Stephanie Latty

Dr. Stephanie Latty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Toronto in the Collaborative Women and Gender Studies Program in the Department of Social Justice Education. Her research focuses on Black feminisms, carcerality, gendered violence, and abolition. Stephanie’s current work explores the media and legal discourses surrounding Black women and girls who have experienced strip-searching and other forms of state violence in Canada. Her research has appeared in Atlantis, Somatechnics, Lateral, the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal (with Megan Scribe, Alena Peters and Anthony Morgan), and The Lauryn Hill Reader (with Sefanit Habtom and Eve Tuck).

Committed to community-based research, Stephanie is currently a Co-Investigator on a SSHRC-funded project examining Black cluster hiring initiatives in Canadian universities. She serves on the Executive Board of the Black Canadian Studies Association, a nation-wide academic association of scholars, students, artists and community members engaged in the development of Black Studies in Canada. Lastly, Stephanie is an organizing member of Write On, a community-based group that supports and stands in solidarity with people in Provincial and Federal prisons in Canada through letter-writing. More about Stephanie’s work can be found at: www.stephanielatty.com