Canada Research Chairs in Social Justice

In 2000, the government allocated $900 million with the goal of creating 2000 research professorships as part of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top five countries for research and development. The Social Justice Cluster has taken this opportunity to create two research chairs in Social Justice. Located at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Faculty of Social Work, the two chairholders are working in collaboration with other faculty across campus to generate opportunities for exchanges between scholars, social justice activists and cultural workers.

Rinaldo Walcott Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
	Rinaldo Walcott's areas of specialization are cultural studies and cultural theory; queer and gender theory, and transnational and diaspora studies. The goal of his research as Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies is to analyze how notions of community, belonging and identity are being imagined differently and from "other" points of view. The focus of his work is on film, video, new media and music produced by Other Canadians between 1960 and the present. His interest is in how these works have the potential to influence contemporary debates on education, community, globalization and the nation. Dr. Walcott is developing a database archive of selected contemporary contributions of Other Canadians. In addition, his research team will conduct oral history interviews that document and analyze the insights of cultural workers who have initiated key media arts festivals and who have made substantive contributions to cultural debates on race, sexuality, culture and nation throughout Canada. Contact information: 252 Bloor Street West, 12th Floor Toronto, ON, M5S 1V6 Voicemail: 416-923-6641, ext 2007 Fax: 416-926-4751 Email: rwalcott@oise.utoronto.ca Homepage: www.oise.utoronto.ca/depts/sese/walcott.htm
Julia Sudbury Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, Equity and Diversity Faculty of Social Work
	Julia Sudbury has worked for many years in the non-profit sector, and has been an active member of the Black Women's Movement in Britain. Dr. Sudbury has also been involved in activism at both local and national levels in the U.S. on issues of violence against women, state violence and the prison-industrial complex. Dr. Sudbury's research and teaching interests include community organizing by women of colour and aboriginal women; theorizing intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and nation; globalization and transnationalism; women's criminalization and imprisonment; feminist and anti-oppressive research methodologies. Her current program of research examines the innovative strategies deployed by women of colour and aboriginal women to oppose the detrimental effects of globalization, economic restructuring and criminalization. Contact information: Faculty of Social Work 246 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M5S 1A1 Ph: 416-978-5716 Fx: 416 978 7072 Email: j.sudbury@utoronto.ca Homepage: www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/index.php?section=139