Editorial Team

Chief-Deputy-Editor

Dylan Da Costa, Independent Scholar (2026-2027)

Dylan Da Costa (he/him) is a personal trainer, fitness coach, content creator, and independent scholar. He was invited by Dr. Da Costa, his sibling, to be a visiting special editor for New Sociology's forthcoming issue Eulogies (2027), which is dedicated to their late father. With over a decade of experience coaching humans using an empathy-led approach, Dylan helps clients navigate the fitness space sustainably in a way that empowers them instead of shaming them. He also loves helping people who never saw themselves as "gym people" become stronger and more confident in their bodies than they thought possible. Fondly and often described by Dr. Da Costa as "the bro version of me," Dylan is committed to the vision of New Sociology, not only from within his work within the fitness industry, but in the everyday politic of care that guides his daily living. 

Copyeditors

Namitha Rathinappillai, MA, York University (2022 - )

Namitha Rathinappillai (she/they) is a queer, disabled, Tamil-Canadian woman, artist, workshop facilitator, and organizer currently based in what is colonially known as Toronto, Canada. They completed their Masters in Sociology in 2022 from York University, completing a Research Review Paper through conducting a genealogy of the weaponization of white women victimhood and the legitimization of white supremacy through the archetype of the “Karen”. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice, with a concentration in Sociology and a minor in English Language and Literature from Carleton University, where she wrote her undergraduate thesis on the ways in which policing and reporting in Canada are historically anti-Black, through analyzing and coding almost 100 articles written by the CBC about the murder of local Ottawa man, Abdirahman Abdi. Beyond their academic work, Namitha is a highly decorated spoken word poet. She made history as the first female and youngest director of Ottawa’s Urban Legends Poetry Collective (ULPC), and has competed nationally as a two-time Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) team member with ULPC, and a finalist in the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (CIPS). They published their first chapbook titled ‘Dirty Laundry’ with Battleaxe Press in November of 2018. They currently work as the Youth Network Project Coordinator with the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, as well as a Digital Studio Facilitator for BEING Studio. 

Jarrod (Jay) Williams, PhD Student, York University (2025 - )

Chief-Deputy-Editor (2025-2026)

My name is Jay. I am PhD. student in the department of English at York University. My research Bahamian Queer Men's Survival in the Time of AIDS looks at obituaries as the site of memory of queer men who have died in The Bahamas from HIV/AIDS in the early 80s and 90's as form a recovery wake-work and epistemic redress.

Prilly Bicknell-Hersco, PhD Student, York University (2025 - )

Chief-Deputy-Editor (2025-2026)

Prilly (she/her) is a Black Disabled Mother-Scholar and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at York University, Canada. Her research explores the intersections of Black motherwork, critical disability studies, and higher education. She serves as an advisory board member for the York and SSHRC funded project “Black Maternal Pedagogies”, the Justice, Equity, and Redress of Anti-Black Racism committee representative at her university, a member of York University’s Race, Inclusivity, and Supportive Environments committee, and an executive board member of the Black Women’s Studies Association -- largest interdisciplinary association for Black women in North America.”

Isaac Abban, MA, York University (2024 - )

Isaac Abban (He/Him) holds an MA in Social and Political Thought from York University, an MA in Sociology from the University of Saskatchewan and a BA in Social Sciences from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is a creative writer, political activist and educator. His research examines the discursive construction of Black and Indigenous life using postcolonial theory, postmodernism, and Black critical theory. He explores key issues such as colonialism, the discursive construction of the colonial subject, empire and imperialism, as well as anti-Black racism and how these are sustained and reproduced by discourse. He is currently working on the manuscript “Rethinking Négritude: Frantz Fanon’s praxis and Aimé Césaire’s poetics of Négritude and the post-colonial Black subject."

Evania Pietrangelo-Porco, PhD Candidate, York University (2024 - )

Evania Pietrangelo-Porco (she/her) is a PhD candidate, a sex worker ally, a trained historian, and a blogger. She focuses on 20th-century Canadian, 19th and 20th-century feminist, 20th-century North American Indigenous, and contemporary sex work history. Evania won the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-Master’s Scholarship (2019) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Grant (2022). She currently holds various professional affiliations with the Centre for Feminist Studies, Robarts Centre, and the History of Indigenous Peoples Network. Most significantly, Evania has worked with folks in the sex work community, including the British Columbia Coalition of Experiential Communities (BCCEC) and Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles (SWOP LA).