Visiting Fellow December 2013-- Professor Sherene Razack Professor Sherene Razack, a leading theorist of race and gender, based at the University of Toronto, Canada, will be a visiting fellow at Curtin in December. Professor Razack will be presenting a master class based on her forthcoming book on inquests into Aboriginal Deaths in custody in Canada on December 10 (venue TBA), and also will be available for one-on-one consultations with postgraduate students and staff on December 9. The consultations may relate to broad research areas or to advice on matters such as publications and grants. To make an appointment for a consultation with Professor Razack, please email Prof. Suvendrini Perera ([email protected]) by November 25. Sherene Razack is a full professor in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of race and gender issues in the law. Her courses include: ‘Race, Space and Citizenship;’ Race and Knowledge Production’ and ‘Racial Violence and the Law.’ Her most recent book is an edited collection with Malinda Smith and Sunera Thobani entitled States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2010). She has also published Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics. (University of Toronto Press, 2008), Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism (University of Toronto Press, 2004), an edited collection Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping A White Settler Society (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002), Looking White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998,1999, 2000) and Canadian Feminism and the Law: The Women’s Legal and Education Fund and the Pursuit of Equality (Toronto: Second Story Press, 1991). Professor Razack is a founding member of the feminist and anti-racist network of scholars Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality (R.A.C.E.). She has supervised 28 PhDs to completion and is currently working on a monograph on Canada’s inquests into Aboriginal deaths in custody. At the Limits of Justice: Women of Color on Terror, a coedited volume with Suvendrini Perera, will be published by Toronto University Press in 2014.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 04:55:09 +0000
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