Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.988.7662
Office: 3C61
Building: Centennial Hall
Email: b.dobchuk-land@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

MA University of Toronto

PhD The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Biography:

Dr. Dobchuk-Land studies the politics of imprisonment, policing, settler colonialism, and abolition. She is interested in how political consciousness is formed and how history moves. Her research agenda is shaped by participation in community-based efforts to resist criminal justice expansion and build alternative forms of safety. Her current projects examine how support for policing is built and maintained in the work of organizations and institutions outside the criminal justice system, including non-profit community-based organizations, think tanks, political parties, unions, universities, and in various forms of social work.

Bronwyn was born and raised in Winnipeg. Her ancestors were Scottish and German migrants to small-town northern Saskatchewan on her mother’s side, and Ukrainian migrants to rural southern Manitoba on her father’s side. Her work to map Canadian settler colonialism and the carceral state is deeply informed by reflections on prairie social and political culture and her own family history.

Bronwyn is a collective member of the abolitionist prisoner solidarity group Bar None (https://barnonewpg.org). On campus, Dr. Dobchuk-Land is affiliated with the Cultural Studies Research Group (CSRG) (https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/crics/), the Center for Access to Information and Justice (CAIJ) (https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/caij/), and the Critical Race Network (CRN@UW) (https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/critical-race-network/).

Courses:

CJ-1002 Intro Criminal Justice

CJ-2100 Foundations of Criminal Justice

CJ-3121 Race and Criminal Justice in Canada

CJ-4500/GCJ-7500 Colonialism and Criminal Justice in Canada