Congratulations to PhD Legal Studies student Safiyah Rochelle, who has recently been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)!
Safiyah’s research interests include the construction of racialized bodies within legal regimes, legal imaginaries and knowledge, and violence and visuality.
Her current project focuses on analyzing photographs of Guantanamo Bay detainees, with the aim of understanding how such pictures become instrumentalized, the relationship between racialized bodies and practices of visuality, and the role of photography and visual evidence in practices of violence and subordination.