Amelia Curran
Title: Instructor III
Phone: 204.258.3878
Office: 3C49
Building: Centennial Hall
Email: a.curran@uwinnipeg.ca
Degrees:
MA University of Manitoba
PhD Carleton University
Biography:
Dr. Amelia Curran received her PhD from the University of Carleton Sociology and Anthropology Department where she wrote her dissertation on gang territories in Winnipeg. Her book, Slipping the Line: the assembled geographies of gang territories was released in 2023 (Palgrave McMillian).
Dr. Curran is currently involved in two research projects. She is the Principal Investigator on a Manitoba Research Alliance/SSHRC-funded project with studying the use, experiences, and implications of bail conditions, (e.g., do-not-attend/no contact/area restrictions, residential conditions, curfews) for marginalized communities in Manitoba, and a second SSHRC-funded project looking at the effect of gang designations on bail and conditions of release, both with researcher Dr. Sarah Zell (Urban and Inner-city Studies, UW).
Dr. Curran is Co-lead (with Dr. Elizabeth Comack), Justice, Safety, and Security Stream of the Manitoba Research Alliance (MRA) and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba (CCPA-MB).
Courses:
CJ-1002 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CJ-2100 Foundations of Criminal Justice
CJ/SOC-3223 Green Criminology
Research Interests:
Social Justice, Youth Justice, Youth Gangs, Carceral Geographies and Geographies of Crime/Justice, Critical Carcerality, Social Justice Policy, Policing, Housing and Justice, New Materialist Theory and Methodologies.
Publications:
Mopas, M & Curran, A. (2016). Seeing the similarities in songs: Music plagiarism, forensic musicology, and the translation of sound in the courtroom, pp 73-88, In Hamilton, S., Sargent, N. Wilke, C., Majury, D., and Moore, D. (eds), Sensing the Law, New York: Routledge.
Mopas, M & Curran, A (2016). Translating the Sound of Music: Forensic Musicoloty and Visual Evidence in Music Copyright Infringement Cases. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 31(1), 25-46.
Woolford, A. & Curran, A. (2013). Community Positions, Neoliberal Dispositions: Managing Nonprofit Social Services Within the Bureaucratic Field, Critical Sociology, 39(1), 45-63.
Woolford, A. & Curran, A. (2011). NeoLiberal Restructuring, Limited Autonomy, and Relational Distance in Manitoba’s Nonprofit Field, Critical Social Policy, 31(4), 583-606.
Curran, A., Bowness, E. & Comack, E. (2010). Meeting the Needs of Youth: Perspectives from Youth-Serving Agencies. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Manitoba. ISBN: 978-1-926888-12-5.
Martin, T., Curran, A., & Lapierre, J. (2006). Banking in Winnipeg’s Aboriginal and Impoverished Neighbourhood. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XXVI, 2: 331-359.
Buckland, J., Martin, T., Reimer, B., Barbour, N., Curran, A. & McDonald, R. (2005). Fringe Banking in Winnipeg’s North End. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba. ISBN: 0-88627-428-1
Buckland, J., Martin, T., Barbour, N., Curran, A., McDonald, R. & Reimer, B. (2003). The Rise of Fringe Financial Services in Winnipeg’s North End: Client Experiences, Firm Legitimacy and Community-Based Alternatives. Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance, Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg. Available at: http://ius.uwinnipeg.ca/WIRA/wira_pub-fringe-financial.htm