Hunter Knight

Hunter Knight is an Assistant Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies at King's University College at Western University. Her research draws from childhood studies, education, and anticolonial theory to examine how common-sense understandings of childhood shape systemic violence and everyday injustices against racialized and disabled children in schools.

Previously, she has explored these connections in policy and curricula documents written by Egerton Ryerson and through ethnographic research with Waldorf teachers and teacher educators. Her current research on seclusion rooms in schools explores the racist and ableist understandings of childhood that shape language around seclusion in policy, news media, and social media.