Associate Professor
**on leave Winter 2025**
Jenny Burman is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies. She has a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University (2002). Prof. Burman writes and teaches in the areas of transnational cultural studies, diaspora studies, multi/interculturalism, and urban transformations. She completed a SSHRC-funded research project entitled 鈥淢obile Citizenship, Immobilized Migrants: Detention and Deportation in Canada, Oppositional Activism in Toronto and Montr茅al鈥�, in 2010. She is part of two FQRSC research groups: Media and Urban Life in Montreal (PI: Will Straw), and Feminist studies of social movements and their cultural infrastructures (PI: Carrie Rentschler). She is pursuing two independent research projects currently: one on vernacular multiculturalism in Canada, and one on the social abandonment of racialized women in Vancouver and Los Angeles.
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Publications:
-- 鈥淐ultivating urban forms: collective investments in urban agriculture in Montreal鈥�, in Formes urbaines : 茅volution et mutations des formes m茅diales-culturelles 脿 Montr茅al. Montr茅al听: Les 茅ditions esse, 2014.
--鈥淎ctes identitaires: expressions radicales et r茅actionnaires de l鈥檌dentit茅 culturelle la茂que dans la soci茅t茅 qu茅b茅coise鈥�, trans. S. Stavrinidis. In Simon Harel & Isabelle St-Amand, eds., Figures du si猫ge et de la concertation. Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval, collection InterCultures, 2011.
-- Transnational Yearnings: Tourism, Migration and the Diasporic City. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
-- 鈥淪uspects in the City: Browning the 鈥榥ot-quite鈥� Canadian citizen鈥�, Cultural Studies 24:2, 2010.
--听鈥淥ut of Northwhere: Nation, politics, and belonging鈥�, chapter in Ebony Roots, Northern Soil, ed. Charmaine Nelson. Toronto: Scholars鈥� University Press, 2010.
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