Teaching Areas:
Criminology, Restorative Justice, Genocide and War Crimes, Sociology of Law, Criminological Theory

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: Genocide and War Crimes
        Selected Topics in Criminology: The Justice of Restorative Justice
        Selective Topics inCriminology: Truth and Reconciliation

Research Interests:
Genocide Studies; Transitional Justice, Infomal Justice, Sociology of Law, Criminology, Neoliberalism and the Inner City, Social Movements, Aboriginal Politics.

Recent Publications:

Books:

Andrew Woolford. 2009.  The Politics of Restorative Justice: A Critical Introduction, Fernwood Publishing (176pp.)

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:

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. 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 2012. "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 & Jasmine Thomas. 2010. "Genoide and Aboiginal 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. "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. 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 Egerton, Lance Roberts, Lori Wilkinson, and Andrew Woolford. 2008. "Makers of Ethnic Marginalizatio: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada." In Petra Vojtova (ed.)  Markers of Ethnic Marginalization Focused on Aboriginal People in Canada and on Roma in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, Ceske Budejovice: Universityof South Bohemia Faculty of Health and Social Studies, pp. 36-174 (in English and Czech).

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 and R.S. Ratner. 2008. "Mediation Games: Justice Frames"  In Sean Byrne, Jessica Senehi, Denis Sandole, and Ingrid Staroste-Sandole (eds.) Conflict Resolutions: 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.

Encyclopedia Entries:

Andrew Woolford. 2008.  “Genocide” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society. London: Sage.

Grants:

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? Geonocide and Historical Redress in Canada and the United States, $16,019.

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-investigator). 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 Converences in Canada.  Converence Title: Definition and Depiction: Rpresenting War Across the Disciplines, $7791 (1 Year)

2007. John Loxley (Principal Investigator), 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. Skelto (Co-Investigators).  Andrew Woolford (collaborator) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Community-University Research Alliance, Project title Transforming Inner City and Aboriginal Communities, $1,00,000 (3 Years).

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

2006. Elena Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, Adam Muller, Sarah Rocheville, Jessica Senehi, Michael Stack, Lasha Tchantouridze, Andrew Woolford,  Monique Dumontet UMIH Research Cluster, War and Representation.

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

2003. John Hogarth (Principle 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 (3 Years).

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