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Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton University

Alexis Shotwell is a professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin land. Her academic work addresses settler colonialism, impurity, environmental justice, racial formation, disability, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and political transformation. Her political work focuses on queer liberation, Indigenous solidarity, and feminist community education. She also gives workshops on reducing suffering in our writing and teaching practices. She is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project (aidsactivisthistory.ca), and the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times.
Website: alexisshotwell.com

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton University

Education

  • 2007 
    University of California at Santa Cruz, PhD/ History of Consciousness (Philosophy)

Publications

  • 2016
    Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times,
  • 2011
    Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding ,

Grants and Contracts

  • 2013
    “Understanding AIDS as a political crisis: Direct action social movements in Canada and the U.S.”
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    SSHRC Insight Grant ($243,000)