Anke Allspach

Anke Allspach is an Assistant Professor, with 30+ years of teaching experience, in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has obtained her PhD in Sociology at York University in 2016. She further holds a Masters in Sociology and Equity Studies and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto as well as a BA in Sociology with a certificate in Immigration and Refugee Studies from York University. She joined the Department in 2013 and has since worked as both a Limited Term Faculty and CUPE member.

Anke’s dissertation, Modern Imperialism (2016), and her SSHRC funded MA research focus on how (white settler) colonialism has been organized on a transnational level. Applying a post-colonial lens and Foucauldian analytics, her research investigates how modern imperialism is organized through public legitimization, the legalization of racialized gender violence and the circumvention of human and constitutional rights. Anke is also interested in the criminalization and imprisonment of women and has
published in the areas of carceral spaces: transcacerality (2010) and policing: dual charging policies in the context of domestic violence (2006). Her current research interests include practices of criminalization and deportation as well as the performance and precariousness of racialized and gendered Canadian citizenship.