Chetna Khandelwal
Affiliations
Doctoral Student / Graduate Assistant - Research
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
BA Sociology (Honours), University of Warwick, 2018
MA Sociology, University of Calgary, 2022
Biography
Chetna Khandelwal(She/Her) is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. She is a qualitative researcher interested in social movements, activism, Southern theory, immigration, marginal feminist place-making, critical phenomenology, and speciesism. Chetna received her BA in Sociology from the University of Warwick and her MA in Sociology from the University of Calgary.
Chetna has previously studied networked immigration social movements in India and the USA, as well as animal rights movements in the UK. She employs critical discourse analysis and qualitative content analysis to study collective displays of political resistance. Her doctoral work incorporates more participatory forms of research in pursuance of community-led scholarship.
Awards
- Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2023
- Eyes High International Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2022
- Angus Reid Graduate Scholarship for Excellence in Applied Sociology, Canadian Sociological Association. 2023
- South Asian Studies Graduate Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2022
- MA Research Recognition Award, Department of Sociology . 2020
- International Graduate Tuition Award, University of Calgary. 2022
- Residence Award, Residence Services Ucalgary. 2019
- Conference Support Scholarship, Department of Sociology. 2022
- 2021
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