Associate ProfessorPhone: 519-253-3000 ext. 3973
Email: jvoronka@uwindsor.ca
Degrees: Ph.D. Social Justice Education, OISE at the University of Toronto, M.A. Sociology & Equity Studies in Education, OISE at the University of Toronto, B.A. (Hon.) University of Toronto
Scholarly Interests: Critical Disability & Mad Studies, Social Movement Activism & Disability Justice Education, Housing Precarity, Homelessness, Housing First, Disability Leadership, Inclusion, Participation, Resistance, Interdisciplinary Critical Theory, Disability Identity & Culture, Poststructural Qualitative Methods & Methodologies
Dr. JIJIAN VORONKA is Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary & Critical Studies at the University of Windsor. She teaches primarily for the Disability Studies program, where she uses Critical Disability Studies perspectives to elucidate confluences of power that affect disabled people in everyday, community, and institutional life. Using Mad Studies and survivor research methodologies, her research explores PWLE inclusion strategies in situ; sites of confinement in the age of deinstitutionalization; the socio-cultural logics that uphold sanism; and teaching and learning through disability justice frameworks. Her work prioritizes service user-led knowledge production through community-based, discursive, and narrative inquiries.
Recent Courses Taught
DISB 2010: Disability Studies: Theory & Culture
DISB 3020: Historical Approaches to People with Disabilities
DISB 4010: Community Approaches, Advocacy & Empowerment
DISB 4020: Service Delivery Systems & Independent Living
SWRK 9720: Epistemology & the Philosophy of Science in Social Work