Each academic year, the JHI sponsors interdisciplinary Working Groups composed of graduate students and faculty who conduct research or engage in other scholarly exchange. To learn more about each group, click on the title of the group. To request to join a group, email the group lead linked in the list. You can also find out about groups from previous years on the Working Groups Archives page.
Current Working Groups
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