Miranda Leibel

Miranda Leibel

On July 28, Miranda Leibel defended her dissertation, Writing our Wrongs: Accountability, Transparency, and ‘Justness’ in Provincial Child Death Inquiries. The dissertation examines concepts of ‘accountability’ and ‘transparency’ as they function to shape and contest political relationships in settler-colonial Canada through the public child death inquiry. Miranda has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor and Evelyn Hamilton Chair of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge. Through this endowed Chair position, Miranda will have a leading role in the university’s School of Liberal Education, which focusses on critical, multi-disciplinary approaches to contemporary social issues and philosophical questions.