic Geography<\/em> (eds. A. Tickell, E. Sheppard, J. Peck, and T. Barnes), Sage, London.<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nJohanna Long<\/td>\n(En)Planting Israel: Jewish National Fund Forestry and the Naturalisation of Zionism. Paper completed during MA coursework published as \u2018Border Anxiety in Palestine-Israel\u2019 Antipode<\/em> 38 (2006), and received the Glenda Laws MA paper prize, 2005.<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at Queen Mary University of London<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nElia Kirby<\/td>\nCarneyland<\/td>\n\u00a0Elia Kirby Productions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nChris Harker<\/td>\nWitnessing Untitled. Published as ‘A Close and Unbreachable Distance: Witnessing Everything and Nothing’ ACME<\/em> (2007) 6, 51-72.<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nJamie Winders<\/a><\/td>\nImperfectly Imperial: northern travel writers in a postbellum American south. Published as: \u2018White in all the wrong places: white rural poverty in the postbellum US South\u2019 Cultural Geographies<\/em> (2003) 10, 45-63; \u2018Imperfectly Imperial: Northern Travel Writers in the Postbellum U.S. South,1865-1880\u2019 Annals of the AAG (<\/em>2005) 95, 391.<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky. Professor, Syracuse University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nJennifer England<\/td>\nRepresenting the Production of Space: Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside, Vancouver. Published as \u2018Disciplining Subjectivity and Space: Representation, Film, and its Material Effects\u2019 Antipode<\/em> (2004) 36.<\/td>\nDirector, Women’s Directorate, Government of Yukon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nTrina Bester<\/td>\nNegotiating Parenthood and Places of Care in Vancouver, B.C.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nNicola Hicks<\/td>\nCinema for Where You Live: Spectatorship, Subjectivity and Space<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nRoneen Marcoux<\/td>\nTaking it to the Streets<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nSuzanne Reimer<\/a><\/td>\nFlexibility and the Public Sector<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at Cambridge University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nRobyn Dowling<\/td>\nShopping and Femininity<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nMichael P. Brown<\/td>\nReconstructing the Theory of Local Autonomy<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nCecile Badenhorst<\/td>\nLacrosse: A cultural process<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at Queens University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Postdoctoral Fellows<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2020<\/td>\nTara Cookson<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\nAssistant Professor, \u00a0UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nJennifer Bagelman<\/a><\/td>\n\u00a0Experiential Geographies of Emergency Food Provisioning in Immigrant and First Nations Communities<\/td>\nProfessor, University of Newcastle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nJohn Paul Catunga<\/a>l<\/td>\nStraight Ally in Queer Politics<\/td>\nAssistant Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nJudy Han<\/a><\/td>\nSouth Korean and Korean American Evangelical Missionaries<\/td>\nAssociate Professor, Gender Studies, UCLA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nNadia Abu-Zahra<\/td>\nFamily Reunification, Palestine<\/td>\n\u00a0Professor, International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Clark University<\/h4>\n

Ph.D.<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
1989<\/td>\nBob Scarfo<\/td>\nTransforming the Meaning of Space: The Socialization of Professional Landscape Architects<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
MA<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
1987<\/td>\nStacy Warren<\/td>\nHousing and Ideology: The Menace of the Three-Decker<\/td>\nCompleted Ph.D. at UBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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