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MWC Graduate Writing Fellows

Graduate Writing Fellows 2025-26

Who are the Writing Fellows?

Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

Harsimran Singh Kapoor

Harsimran is a third-year PhD student in the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences at 9I制作厂免费. He is an internationally trained dentist from India, and his research focuses on understanding biological aging patterns in the oral cavity. He serves as the student representative for both the International and Canadian Associations of Dental Research. He is also the President of the 9I制作厂免费 Sikh Students鈥 Association. As a 9I制作厂免费 Writing Fellow, Harsimran is committed to understanding students鈥 writing needs, advocating for their interests, and supporting both academic and general communication.听

Faculty of Engineering

Chinmay Satbhai

Chinmay Satbhai is a PhD student in Architecture at 9I制作厂免费, with research interest in habitat planning and design, urbanism, and sustainability. His current scholarship explores circular economy strategies in affordable housing, bridging the realms of design, policy, and equity. As a writer, he seeks to craft a voice that moves fluidly between disciplines, bringing architectural knowledge into public conversations with clarity, curiosity, and imagination.听

Faculty of Law

Ajey Sangai

I am Ajey Sangai, a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law. I did my undergrad in law and humanities in India and then pursued my master鈥檚 in law in the US. I was teaching in a law school in India before coming here. While I enjoy reading and writing for my projects, I am always excited to engage with people, develop ideas and arguments. For the writing project, I want to explore the ways in which targeted multi-stage writing support can be provided to the doctoral students through workshops and collective writing.听

Schulich School of Music

Maria Gajraj

Maria Gajraj is a Montr茅al-based organist and Doctoral Candidate at 9I制作厂免费. Her research focuses on 20th-century Caribbean organ repertoire. She is the co-founder of Sapphonix Collective, which promotes women, queer, and racialized classical musicians, and has been featured on CBC Radio. Maria has performed internationally, at venues like Blackburn Cathedral (UK), Maison Symphonique (Montreal), and in series such as Cal Performances and Bergen Orgelsommer. A recipient of the Godfrey Hewitt Scholarship (2022) and other awards, her doctoral research is funded by the FRQ (Fonds de Recherche du Quebec). In her concert programs, Maria is passionate about highlighting women and composers of colour. As Deirdre Piper wrote in 鈥淧ipelines鈥, Maria鈥檚 鈥渟pirited, clean, and colourful performance lent real meaningful significance鈥 to this music. By creating engaging concert programs, and by featuring the organ in innovative and multidisciplinary contexts, Maria strives to break stereotypes, and to make the organ more accessible to everyone.

Faculty of Science

Niharika Dighe

Niharika is a PhD candidate in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience. She works with mouse models to research the circuit mechanisms underlying flexible decision making and how this behaviour is affected by orally consumed THC. She received her Honours BSc in Neuroscience and Behavioural Biology from Emory University. In addition to her research, she is passionate about outreach and mentorship for marginalized communities and works in leadership positions with various organizations supporting women and queer students in higher education.

Laura Lardinois

Laura Lardinois is a PhD Candidate in the Biology Department at 9I制作厂免费. Her research centers on the tiny but mighty world of microbes: how communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses, and fungi form partnerships with animal hosts to create dynamic microbiomes, and how these microbiomes respond to environmental change. She works with Panama鈥檚 coral reef fishes to better understand how microbes may help these delicate reef ecosystems survive under future climate change.

Graduate Writing Fellows 2024-25

Who are the Writing Fellows?

Faculty of Arts

Negar Imani

Negar Imani is a PhD candidate in the School of Information Studies at 9I制作厂免费. With a background in urban planning and design, her project focuses on participatory mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to collect people鈥檚 perceptions of their sound environment. It aims to understand the relationship between neighborhood walkability and resident鈥檚 soundscapes. Specifically, the research investigates how walkable access to green spaces -as the only restorative spaces in cities- can promote residents鈥 restorative soundscapes. Through participatory practices, she seeks to inform the policy-making processes for designing walkable spaces, green spaces, and better restorative soundscapes for citizens.听听

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Given the participatory nature of Negar鈥檚 research, communication has always been a central aspect of her research. She has been an active member of student-led associations during her master鈥檚 studies and served as the chief- editor of the association's journal, which earned several national awards. During her appointment as a 9I制作厂免费 Writing Center Fellow, she organized workshops, peer review sessions, and a symposium, while also using tools to enhance graduate student communication through graduate associations.听

Marie Trotter

Marie Trotter is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at 9I制作厂免费, researching metatheatre and audience reception in the performance of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays. Through the lens of performance phenomenology, her dissertation explores the role of metatheatrical characters and scene types in shaping audience judgment, participation, and delight. Her work is published in the journals Theatre Research in Canada and Early Theatre, with creative writing and criticism appearing in the magazines Ekstasis, Broadview, Plough, and Intermission.听

听 Project

Writing Wednesdays are regular writing workshops for PhD2 and PhD3 students in the Department of English who are writing their Comprehensive Research Projects, an important milestone in the English PhD. At biweekly meetings, PhD students share their writing in progress, set project goals, and learn about important components of the CRP, working together to build resilient writing habits and strengthen academic communication skills.听

Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

Anisha Rodrigues

Anisha Rodrigues is a PhD student in the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences. She completed her Bachelor鈥檚 and Master鈥檚 degree in Dental Surgery, specializing in Prosthodontics, in India. Her interests include prosthodontic rehabilitation, clinical trials and teledentistry. Her current research focuses on patient-reported outcomes with immediately-loaded zygomatic implant fixed rehabilitation. In addition to being a PhD student, Anisha also serves as the student representative of the eOral Health Network of the International Association of Dental Research.听

听 Project

Anisha鈥檚 project involved organizing workshops for graduate students (Masters and PhD) in the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences on writing grant applications and manuscripts. To provide further support for students鈥 academic writing, she developed Discipline- and Assignment-Specific Tutoring Tools that focused on grant proposal writing, manuscript writing and comprehensive exam protocols.听

Faculty of Education

Katherine Hardin

Kate Hardin is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies with a concentration in Language Acquisition. Her research focuses on adult newcomer language integration, language education policy, and teacher activism.听

Samantha Traves

Samantha defended her PhD in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education in the Fall of 2024. Her research centers on the geography of socioeconomic advantage and the dynamics of socioeconomic stratification within educational systems. She integrates statistical modeling and geospatial analysis to examine how structural-demographic factors influence access to education and the broader implications of these patterns for the national economy, security, and civic health. She is deeply committed to advancing scholarship that fosters a more just society where every student has the opportunity to realize their full potential.听

听 Project (Katherine Hardin & Samantha Traves)

Co-authors Katherine Hardin and Samantha Traves have written a comprehensive guide to graduate writing feedback tailored to the needs of supervisors and graduate studies in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Developed through the 9I制作厂免费 Writing Fellows program, this guide is designed to support supervisors and students in navigating the feedback process for key academic writing milestones. Presented in a user-friendly desktop reference format, the book distills best practices and helps readers troubleshoot giving and receiving feedback at various stages of the writing process.听

Faculty of Engineering

Carolyn Pethrick

Carolyn is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research develops robust and efficient computational methods for high-fidelity fluid dynamics simulations. In the aerospace industry, reliable flow simulation is a key ingredient for designing greener aircraft.听

听 Project

As a 9I制作厂免费 Writing Fellow, Carolyn planned and held a workshop series targeting graduate students applying for competitive grants and scholarships.听

Katrin Zavgorodny-Freedman

Katrin Zavgorodny-Freedman is a PhD Candidate in Architecture. Her dissertation work examines the notion of collaboration in the offices of Erickson/Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects on various scales, considering how various professionals and workers contributed to the practice of architecture in the late twentieth-century. Zavgorodny-Freedman has undergraduate and master鈥檚 degrees in art history from the University of Toronto. Her work is supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

听 Project

Her Writing Centre Fellow project consisted of assisting with grant workshops for Master鈥檚 students and facilitating a peer-feedback Working Group for PhD students in the School of Architecture.

Faculty of Law

Atag眉n Mert Kejanl谋o臒lu

Atag眉n Mert Kejanl谋o臒lu is currently a doctoral candidate in the DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) program at 9I制作厂免费 Faculty of Law. He is writing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor Johanne Poirier. His dissertation is focused on populist challenges to constitutionalism and responses that constitutional theory can develop against these challenges.听

After graduating from Galatasaray University Faculty of Law (Istanbul) in 2013, he obtained master鈥檚 degrees in public law from Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne University and Galatasaray University. He also worked as a research and teaching assistant in the constitutional law department at MEF University Faculty of Law (Istanbul). His research interests include comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, and European human rights law.听

听 Project

Atag眉n鈥檚 Writing Fellowship project for the Faculty of Law aimed to cultivate a self-sufficient community of writers within graduate programs in law. Over the academic year, he helped graduate students to situate and create resources for academic legal writing by organizing grant writing workshops, collective writing and peer-review sessions, and by drafting documents for tutorial assistance.听

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Meghana Munipalle

Meghana is a PhD candidate in the Biological and Biomedical Engineering (BBME) program. Her research uses computational modeling to investigate and design regenerative biomaterials for spinal disc repair. She received an Honours BSc in Physics from the University of Toronto and an MSc in Biophysics from the University of Guelph. In addition to her doctoral work, she is very passionate about science outreach, communication, and advocacy, and holds executive positions at the 9I制作厂免费 Students Chapter for Scientista and the 9I制作厂免费 initiative in Computational Medicine.听

听 Project

Meghana's Writing Fellows project involved creating writing guides for BBME milestones, such as the study plan and thesis proposal, and developing resources for BBME students to improve skills in science communication and storytelling.听

Nicola Phillips

Nicky is a doctoral candidate in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program. Her research focuses on the language input experienced by infants being raised as bilinguals. Specifically, she studies how socially-embedded interactions change across families鈥 dominant and nondominant languages, as well as variability in the complexity of caregivers鈥 infant-directed speech. Nicky鈥檚 undergraduate degree was in the Humanities (Dutch and French) before she transitioned to Language Acquistion and Speech Science. Before graduate school, she worked as an Editorial Assistant proofreading, copyediting, and writing scientific training materials. This has given her a strong background in critical writing skills, editing, and knowledge translation.听

听 Project

In the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Nicky (1) held a drop-in Writing Clinic, (2) worked with the Student Council to host a two-day Writing Retreat and mini-scholarship application workshop, and (3) held two Spring Break Workshops on Editing Skills and timeline planning for graduate students. She received excellent feedback from the Editing Workshops in particular was excellent, with students expressing that they wished that they had had opportunities to learn these skills earlier in their programs. The Faculty were also supportive of the program and pleased with the extra support her programs was able to provide for research students.听听听

Indra Roy

A PhD candidate in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience, Indra has a long history of working with students in science and technology who want to communicate their findings to a variety of audiences. She has taught lab courses, given writing seminars, and worked as a peer writing tutor for many years.

听 Project

As a writing fellow in the IPN, she worked closely with the mandatory course Principles of Neuroscience I (NEUR630) and offered incoming graduate students the opportunity to improve their skills in critical thinking through small writing groups. In Winter 2025, she provided support to students writing their thesis proposals for the candidacy exam for the doctoral program through structured group writing and feedback sessions.

Schulich School of Music

Hannah Barnes

Hannah A. Barnes (b. 1997) is a Montr茅al-based composer and conductor. In her compositions, she crafts structured yet dynamic and multi-faceted musical worlds that are characterized by mercurial, off-kilter, and seemingly incompatible materials. These works straddle tension and expression for both performers and listeners. Barnes' main concerns are (re)defining Modernism in the twenty-first century, investigating manifestations of complexity and polyphony, and addressing questions of syntax and semantics within a non-narrative musical language that encompasses both pitch- and noise-based materials. She is also the director of the rhythm is image new music initiative, in which she performs and conducts, emphasizing experimental performance practices and collaboration. Teaching is also important to Hannah; she has taught students ranging from grade school to undergraduate music majors in both Chicago and Montr茅al.听

听 Project

As a Writing Fellow in the Schulich School of Music, Hannah initiated a program to support graduate students in achieving their written program and career milestones. This program includes a group for mutual support and feedback, as well as half-day writing retreats. These initiatives were created to help music students for whom written academic and career milestones are significant but not as institutionally supported as their musical endeavours. In the second semester, Hannah hosted two half-day writing retreats for students to learn about resources and strategies that would help them with their writing assignments. At the end of the semester, she and her fellow Writing Fellow, Schulich graduate student Hannah Benoit, hosted a writing retreat and lunch to create a supportive environment and space for students to learn from and share with each other about writing.

Hannah Benoit

Hannah Benoit is a Ph.D. candidate in Music Theory at 9I制作厂免费, funded by the Fonds du Recherche du Quebec. Hannah鈥檚 primary research focuses on the application of critical pedagogy to the undergraduate music theory classroom. She has presented her research at the Society for Music Theory, Music Theory Midwest, and Pedagogy into Practice conferences. Outside of academia, Hannah enjoys spending time with her rabbit, baking sourdough, and rock climbing.听

听 Project

Hannah鈥檚 Writing Fellow project sought to help bridge the gap in writing support between the Graphos Writing Centre and Schulich School of Music. Her workshop series focused on a variety of topics within the music discipline, including grant writing, creating and maintaining a healthy relationship with writing, and writing conference proposals and presentations. At the end of the semester, she and her fellow Writing Fellow, Schulich graduate student Hannah Barnes, hosted a writing retreat and lunch to create a supportive environment and space for students to learn from and share with each other about writing.

Faculty of Science

Jeffrey To

Jeffrey To is a third-year Psychology student in the Experimental Psychology program. He studies implicit biases: The automatic associations we hold toward certain groups. Jeffrey received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 2021 from the University of Toronto. After graduating, he spent a year working as an associate in a behavioural science consulting firm, consulting on education-related projects, smoking cessation, and mental health.

听 Project

Jeffrey's project involved integrating writing workshops into the psychology curriculum. He delivered two writing-centred workshops to first-year psychology students during their Psychological Theory course. Jeffrey also collaborated with other science fellows to deliver workshops, borrowing from the content used in his workshop, to maximize reach.

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