Graduate Program
We offer four graduate degree programs: MA and PhD in Social Anthropology, and MA and PhD in Sociology.
Find out how to Apply to our program
For more detailed information about programs and policies, please consult our 2024-25 Graduate Handbook [PDF - 295KB] and the Faculty of Graduate Studies Calendar.
You can e-mail admission inquiries to: sosagrad@dal.ca
If the webpages and materials above do not answer your questions, please contact our Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Laura Eramian.
Sample of current graduate student project titles:
First and last name |
Degree |
Working title of project |
Supervisor |
Adrianna Vanos |
MA SOAN |
What, why and for whom? Investigating rational decision making in today’s non-profit landscape. |
Chris Giacomantonio |
Alexa Avelar |
PhD SOCI |
Exploring the Gendered Experiences of Female Farmers in post-pandemic Canadian Agriculture: What has changed since 1975? |
Karen Foster |
Alyssa Gerhardt |
PhD SOCI |
Social Inequality and the Experiences of Personal Debt |
Karen Foster |
Amy Cran |
MA SOAN |
Reconfiguring Motherhood Through Addiction: Locating Blackfoot Maternal Care Practices in Alberta’s Opioid Crisis |
Brian Noble |
Anja McLeod |
MA SOCI |
Community-based doulas in Nova Scotia: Defining the meaning of care at the intersection of reproductive justice and biomedicine |
Fiona Martin |
Brooke El Skaf |
PhD SOCI |
In search of better births: Evidence-based medicine, birth doulas, and birthing persons |
Emma Whelan |
Elizabeth Cameron |
PhD SOCI |
Producing intersectional knowledge to improve care for people with suspected endometriosis |
Emma Whelan |
Emma Kay |
PhD SOCI |
Funding for Women's Charitable Organizations in Canada: Language, politics and accessibility |
Howard Ramos |
Evan Curley |
PhD SOCI |
To Spile and Fair: Toward good coastal livelihoods |
Karen Foster |
Faizah Imam |
PhD SOAN |
Reintegration of Bangladeshi Returnee Female Migrant Workers |
Liz Fitting |
Gerald D. Gloade |
PhD SOAN |
Asserting Mi’kmaq Sovereignty through Two-Eyed Seeing and Ethnography: Exploring Indigenous Rights-Based Impact Assessments Within a New Federal Framework |
Robin Oakley |
Hanika Nakagawa |
PhD SOCI |
Stories of slow violence, Indigenous identity, and food in the Amami Archipelago |
Liz Fitting |
Iqbal Chowdhury |
PhD SOCI |
Regional Variability of Mental Health of Canadian Immigrants |
Yoko Yoshida |
Janet Music |
PhD SOAN |
Inclusion in Practice: Experiences of Women Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Start-ups in Canada |
Liz Fitting |
Kathleen Daly |
PhD SOCI |
Analysis of Funding Structures and Housing Policy in Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Liesl Gambold |
Max Kehl |
MA SOCI |
Masculinity in Video Gaming Communities |
Mike Halpin |
Meghan Gosse |
PhD SOCI |
Living with vaginismus: Relationships, identities, and intimacies |
Fiona Martin |
Michelle Wallace |
MA SOAN |
Rurality, family, power and domestic violence |
Lindsay DuBois |
Nic Kuzmochka |
MA SOCI |
MA Thesis Proposal - Who Gets to be ‘The Good Gay?”: Investigating Intragroup Conflict and Discrimination Among Queer Men in Halifax |
Fiona Martin |
Rachel McLay |
PhD SOCI |
Political polarization in theory and practice: The cultural meanings and social consequences of polarization narratives in Atlantic Canada |
Howard Ramos |
Shekara Grant |
MA SOCI |
A Sociological Analysis of African Nova Scotian Communities |
Karen Foster |
Tiffany Campbell |
PhD SOAN |
Collectivizing care in egalitarian intentional communities: Grounded practices and utopian horizons |
Brian Noble |
Zoe Castell |
PhD SOAN |
Never-Retirement Lives: Seasonal Agricultural Workers from Mexico and Jamaica. |
Liz Fitting |