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Kirsten McAllister is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research and teaching focus on political violence, racism, migration, and diaspora, with an interdisciplinary approach that draws from Memory Studies, Visual Studies, Ethnography, Critical Race Studies, and Indigenous Studies. McAllister has conducted community-based research projects in both national and transnational contexts. She has examined World War II Japanese Canadian internment camps, focusing on memorials, photographic records, oral accounts, and the media memory produced by community members. In a transnational context, she has researched community-based art by asylum seekers and contemporary Asian Canadian artists to explore sites of memory relating to war, military occupation, colonialism, and environmental disasters. Currently, her SSHRC research project investigates settler stories and climate change in towns on the socio-economic margins of colonial jurisdiction in British Columbia.
Department of Philosophy