Celeste Pang

Corinne L. Mason

Gloria Pérez-Rivera

Lisa Gasson-Gardner

Jill Thompson

Gio Dolcecore

Recent Publications

Pang, C. (2024). When Choosing Doesn’t Stick: Limits of Queer Kinship and Community in Old Age. In Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care, edited by Sandra Bamford and Kathryn Goldfarb. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.  

Pang, C., Jakubiec, B.A.E., Schambach, M. (2024). Relational Practices in Arts-Based Research: A Roundtable Reflection on the Fostering Dialogues Project. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, 45 (2).

Pang, C. (2024). Trans & Queer Aging in “Anti-Gender Ideology” Times. Invited short essay for American Ethnologist online collection Aging Globally: Challenges and Possibilities of Growing Old in an Unsettling Era.

Kia, H., Pang, C., Göncü, K., Jakubiec, B., MacKinnon, K. R., Handlovsky, I., & Ross, L. E. (2024). “I Needed to be That Voice”: A Multi-Party Study of the Healthcare and Social Service Experiences and Needs of Transgender and Gender-diverse Older Adults in Canada. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 0(0).

Perez-Amado, V., Pang, C., Walton, A. (2024). Queer Households and Possibilities for Shared Housing: A Policy Case Study. Journal of Urban Design, 1-15.

Current Projects

PI: Stranger Than Family: Decision-Making and Ethics of Substitution Among People Living with Dementia “Going it Alone, ” Alzheimer Society Research Program

PI: Aging and Living Well Among 2SLGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Canada, Slaight Family Foundation

Co-PI: Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Action Research with Youth, SSHRC Explore Grant, MRU

Co-PI: Queering Home, Egale Canada

Co-I: Eng/aging Crip Rainbow Representations: 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled Older Adults Access the Arts and Create Belonging Through Digital Storytelling, SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Co-I: First-in-Family at MRU: An Arts-Based Action SOTL Project, Mokakiiks SoTL Collaborate Grant, MRU

Co-I: Social Service Experiences and Needs of Older Transgender & Gender Diverse Adults: Gauging the Canadian Landscape, SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Co-I: 2SLGBTQI+ Health Hub, CIHR Health Research Training Platform Fund

Co-I: Our Health: A Community-Based Participatory Study of Sexual and Reproductive Health of Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ People Across Canada, CIHR Project Grant

Collab: 2SLGBTQ+ Poverty in Canada: Improving Livelihood and Social Wellbeing, SSHRC Partnership Grant

Recent Publications

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. (2023). Reforma Agraria En La Era de Las Finanzas |Agrarian Reform in the Age of Finance. Society for Cultural Anthropology. August 1, 2023. 

Ballestero, Andrea, Andrea Muehlebach, and Pérez-Rivera, G.C. (2023). What Is a Financial Frontier?. Journal of Cultural Economy 3 (16): 311–32. 

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. (2023). Compounding Financial Frontiers: Capital Seeds and Seeds for Capital. Journal of Cultural Economy 16 (3): 350–62. 

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. (2022). “Creating Financial Enclosures: The Confluence of Displacement, Aid, and Narcoparamilitary Credit in Colombia.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 43 (4): 514–29.

Pérez-Rivera, G.C. (2021). “Becoming Workers: Internally Displaced Youth in ‘Post-Conflict’” Colombia. Youth Circulations.

Current Projects

PI: First-in-Family at MRU: An Arts-Based Action SOTL Project, Mokakiiks SoTL Collaborate Grant, MRU

PI: Flows of People, Flows of Credit and Debt: Examining Informal Financial Schemes among Latin American Migrant Workers in Canada and Internally Displaced People in Colombia

Co-I: Queering Home, Egale Canada

Co-Founder: Socioecologies & Economies of Migration Collective

Faculty Partner: Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

Recent Publications

Thompson, J. (2025). Anti-oppressive practice in child and youth care classrooms. In Anti-Oppressive Child and Youth Care Practice, edited by Andrea Christensen. Canadian Scholars & Woman’s Press.

Kostouros, P. & Thompson, J. Counselling skills for the other 23 hours. Canadian Scholars & Woman’s Press. (under review)

Current Projects

PI: Out in Care: 2SLGBTQ+ Professionals Experiences Navigating Identity in Child and Youth Care, Internal Research Grant Fund, MRU (submitted)

PI: Simulation Videos (for Child Studies), Provost’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant (TLEG), MRU

Co-I: Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Action Research with Youth, SSHRC Explore Grant, MRU

Co-I: Addressing Compassion Fatigue Concepts in Supervision, MRU

Current Projects

PI: TransAthletics: The Rule of Varsity and Sports for Transgender Athletics, Innovation Fund, MRU

PI: TransParent-C: A Community-Based Action SoTL Project, Mokakiiks SoTL Collaborate Grant, MRU

PI: Intersectional Reciprocity: A Collective Autoethnography Project

Co-I: First in Family at MRU: An Arts-Based Action SOTL Project, Mokakiiks SoTL Collaborative Grant, MRU

Co-I: Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Action Research with Youth, SSHRC Explore Grant, MRU

Recent Publications

Shankar, I. and Mason, C.L. (2025, forthcoming). Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19. University of Alberta Press.

Mason, C.L. and Shankar, I. (2025, forthcoming). Institutionalized Feminist Loneliness: An exchange on pandemic disruptions and daydreaming connections. In Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19, edited by Irene Shankar and Corinne L. Mason. University of Alberta Press.

Shankar, I. and Mason, C.L. (2025). Weaponizing white feminism on campus in responses to sexualized violence. Gender and Education, 1–16:

Carter, C., Mason, C.L., McLeod, K., and Robinson, D. (2024). Take Back the Future: 2023 WGSJ Conference. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 45 (2).

Mason, C.L. and Shankar, I. (2024). Immobilizing Intersectionality: The performative inclusion of feminist expertise within PSI sexual violence policies. Women’s Studies International Forum, 104: 102911. 

Mason, C. L. and Shankar, Irene. “Sorry, my child is kicking me under the desk”: Intersectional challenges to research during the COVID-19 pandemic.” In Contemporary Vulnerabilities, Plans Unraveled: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies, edited by Claire Carter, Chelsea Temple Jones and Caitlin Janzen. Edmonton. University of Alberta Press.  

Current Projects

PI: Queer Parenting in the Time of Parental Rights, SSHRC Explore Grant, MRU

Co-I: Radical Flourishing Through Collapse: Queer, Entangled, More-Than-Human Artistic Experiments in the greenhouse artlab, SSHRC Insight (submitted)

Co-I: Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Action Research with Youth, SSHRC Explore Grant, MRU

Co-I: Queering Covid: 2SLGBTQIA+ Families and Experiences of Lockdown, Insight Development Grant

Collab: Transformative Encounters: Gender and Sexuality Pedagogies in Canada, SSHRC Insight Grant