Dr. Leila Angod (she\/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Childhood and Youth Studies Program at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. Her work draws from critical race feminisms, anticolonial theory, and critical youth studies to explore worldmaking practices in schools. She is interested in how hierarchies become institutionalized and lived through feelings, subjectivities, and school programs and policies, and how to create other worlds with young people through research. Her work examines these processes in archival documents and using ethnographic and participatory approaches that centre young people\u2019s worldmaking practices.<\/p>\n
Dr. Angod is the Principal Investigator of a research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and conducted in partnership with an Ontario school board. This youth participatory action research study uses visual methods to document and share Black students\u2019 community-making practices at their school. The findings contribute to scholarship on the ethics and politics of school-based youth co-research at the intersection of school board initiatives for wellbeing and anti-Black racism.<\/p>\n
From this work, Dr. Angod is developing a framework that applies Black and women of colour feminist scholarship on feelings in activism to the process of research design and facilitation with young people.\u00a0 As part of this work, her current research project simultaneously creates and studies a young people\u2019s advisory council for a non-profit organization. This project weaves a youth participatory action research methodology with an intersectional analysis of power and centres mind-body approaches to creating an intergenerational community of care.<\/p>\n
As part of her love of arts-based research and knowledge sharing, Dr. Angod is writing a young adult novel of speculative fiction that explores the living legacies of colonialism and the power of the collective in the lives of three, mixed-race, Canadian high school students who find themselves linked through an unexpected connection with Guyana.<\/p>\n
Dr. Angod has been awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\u2019 Early Career Research Award and the Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance Research Award for her youth participatory action research projects. She was a Lillian Robinson Scholar at Concordia University\u2019s Simone de Beauvoir Institute and has held Postdoctoral Fellowships at Bielefeld University in Germany and University of Toronto.<\/p>\n
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Cross Appointment<\/strong><\/p>\n Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n Recent Research Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n 2024\u20132025 (Principal Investigator), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Engage Grant, \u201cYouth Co-Research for Student Voice: Anti-Racism With and For Black and Racialized Students,\u201d $24,283 CAD<\/p>\n 2022\u20132025, (Co-Principal Investigator), Spencer Foundation, \u201cPedagogies of Community Engagement: Strengthening the Practice of Facilitation in Community-Based Projects and Partnerships,\u201d\u00a0$399,730 USD<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n Youth Culture and Activism (CHST 3203)<\/p>\n Race, Childhood, and Youth (CHST 3205)<\/p>\n Special Topics (CHST 4001)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n Angod,\u00a0L.\u00a0(2024).\u00a0Doing and undoing gendered racism with racialized girls: A school-based youth participatory action research study.\u00a0Children & Society<\/em>,\u00a038,\u00a0774\u2013788.\u00a0http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/chso.12826<\/a><\/p>\n Angod, L. (2022). Learning to enact Canadian exceptionalism: The failure of voluntourism of social justice education.\u00a0Equity & Excellence in Education.\u00a0<\/em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10665684.2022.2076787<\/a>\u00a0(limited free digital copies available\u00a0here<\/a>)<\/p>\n Desai, K., & Angod, L. (2022). Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies.\u00a0Childhood<\/em>.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/09075682221112991<\/a><\/p>\n Angod, L. (2022). Accountability in ethnographic research: Researching the making of white\/northern subjects through anti-black racism while brown. In Mac\u00edas, T. (Ed.),\u00a0Unravelling research:<\/em>\u00a0The ethics and politics of knowledge production\u00a0<\/em>(pp. 67\u201387).\u00a0<\/em>Fernwood.<\/p>\n Angod, L., and Gaztambide-Fern\u00e1ndez, R. (2019).\u00a0Endless land, endless opportunity: The coloniality of elite boarding school landscapes in Germany, the United States, and Canada.<\/a>\u00a0Zeitschrift f\u00fcr P\u00e4dagogik\u00a0<\/em>(Journal for Pedagogy<\/em>), 65<\/em>(2), 227\u2013241.<\/em><\/p>\n Gaztambide-Fern\u00e1ndez, R., and Angod, L. (2019). Approximating whiteness: Race, class, and empire in the making of modern elite\/white subjects.\u00a0Educational Theory,\u00a069<\/em>(6),\u00a0719\u2013743.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/edth.12397<\/a><\/p>\n Angod, L. (2016).\u00a0Youth participatory action research at University of Toronto Schools: Co-constructing knowledge and communities for social justice.<\/a>\u00a0Research Brief, 7<\/em>(Summer) (pp. 4\u20139).\u00a0<\/em>Centre for Urban Schooling, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.<\/p>\n Angod, L. (2015). The unruly curricula of the ruling classes [Editorial].\u00a0Curriculum Inquiry, 45<\/em>(5), 427\u2013436.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03626784.2015.1103604<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n\n
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