I received my Doctorate in Philosophy in December 2023 from the University of Ottawa, where I currently teach in the Department of Philosophy.
My dissertation and ongoing research work is a critical expansion of liberal multicultural theory from a postcolonial perspective. I am developing a model of "critical democratic multiculturalism" which begins from the standpoints of ethnoracialized minorities in order to reconceive the scope and nature of the questions and concepts deemed of importance to the field. To do so, I foreground the challenges and perspectives of racialized groups for whom ethno-culture is morally salient and central to the…
I received my Doctorate in Philosophy in December 2023 from the University of Ottawa, where I currently teach in the Department of Philosophy.
My dissertation and ongoing research work is a critical expansion of liberal multicultural theory from a postcolonial perspective. I am developing a model of "critical democratic multiculturalism" which begins from the standpoints of ethnoracialized minorities in order to reconceive the scope and nature of the questions and concepts deemed of importance to the field. To do so, I foreground the challenges and perspectives of racialized groups for whom ethno-culture is morally salient and central to their own understanding of their identities and aims.
I am currently working on two research articles for publication: the first makes a case for heritage language rights for "immigrant" minority groups from a Chinese Canadian perspective; the second article uses a postcolonial feminist lens to develop an inclusive model of women's agency in restrictive patriarchal (typically, religious) contexts, that can both account for liberal forms of autonomy as well as go beyond them.
