Celebrating Waterloo’s graduating PhD students

Waterloo recognizes six PhD students for earning the highest academic status within their faculty and their innovative research. By Angelica Marie Sanchez University Relations - For graduating PhD students, completing their dissertation defence is a significant milestone and convocation is an exciting time to celebrate their accomplishments with friends and family. Six exceptional graduating PhD students have been chosen to share about their academic journey filled with innovation, resilience and passion. Read their stories below. Faculty of Arts. Christin Wright-Taylor ( PhD '22) knew she wanted to pursue her Doctor of Philosophy in English at Waterloo because of its reputation of being one of the leading Canadian universities with a PhD program in Composition and Rhetoric. "You know your scholarly mentors are rockstars when you hear their work being cited by keynote speakers at every major conference you attend," Wright-Taylor says.