Canada: A Model for Gender Equality?

Is a PhD student at the Jagiellonian University’s Interdisciplinary Social Sciences “Society of the Future” Program. Her research focuses on Indigenous self-determination, reproductive rights, midwifery and healthcare in Canada and Aotearoa (New Zealand). Her PhD project explores Indigenous-led healthcare organizations in Canadian British Columbia and Aotearoa.

Is a student at the Jagiellonian University, majoring in American Studies and National Security. Since April 2023, she has served as the President of the American Studies Student Association at the Jagiellonian University. Her academic interests include cultures of the Far East, social issues, as well as diplomacy and national security.

Ph.D. is a political scientist, a Canadianist, and assistant professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University. In his current research, he focuses on Canada’s language laws, policies and field studies relating to the Polish diaspora in the GTA. He has been an awardee of grants offered by the International Council of Canadian Studies and Polish educational institutions (incl. National Science Centre). As a visiting scholar he has conducted research at the University of Ottawa, Carleton University in Ottawa, McGill University in Montreal and the University of Toronto.

Holds a master’s degree in American Studies, obtained from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her thesis focused on the legalization of contraceptives in the United States and its impact on the socioeconomic status of American women. Her scholarly interests revolve around the sociology of American law, with a specific focus on reproductive rights.

Is a doctoral student in the Society of the Future program at Jagiellonian University’s Social Sciences Doctoral School. A recipient of the Copernicus Society of America’s scholarship that facilitated independent research at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania for the purpose of the master’s thesis. Her main research interests focus on the United States Supreme Court, American election laws, American South, policies of desegregation and the clash of law and politics.

Is a Ukrainian political science expert, with an MA in Transatlantic Studies from Jagiellonian University, and an alumna of the Canada- Ukraine Parliamentary Program at the Parliament of Canada. Olena is currently an intern at Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego and is serving as a member of Supervisory Council at Alians 2408. Her areas of expertise and research include migration studies, international defense and security.

Is an undergraduate student at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. She is currently working on her bachelor’s thesis on Housing programs for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness in New York City and Warsaw and conducting a research project within Jagiellonian University’s Excellence Initiative on the same topic. She is also a member of the American Studies Student Association at the Jagiellonian University and the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. Her research interests include LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, as well as contemporary social problems like homelessness and poverty.

Holds a master’s degree in international relations program at the Jagiellonian University and is a former deputy editor-in-chief of the journal ‘Arena. International Affairs’ (ISSN 1896-8511). He is an author of academic articles focused on plans for expanding the European security system, media freedom and independence in the context of competitive authoritarianism and Turkish nationalism. His research interests include European party systems with a particular emphasis on the role of the far left. Kamil was also a member of research projects such as Grant Estimating Party Positions in Spatial Voting Models, Communism – from Past to Present. Student Research on the Phenomenon of the Use of Communist Ideological and Political Legacies by Contemporary European Communist Parties and Changes in Contemporary Party Systems under the Influence of Crises.

Is a graduate of the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He grew up in Western Canada on farms in both Southern Alberta and Vancouver Island, British Columbia. JR was the founder of Screamin Brothers Allergen Friendly Frozen Desserts, a company he built into a national brand which was featured on CBC’s Dragons Den in 2014. Since selling the business, he was named a Killam Fellow through Fulbright Canada to study in the United States, was a student-athlete with the University of Victoria’s Vikes Rowing Team and travelled across Canada volunteering through the Katimavik Program. Most recently, JR has worked in Ottawa with the Government of Canada as a Student Analyst and in the Kyrgyz Republic as a Partnership and Project Proposal Development Fellow at the University of Central Asia.

Is a Project Manager in the European Academy of Diplomacy and Public Affairs & Project Manager in Women in International Security Poland. She is a graduate of Jagiellonian University with a BA in National Security and an MA in American Studies, and holds a post-graduate degree in International Law and Foreign Service from the University of Warsaw.

Is a master’s student at the Jagiellonian University’s American Studies program in Krakow. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 2022, after defending her thesis on Sir John Franklin’s Arctic expedition. Her interests include the history of American land exploration, oral histories of Indigenous peoples, the history of discrimination and racism, as well as the American method of warfare. She is actively involved in the American Studies Academic Circle.

Is a graduate of the bachelor’s program in International Relations and of Intellectual Property and New Media Law programs at the Jagiellonian University. She is currently enrolled in the master’s degree International Relations program. Her main academic interests include environmental security, the activities of transnational criminal organizations profiting from environmental devastation, the policies of Arctic and non-Arctic states in the Arctic region, and the development of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative policy.

Holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American Studies and a master’s degree in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures from the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published poems and book reviews in various student publications in Austria. Her research interests include North American Indigenous Literatures as well as queer and feminist literature and theory.

Is a settler scholar originally from the territory of The Three Fires Confederacy, the place now known as Michigan, but currently lives and works in Austria. She recently completed a Master of Arts at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include Indigenous literatures, Environmental Humanities and food sovereignty. She is an active member of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS).

Holds a bachelor’s degree and is currently pursuing master’s degree in American Studies at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University. She is a member of the American Studies Student Association, where she actively participates in the organization of academic events. In 2022, she received a bachelor’s degree in American Studies with honors. Her thesis focused on the eviction crisis in the United States, examining specifically its impact on communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, she was awarded the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, which allowed her to conduct research at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Her research focused on the correlation between poverty and women’s housing issues in the United States.