Meet the Team
Amanda Gebhard
University of Regina
I am a white settler scholar in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Regina. I completed my PhD at the University of Toronto in 2015. My dissertation analyzed how taken for granted discourses about Indigenous peoples cited by educators (re)produce colonial subjectivities that lead to schooling exclusions and contact with the justice system.
Issues of social (in)justice and inequality are at the heart of my scholarship. I am interested in producing research that forms a counter-narrative to oppressive and constraining discourses that shape us both individually and socially. I anchor my projects in critical, feminist, anti-racist, and poststructural theories. I have utilized the methodologies of autoethnography and self- study, poststructural discourse analysis, community-based research, and appreciative inquiry.
My research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, and include: language and power, race and racism in education, the school/prison pipeline, whiteness and colonialism in the helping professions, consciousness-raising and critical literacy with young people, and anti-oppressive approaches to addressing violence. More recently, I have begun exploring disenfranchised grief and loss in infertility through feminist autoethnography.