Graduate Program
We offer four graduate degree programs: MA and PhD in Social Anthropology, and MA and PhD in Sociology.听 听
Find out how to Apply to our program
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For more detailed information about programs and policies, please consult our [PDF - 295KB] and the
You can e-mail admission inquiries to:听听sosagrad@dal.ca
If the webpages and materials above do not answer your questions, please contact our Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Laura Eramian.
Sample of current graduate student project titles:
First and last name |
Degree |
Working title of project |
Supervisor |
Adrianna Vanos |
MA SOAN |
What, why and for whom? Investigating rational decision making in today鈥檚 non-profit landscape. |
Chris Giacomantonio |
Alexa Avelar |
PhD SOCI |
Exploring the Gendered Experiences of Female Farmers in post-pandemic Canadian Agriculture: What has changed since 1975?听 |
Karen Foster |
Alyssa Gerhardt |
PhD SOCI |
Social Inequality and the Experiences of Personal Debt |
Karen Foster |
Amy Cran |
MA SOAN |
Reconfiguring Motherhood Through Addiction: Locating Blackfoot Maternal Care Practices in Alberta鈥檚 Opioid Crisis |
Brian Noble |
Anja McLeod |
MA SOCI |
Community-based doulas in Nova Scotia: Defining the meaning of care at the intersection of reproductive justice and biomedicine |
Fiona Martin |
Brooke El Skaf |
PhD SOCI |
In search of better births: Evidence-based medicine, birth doulas, and birthing persons |
Emma Whelan |
Elizabeth Cameron |
PhD SOCI |
Producing intersectional knowledge to improve care for people with suspected endometriosis |
Emma Whelan |
Emma Kay |
PhD SOCI |
Funding for Women's Charitable Organizations in Canada: Language, politics and accessibility |
Howard Ramos |
Evan Curley |
PhD SOCI |
To Spile and Fair: Toward good coastal livelihoods |
Karen Foster |
Faizah Imam |
PhD SOAN |
Reintegration of Bangladeshi Returnee Female Migrant Workers |
Liz Fitting |
Gerald D. Gloade |
PhD SOAN |
Asserting Mi鈥檏maq Sovereignty through Two-Eyed Seeing and Ethnography: Exploring Indigenous Rights-Based Impact Assessments Within a New Federal Framework |
Robin Oakley |
Hanika Nakagawa |
PhD SOCI |
Stories of slow violence, Indigenous identity, and food in the Amami Archipelago |
Liz Fitting |
Iqbal Chowdhury |
PhD SOCI |
Regional Variability of Mental Health of Canadian Immigrants听 |
Yoko Yoshida |
Janet Music |
PhD SOAN |
Inclusion in Practice: Experiences of Women Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Start-ups in Canada |
Liz Fitting |
Kathleen Daly |
PhD SOCI |
Analysis of Funding Structures and Housing Policy in Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Liesl Gambold |
Max Kehl |
MA SOCI |
Masculinity in Video Gaming Communities |
Mike Halpin |
Meghan Gosse |
PhD SOCI |
Living with vaginismus: Relationships, identities, and intimacies |
Fiona Martin |
Michelle Wallace |
MA SOAN |
Rurality, family, power and domestic violence |
Lindsay DuBois |
Nic Kuzmochka |
MA SOCI |
MA Thesis Proposal - Who Gets to be 鈥楾he Good Gay?鈥�: Investigating Intragroup Conflict and Discrimination Among Queer Men in Halifax |
Fiona Martin |
Rachel McLay |
PhD SOCI |
Political polarization in theory and practice: The cultural meanings and social consequences of polarization narratives in Atlantic Canada |
Howard Ramos |
Shekara Grant |
MA SOCI |
A Sociological Analysis of African Nova Scotian Communities |
Karen Foster |
Tiffany Campbell |
PhD SOAN |
Collectivizing care in egalitarian intentional communities: Grounded practices and utopian horizons |
Brian Noble |
Zoe Castell |
PhD SOAN |
Never-Retirement Lives: Seasonal Agricultural Workers from Mexico and Jamaica. |
Liz Fitting |