Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows

Nakeyah Giroux-Works

Nakeyah Giroux-Works

Nakeyah Giroux-Works completed her PhD in anthropology at Université Laval. Her work focuses on the future of degraded rural and peri-urban environmental spaces, and socio-ecological enhancement strategies based on collective action and the practice of revegetation. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the Research Centre on the future of cities, she will carry out theoretical and empirical research on biodiversity in cemeteries, the phenomenon of revegetation in funeral practices, urban forests and the urban Anthropocene.
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Cristian Cabrera

Cristian Maximiliano Cabrera Van Cauwlaert

Cristian Maximiliano Cabrera Van Cauwlaert completed his master's degree in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the analysis of the creation, circulation, and appropriation of "knowledge" in maker production spaces, known as fab labs.
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David Carpentier

David Carpentier

David Carpentier is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa's School of Political Studies, where he specializes in Canadian and Quebec politics. His research focuses on immigration and citizenship; nationalism and multinationalism; and on the impact of public policies developed by cities on intercommunity rapprochement and inclusion.
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Michaël Châteauneuf

Michaël Châteauneuf

Michaël Châteauneuf is a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on the return of populations to accessible areas near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, in a post-disaster context.
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Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis

Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis

Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis completed her master’s student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. Her current research focused on sea urchin fishing in Eastern Quebec and the Lower St. Lawrence region. She seeks to understand how this practice fits within the agro-industrial system and in a redefinition of the contribution of the local and the global in food supply.
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Marie-Dominik Langlois

Marie-Dominik Langlois

Marie-Dominik Langlois is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Ottawa and in social anthropology and ethnology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Her research focuses on the Xinka people's reaffirmation of their Indigenous identity, their resistance to mining, and their defense of the right to consultation and consent in Southeast Guatemala.
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Dominira Saul

Dominira Saul

Dominira Saul is a doctoral student at the uOttawa Faculty Engineering, researching the intersection between User experience (UX) and innovation. Looking at user-centered design methodologies and whether they are leveraged in innovation labs, and at co-design/ co-creation activities aimed at prototyping some ideas around the future of cities.
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Master’s Students

Nicolas Cadieux

Nicolas Cadieux

Nicolas Cadieux is a master’s student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa and a research assistant at the Centre for Research on the Future of Cities (RCFC). His current research focuses on the transformation of urban environments related to real estate speculation, social inequities, community organization and on techniques for combating gentrification.
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Cindy Tat

Cindy Tat

Cindy Tat is a master’s student in Anthropology at the University of Ottawa. Her research project focuses on the production and circulation of photographic images, and on the imaginary of the Japanese national-cultural identity.
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Josée Vaillancourt

Josée Vaillancourt

Josée Vaillancourt is a master's student in anthropology at the University of Ottawa. Their research focuses on the reappropriation and transformation of capitalist post-industrial ruin landscapes in Japan's Setouchi region in the context of ongoing trends of depopulation and aging of the local population.
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