Monisha Logan

PhD Candidate (Legal Studies)

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Monisha Logan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her research explores the intersections of mental health, race, and culture. Specifically, she is researching South Asian mental healthcare in Peel Region and exploring 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. Alexander McClelland

Education
Master of Arts, Major in Legal Studies, Carleton University
Honours Bachelor of Arts, Major in Sociology and Major in Criminology, Western University

Awards 

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award, 2024-2026
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Carleton University, 2024-2025 (turned down for SSHRC Doctoral Award)
• 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

Publications

• Logan, M., Chugh, N., & Moore, D. (2025). “Stripping Canada of its benevolent veil: Three major failures from anti-prison feminist perspective”. InPublic Criminology and Non-Punitive Feminisms: Sexual Violence, Gender and Punishment. Maior Monographs.

Conferences and Presentations

• Logan, M. (2026). Stripping Canada Benevolent Veneer. Paper presented at the Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica, La Coruña, Spain
• Logan, M. (2026) Reimagining Sanctuary: Unpacking Patriarchal Violence in the Canadian Carceral State. Paper presented at the Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA
• Logan, M. (2025). Police and Violence: An Observation of Fatal Wellness Checks. Paper presented at Carleton University’s Graduate Legal Studies Association Conference, Ottawa, Canada
• Logan, M. (2025). Race, Violence, and Sanism. Panel presentation at the Canadian Law and Society Conference, Oshawa, Canada
• Logan, M. (2024). Shooting the Distressed: Exploring Gun Violence within Wellness Checks. Paper presentation at the Carleton University’s Faculty of Public Affairs Conference, Ottawa, Canada
• Logan, M. (2023). Truth/Story Mobilizations: Liberatory Crossroads Where the Academic, Dissonance and Art Meet. Moderator at the National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore, USA
• Logan, M. (2023). Killing Rage: Unpacking Canadian Benevolence and Prisons. Panel Presentation at the Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Logan, M. (2022). Rage – Exploring Resilience in Canadian Prisons. Panel Presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, USA
• Logan, M. and Moore, D. (2022). Whiteness and Carceral Violence in Canada. Research Talk Presentation for the Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University