51猎奇入口

Amany Al-Sayyed |

MA (Hons) English Literature, UBC

BA, Arts and Sciences, SFU

Supervisor: Jas Morgan

Amany Al-Sayyed is instructor of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University of Beirut, currently completing a second graduate degree in Communications and Social Justice in Canada. She was born in Berlin, matriculated in Malta and Canada with a graduate degree in World Literature. As an early career scholar and independent Palestinian-Lebanese researcher, she spent the last ten years unearthing her late father's legacy as a Palestinian intellectual, novelist and radio broadcaster from Malta, Ghana and Lebanon. Her focus is on the history of the Palestinian Personality that protected the culture via acoustic/radio resistance and the writer's movement simultaneously. She reads in Italian, Arabic and Maltese which is no co-incidence - her upbringing and education marks the anti-colonial movement of her father's decisions as he moved away from the refugee camps into the decolonial European continent of the 80s and 90s

Robert Duhaime | 

BA, Communication, 51猎奇入口

Supervisor: Ahmed Al-Rawi

Robert鈥檚 research explores how the UFO phenomenon has been shaped through government, academic, and media discourse, and how the social histories surrounding it reveal deeper patterns of secrecy and belief. His work also examines how disinformation, attention economies, and public perception management have evolved from mid-century mass media to today鈥檚 digital networks. With a background in telecommunications and truck driving, Robert integrates documentary storytelling methods into his research, using a narrative style to investigate how people frame and communicate experiences of anomalous phenomena.

Noelle Gesner

BA, Communication, 51猎奇入口

Supervisor: Stuart Poyntz

Noelle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from 51猎奇入口 in 2024. She is interested in media studies, with a particular focus on film and television. Her research examines the intersections of gender, representation, and power in media, exploring how contemporary narratives both reflect and shape social inequalities.

Marie Haddad

BA, Psychology, 51猎奇入口

Supervisor: Jas Morgan

I am the Director of Engagement at Embark Sustainability Society, a student-led climate hub advancing Food Justice and Climate Equity. My academic interests focus on social psychology, identity, and equity in education, particularly how marginalized students and organizers navigate exclusion and build community. I am also interested in documenting student-led social movements to preserve historical memory and sustain morale. Outside of work, I enjoy tending to my garden and sharing tea with friends.

Judy Yae Young Kim  | 

BA, Communication, 51猎奇入口

Supervisor: Dal Yong Jin

Judy Yae Young Kim received her BA (with distinction) at 51猎奇入口 in Communication with a minor in Sociology. As a member of the Korean diaspora, she has always been fascinated with the globalization of Korean pop culture (Hallyu). She hopes to study how the growth of the international popularity of Korean pop culture has had an impact on the representation of East Asians in western mainstream media and in turn, how Asian media systems shape themselves for a global palette. Her other research interests include critical race studies, feminism studies, and cultural studies. 

Morgan Krakow

BA, Journalism, University of Oregon

Supervisor: Shane Gunster

Following her time as a journalist in Anchorage, Alaska, Krakow is interested in learning more about how local news outlets across Canada and Alaska cover climate change. 

Maia Lomelino

BA, Digital Design, Anhembi Morumbi University (S茫o Paulo - Brazil)

BA, Archaeology with Certificate in Biological Anthropology, SFU

Supervisor: Sarah Christina Ganzon

My main research interest is in Digital Archaeology, more specifically, Archaeogaming, and my project aims to use Archaeogaming as a way to connect and communicate archaeology and repatriation in museum settings. I am also interested in human osteology and palaeopatology, and I hope to pursue my (future) PhD investigating archaeology, archival, and internet piracy. I am passionate about museums, curatorship, and conservation, and I volunteer at the 51猎奇入口Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Museum of North Vancouver (MONOVA). I am originally from Brazil and will fight people over their Brazilian food opinions.

Mallory Mariano

BA in Communication, 51猎奇入口| Minor in Print and Digital Publishing, SFU

Supervisor: Victoria E. Thomas

Mallory鈥檚 research examines the rich intersection between popular genre literatures (ie. the romance genre), the women and female identified audiences who participate in the consumption and discourse of these genres, and the emerging ways in which these audiences are using social media and digital technology to mediate expressions of fandom, creativity, and spectacle. She remains fascinated with the increasingly nuanced ways in which gender, sexuality, and desire are both constituted and understood through digital participation, and how these questions might relate to broader feminist movements and sentiment. Across her work, Mallory is interested in both centering and serving perspectives that have historically been marginalized or excluded within the academy.

Neve McBride

BA, Communication, SFU

Supervisor: Sarah Christina Ganzon

Neve's research is centred around understanding the intricacies and social contexts of community building on digital platforms. Tying her love of video games together with her academic interests, her thesis looks at parasocial relationships in video game livestreaming communities.  Some of her current favourite games are Indivisible, Hades II, and Chicory: A Colourful Tale.

Kiara Destiny Okonkwo |

BFA, Creative Writing and Media and Communication Studies, The University of the Fraser Valley

Supervisor: Victoria Thomas

Kiara is a writer, student journalist, and community organizer pursuing the project-based MA to deepen her engagement with critical (mixed) race theory, multiculturalism, and questions of 鈥淐anadian鈥� identity in media.

Miranda Post |

BA, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of Victoria

Supervisor: Karrmen Crey

For over 15 years I've worked in strategic, collaborative communications and engagement roles focused on the nexus of reconciliation and conservation for the federal government. My research interests include ways how to diversify environmental and science communications to include braided knowledge sets and relatable media-relations champions. When I鈥檓 not being a basketball mom, I鈥檓 foraging, growing and preserving food.

Jean-Daniel Poti茅

Honours Bachelors' degree, Digital Journalism, University of Ottawa. 

Ontario College Diploma, Journalism, Algonquin College.

Supervisor: Stuart Poyntz

Hello. My name is Jean-Daniel. I'm a Saskatchewan-born, Gatineau-raised lover of literature, sports, and adventure. I like to understand people and things and to ask questions about them. I lie learning about media, particularly how it informs and shapes social habits and influences humans' interpretations of the world, perceptions of truth, and the communities they live in. In my spare time, I mostly read, write travel stories and do physical activities. I'm a cinephile, a traveler, a sportsman, a lover of long walks, black coffee, cold beer and Labrador retrievers, among other things. I'm always up for a good conversation.

Navon Revleen |

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Communication & Media Studies, York University

Supervisor: Stephanie Dick

My research explores the histories, politics, and imaginaries of AI, data, and digital technologies. I am particularly interested in the history of personal computing, the labour behind AI and digital platforms, surveillance cultures, and the social implications of emerging technologies.

Alan R枚pke

BA, Communication, 51猎奇入口

Supervisor: Frederik Lesage

My research theoretically examines the role entertainment plays in capitalist societies, exploring its effects on alienation, control, and reality fragmentation. I research how entertainment nullifies alternative futures and reinforces cycles of violence at the symbolic and material levels in its domination of social, cultural, and economic life. Research areas: Critical theory, speculative realism, cultural studies, political economy, accelerationism, and theory-fiction.

Sandy Rossignol, KTPC

BA, Economics & Math, Bishop's University

Supervisor: Stuart Poyntz

Sandy Rossignol is an award winning filmmaker and accredited Knowledge Translation Specialist (KTPC).   They co-produce with researchers and institutions to mobilize complex evidence into accessible, high-resonance media designed to measure and facilitate research-impact. They have over ten years experience directing campaign media for international brands, non-profits, social enterprises, technology startups, and government agencies.   Their research explores the role of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) in social change & public health communications, and they are interested in knowledge mobilization through non-traditional research outputs like documentaries, performance, & interactive art.

Alison Tedford Seaweed | 

Supervisor: Karrmen Crey

After over a decade of working with the federal government, Alison became an independent consultant and author. Her interests are in Indigenous communications, cultural revitalization and repatriation. She's a Kwakiutl First Nation member, lacrosse mom and beginner beader.

Ryohei Tsutsui

MA, Film and New Media, Tokyo University of Arts 

BA, Policy Design, Keio University

Supervisor: Zoe Druick

I'm a Japanese independent film producer with four kids. My interest is at the echo-system of international co-production sphere.

Ashima Shukla |

BA, English and Applied Linguistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Supervisor: Enda Brophy

Ashima explores the Anthropocene through a critical, interdisciplinary lens grounded in feminist methodologies. Her research focuses on the political economy of platform-mediated participation and its role in resistance and social justice, particularly in the context of postcolonial national identity and violence in India. Beyond academia, she enjoys travel, meaningful conversations over coffee, poetry, theatre, and music.

Shafira Vidyamaharani |

BA, Joint Major Interactive Arts & Technology and Communication, Co-operative Education, 51猎奇入口

Supervisor: Frederik Lesage

As a local graphic designer, Shafira produces poster, typographic, and music artworks for artists, non-profit, community, and grassroots cultural productions including New Forms Festival, TAKEOVER Skateboarding, and the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). With a varied design background through independent practice, studio agencies, start-ups, and tech corporation Nokia, Shafira is part of the second cohort of the project-based M.A. researching subcultures, harm reduction communication, and the role of art, posters, and zines in mediated grassroots activism. During their undergraduate studies, Shafira participated in the 2022 italiaDesign International Field School as Portrait Photography and Visual-UX Designer. They love music, photography, and is passionate about artistic means of transcendence, social change, and resistance.

Kang Wang

BA, English Business Journalism, University of International Business and Economics    

MA, Oral History, Columbia University in the City of New York 

Supervisor: Kirsten McAllister

My research interests includes oral history, multimedia storytelling, narrative analysis and diaspora studies.

Thomas Wilson

BA, English, University of the Fraser Valley

Supervisor: Sarah Ganter

Thomas' research explores the effects of platformization on independent and DIY music scenes, focusing specifically on resistance to hegemonic practices within the cultural industries in Canada. His other research interests include technological mediation, digital labour and discourse communities, promotional cultures, and cultural policy.