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Molly Kraft Molly is a first year MA student with a great love for urban and social geography. Growing up in Toronto she found herself immersed in a diverse and exciting area that constantly challenged her to think about the people she was surrounded with and the various places they inhabited. In 2005 she moved to Vancouver to study geography at the University of British Columbia where she completed her BA. It was here that Molly became passionate about how the specificities of place work to inform conceptions of identity. Throughout her degree, her research focused on the concepts of belonging and nationhood, especially as they intersect with the complexities of gender, ethnicity and class relations. She is greatly informed by the work of feminist geographies of difference -positionality, distance, and separation- and plans to include this in her work. Returning for her MA and under Dan Hiebert's supervision, Molly hopes to address the ways in which Canadian national identity becomes articulated and understood through the idealized claims purported by immigration and multicultural policies. Specifically, she hopes to examine the gap between these policy ideals and the reality immigrants face in their daily lives.
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Katie McCallum COMPLETED 2008 Raised in British Columbia, Katie spent summers traveling with her father throughout her home province. She later moved into Vancouver to attend UBC, where she completed her BA in Geography in 2004. After two years of seeing the big and small cities of Canada, France and Eastern Europe, she returned back to UBC in 2006 and began a Geography Masters degree with Dan Hiebert’s supervision. Katie’s academic interests include immigration, rural geographies, and representations of place. Her research takes her to Northern BC, where she benefits from close work with the Geography Department at UNBC and the staff of the Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society in Prince George. Katie has a love for local histories and visual arts, a love that nearly led her to graduate work in museum studies. The will to help others, however, and a strong taste for geographic thought kept her here in a familiar place, studying the meaning of integration, home and place for newcomers. Please contact her at katflora (at) interchange (dot) ubc (dot) ca for more information. |
COMPLETED 2009 Jenny Francis After escaping from a small town in the interior of BC, Jenny spent 11 years traveling and working in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. When she returned to Canada in 2001 she began studying at university in an attempt to make sense of some of the many things she'd seen and experienced but not understood. Thus she completed a BA in History at UBC in 2006 and is now a first year MA student in Human Geography. Under Dan Hiebert's supervision, Jenny will carry out a participatory action research project with African immigrants/refugees around their experiences of housing and homelessness in Vancouver with a key aim of the project being that the research produced directly benefit the African immigrants who help make it. When she's not studying or volunteering for local anti-racist, anti-poverty non-profit organizations you might find her cycling, swimming, doing origami, camping, hanging out with friends, or playing with the two cats who share her East Vancouver apartment. Please contact her at jenois (at) telus (dot) net for more information.
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