CESI Past Students

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Communications Assistant

Interests: communications, arts-based activism, geopolitics, world system economics, colonial history, Middle Eastern politics

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Communications Assistant

Interests: race and the criminal justice system, drug policy, criminal justice reform, intersectionality, violence against women

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Communications Assistant

Interests: Resilient cities, migration, social determinants of health, social policy, globalization, foreign relations.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: Social determinants of health, intersectoral collaboration, health inequity, knowledge mobilization, harm reduction.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: Food security, policy-making, knowledge mobilization, community resilience.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: Sexual violence prevention, violence against women, gender norms, community-based research, program evaluation

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: international development, settlement and integration, public health, gender.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: online communities, digital drift, desistance from deviance/crime, self-harm and vulnerable populations, sociology of mental health, qualitative research, community-engaged research.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: fisheries, food security, seafood sustainability, ocean governance, knowledge mobilization, community-based research, coastal regions, the geography of islands.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: food security, sustainable agriculture, science and technology studies,  scholarship of teaching and learning, knowledge mobilization, social justice

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: Healthcare, world history, agriculture, international development, interdisciplinary research, community-engaged research.

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Research Shop Assistant

Interests: Students with disabilities, sociology of education, disability education, youth justice