Graduate Students
Emad Afkham
PhD Candidate; Department of History, Classics, and Religion
Thesis Title: The Popular Resistance among German Peasant in the Late 16th Century
Rezvaneh Erfani
PhD Candidate; Department of Sociology
Title of Research Project: A Post-Colonial Critique of the Global Environmental Justice Discourse
Amani Khelifa
PhD Student; Department of History, Classics, and Religion
Thesis Title: Islamic intellectual history of North Africa
Hande Gür
PhD Candidate; Department of Anthropology
Thesis Title: The rise of Sufi mystical practices among young, middle-class women of Turkish origin living both in Turkey and the West.
Reyhaneh Javadi
PhD Candidate; Department of Sociology
Thesis Title: Encroachments in Juridicial Field: Iranian’s struggle for Rights as a Social Non-Movement.
Amirhossein Firuzkohi
PhD Candidate; Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Saman Rezaei
PhD Candidate; Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Thesis Title: A New Analysis of Narrative Elements in Suhrawardi's Ishraqi Philosophy
Shahab Nadimi
PhD Candidate; Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Thesis Title: Refugee Literary Space: Toward a Universal Experience of Belonging and Collective Enunciation
Md Nazmul Arefin
PhD Student; Department of Sociology
Thesis Title: Islamophobia in Canada: Exploring the lived experiences of Muslim university students.
Behrang Nikaeen
PhD Candidate; Department of Music
Thesis Title: The impact of Iran’s post-revolutionary cultural policies on Persian classical music composition
Samira Torabi
PhD Candidate; Department of Anthropology
Thesis Title: Women Creating New Spaces: Reconfiguring Gender Segregation in Iran
Laya Soleymanzadeh
PhD Student; Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Nakita Valerio
PhD Candidate; Department of History, Classics, and Religion
Thesis Title: Keepers of the Qur'an: Moroccan Women's Religious Literacy and Leadership
Salima Versi
PhD Candidate; Department of History, Classics, and Religion
Thesis Title: Contemporary Islam & Canadian Ismailism
