School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

My research and teaching advances interdisciplinary social inquiry on genealogies of race & racial violence constitutive of settler colonialism, imperialism and empire, with an interest in ethics, methodology and anti-colonial social movements and social thought. I enter these fields of inquiry through epistemological and methodological considerations, two of which have been central in my scholarship and teaching: First, how do we account for the continuity of race and racial violence as it changes in grammar and political form? Second, how do displaced and dispossessed communities make claims to sovereignty under on-going processes of social & material death and expulsion?

My recent scholarship has contributed towards socio-legal, anthropological and social inquiry on Palestinian expulsion and return, as navigated under and against the racial politics of settler nation building, humanitarianism and legal redress. Some of my recent publications include, “The Racial Question of Palestine and Question of Anti-racism in Palestine,” Journal of Palestine Studies 2025; “Sensory Politics of Return: Hearing Gaza under Siege,” in Gaza on Screen, Duke University Press 2023; “Race and Colonialism in Socio-Legal Studies in Canada (co-authored with Carmela Murdocca and Tim Bryan),” in Violence, Imagination, and Resistance: Socio-legal Interrogations of Power, Athabasca University Press, 2023; “1948-1951: the racial politics of humanitarianism and return in Palestine,” Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2020;  “Uninhibited Violence: Race and the Securitization of Immigration” (co-authored with David Moffette), Critical Studies on Security 2016; “Necronationalism: managing race, death and the nation’s skeletons,” Social Identities 2015 & “Anti-Colonial Poetics: A Methodology from and for Palestine” Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research, 2014.  

My SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) funded doctoral research received the ‘Sociology Distinguished Dissertation Award’ issued by the Department of Sociology at York University and subsequently, received an additional award issued by the Canadian Sociological Association.

Topics interested in supervising

Race & racial violence; settler colonialism; imperialism and empire; socio-legal studies; redress; ethics and methodology;  anti-colonialism; national liberation movements; resistance; Indigenous sovereignty; Gender & Sexuality; Palestine