ProfessorSonja Van Wichelen

Past Teaching:
Sociological Theory (SCLG2601)
Socio-Legal Theory (SLSS2606)
Sustainability and Society (SUST2001)
Social Sciences and Social Change (SSPS4101)
Nature and Society (SCLG3607)
Science, Technology and Social Change (SCLG2610)

Supervision:
Sonja van Wichelen supervises PhD, MA, and Honours students. She welcomes graduate students interested in science and technology studies, biotechnology and reproduction, global sociology, and the anthropology of law.

PhD students

• Rachel Yang, Ecology and Public Health Policy in Hong Kong
• Miftah Miftahuddin,The Political Life of Pesantren: Islam and Electoral Politics in Indonesia
• Hery Prasetyo, Decolonizing Indigenous Communities in Indonesia: TheStruggle between Political Recognition and Development
• Marcus Paul,Borders, Migration and Health: Myanmar Migrants in Malaysia
• Andrew McLachlan, Resilience in Action: Mental Health in Schools
• Sanjana Bhardwaj, Social Memory and Indian Identity in Australia
• Polina Smiragina, The Invisibility of Male Victims of Human Trafficking: Causes and Consequences (completed 2021)
• Rafaella Rapone, Identity and Inter-Generational Transmission of Culture within the Italian Diaspora (completed 2021)
• Sohoon Lee, Women between the Laws: Migrant Women, Precarity and Social Reproduction in South Korea (Completed 2017)
• Elsa Koleth, Haunted Borders: Temporary Migration and the Recalibration of Racialised Belonging in Australia (Completed 2017).

Master students

• Charlotte Hock, The Human Rights of Assisted Dying
• Zsuzsanna Ihar, Crude Cosmos: World-Making in Azerbaijan's Former Extraction Zones (completed 2021)
• Melissa Stewart, Modern Slavery in Australia: Culture, Diplomacy and Gender (Completed 2018)
• Elsher Lawson-Boyd, Eating the same thing? A comparative ontological analysis of food in Australia (Completed 2018)

Honours Students

• Rae Anderson,Mediating Disability and Social Justice: A Cultural Analysis of Disability Representations in Contemporary Indonesia, Completed 2024
• Morag Kelly, The Neoliberal Governance of Mental Disability in Australia, completed 2022
• Alexandra Smith,Fatiqued Conditions: A Study of People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
• Sun Liangyu, Chinese Sojourners, Food Practices, and Cultural Identity in Australia (completed 2020)
• Elizabeth Bottomley, Discourses of 'the child' in the formation of national policies on Indigenous Australians (Completed 2019)
• Zaina Ahmed, Oral Contraceptives and Subjectivity: A Study of User Experience and Decision-Making (Completed 2017)
• Emma Shinozaki-Langridge, Posthuman Subjectivities and Embodiment in Narcolepsy: The Limits of Consciousness, Relational Complexity and Bodily Agency (Completed 2016)
• Natalie Leung, Transnational Lives, Transnational Identities: The Migratory Experiences of Highly Educated, Skilled Hong Kong Women in Australia (Completed 2016)