Scholarly Interests:

My research examines state crime, environmental injustice, and gender-based violence and the ways in which these factors often overlap. Much of my research is in the discipline of genocide studies where I examine issues related to cultural destruction and environmental violence against Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island (what we now call North America). More recently, as a co-researcher on a multi-national project, I have extended these insights to examine the gendered implications of cultural destruction through the disruption of human and natural world relations in the cases of the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides alongside settler colonial genocide in Canada.

Teaching Statement:

My teaching approach is grounded in relationality, respect, and a passion for teaching and learning. I strive to create a learning environment that is dynamic and interesting and in which all students feel respected and safe. My research interests translate into teaching practices that center Indigenization and decolonization and bring in perspectives that have historically been marginalized in academia including feminist, LGBTTQ2S+, and racialized voices and scholarship. As well, it is important to my teaching philosophy that my classroom embraces philosophies of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

June, W. and Woolford, A. (2023). Dehumanization and De-Worlding: Conceptualizing Disconnection in a Post-Anthropocentric Genocide Studies. International Association of Genocide Scholars. Barcelona, Spain.

Woolford, A., June, W., & Um, S. (2021). “We Planted Rice and Killed People:” Symbiogenetic Destruction in the Cambodian Genocide. Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 15(1), 7.

June, W. (2021). Gendered Ecologies and Social/Natural Death. A Feminist Framework of Symbiogenetic Relations in Genocide. International Association of Genocide Scholars. Barcelona, Spain.

Selected Grants, Honours and Awards:

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship