2025 McCall MacBain Scholar
McGill Faculty of Arts, MA, Sociology
Dalhousie University (BA'24)
Cow Bay, NS, Canada
Michelle recently graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Arts with Combined Honours in Social Anthropology and International Development Studies. She is working as a research assistant at Dalhousie. Michelle co-led the Dalhousie/King's World University Service of Canada (WUSC) local committee, a program supporting refugee students, and spent a summer researching non-governmental interventions for refugees in Jordan. She also contributed to the Dal Zero divestment campaign and wrote articles for Her Campus, a student publication. In previous summers, she worked for several heritage museums and researched food insecurity among international students. Michelle wrote her honours thesis on food and cultural identity among second-generation immigrants in Halifax. Michelle has been admitted to the Master of Arts in Sociology (Thesis) program at McGill. She is interested in identity, migration, and economic justice.