Stephanie Latty
Assistant Professor
Department: Criminology
Email: stephanie.latty@torontomu.ca
Education: Honours BSW (Laurentian University), MSW (Toronto Metropolitan University), PhD (University of Toronto, Collaborative Women and Gender Studies)
Discipline: Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies
Areas of Expertise:
Abolition
Anti-Blackness
Black Feminisms
Carcerality
Critical Race Theory
Gendered Violence
Dr. Stephanie Latty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology. She received her Ph.D from the University of Toronto in the Collaborative Women and Gender Studies Program in the Department of Social Justice Education. Dr.Latty's areas of expertise include Black feminisms, critical race theory, anti-Blackness, carcerality, gendered violence, and abolition. Her current research examines the media and legal discourses surrounding Black women and girls who have experienced strip-searching and other forms of state violence in Canada. Dr. Latty's work has been published in Lateral, Somatechnics, The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, and The Lauryn Hill Reader.
Dr. Latty was formerly a Professor at George Brown College's School of Social and Community Services, where she taught Human Rights and Anti-Oppressive Practice in the Community Worker and Child and Youth Care programs.
Before higher education, Dr. Latty worked in the mental health field in frontline, community education, and policy capacities.
In 2016, Dr. Latty was awarded the prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. In 2019, she was awarded the George Sidney Brett Memorial Award by the University of Toronto. In November 2024, she was also the faculty recipient of the Viola Desmond Award, which recognized her for her outstanding community impact.
Related Content
- Latty, S. (2023). Violent Exposures, Exposing Violence: Gender, Anti-Blackness and the Strip-Searching of Black Women and Girls in Canada. Somatechnics, 13(1), 23–41. (external link)
- Latty, S. (2023). There Are New Suns: The Shoal as Abolitionist and Decolonial DreamSpace. Jaffri, B. (Ed.) The Black Shoals Dossier [Special Issue]. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 12(1). (external link)
- Latty, S., Habtom, S., Tuck, E. (2019). “Practice Extending Across the Atlas: Black Girls’ Geographies in Settler Colonial Societies”. In The Lauryn Hill Reader.
- Latty, S., Scribe, M., Peters, A., Morgan, A. (2016) Not Enough Human: At the Scenes of Black and Indigenous Dispossession. Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Vol. 2.
Before commencing doctoral studies, Dr. Latty worked in social work in both frontline and policy capacities at organizations such as Humber College, Griffin Centre Mental Health Services, and Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre.
Dr. Latty served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood Toronto from 2017 to 2020.
Dr. Latty is on the Executive Board of the Black Canadian Studies Association and the Organizing Committee of Write On—a community group dedicated to supporting and standing with people in provincial and federal prisons in Canada by providing resources, research, and mobilizing information to bring awareness of life in prison through letter-writing.
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Selected Media & Activities
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Read about how Dr. Stephanie Latty uses community-engaged learning to bring abolition geographies to life, connecting carceral theory to Toronto’s spatial histories through walking tours, guest scholarship, and creative zine-making.