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PhD Student Profile
McMahon, Michaela
Year entered: 2010
Program Title
Benevolence and Belonging: Charitable Giving and the Construction of the "Canadian Canadian"
Comprehensive Areas
- Constructing Canadian: Narratives and Counter-narratives of Nation and Belonging, Orientalism: The Production of the “Other”, Discourses of Development and Giving
Advisory Committee
Ilan Kapoor (Chair), Anna Zalik, Eve Haque (Literatures and Linguistics)
Previous Education
- Master of Arts, Women and Gender Studies, The University of Toronto, 2010
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), Specialist: Women and Gender Studies, Minor: Canadian Studies, Minor: History, The University of Toronto, 2009
Awards
- 2010 York University Entrance Scholarship
- 2009 Graduate Admission Award, The University of Toronto
Academic Service:
- 2011-2012 PhESSA Co-Chair
- 2010-2012 FES PhD Program, Curriculum and Admissions Subcommittee
Conference Presentations
- Second Annual FES PhD Research Matters Symposium, York University, November 2010, "Identity, Benevolence, and Belonging: Charitable Giving and the Construction of the 'Canadian Canadian'"
- 17th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, November 2010, “Unmapping the Geographies of Child Sponsorship: Discourses of Race, Space, and Belonging in the Promotional Materials of World Vision Canada”
- 17th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, November 2010, “Unmapping the Geographies of Child Sponsorship: Discourses of Race, Space, and Belonging in the Promotional Materials of World Vision Canada”
- Activism and the Academy: Struggles Against Hegemony, Department of Women’s Studies, York University, April 2010, Moderator, “Activist-Oriented Theory” Panel
Teaching Experience
- Foundations of Environmental Politics: Development, Globalization, and Justice (ENVS 2300 A) TA 2010-2011, York University
- The Scientific Constructions of Sex and Gender (WGS 261 Y) TA 2009-2010, University of Toronto
