Teaching Areas:

Criminology, Restorative Justice, Genocide and War Crimes, Sociology of Law,
Criminological Theory, Carceral Space, Indigenous-Settler Relations

Courses Taught:

    Undergraduate:
        Criminology
        Criminal Justice and Corrections
        Restoative Justice
        Crime, Genocide, and Society
        Sociology of Law
        Theorizing Crime, Law, and Social Justice

    Graduate:
        Selected Topics in Criminology: Crime and the Camps
        Selected Topics in Criminology: Carceral Spaces
        Selected Topics in Criminology: Genocide and War Crimes
        Selected Topics in Criminology: The Justice of Restorative Justice
        Selective Topics inCriminology: Truth and Reconciliation

Research Interests:
Genocide Studies; Settler Colonialism, Infomal Justice, Sociology of Law, Criminology, Neoliberalism and the Inner City, Social Movements, Indigenous-Settler Relations.

Recent Publications:

Books:

Andrew Woolford. 2009.  The Politics of Restorative Justice: A Critical Introduction, Fernwood Publishing (176pp.)
 
* Listed by Choice (the publication of the American Library Association) as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009. This list is drawn from approximately 7,000 works reviewed by Choice each year. Selections are chosen based on criteria such as “overall excellence in presentation and scholarship,”  “importance relative to other literature in the field,” and “value to undergraduate students.”

Andrew Woolford and R.S. Ratner. 2008.  Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolutions in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations, Routledge-Cavendish. (160 pp.).

Andrew Woolford. 2005.  Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty-Making in British Columbia, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, Law and Society Series. (284 pp.).

Edited Collections:

Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Hinton (Eds.) Forthcoming. Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America. Duke University Press.

Bryan Hogeveen, Joane Martel and Andrew Woolford  Eds. 2006  “Law, Crime and Critique” special issue of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. September  48 (5).

Refereed Journal Articles:

Andrew Woolford. Forthcoming 2013. “Colonial Genocide and Criminology: The Next Generation” Critica Penal Y Poder (Barcelona). To appear in Spanish and English.

Andrew Woolford and Amanda Nelund. 2013. “The Responsibilities of the Poor: Performing Neoliberal Citizenship within the Social Service Field.” Social Service Review 87(2): 292-318.

Sonia Bookman and Andrew Woolford. 2013. “Policing (by) the Urban Brand: Policing Order in Winnipeg’s Exchange District.” Social and Cultural Geography 14 (3): 300-317.

Andrew Woolford. 2013 “Nodal Repair and Networks of Destruction: Residential Schools, Colonial Genocide and Redress in Canada.” Settler Colonial Studies 3 (1): 61-77.

Andrew Woolford and Amelia Curran. 2013. “Community Positions, Neoliberal Dispositions: Neoliberalism, Welfare, and Reflexivity within the Social Service Field.”  Critical Sociology 39 (1): 45-63.

Andrew Woolford. 2011. "Transition and Transposition: Geonocide, Land and the British Columbia Treaty Process." New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 4, 2.

Andrew Woolford and Amelia Curran. 2011. "Limited Autonomy, Neoliberal Domination, and Ethical Distancing in the Social Services" Critical Social Policy 31(4).

Andrew Woolford and Jasmine Thomas. 2011. "Exception and Deputization under Today's NDP: Neoliberalism, the Third Way and Crime Control in Manitoba" Canadian Journal of Law & Society 26 (1).

Andrew Woolford. 2010. "The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a Town:  The Art of Impression Management in Theresienstadt" accepted by Crime Media Culture 6 (2).

Andrew Woolford and R.S Ratner. 2010. "Disrupting the Informal-Formal Justice Complex: On the Transformative Potential of Civil Mediation, Restorative Justice and Reparations Politics" Contemporary Justice Review 13(1): 27-40.

Andrew Woolford.  2009.  "Ontological Destruction: Genocide and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal.  (Special Issue edited by Robyn Hitchcock and Samuel Tottten) 4, 1, April: 81-97.
    - Excerpted in Genocide: A Reader, edited by Jens Meierhenrich, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

R.S. Ratner and Andrew Woolford. 2008 "Fragile Coalition: Aboriginal Politics and Treaty-Making in British Columbia" Research in Social Movements,Conflicts and Change (edited by Patrick Coy and Isodor Walliman) 28: 113-36.

Jessica Woolford and Andrew Woolford. 2007.  “Abortion and Genocide: The Unbridgeable Gap” Social Politics 14, (1): 126-153.

Andrew Woolford and Stefan Wolejszo. 2006.  “Collecting on Moral Debts: Reparations, The Holocaust, and the Porrajmos” Law & Society Review 40,(4): 871-902.

Bryan Hogeveen and Andrew Woolford. 2006  “Critical Criminology and Possibility in the Neoliberal Ethos” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 48, (5): 681-702.

Joane Martel, Bryan Hogeveen and Andrew Woolford.  2006.  “The State of Critical Scholarship in Critical Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies in Canada: An Introuductory Essay” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 48, (5): 633-646. 

Andrew Woolford, Joane Martel and Bryan Hogeveen. 2006.  “Introduction: An Opening” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 48 (5): 631-632.

Andrew Woolford. 2006  “Making Genocide Unthinkable: Three Guidelines for a Critical Criminology of Genocide” Critical Criminology14 (1): 87-106.

Andrew Woolford and R.S. Ratner. 2005.  “Selling Mediation: The Marketing of Alternative Dispute Resolution” Peace and Conflict Studies Journal 12 (1): 1-21.

Andrew Woolford. 2004.  “The Limits of Justice: Certainty, Affirmative Repair, and Aboriginality” The Journal of Human Rights 3 (4): 429-444.

Andrew Woolford and R.S. Ratner. 2004. “A Measured Sovereignty: The Politics of Nation-Making in British Columbia” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 24 (2): 253-286. 

Andrew Woolford. 2004. “Negotiating Affirmative Repair: Symbolic Violence in the British Columbia Treaty Process” Canadian Journal of Sociology 29 (1): 111-144.

Andrew Woolford and R.S. Ratner. 2003. “Nomadic Justice: Restorative Justice on the Margins of Law” Social Justice 30 (1): 177-194.

Andrew Woolford. 2001. “Tainted Space: Representations of Injection-Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,” BC Studies 129, Spring: 27-50.

Book Chapters: 

Andrew Woolford. Forthcoming. “Discipline, Territory, and the Colonial Mesh: Boarding/Residential Schools in the US and Canada.” In Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Hinton (Eds.) Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America. Duke University Press.

Jeff Benvenuto, Andrew Woolford, and Alexander Hinton. Forthcoming. “Introduction.” In Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Hinton (Eds.) Colonial Genocide and Indigenous North America. Duke University Press.

Andrew Woolford. Forthcoming. “Governing Through Repair: Transitional Justice and Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” In P. Malcontent (ed.) Facing the Past: Finding Remedies for Grave Historical Injustice. Antwerp. Belgium: Intersentia Publishers.

Andrew Woolford and Amanda Nelund. 2013. “Adult Restorative Justice in Canada.” In J. Winterdyk and M. Weinrath (eds.) Adult Corrections in Canada: A Comprehensive Overview. deSitter Publishing.

Bryan Hogeveen and Andrew Woolford. 2012. “Contemporary Critical Criminology in English Canada.” In Rick Linden (ed.) Criminology: A Canadian Perspective, Seventh Edition, Toronto: Thomson-Nelson.
      -        Bryan Hogeveen and Andrew Woolford. 2008. “Contemporary Critical Criminology in English Canada.” In Rick Linden (ed.) Criminology: A Canadian Perspective, Sixth Edition,        Toronto: Thomson-Nelson.

Andrew Woolford. 2011. “Genocide, Affirmative Repair, and the British Columbia Treaty Process.”  In Alexander L. Hinton (ed.) Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities After Genocide and Mass Atrocity. Newark, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Andrew Woolford & Jasmine Thomas. 2010. "Genocide and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: A Dialogue in Waiting." In S. Totten and R. Hitchcock (eds.). The Ethnocide and Genocide of Indigenous Peoples, Volume 8 of Genocide a Critical Bibliographic Series. Edison, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

Andrew Woolford. 2010. “Criminological Nightmares: A Canadian Criminology of Genocide.” In Aaron Doyle and Dawn Moore (eds.) Critical Criminology in Canada: New Voices, New Directions. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Jason Edgerton, Lance Roberts, Lori Wilkinson, and Andrew Woolford. 2008. “Markers of Ethnic Marginalization: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.” In Petra Vojtová (ed.) Markers of Ethnic Marginalization Focused on Aboriginal People in Canada and on Roma in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. Ceské Budejovice: University of South Bohemia Faculty of Health and Social Studies, pp. 36-174 (in English and Czech).

Andrew Woolford and R.S. Ratner. 2008. “Mediation Frames: Justice Games.” In Sean Byrne, Jessica Senehi, Denis Sandole, and Ingrid Staroste-Sandole (eds.) Conflict Resolution: Core Concepts, Theories, Approaches and Practices. London: Routledge.

R.S. Ratner, W.K. Carroll and Andrew Woolford. 2003. “Wealth of Nations: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in the Era of Globalization.” In John Torpey (ed.) Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injustices. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 217-247.

Reports

Andrew Woolford (forthcoming) “Indigenous Boarding Schools in the US and Canada: Assimilation, Genocide and the Pathway to Repair.” A Report for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (187pp).

Manuscripts Under Review:

R.S. Ratner, Andrew Woolford and Andrew Patterson “Obstacles on the Path to Post-Genocide Repair: A Comparative Analysis, 1945-2010” submitted to International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

Andrew Woolford “The Healing State: Residential Schools and Reparations in Canada” in Jo-Anne Wemmers (ed.) The Healing Role of Reparations for Victims of Crimes Against Humanity under consideration for Routledge, Frontiers in Criminal Justice Series.

Andrew Woolford “This Benevolent Experiment”: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide and Redress in North America submitted to University of Nebraska, Indigenous Education Series and the University of Manitoba Press.

Andrew Woolford and Bryan Hogeveen “Public Criminology in the Cold City” submitted for a special issue of Radical Criminology on Public Criminology, Justin Piche (ed.).

Andrew Woolford and Natalia Ilyniak. “The Dark Side of Canadian Democracy: RCAP, Residential Schools, Genocide, and Repair” submitted for a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Studies.

Works in Progress:

Bryan Hogeveen and Andrew Woolford. Cold Cities: Care and Control in Inner City Edmonton and Winnipeg. Under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Andrew Woolford and R.S. Ratner “Rupture and Redress: The Geopolitical barriers to Genocide Reparations”.

Adam Muller, Karen Busby, and Andrew Woolford (Eds.) The Idea of a Human Rights Museum. Edited Volume prepared for University of Manitoba Press.

Adam Muller, Karen Busby, and Andrew Woolford. “Introduction” in Adam Muller, Karen Busby, and Andrew Woolford (Eds.) The Idea of a Human Rights Museum. Edited Volume prepared for University of Manitoba Press.

Struan Sinclair, Adam Muller, and Andrew Woolford “Engaging Machines: Experience, Empathy, and the Modern Museum” in Adam Muller, Karen Busby, and Andrew Woolford (Eds.) The Idea of a Human Rights Museum. Edited Volume prepared for University of Manitoba Press

Andrew Woolford and Jeff Benvenuto “Canada and Colonial Genocide” Special Issue of the Journal of Genocide Research, planned for 2015 release.

Grants:

2013. Andrew Woolford. UM/SSHRC Travel Grant for 10^th Binnial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars”, $1316.

2013. Andrew Woolford. Dean’s Office Funding for travel to International Association of Genocide Scholars Meetings in Siena, Italy, June 2013, $650.

2012. Andrew Woolford, Adam Muller, Struan Sinclair. SSHRC Bridge-Funding. Project: Embodying Empathy: Historical Memory, Experiences of Suffering, and the Modern Museum. Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba, $5000.

2012. John Loxley (Principle Investigator) E. Comack, L. Deane, I. Hudson, P. Kulchyski, S. MacKinnon, J. Silver, I. Skelton, Andrew Woolford, etc. (Co-Investigators). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant. Projecy: Partnering for Change -- Community Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-city Poverty. $2,500,000. 

2012. Andrew Woolford, Alexander Hinton and Jeff Benvenuto. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connections, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Funding. Project: Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America. Workshop to take place September 20-22, 2012 at the University of Manitoba, $24,930.

2011. Andrew Woolford. Canada-US Fulbright Scholar Award. Project: Tonic for the Boarding School Blues? Genocide and Historical Redress in Canada and the United States. To be held in the Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, January-April, 2012, $12,500.

2011. Andrew Woolford. Truth and Reconcilition Commission of Canada funding for Tonic for the Boarding School Blues? Genocide and Historical Redress in Canada and the United States, $16,000.

2011. Andrew Woolford, Adam Muller, and Struan Sinclair. UMSSHRC Research Grant for Embodying Empathy: Historical Memory, Experiences of Suffering, and the Modern Museum, $6974.

2008. Bryan Hogeveen and Andrew Woolford (Co-Investigators). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant. Project Title: Experiencing Neoliberalism in Two Prairie Cities, $131,795 (3 years).

2008. Stephan Jaeger, Elana Baraban, Adam Muller and Andrew Woolford. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Aid to Workshops and Conferences in Canada. Conference Title: Definition and Depiction: Representing War Across the Disciplines, $7791.

2007. John Loxley (Principal Investigator), L. Bruce, L. Chartrand, E. Comack, L. Deane, J. Distasio, P. Ghorayshi, J. Hill, I. Hudson, P. Kulchyski, S. MacKinnon, B. Reimer, J. Silver, and I. Skelton (Co-Investigators). Andrew Woolford (Collaborator) et al. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council/ Community-University Research Alliance. Project title: Transforming Aboriginal and Inner City Communities, $1,000,000 (5 Years).

2007. Andrew Woolford. UM/SSHRC International Conference Grant for International Association of Genocide Scholars Meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, $2174.

2007.  Andrew Woolford. Dean’s Office Funding, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba for International Association of Genocide Scholars Meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, $750.

2006-07. Lance Roberts, Lori Wilkinson, and Andrew Woolford. Markers of Ethnic Marginalization: The Roma in the Czech Republic and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Federal Government of the Czech Republic (Ambassador to Canada) and the University of Manitoba (VP International Relations), $13,000.

2006. Elena Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, Adam Muller, Sarah Rocheville, Jessica Senehi, Michael Stack, Lasha Tchantouridzé, Andrew Woolford, Monique Dumontet, University of Manitoba Institute of the Humanities Research Cluster, Representations of War.

2004. Andrew Woolford (Principal Investigator) and R.S. Ratner (UBC, Co-Researcher) Social Sciences and Humanities Council Standard Research Grant. Project title: A Sociography of Genocide Reparations,  $121,285 (3 years).

2004. Andrew Woolford. Dean’s Office Funding, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba, for index of Between Certainty and Justice: Treaty-Making in Modern-Day British Columbia, $1200.

2004. SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Publications publishing subsidy for Between Certainty and Justice: Treaty-Making in Modern-Day British Columbia, $7000.

2003. John Hogarth (Principal Investigator), Sharon Sutherland, R.S. Ratner, Bruce Miller (Co-investigators), Andrew Woolford (Collaborator) et. al., Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council/Community-University Research Alliance. Project title: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Renewal, $1,000,000 (5 Years).

2002. Andrew Woolford University of Manitoba Research Grant. Project title: Restoring Aboriginality, $5498.

1998. Andrew Woolford. Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of British Columbia, $400.