Chandrima Chakraborty

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  • Professor, English and Cultural Studies; Director, Centre for Global Peace, Justice and Health, McMaster University

Chandrima Chakraborty's research examines the intersections of nationalist history and public memory. She has published widely on masculinity and nationalism, race and nation-making in Canada, race and disease in Canadian public policy, the differential impacts of of the COVID-19 pandemic, the politics of memorialization in South Asia and Canada, and Indian popular cinema.

Over the last decade, she has drawn public attention to the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing and its aftermath initiating the first scholarly efforts to consolidate research on the subject with an edited feature section in TOPIA (2012), and an anthology, "Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning" (2017, coedited with Amber Dean and Angela Failler). In collaboration with families who lost loved ones on Air India Flight 182, she is creating the first-ever memory archive on Air India Flight 182, hosted by McMaster University Library: https://airindiaflight182.humanities.mcmaster.ca

She is an Associate Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) and Executive Committee member of McMaster’s NexusHealth.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster U

Education

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    York University, Toronto, PhD

Publications

  • 2026
    Coedited, Anti-Asian Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada, University of British Columbia Press
  • 2025
    Co-edited, Democratic Pedagogies: Practices, Challenges, and Visions for Democratic Futures in Education, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 22.4
  • 2017
    Coedited with Amber Dean and Angela Failler. Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning, University of Alberta Press
  • 2015
    Edited. Mapping South Asian Masculinities: Men and Political Crises, Routledge
  • 2011
    Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and Present Imaginings of India , Permanent Black

Honours

Member, Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; University Scholar, McMaster University

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