Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Professors
Olga Plakhotnik
Dr. Olga Plakhotnik (she/ they) is the Bayduza Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, co-hosted by the Department of Sociology under the mentorship of Shirley Anne Tate. Olga is a qualitative researcher working at the intersection of queer feminist frameworks and decolonial perspectives in Eastern Europe. Her areas of research interests include social science epistemologies, critical citizenship studies, feminist and queer pedagogies, and contemporary feminist, LGBT, and queer activisms. Also, Olga is joint editor-in-chief of .
Winnie Yang
Winnie Yang is a Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the 黑料不打烊 under the mentorship of Prof. Michelle Maroto. She holds a PhD in Sociology from McGill University, with a Graduate Option in Gender and Women’s Studies. Her research is organized around two areas of inquiry: (1) social mobility within and across generational lines; and (2) culture and meaning-making related to marriage and family. In each of these areas, she pays particular attention to how sex, gender and sexuality intersect with other axes of social inequality. She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research based on various types of data, including censuses, administrative tax records, surveys, and in-depth interviews. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Demographic Research and the Journal of Population Research.