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The Social Justice Centre welcomes visiting researcher Kelly Struthers Montford
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The Social Justice Centre welcomes Kelly Struthers Montford as visiting researcher for Winter-Summer 2026.
Dr. Kelly Struthers Montford is Associate Professor of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada.
Her research bridges settler colonial studies, punishment and captivity, animal studies, and law, and has been published in Law & Social Inquiry, Social & Legal Studies, Animal Studies Journal, the Journal of Food Policy and Law, Radical Philosophy Review, the New Criminal Law Review, PhiloSophia: a journal of continental feminism, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, amongst others. You can access her publications here.
Dr. Kelly Struthers Montford is an associate editor of the Animal Studies Journal, and the co-editor of two Critical Animal Studies collections that were published in 2020 with Routledge: Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (with Stephanie Jenkins and Chloë Taylor), and Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (with Chloë Taylor).
She is also the co-editor of a volume on alternatives to criminal punishment and captivity, Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice (Routledge 2021).
She is also co-founder of the Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies and will be co-organizer of the Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies Conference on August 6-7, 2026 at Concordia University with the Social Justice Centre and the Interuniversity Research Centre in Ethics (CRÉ).
Kelly Struthers Montford est chercheuse invitée au Centre de justice sociale de Concordia et professeure agrégée de criminologie à l'Université métropolitaine de Toronto pour l'hiver et l'été 2026.
Ses recherches portent sur les études coloniales, les peines et la captivité, les études animales et le droit. Elles ont été publiées dans Law & Social Inquiry, Social & Legal Studies, Animal Studies Journal, Journal of Food Policy and Law, Radical Philosophy Review, New Criminal Law Review, PhiloSophia: a journal of continental feminism et Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, entre autres. Vous pouvez accéder à ses publications ici.
Kelly est rédactrice en chef adjointe de l'Animal Studies Journal et co-rédactrice en chef de deux recueils sur les études critiques sur les animaux publiés en 2020 chez Routledge : Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (avec Stephanie Jenkins et Chloë Taylor) et Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (avec Chloë Taylor).
Elle est également coéditrice d'un ouvrage sur les alternatives à la peine criminelle et à la captivité, Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice (Routledge 2021).
Kelly co-organise la conférence de la Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies Conference le 6 et 7 août 2026 à l'Université Concordia avec le Centre de justice sociale et le Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en éthique (CRÉ).