Meghan Mendelin
PhD Candidate
She/Her
Queen's University
Global Development Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Hall
Brief Biography
Meghan Mendelin is a PhD candidate in the department of Global Development Studies at ĂŰĚŇ´«Ă˝. Her doctoral research project uses feminist political economy and social reproduction frameworks to examine the role of community-based non-profit organizations in contemporary Canada. Focusing on the child care sector, she researches how advocacy groups and daycare providers navigate and resist the undervaluation and invisibilization of their work under neoliberal austerity.
Research Interests
Social reproduction, care work, child care, non-profit organizations, democracy under neoliberalism
Selected Awards
- SSHRC Doctoral Award 2024-2026
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship 202
- Award in Leadership, Innovation, and Community Engagement 2023
- FHSS Congress Graduate Merit Award 2025
Teaching Experience
- DEVS392: The Political Economy of Care - Gender, Non-Profits & Social Reproduction (Teaching Fellow)
- DEVS101: Introduction to Global Development
- DEVS102: Canada in the World
- DEVS230: The Global Political Economy of Development
- DEVS280: Global Engagement
- DEVS260: Globalization, Gender, and Development
- DEVS340: Theories of Development
- DEVS300: Cross-Cultural Research Methods
- DEVS230: The Global Political Economy of Development
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Mendelin, M., & Hall, R. J. (2025). Who Cares for Communities? Conceptualizing Non-Profit Work as Social Reproduction Through the Case of Food Banks. Affilia, 0(0).
Mendelin, M. (2025). Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Repression of Protest and Dissent in Canada: The Wet’suwet’en Land Defense Movement & #ShutDownCanada. Studies in Social Justice, 19(1), 43–61.
Forthcoming contributions
Mendelin, M. [under review]. “We Feel Invisible”: Early Childhood Educators and the Policy Contradictions of Ontario’s CWELCC Approach. Submitted to Social Politics.
Book reviews
Mendelin, M. (2024). Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building and Communities of Care: by Ethel Tungohan, Champaign, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2023, 256 pp., $28.00 (paperback), 978-0-252-08740-0. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 26(4), 965–968.