Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross is an Associate Professor at the Department of History (Humanities) at the University of Victoria. In his research and teaching Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross focuses on immigration, race, and inequality in twentieth century North America, with an emphasis on urban politics and experience. He has written on the experience of Italian immigrants in post-war North America. From 2010 to 2013, he was the chair of the urban studies committee at the University of Victoria. Comprised of faculty members in departments across the university, the committee organizes and hosts The City Talks, a distinguished lecture series that brings international scholars to Victoria for public scholarly talks.
Research Interests: Immigration, Race, and Inequality in twentieth century in North America
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia Memory Politics Migration Public History |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics,Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | jstross@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (McGill-Queens University Press, 2020). Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (McGill Queens University Press, 2017), with Pamela Sugiman. Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Impermanent Apologies: on the Dynamics of Timing and Public Knowledge in Political Apology", Human Rights Review with Matt James & the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective Hum Rights Rev (2018). “The Unfaithful Custodian: Glenn McPherson and the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians,” Journal of American Ethnic History (summer 2018), with Will Archibald and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective. “Promises of Law: The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians,” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 54, 3 (2017), with Eric Adams and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective. “‘My Land is worth a million dollars’: How Japanese Canadians contested their dispossession in the 1940s” Law and History Review 35, 3 (2017), with Nicholas Blomley and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective. “Suspect Properties: The Vancouver Origins of the Forced Sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned Property, WWII" Journal of Planning History 15, 4 (2016), 271-289, with the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective. |
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