Elaine Coburn is Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Associate Professor, International Studies at York University’s bilingual Glendon College. In addition, through the Faculty of Graduate Studies, she is a member of the Department of Sociology, the Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies and Social and Political Thought at York University. Elaine holds a PhD in sociology from Stanford University, and a BA in Sociology and Canadian Studies from
the University of Toronto. Prior to coming to Glendon, she was a researcher at the Centre d’analyse et d’intervention sociologiques (CADIS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. Currently, with Andrea Davis, she is co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and on the editorial board of the Canadian Review of Sociology. Her research interests include neoliberal forms of
globalization, struggles for social justice and social theory, especially socialist feminist, Indigenous and anti-racist perspectives. Finally, she has recently begun writing for the Literary Review of Canada.
Research keywords: Margins to centre feminism; Indigenous feminisms; African migrant feminisms