91ÅÝܽ

Professor

E: kmcallis@sfu.ca
Room: K9660

• S.S.H.R.C. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lancaster University, England
• Ph.D. (Sociology) Carleton University, Canada
• M.A. (Communication) 91ÅÝܽ, Canada
• B.A. (Geography) 91ÅÝܽ, Canada

Books

• McAllister, Kirsten (forthcoming Palgrave-MacMillan) The Geography of Asylum: Art Activism and the City of Glasgow (300 pages).
• McAllister, Kirsten and Mona Oikawa with Roy Miki (eds.) (2025) After Redress: Japanese Canadian  and Indigenous Struggles for Justice. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• McAllister, Kirsten, Daniel Ahadi and Ayaka Yoshimizu (eds.) (2025) Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives. London: Routledge.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2010. Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Kuhn, Annette and Kirsten McAllister, eds. 2006. Locating Memory: Photographic Acts. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.

A Selection of Articles, Book Chapters and Creative Essays

• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko, Ayaka Yoshimizu and Daniel Ahadi. 2025. “Introduction: Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives.â€� In Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives, edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu and Daniel Ahadi, 1-24.  London: Routledge.
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko. 2025. “Researching Asylum Seekers and Community-based Art as an ‘Ethnographic Outsider’.â€� Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives, edited by in Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu and Daniel Ahadi, 162-192. London: Routledge.
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko and Mona Oikawa. 2025. “Introduction: Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Writings on Justice ‘After Redress’.â€� In After Redress: Japanese Canadian  and Indigenous Struggles for Justice, edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa with Roy Miki, 3-27.  Vancouver: UBC Press.
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko. 2025. “The Political Act of Defining Ourselves After Redress: Japanese Canadian Activism, Identity, and What Can Be Learned from the Principles of Indigenous Storytelling.â€� In After Redress: Japanese Canadian  and Indigenous Struggles for Justice, edited by Kirsten Emiko McAllister and Mona Oikawa with Roy Miki, 199-244. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Hiri, Faiza, Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten Emiko McAllister, eds. 2022. “Special Issue:  Out of the Margins? Race, Racism, and Colonialism in Canadian Communication Studies.â€� Canadian Journal of Communication 43 (3), 99 pages.
• Hiri, Faiza, Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten Emiko McAllister. 2022. “Editorial: Out of the Margins? Race, Racism, and Colonialism in Canadian Communication Studies.â€� Canadian Journal of Communication 43 (4): 404-419.
• Hirji, Faiza, Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Chris Russil. 2021. “Conversation: Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies.â€�Canadian Journal of Communication 46 (3): 689–710.
• Hirji, Faiza, Yasmin Jiwani and Kirsten McAllister. 2020. “On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite in Canada.â€� Communication, Culture and Critique 13 (2): 168-184.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2019. “Transpacific Worlds: Spirit, Progress, Annihilationâ€� K is for Kayashima, edited by Makiko Hara and Cindy Mochizuki, 15-26. Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2018. “Family Photography and Persecuted Communities: Methodological Challenges.â€� Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, 55 (2): 166-185.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2017. “Science, Race and the Alchemy of Love in Postwar British Columbiaâ€�, BC Studies 195: 109-112.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2015. “Extraterritorial Spaces of Exclusion: Art, Asylum Seekers and Spatial Practices in the City of Glasgow.â€� Visual Studies 30 (3): 244–263.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2013. “Du témoignage oculaire au témoignage comme acte: La photographie, les demandeurs d’asile et l’exposition ‘Life After Iraq’â€�/ “From Eyewitness to Bearing Witness: Photography, Asylum Seekers and ‘Life After Iraq’.â€� In Errances photographiques: Mobilités et Intermédialité, edited by Suzanne Paquet, 101-140. Montréal: Les Presse de L’ Université de Montréal.
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko. 2011. “Memoryscapes of Postwar British Columbia: A Look of Recognition.â€� In Cultivating Canada: Cultivating Canada Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Volume III, edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagné, 419-444. Ottawa. Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
• McAllister, Kirsten. 2011. “Asylum in the Home Territories: Crossing the Zones of Desire.â€� Space and Culture 14 (2): 165-182.
• McAllister, Kirsten, ed. 2011. Special Issue: Transnational Publics: Asylum and the Arts In Glasgow, West Coast Line 68.
• McAllister, Kirsten Emiko. 2010. “Archival Memories.â€� In Remembering Place, edited by James Opp and John Walsh, 214-246. Vancouver: UBC Press
• McAllister, Kirsten and Roy Miki. 2008. “‘Always Slippage’: an Interview on a Collage/Poem in Process.â€� Special Issue, “Roy Mikiâ€�,  West Coast Line 57: 149-160.

• McAllister, Kirsten. Co-organized a roundtable on Migration, the Politics of Fieldwork and Questioning Communication Studies with Daniel Ahadi (SFU) and Ayaka Yoshimizu. The roundtable is part of a book project on migration and communication studies and fieldwork methodologies.
• McAllister, Kirsten, Canadian Communication Association conference. Co-organized three panels on the theme of #CommunicationSoWhite: Canadian Style with Yasmin Jiwani (Concordia) and Faiza Hirji (McMaster) with BIPOC colleagues across Canada. Conference. The panel papers are the basis for a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication. June 2021.
  
• McAllister, Kirsten. Presented on a panel for the nation-wide 2-day symposium. Conference. May 2021.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Western Photojournalism, Refugees: A Critique of Empathy and Hyperrealismâ€�, Invited Paper, â€œA Roundtable on Transcultural Solidarities across Global Divides: Histories, Institutions and Agenciesâ€�, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China October 2019.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Memoryscapes and the Politics of Remembering Across Borders of Time and Territoryâ€�, Invited Lecture for Brandon Shimoda’s Artist Residency at the Bruna Archives, Bellingham, USA, August 4, 2019.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Writing Against the Structures of Whiteness in Communication Studies: the Silencing of Racialized Subjectivities in the Disciplinary Space of Academic Textsâ€� #CommunicationsoWhite Preconference (co-organized the panel with Yasmin Jiwani and Faiza Hirji) International Association of Communication, Washington, D.C., USA, May 24, 2019.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Transpacific Memories of Post-war Yokohama: the Japanese Canadian Experimental Art of Cindy Mochizukiâ€�, Invited Lecture, School of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, April 2016.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “From National To Transpacific Memoryscape: The Experimental Art of Jin-me Yoonâ€�, Invited Lecture for The Research Unit on Public Culture, University of Melbourne, March 16, 2016.
• McAllister, Kirsten, “Moving Beyond the Extraterritorial Spaces of WWII Internment Camps: Searching the Archive for Trans-pacific Voices of Longing and Belongingâ€�, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Surabaya, Indonesia, August 2015.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant, Principal Investigator (PI), “Decolonizing Settlers' Stories of Climate Change: Changing Our Relations to Indigenous Nations and Territories in a Time of Crisisâ€�, 2024-2029.
• Japanese Canadian Legacies Society Community Award, Applicant with Cindy Mochizuki and Naomi Sawada. “Japanese Canadian Legacy Artists and Intergenerational Knowledge Mobilization, Series IIâ€�, 2025-2027.
• City of Vancouver’s Communities and Artists Shifting Cultures Grant, Applicant with Cindy Mochizuki, Naomi Sawada and Midi Onodera, “Pilot Project for Japanese Canadian Legacy Artists: Public Talk and Intergenerational Workshops with Louise Noguchi and Midi Onoderaâ€� 2024.  On-line Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ar_acHnpmc
• David Lam Centre, 91ÅÝܽ, Funding for Roundtable Discussion, “Beyond the Disciplinary Narratives of the Colonial Settler State And Empire with Critical Japanese Canadian / American / Transnational Scholarsâ€�, 2023.
• SSHRC, Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative, Co-applicant, (Principal Investigator Sandra Jeppesen with Yasmin Jiwani), “Intersectional Community Communications as Critical EDI Workâ€�, 2022-2025.
• SSHRC Connections Grant, Co-applicant, (Principal Investigator Davina Bhandar), “Carceral Cultures Conferenceâ€�, 2018-2019.
• SSHRC Connections Grant, Co-applicant, (Principal Investigator Helen Leung), “Transpacific Inter-Asia Cultural Studies In Canada Symposiumâ€�, 2016-2017.
• SSHRC Insight Grant, PI, “Transpacific Memories: Moving from the Trauma of Canada’s National Past to the Transnational Present, 2013-2016.
• National Association of Japanese Canadians, Winnipeg, Funding for “Tracing the Lines: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Mikiâ€�, 2008.
• SSHRC Standard Grant, PI, “Public Discourses of Fear and Containment: Refugees in Canada and Scotlandâ€�, 2006-2010.
• SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, “Re-presentations of Everyday Life in Internment Camps:  Hostile Environments or Familiar Landscapes?â€�, 2000-2002.

• Visual Studies 
• Cultural Memory
• Political violence and Racism
• Photography, memorials, community-based art, contemporary art
• Community-based research, ethnographic fieldwork, visual analysis
• Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Diaspora and Migration
  
• Settler-Indigenous Relations
• Japanese Canadian and Asian Canadian Cultural Politics