The Political Science Graduate Students' Association (PSGSA) at the University of Alberta is an active, cohesive, open, and supportive graduate student community. All of our activities and initiatives stem from our commitment to community building. The PSGSA members believe that our department is one of the best in Canada and we are committed to making it an even better place to learn, teach, conduct research, or work.
Organizing Committee
Daisy Raphael is the Vice-President, Academic, of the PSGSA and as such has a leading role organizing "Feminisms in Fast-Forward." She is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar studying narratives of citizenship and national identity in contemporary Canada through the lens of affect theory.
Margot Challborn is the president of the PSGSA and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar in Political Science at the U of A. Her doctoral research is titled "Understanding Harper's Family-Oriented Public Policy in Canada: The Universal Child Care Benefit, Income Splitting, and Maternal and Child Health". You can read more about Margot's research here.
Noureddin Zaamout is the Vice-President, External of the PSGSA. A Master's student who completed his BA at the University of Calgary, Noureddin's research interests include international relations, security, and the Middle East.
Leigh Spanner is the VP-Finance of the PSGSA. Leigh is a doctoral candidate studying gender and politics and international relations in the U of A's Political Science department. Her dissertation explores the ways in which the state shapes and reinforces the military family in the post-9/11 context in Canada through both public policy and public discourses, and the ways in which military families themselves resist these material and discursive constructions.
Chenoa Sly is the VP of communications for the PSGSA and a Master's student in Political Science. Her broad research interests include humanitarian intervention and the politics of humanitarian aid.
Mia Tulli is a Master's student in the Department of Political Science at the U of A and serves as the VP-Social for the PSGSA. Mia's research analyzes direct action as a strategy of decolonization, focusing in particular on pipeline resistance in British Columbia.
Justin Leifso is the PhD-student representative for the PSGSA. A SSHRC Doctoral Scholar, his research explores shifting political rationalities within public bureaucracies, arguing, novelly, that governmentality theory is a good way of understanding bureaucracies. As a case study, he critiques the implementation of "Lean management" techniques in Saskatchewan.
Miranda Leibel is the Master's student representative on the PSGSA. Miranda's thesis is tentatively titled "Reproductive Narratives: Colonial Continuity in Alberta's Child Welfare Policy". Miranda examines the ways in which contemporary child apprehensions mirror historical acts of state-sanctioned colonial violence such as the residential school system and the sixties scoop.
You can read more about all of the graduate students in Political Science at the University of Alberta here.
Organizing Committee
Daisy Raphael is the Vice-President, Academic, of the PSGSA and as such has a leading role organizing "Feminisms in Fast-Forward." She is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar studying narratives of citizenship and national identity in contemporary Canada through the lens of affect theory.
Margot Challborn is the president of the PSGSA and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar in Political Science at the U of A. Her doctoral research is titled "Understanding Harper's Family-Oriented Public Policy in Canada: The Universal Child Care Benefit, Income Splitting, and Maternal and Child Health". You can read more about Margot's research here.
Noureddin Zaamout is the Vice-President, External of the PSGSA. A Master's student who completed his BA at the University of Calgary, Noureddin's research interests include international relations, security, and the Middle East.
Leigh Spanner is the VP-Finance of the PSGSA. Leigh is a doctoral candidate studying gender and politics and international relations in the U of A's Political Science department. Her dissertation explores the ways in which the state shapes and reinforces the military family in the post-9/11 context in Canada through both public policy and public discourses, and the ways in which military families themselves resist these material and discursive constructions.
Chenoa Sly is the VP of communications for the PSGSA and a Master's student in Political Science. Her broad research interests include humanitarian intervention and the politics of humanitarian aid.
Mia Tulli is a Master's student in the Department of Political Science at the U of A and serves as the VP-Social for the PSGSA. Mia's research analyzes direct action as a strategy of decolonization, focusing in particular on pipeline resistance in British Columbia.
Justin Leifso is the PhD-student representative for the PSGSA. A SSHRC Doctoral Scholar, his research explores shifting political rationalities within public bureaucracies, arguing, novelly, that governmentality theory is a good way of understanding bureaucracies. As a case study, he critiques the implementation of "Lean management" techniques in Saskatchewan.
Miranda Leibel is the Master's student representative on the PSGSA. Miranda's thesis is tentatively titled "Reproductive Narratives: Colonial Continuity in Alberta's Child Welfare Policy". Miranda examines the ways in which contemporary child apprehensions mirror historical acts of state-sanctioned colonial violence such as the residential school system and the sixties scoop.
You can read more about all of the graduate students in Political Science at the University of Alberta here.