Mayme Lefurgey

Mayme is a Research Fellow with the Department of Sociology and the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick where her work primarily focuses on gender-based violence in rural Canada.

Prior to this role, Mayme was a Purdy Crawford Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Policy at UNB. She holds two master’s degrees in peacebuilding and a Ph.D. in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (collaborative program in Transitional Justice & Post-Conflict Reconstruction) from Western University.