{"id":13728,"date":"2025-12-19T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/?page_id=13728"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:06:34","slug":"postdoctoral-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/postdoctoral-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoctoral Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Postdoctoral fellows are researchers who work on projects based at CITY and are usually supervised by a CITY Faculty Associate. They have either been awarded external post\u2010doctoral funding (e.g. SSHRC, Banting) or are directly employed by the university on a CITY based research project. Their membership is determined by the duration of their funding, upon completion of which, they can apply for CITY Associate status, which will need to be approved by the CITY Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please fill out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2017\/09\/CITYMembership_June2017.docx\">attached form<\/a>&nbsp;if you wish to become a postdoctoral fellow at the CITY Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025\/2026 Postdoctoral Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.kt-accordion-id13728_cc16f3-98 .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:0px;}.kt-accordion-id13728_cc16f3-98 .kt-accordion-panel-inner{border-top:0px solid transparent;border-right:0px solid transparent;border-bottom:0px solid transparent;border-left:0px solid transparent;padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 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kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"false\" data-start-open=\"0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-1 kt-pane13728_425883-96\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Mantha Katsikana<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/02\/mantha-katsikana-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13863\" style=\"width:303px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/02\/mantha-katsikana-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/02\/mantha-katsikana-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/02\/mantha-katsikana-1009x1536.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/02\/mantha-katsikana-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/02\/mantha-katsikana-scaled.jpg 1682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Mantha\u00a0Katsikana<\/strong>\u00a0is a feminist geographer, transdisciplinary artist and activist, interested in issues of social reproduction, urban justice and ethics of urban planning, affect and affective labor, feminist geohumanities and DIY media as well as collaborative and decolonial knowledge production. Her doctoral research explores the ways affective geographies of social reproduction are formed through women\u2019s and feminized subjects\u2019 caring and commoning practices in the urban, during the multiple, overlapping \u2018crises\u2019 and on-going austerity, post-2007, in Athens, Greece.\u00a0Mantha\u2019s post doctoral research explores the urban geographies of community based abortion care in the Greater Toronto Area, \u00a0through a reproductive justice and feminist urban geography framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Program Name: Post-doc, the Faculty of Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Department: &nbsp;School of Kinesiology &amp; Health Science<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-4 kt-pane13728_b179cf-35\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Maryam Lashkari<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/01\/maryam-lashkari.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/01\/maryam-lashkari.png 367w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2026\/01\/maryam-lashkari-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Maryam Lashkari&nbsp;<\/strong>is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the City Institute at 快播视频. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from 快播视频. Maryam has taught city studies workshops, urban geography, and economic geography, where she designed courses on migration, urban policy, economy, and globalization. Her research examines crisis urbanism and urban geopolitics, focusing on nation-state politics and migration&nbsp;policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:maryamlk@torontomu.ca\">maryamlk@torontomu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-3 kt-pane13728_a2f361-af\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Stefan Treffers<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"328\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2025\/10\/Stefan-Treffers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13602\" style=\"width:358px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2025\/10\/Stefan-Treffers.png 328w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2025\/10\/Stefan-Treffers-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2025\/10\/Stefan-Treffers-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stefan Treffers <\/strong>is a postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD graduate from the Sociology Department at 快播视频. His research focuses on urban governance, housing policy, policing, and urban securitization. He has co-authored several journal articles in&nbsp;<em>Urban Studies<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Housing Studies<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Journal of Urban Affairs<\/em>, and the&nbsp;<em>British Journal of Criminology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-2 kt-pane13728_d79cf0-0a\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Chan Arun Pina (December 2024 - December 2025) <\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/cityinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/247\/2025\/12\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13733\" style=\"width:365px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In December 2023,&nbsp;<strong>Chan Arun Pina&nbsp;<\/strong>completed their PhD in Urban Geography at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at 快播视频. Their dissertation,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yorkspace.library.yorku.ca\/items\/c754f796-c7e9-4dd7-b23a-eb292dc26d4a\"><em>Trans imaging&nbsp;<\/em>of non-normative homes<\/a>, offers a spatial-visual analysis of the housing experiences of LGBTQ+ postsecondary students in two Indian megacities. In doing so, the research also presents a queer and trans ecological critique of cisheteronormative planning of higher education campuses and student housing in Mumbai and New Delhi. Currently, Chan is working with professors Luisa Sotomayor and Alison Bain at the City Institute on the project \u201cUndoing Town and Gown: Urban university campuses in Delhi and Toronto.\u201d This transnational project aims to cross-examine how campus planning and governance, neighbourhood politics and socio-spatial conflicts are manifested at the campus edge as it tensely interfaces with the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postdoctoral fellows are researchers who work on projects based at CITY and are usually supervised by a CITY Faculty Associate. They have either been awarded external post\u2010doctoral funding (e.g. SSHRC, Banting) or are directly employed by the university on a CITY based research project. 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