The Collaborative for Racial Justice is a forum for critical reflection, exchange, and research collaboration concerning racial justice. The Collaborative is convened by Dr. Carmela Murdocca and supported by the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice. The Collaborative explores links between global and local histories of racial injustice and the ethical challenges of responding to and addressing the complex realities of racial injustices. The Collaborative brings together a core group of graduate students, faculty, and community advocacy groups interested in interdisciplinary analysis, systemic inquiry, and community engagement to lead change for research on racial justice, and to imagine alternative futures in which the world is remade. 

About the Collaborative

Leading change for Racial Justice

Members of the Collaborative for Racial Justice are involved in a broad array of research, community-based, and advocacy initiatives tackling racial injustices.

  • Bahar Banaei

    Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology

    Research Interests: Immigration, detention, law, race, abolition

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  • Brianna Garneau

    Ph.D. Candidate, Socio-Legal Studies

    Research Interests: Carceral expansion, borders and bordering, immigration, and symbiotic harms/collateral consequences

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  • Carmela Murdocca

    Carmela Murdocca is a Professor and York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice in the Department of Sociology at York University and is appointed to graduate programs in Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies and Social and Political Thought.

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  • Charrise Clarke-Hensby

    Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology

    Research Interests: Colonialism, racism, and international law

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  • Connor MacMillan

    Ph.D. Candidate

    Research Interests: Power and control, race, gender, violence, intimate partner violence and coercive control.

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  • Isabel Krakoff

    Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology

    Research Interests: Political sociology, human rights, global populism, computational social science, and liberalism

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  • Jessica Templeman

    Ph.D., Socio-Legal Studies

    Research Interests: Immigration law and policy, borders and bordering practices, jurisdiction, and collateral consequences

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  • Melissa McLetchie

    Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology

    Research Interests: Colonialism, carcerality, anti-blackness, collateral consequences, and Black feminisms

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  • Sanjida Salman

    Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology

    Research Interests: Settler-colonialism, race, memory, law, abolition

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Post-Doctoral Researchers and Collaboration

If you are interested in the Collaborative for Racial Justice and would like to explore possibilities for post-doctoral research support or other collaboration, please get in touch using the link below.