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Rachel Lobo is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto Scarborough's Department of Arts, Culture, Media. She joined UTSC after serving as a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her postdoctoral research explores the history of the domestic workers’ movement that unfolded during the 1980s and 1990s in Ontario. This work primarily draws from the publication archive housed in the RiseUp! Feminist Archive, examining the possibilities and limitations of archival practices grounded in transnational feminism. Rachel obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from York University, where her SSHRC-funded dissertation mapped a complex portrait of resistance found within the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds, the largest photographic archive of Black history in Canada. She has held teaching positions at various departments including Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Rachel’s teaching, like her research, focuses on knowledge produced by social movements.
Department of Sociology