Irmak Taner is a Masters student in Anthropology with a background in Psychology and International Development Studies. Her research focuses on the social impact of mega-infrastructure projects with a focus on historical and sensorial experiences. She is interested in visual anthropology and visual arts as both a creative methodology and an artistics practice.
Genevieve Collins is a filmmaker and arts administrator currently undertaking a Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Concordia University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Her research interests include sensory anthropology and planetary futures. Her MA thesis project uses research design methodologies to engage with the future through the creation of an immersive sensory environment emulating speculative human habitats in space. The project synthesizes art and anthropology to craft a futurist vision and engage with speculative sensory futures.
Sarah is a Master’s student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Concordia University. She is interested in sustainable development, gender equity, sensory ethnography, virtual ethnography and Anthropology of religion. She is a member of the Montreal Waterways project.
Pamela Fillion holds a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology and English(Cultural Studies) from McGill University. She is currently completing her Masters in Anthropology at Concordia. Pamela is a disabled queer settler, artist, survivor, writer, crafter, and keen fermenter. She has been engaged in grassroots organizing and advocacy work in Montreal for over a dozen years. Since 2016, she has been running a project within which she regularly facilitates radical home economics workshops in the city. The kitchen and working with and around food is what she considers her hearth. Her research interests include critical ethnography, feminist anthropology, environmental anthropology, sustainability, food, and the anthropology of violence.
Pier-Olivier Tremblay is a SSHRC grant holder and doctoral student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in sociology from Université du Québec à Montréal, and is currently a member of the Waterways working group at the Concordia Ethnography Lab. His current research focuses on human/non-human affective relationships and infrastructure.
Hanine is an avid activist and an aspiring anthropologist. She holds a BA in English Literature and a BA in Media/Communications, with two minors in Film/Visual Studies and Arabic Language, from the American University of Beirut. She is currently pursuing an MA in Social & Cultural Anthropology at Concordia University. She works as a researcher, journalist, writer, and translator, and dreams of becoming a thesaurus one day.
Melina Campos Ortiz is a Ph.D. student in Social and Cultural Analysis from Costa Rica. She is interested in development, activism, post-humanism, futures anthropology, and imaginative ethnographic practices. In her research, she will engage with anthropology as world-making and explore soil as her main subject. At the Concordia Ethnography Lab, she is part of the Montreal Waterways team.
Isabella is a Master’s student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Concordia with interests in materiality, play, anthropology of religions, games, gaming, gambling, memory, embodiment, methods, sensory ethnography, ritual, fiction and how we make meaning.
She is currently a member of the Virtual Casino Ethnography research group and an ethnographer-RA on the “Minecraft as Classroom” research project.
Paula Bath is a Ph.D. student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Concordia University. After learning American Sign Language (ASL) at the age of sixteen, Paula went on to study translation, discourse analysis, organizational communications, and cultural representation and to obtain a B.A. and M.A. in Communications from the University of Ottawa. Paula worked for 17 years as an interpreter, later specializing in developing translation quality standards with the federal government and most recently worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission. At Concordia, Paula’s research focuses on federal communications policy and her ethnographic work is both situated and dialogical. Paula brings together images and texts to explore moments when dominant social ideas, beliefs and social structures are lived, felt and discussed by people. Paula is thrilled to live and work in the spaces of sign and spoken languages – ASL, langue de signes québécoise, English and French. Paula is also a proud founding member of Spill-Propagation.com, an Artist Center for Creation and Production in Sign Language in Canada where Paula works to bring people into communication though the organizations three main artistic activities: Creation, Collaborative Production, and Research-Creation.
Ariana is an M.A. student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Concordia and an enthusiast of visual storytelling. Her current research lies at the intersection of spirituality, human/non-human affective relationships and atmospheres of intimacy in the domestic space and the online world. Her most recent project is a short ethnographic film about domestic altars in Buenos Aires result of a collaborative research endeavour. She holds a BA degree in International Studies from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) of Buenos Aires, Argentina and has a background in gender studies. She worked for several years at Google, and in community organizations that advocate for women in Latin America. She is actively involved in a non-profit based in Montréal that supports survivors of gender violence.
