Department: Anthropology
Email: robert.mcconney@mail.utoronto.ca
Robert McConney is a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology. He holds BA Hons in History, University of Southampton (2016); MA in Iranian Studies, University of Tehran (2019); MA in Religion, University of Toronto (2023). His current research relates to the observance of Hosay in Trinidad and considers questions of religious transnationalism, materiality, historicity, genealogies of anti-colonial thought, and the intersection of art history and visual semiotics. Robert helps to facilitate the monthly Caribbean Graduate Reading Group.
Department: Women and Gender Studies
Email: stephanie.sawah@mail.utoronto.ca
Stephanie Sawah (she/her) is a Master’s student in the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She is interested in how Indo-Guyanese queers are using art to reimagine new worlds, new possibilities, and new paradigms. Her work draws on queer of colour critique, Caribbean and transnational feminisms, and radical Black anticolonial intellectual traditions. She seeks to disrupt disciplinary boundaries in an effort to produce new knowledges from the perspective of those at the margins.