Jean Michaud
Professor of Anthropology, Laval
Minorities and globalisation; highland societies of Southeast Asia and southwest China; anthropology of the Hmong; critiques of development; local impacts of tourism; historical anthropology and archives.
Sarah Turner
Professor of Geography, McGill
Southeast Asia development geography; development critiques; upland ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam and Yunnan; urban informal economies; innovative qualitative methods.
Jennifer Langill
PhD, McGill
Thesis: Transformations and Shifting Livelihoods in Northern Thailand: A Re-Study of Ban Suay Hmong Village.
Melody Lynch
PhD, McGill
Thesis: Rooting Rights to the City: Urban Agriculture and Food Justice in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mélie Monnerat
PhD, McGill
Thesis: The ethnic minority livelihoods in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands: the case of spice commodity chains.
NGUYEN Binh
PhD, McGill
Thesis: Urban informal economies and the emerging platform economy in Vietnam’s socialist market-oriented society.
Patrick Slack
PhD, McGill
Thesis: Frontier Spices and Spaces: The Complexity and Diversity of Ethnic Minority Livelihoods in the Western Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands.
YU Li qing
PhD, Laval
Thesis: The social production of Nanluoguxiang Quarter (Hutong) from 1980 to 2015: desires, expectations and strategies of a diverse population facing state power in Socialist China.
ZHA O Feiliu
PhD, Laval.
Thesis: Arrimages et distinctions entre développement, résistances et tourisme dans un village Miao du Guizhou, Chine.
Michelle Kee
MA, McGill
Thesis: Living with the Line: How Hanoi Residents are Navigating the Infrastructural Politics of Two New Urban Railway Lines
Tung Yee (Cathy) Tsang
MA, McGill
Provisional Thesis: Beyond “Here” and “There”: The Complexity of Hmong Rural to Urban Migrants’ Livelihoods in Kunming, China.
Ethan Bird
MA, McGill
Provisional Thesis: Childhood experiences of urban neighbourhood change over three generations.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS:
Ammar Adenwala
MA, McGill, 2019.
Lab Research Assistant
Thomas Kettig
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Interests: language change, sociophonetics, vowel phonology, historical linguistics, English dialect variation, Hmong dialect variation.
NGO Hanh
Lab Research Assistant, Hanoi
Interests: humanitarian aid, disability, qualitative field methods, Vietnam spices, migration.
Madeleine Hykes
Hons Student, McGill, 2019.
Lab Research Assistant, Montreal
Interests: Urban policy mobility, (in)accessible public spaces, civic design, qualitative reseach methods, and participatory urban design.
VO Lan
Lab Research Assistant, McGill
Interests: Vietnam, ethnic minorities, poverty, livelihoods, library information systems.
Celia Zuberec
Hons Student, McGill
Lab Research Assistant
