Project on colonial institutions and children’s welfare in the British Caribbean. This SSHRC-funded comparative project focuses on exploring the experiences of children in colonial reformatories and industrial schools in the British Caribbean in the first half of the 20th century. This work includes a focus on the impact of contemporary ideas about race, gender, and class.

Research project on Immigration Detention and Deportation Policies. This project involves critical race theory, critical disability studies, criminal justice research, postcolonial studies, ethics and social justice research.

Research projects on social entrepreneurship and indigenous movements in Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil, and community engagement projects in Hamilton. This includes work on social movements, indigenous social entrepreneurship, immigrant integration, and gender studies. Projects also encompass community engagement research and teaching with the Integrated Business and Humanities (IBH) program.

The Confronting Atrocity Projectis a SSHRC-funded project on truth commissions and politics of memory in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The Confronting Atrocity Project has created a research network of expert scholars, practitioners, community partners and graduate students working on restorative justice projects in 16 countries. It has developed partnerships with several institutions, think tanks and organizations involved in human rights, social justice and civic inclusion research.

Research on race and nation-making in Canada, transnational histories of violence, politics of memorialization, racial grief, and collective narratives of trauma. SSHRC-funded research project, “History, memory, grief: The Air India project,” focuses on developing an archive of the 1985 Air India tragedy at McMaster.

Research project on genocide history, literature and memorialization practices in Rwanda.

Current research projects include analysis of media representations of Muslim women, a study of religion and nationalism in Bollywood film, an examination of the hate/free speech debate with regard to Islamophobia, and the coordination of a special journal issue on racism and colonialism in Canadian communication studies. All of these studies incorporate theories on critical race, post colonialism and feminism, and ask how media can be central to advancing or preventing justice.

Community-engaged research and teaching in histories of women’s rights movements and social inequalities. This includes research and teaching with the Integrated Business and Humanities Program (IBH)

Research on catastrophic history and the history of the future with special focus on environmental justice.

Research on international and domestic law relating to human rights, health and environmental sustainability.