Current
JOSEPH MCQUADE Richard Charles Lee Postdoctoral Fellow, Asian Institute
Joseph McQuade is the Richard Charles Lee Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and a former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies. He is also Editor-in-Chief at the NATO Association of Canada. Dr. McQuade is affiliated with the Queen’s University Global History Initiative and with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society, and is a Managing Editor of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies.
Dr. McQuade completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, with a dissertation that examined the origins of terrorism in colonial India from an international perspective. This research forms the basis of his first book, A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in November 2020. His postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto examines how digital platforms have been used to mobilize vigilante violence in India and Myanmar from the 1990s to the present. His broader research and teaching interests include critical genealogies of terrorism, international relations in Asia, and the global history of political violence.
LAURA BISAILLON Richard Charles Lee Asian Pathways Research Lab Faculty Research Associate
Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Society (UTSC), Laura Bisaillon’s research on immigrants’ medical inadmissibility, expertise in institutional ethnography, and attention to the experiences of migrants from Asian backgrounds and with ties to Asian diaspora communities are closely aligned with the priorities of the RCL-APRL.
Biography
My career has been dedicated to social research, services, care and activism. A political sociologist, I study the production and organization of knowledge about migration, minoritization, health and the state. My book “Screening Out” is an institutional ethnography of the Canadian immigration system’s medical program and HIV-related policy. Fluent in English and French, I supervise and teach students in both languages in the Department of Social Justice Education and the Centre de recherches en éducation franco-ontarienne at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. My current project is about medical inadmissibility in Canadian immigration law, as seen here: website, film and pop-up lecture.
Past
EMILY HERTZMAN is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Chinese Indonesian mobilities and identities. She received a B.A and M.A. from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2016). Emily Hertzman was formerly the coordinator of the Ethnography Lab in the Department of Anthropology at University of Toronto and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Asian Institute, where she managed the Richard Charles Lee Asian Pathways Research Lab.
AILIN (ZHI WEN) LI Double majored in Psychology and Socio-Cultural Linguistic Anthropology. She was a Research Assistant for the second iteration of the Grandparent Project operated by the RCL-APRL, and she participated as a volunteer with the first cohort. Ailin served as the layout designer on both volumes of the Pathways publication. During her time as an undergraduate student, Ailin was involved with Amnesty International U of T (AIUofT), serving as the President for 2017-18, and North American Model United Nations (NAMUN), serving as the Deputy Secretary General, Operations for 2017-18.