Andrew Crosby

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Andrew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Martine August in the School of Planning. Andrew completed his Ph.D. in the

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Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. His research engages with various themes relating to housing justice and policing—including settler-colonial urbanism, the financialization of rental housing, insecurity governance, gentrification, social movement mobilization, and tenant resistance. 

 Andrew has authored or co-authored articles in Canadian Public Administration, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Geoforum, Security Dialogue, Settler Colonial Studies, Social Justice, Surveillance & Society, and Urban History Review. He is co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (Fernwood 2018), winner of the 2019 Surveillance Studies Network Book Award.  

Andrew’s postdoctoral research is supported by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)–SSHRC Housing Research Training Awards Program and the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research.  

Supervisor: Martine August