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Amanda Sheely is an Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where she serves as the Interim Director for the Centre for the Study of the United States. Her research focuses on understanding state intervention in the lives of economically disadvantaged racialized families, particularly through examining the welfare system, criminal justice system, and child protective services. Amanda engages in interdisciplinary scholarship across sociology, social policy, criminology, and history. Her published works have appeared in respected journals such as Punishment & Society, Crime & Deviance, and Social Policy & Administration. Her latest project, titled 'Processing Families,' draws on archival juvenile court data from Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s to investigate how courts classify and intervene in family situations. Amanda's work aims to analyze the helpful and harmful results of state interventions, contributing significantly to the discourse on these critical social issues.
Department of Sociology