{"id":24557,"date":"2022-07-21T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=24557"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:22:55","slug":"kristen-kowlessar","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/kristen-kowlessar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Kowlessar"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Cultural and Diasporic Identities<br>\u2022 Whiteness<br>\u2022 Critical Race Theory<br>\u2022 Liberal Multiculturalism<br>\u2022 Race relations in Thunder Bay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"about\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kristen Kowlessar (she\/they) is a queer Trinidadian* PhD student at Carleton University. Kristen\u2019s research is grounded in a decolonial antiracist feminist praxis and focuses on how multicultural branded events such as the Folklore Festival disrupt, rework, or reinforce the racial order of Thunder Bay. This work builds upon previous hermeneutical phenomenological work on navigating and negotiating racial identity in Thunder Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kristen is also a lifelong community organizer and advocate, notably serving as the youngest Vice-President in history for the Caribbean African Multicultural Association of Thunder Bay, working with Thunder Bay and Area Victim Services, and most recently, co-founding the CEDAR Care Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Born in what we call Canada, Kristen is the proud child of immigrants from Trinidad &amp; Tobago and identifies as such, while also acknowledging the nuances and contradictions that come with circuits of recognition under colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kowlessar, Kristen, and Cheyanne Thomas. 2021. \u201c\u201cThis space is not for me\u201d: BIPOC identities in academic spaces.\u201d Canadian Review of Sociology 58(3): 447-449.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24561,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Kristen","cu_people_last_name":"Kowlessar","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-24557","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-contract-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Contract Instructor","cu_people_degree":"MA Social Justice Studies, HBA Psychology w\/ Sociology minor (Lakehead University)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"kristenkowlessar@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/24557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/24557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25321,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/24557\/revisions\/25321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=24557"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=24557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}