Welcome to the 2025-26 Social Justice Fellows

Welcome to the 2025-26 fellows of the Social Justice Centre. We are happy to announce the recipients of our fellowships. 

Barry Pashak Graduate Student Fellows

Raphaël Bessette - PhD student in Humanities - Project: Animating the intimate: The material and affective capacities of trans prosthetics

Richenda Grazette - Master student in Individualized Studies - Project: “Haunted utopias: interpersonal culture, conflict, and cohesion in the activist-workplace”

Dominic Roulx - PhD student in Geography, Planning, and the Environment - Project: “The Political Economy and Ecology of Quebec’s Race to Green Growth: The Case of Projet Mauricie

Guillermo Ventura Sánchez - PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Analysis - Project: “Of Modern Slavery, Bare Life, State of Exception, and the Camp: Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers Programs in Québec.”

Barry Pashak Postdoctoral Fellows

Niloofar Golkar (PhD in Politics, York University) - Project: Towards Decolonial Praxis: Interrogating Settler Colonialism, Commons and Cooperatives

Bermal Küçük (PhD in Sociology, Koç University) – Project: Reframing Feminist Movements as Catalysts for Social Justice Struggles in Authoritarian Neoliberal Turkey

Research Assistant

Stefan Spirodon Christoff is a media maker, community activist and artist. Stefan hosts Free City Radio, broadcasting weekly on CKUT 90.3FM and shared globally as a podcast (Spotify + Apple Podcasts). Stefan built a social justice archives of movements in Montreal that is available as a special collection at Concordia's Library to visit and that will be exhibited in the Webster Library starting in Janurary 2026.  

See their profiles online: Fellows - Social Justice Centre

The graduate fellows will present their research in Winter 2026 at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation.