Adjunct Professor

Department of Sociology
Memorial University
St John's, NL, A1C 5S7 Canada

Email: loates[at]mun[dot]ca

Academics

BA, MA, MPhil. (Memorial); Ph.D. (Exeter)

Bio

Lori Lee Oates is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is project lead for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (IDG) funded project Cursed: How the Resource Curse Manifests in Newfoundland and Labrador. Collaborators to the project include Canada Research Chair Angela Carter, Professor Mark Stoddart, and Professor Lucian Ashworth.

Lori Lee has been published in the International History Review and her first monograph is forthcoming with SUNY Press. At present, she is co-editing a special issue of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice on gender and climate justice with Sritama Chatterjee of the University of Pittsburgh. As an active member of the climate justice community, Lori Lee is currently doing outreach work with the Atlantic Youth Climate Corp initiative and believes strongly in the need for a just transition away from fossil fuels. She is a regular contributor to Canada’s National Observer and has written opinion pieces for The Global and Mail. A frequent political commentator, Lori Lee has appeared on The National, CBC Radio’s The House, and Global National. As a two-time graduate of Memorial Political Science, she is passionate about teaching courses on Newfoundland and Labrador, social inequality, and communications. Lori Lee has also served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Minister of Status of Women and Director of Communications with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. This enables her to bring practical experience in policy and decision making to her teaching work.