Thesis Committee
Supervisor: Professor Ariel Ducey, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary.
Committee Member: Dr. Martina Kelly, Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.
Committee Member: Dr. Pratim Sengupta, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.
Qualifying Exams: Substantive Areas
List 1: Marginalized subjectivities; embodiment; race and the racialization of emotions; class, capitalism & neoliberalism; gender & sexuality; and disability & neurodiversity.
List 2: Conceptualisations of Madness; disciplinarity; colonialism; and mad liberation.
List 3: Qualitative research methods; grounded theory; aesthetics; critical phenomenology; intersectionality; standpoint epistemology; embodiment; and ethnography.
Co-authored Publications (* Indicates First Authorship)
*Cavanagh, J., Adorjan, M., & Ricciardelli, R. (2025). Ethical Processes and Dilemmas during Research with Youth on Cyber-Risk. Qualitative Sociology Review, 21(3), pp.48-70. DOI:10.18778/1733-8077.21.3.03.
Under Peer Review
Cavanagh, J. Big Feelings: Researcher Cognition from the Borderlines of Experience. Life Writing.
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