Faculty and Staff

Program Affiliated Faculty 

Michele Byers - Women & Gender Studies, Atlantic Canada Studies
Graduate Program Coordinator
https://smu.ca/research/profiles/faculty/Byers89.html

Research Area: 

• Media and popular culture
• Television studies
• Cultural studies
• Social theory
• Gender and sexuality
• Feminist theory
• Queer theory
• Critical methodologies

Benita Bunjun - Social Justice & Community Studies, Women & Gender Studies
https://smu.ca/academics/departments/sjcs-faculty-staff-benita-bunjun.html

Research Area:

• Indigenous and Settler Relations
• Feminist Organizational Studies; Social Movements
• Race, Chattel Slavery, and Indenture Labour; Migration and Racialized Gendered Labour;
• Racial Profiling and Violence; Colonial Gendered Encounters; Racialization and Feminization of Poverty
• Mental Health, Labour and Nation-Building
• Migration, Diaspora, and Youth; Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students

Tatjana Takseva - English, Women & Gender Studies
https://www.smu.ca/english/tatjana-takeva.html 

Research Area:

• Sexual violence
• Trauma studies
• Feminist theory
• Feminist philosophy and the ethics of care
• Cultural representations of motherhood
• Maternal ambivalence and feminist mothering