*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Dr. Emily van der Meulen
Dr. Emily van der Meulen is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at TMU. Her areas of expertise include feminist and critical criminology, community-based and participatory methodologies, gendered surveillance studies, prison health and harm reduction, and the criminalization and stigmatization of sex work. Some of her past projects have included an evaluation of the (PDF file) Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act, which offers some legal protections for people who call 911 to report an overdose, and a multi-phase undertaking on the need for effective (PDF file) carceral syringe distribution programs, which recently included an examination of the (PDF file) current federal prison needle exchange. Among her current undertakings is a study on the ways in which anti-trafficking policy is made and shaped through narratives of white saviourhood and fantasies of ‘rescue,’ and another that traces how biometric technologies can reinforce existing embodied inequities, especially with regard to race, gender, and disability. She received TMU's Faculty of Arts Scholarly, Research, and Creative Activity Award in 2013, 2019, and 2022.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.
