2025-26 JHI Working Groups

June 9, 2025 by Sonja Johnston

The JHI is pleased to announce our 2025-26 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 2025-26 are:

Asexuality and Aromanticism Studies (renewal)

  • Liza Blake, UTM English & Drama

Emerging Interventions in Contemporary Chinese Studies (renewal)

  • Anup Grewal, UTSC Historical & Cultural Studies

Hong Kong-Canada Connections (renewal)

  • Bernice Hoi Ching Cheung, Ph.D. student, Music
  • Maria Lau, RCL Canada-Hong Kong Library
  • Mitchell Ma, Ph.D. cand., UTM Anthropology
  • Chris Song, UTSC Language Studies

How We Listen to Water (new)

  • Bonnie McElhinny, A&S Anthropology
  • Alaa Mitwaly, Ph.D. cand., Anthropology

Infrastructure’s Environments (new)

  • Claire Zimmerman, John M. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design

Interdisciplinary Bioethics (new)

  • Connor T.A. Brenna, Ph.D. student, Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
  • Stacy S. Chen, Ph.D. cand., Philosophy
  • Sunit Das, Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
  • Andrew Franklin-Hall, Philosophy

Medieval World Drama (renewal)

  • Matthew Sergi, English

Performing Gestures, Performing Cultures (new)

  • Douglas Eacho, Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies (CDTPS)
  • Yizhou Zhang, Ph.D. cand., CDTPS

Queer & Trans Negativity (new)

  • Kanika Lawton, Ph.D. cand., Cinema Studies/Sexual Diversity Studies
  • Bliss Cua Lim, Cinema Studies
  • Avneet Sharma, Ph.D. student, Cinema Studies/Sexual Diversity Studies

Sharing Food, Sharing Knowledge: Partnering Toward Sustainable & Resilient Food Futures (renewal)

  • Jaclyn Rohel, postdoctoral fellow, Physical & Environmental Sciences
  • Jayeeta Sharma, UTSC Physical & Environmental Sciences
  • Geetha Sukumaran, postdoctoral fellow, Physical & Environmental Sciences

Theories and Praxis of Digital Labour: The Fault Lines in Digital Capitalism (renewal)

  • Rafael Grohmann, UTSC Arts, Culture & Media
  • Vera Khovanskaya, Faculty of Information

The Other Sister (renewal)

  • Isabelle Cochelin, Medieval Studies/History
  • Alison More, SMC Comper Professorship of Medieval Studies

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