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Kyle Willmott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Simon Fraser University and an Associate Member of the School of Public Policy. He is a political economic sociologist whose research interests lie in Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, racialization, taxation, law, and policy. He is a member of the Mohawks of Bay of Quinte Nation. Prior to joining SFU, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta and held a visiting position as a Senior Fellow-in-Residence at the University of Toronto’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Dr. Willmott's SSHRC-funded research covers multiple areas including fiscal politics influenced by settler colonialism and racialization, the institutional construction of policy knowledge about Indigenous nations, and the organization of right-wing politics in settler states. His work has been published in a range of interdisciplinary journals, examining fiscalized racism, taxpayer subjecthood, and bureaucratic transparency related to Indigenous political life. He actively supervises graduate students in sociology with research interests that align with his own.
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