Katherine Lawless

      Katherine Lawless is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College in London, Ontario. Her interdisciplinary research is concerned primarily with social and ecological justice, material cultures, and the relationship between subjectivity and place. In the past, Katherine has examined the entwined histories of cultural memory and practices of dispossession (especially of land). She has published on memory, art, politics, energy, and capitalism in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, American Imago, Public and Mediations. She is PI on the collaborative research project “Soil as a Relational Medium,” which reframes soil as a set of social and natural relations rather than an object or thing and conducts field work with farmers, artists, curators and soil scientists in Yukon, Southern Alberta, and Southwestern Ontario. She is co-PI on a second major research project, “Newcomer Readiness and Sustainable Migration in the Canadian North,” which investigates the social and environmental impacts of the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), a policy that fast-tracks newcomers to communities in Northern Canada to stimulate economic development. Katherine is also a dedicated educator whose teaching spans the fields of human geography, cultural anthropology, political economy and ecology, and critical and cultural theory and places a high value on community-engaged and active learning.