Mary Anne Vallianatos joined the Faculty of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2023. Professor Vallianatos’ expertise and research interests are Canadian legal history, law and empire, and race, ethnicity and migration. Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary and informed by critical race, feminist, and post-colonial theory. Professor Vallianatos’ current project relies on original archival research to connect the legal history of Asian migration and settlement in Canada to constructions of race across the former British empire.
Professor Vallianatos comes to Windsor Law having practiced Aboriginal law and served a number of non-profits and non-governmental organizations in Vancouver and New York on projects concerning civil rights, gender equality, housing access, and international humanitarian law. Professor Vallianatos previously taught courses at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Law and the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, and is a former SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholar.