Sherene H. Razack

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Sherene H. Razack

Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair

Affiliation: Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies

Office: 6240 Public Affairs

Personal Website: https://sherenerazack.com

Research Interest

Race, Violence, Gendered Racial Violence

Biography

Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies. Her research and teaching focus on racial violence. She is the founder of the virtual research and teaching network the Racial Violence Hub (RVHub) and the digital project Race and Deaths in Custody. She is also the writer of several books, the latest of which is “Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism” (2022) and “Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015).

Publications

Chapters in books

2023. Both Sorry and Happy: Inquests into Indigenous Deaths in Custody | The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice, eds. Chris Cunneen, Antje Deckert, Amanda Porter, Juan Tauri, Robert Webb | New York: Routledge, pp.247-267.

2022. Afterword: Researchers of Good Will | In Unraveling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences. Teresa Macias, ed. Winnipeg, Manitoba |  Fernwood Press, pp. 211-219.

Journal Articles

2022. Whiteness, Christianity and Anti-Muslim Racism | In Routledge International Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness. Eds. Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen. New Brunswick, N.J. : Routledge. Pp.43-53. Articles in Refereed journals

2024, March 5th. Genocide and Campus Bans on Speech Critical of Israel: Then and Now | Social Text

2024. It Didn’t Begin in Hate: Why a Hate Crimes Framework Can’t Take Us to Abolition | State Crime Journal, 12 (2): February 16, 2024. 12 pages.

2023. Race and Palestine | Feminist Studies Volume 49, Number 2, 2023, pp. 538-539.

Awards

  • Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 30 dedicated to scholarship inspired by my work (2018)
  • American Association of Political Science, best book on comparative racial and ethnic research, given for Dark Threats and White Knights (2005)
  • 2016 to present – Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies | Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies
  • 1991 to 2016 – Distinguished Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Projects

In the Media

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