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Alexandre Da Costa is a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, where he has held this position since 2015. He previously served as an adjunct assistant professor at Queen’s University. Da Costa completed his PhD in Development Sociology at Cornell University in 2009. His research interests focus on the intersection of policing and education, emphasizing anti-racism, social justice, and the impact of race and racialization within educational contexts. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on varied topics including multicultural education and social contexts of education. Da Costa's scholarly work also engages with themes of whiteness, settler colonialism, and the challenges faced by marginalized communities within educational systems. He is actively looking for new doctoral and postdoctoral students to engage in research that approaches policing in schools through abolitionist, anti-racist, and decolonial lenses.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management