My research and teaching areas are in the nexus of critical race studies, gender studies, socio-legal studies, and Canadian studies. Teaching and researching legal history and contemporary legal directions and debates means challenging common sense ideas about race and gender not only as categories of difference and accommodation but as sites of social and political critique. I continue to conduct interdisciplinary research on processes of racialization, representation, governmentality and the law.

Research Interests

• SSHRC Insight Development Grant - 2020

Current Courses

My research and teaching areas are in the nexus of critical race studies, gender studies, socio-legal studies, and Canadian studies. Teaching and researching legal history and contemporary legal directions and debates means challenging common sense ideas about race and gender not only as categories of difference and accommodation but as sites of social and political critique. I continue to conduct interdisciplinary research on processes of racialization, representation, governmentality and the law.

My work can be found in the Oñati Socio-Legal Series (2020), Ethnic and Racial Studies (2019), the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (2018), Amerasia Journal (2017), Asian Canadian Studies Reader (2017) and At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror (2014). I am in the process of developing my first monograph Playing by the Racial Rule(s): Asian Conservatives in Canada’s Federal Legislature, which challenges the supposed incommensurability of racialized identity and Conservative politics by examining Asian politicians who have served as Members of Parliament (MPs) in Canada’s Conservative parties. Contributing to the literatures on political representation, governmentality and critical race theory, the book investigates how paradoxically raced in the name of racelessness, politicians of colour are vital to the state’s narrative of post-racialism as a way to sustain the social order. My current research project "Race and Representation in Canada's Parliament, 2006-2019," which examines the contributions of racialized MPs across Canada's three main federal political parties has been supported by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2020-2022).

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Awards

• SSHRC Insight Development Grant - 2020

Current Courses