Logan, Monisha
PhD Candidate (Legal Studies)
Bio/Description
Monisha Logan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her proposed research explores the intersections of mental health, race, and culture. Specifically, she aims to do research on South Asian mental healthcare in Peel Region and explore the ways in which cultural understandings of mental health inform organizational resources and programming. Previously, her MA research looked at the relationship between affect, race, and police brutality. Focused on the emotional impact of audiovisual material depicting incidences of police violence, her research looked at how a victim’s race influences how the public as spectators view, listen, and react to their deaths online, and how that in turn, may influence how the larger issue of police violence is understood.
Supervisor
Dr. Dawn Moore
Education
Master of Arts, Major in Legal Studies, Carleton University
Honours Bachelor of Arts, Major in Sociology and Major in Criminology, Western University
Awards
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University, 2024-2025
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University, 2023-2024
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University, 2022-2023
- David and Rachel Epstein Foundation Fund, Carleton University, 2022
- John Lyndhurst Kingston Scholarship, Carleton University, 2021
- Departmental Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University, 2021-2025
- Domestic Entrance Doctoral Scholarship, Carleton University, 2021
- Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Carleton University, 2021
Conferences and Research Presentations
- 2024 – “Shooting the Distressed: Exploring Gun Violence within Wellness Checks” at Carleton University’s FPA Graduate Conference
- 2023 – Truth/Story Mobilizations: Liberatory Crossroads Where the Academic, Dissidence & Art Meet (Moderator) at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference
- 2023 – “Killing Resilience: Canadian Benevolence, Prisons, and the Will to Survive” at the Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting
- 2022 – “Killing Resilience: Canadian Benevolence, Prisons, and the Will to Survive” at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference
- 2022 – “Hiding Behind Benevolence: Challenging the Janus Face of Canada the Good” (Co-Presenter) at Carleton University’s Let’s Talk Research Event
- 2019 – “Walt Disney Presents: Orientalism and the Other. Understanding Cultural Representation and Orientalism within Animated Disney Films” at the 13th Annual Carleton Legal Studies Graduate Conference