Stephanie Mayell
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada
Stephanie Mayell is a PhD Candidate in the Medical Anthropology Program at the University of Toronto where her doctoral research investigates the ways race and the histories of plantation slavery influence Jamaican migrant workers’ affective states and experiences of health and injury in relation to their participation in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). Stephanie completed her master’s degree in the Anthropology of Health at McMaster University in 2016, where her thesis investigated Jamaican agricultural workers’ experiences of stress and resilience while working and living in Southern Ontario. Since 2014, Stephanie has been conducting community-based health research with migrant agricultural workers in Ontario and across rural Jamaica, which includes connecting workers with social supports and assisting injured workers navigate the provincial health care and workers’ compensation systems. Stephanie is a member of the Migrant Worker Health Project and the Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group (MWH-EWG), and she is currently collaborating on research projects related to health of migrant agricultural workers in Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Toronto, and University of Western Ontario.