Stanger-Ross, Jordan

Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross is a Professor at the Department of History (Humanities) at the University of Victoria. His research and teaching focus on migration, race, and inequality in the twentieth century, especially in North America. He is currently the Co-Director, with Audrey Kobayashi (Queen’s University), of Past Wrongs, Future Choices, a 7-year (2022-2029) multi-sector and community-engaged project to integrate and tell the history of the internment, incarceration, and dispossession of people of Japanese descent in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States in the 1940s. Previously, he directed Landscapes of Injustice, a partnership focussed on the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Landscapes of Injustice was recognized with many awards, including a Heritage BC prize for outstanding contributions to provincial history, a Canadian Race Relations Foundation award for excellence in anti-racist education, and a prize from the Canadian Historical Association for excellence in public history. Its capstone exhibition, “Broken Promises,” created under the leadership of the Nikkei National Museum and the Royal BC Museum, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award.

With collaborators in Canada and Japan, he is also in the midst of a SSHRC funded project entitled Exile: The Expulsion of Japanese Canadians, 1946, on the political decisions and legal battle that resulted in the exile of 4,000 Japanese Canadians to Japan after the close of the Second World War.

Research Interests: Immigration, Race, and Inequality in twentieth century in North America