Cynthia Levine-Rasky

Cynthia Levine-Rasky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, with cross-appointments in the Department of Gender Studies and the Faculty of Education. She holds a Ph.D. from York University. Her research focuses on critical whiteness studies, Romani Studies, intersectionality, and community-based research methodologies. She has published extensively on topics including racialization, refugee policies, and social justice themes.

Her academic contributions include monographs like Whiteness Fractured (2013) and Writing the Roma: Histories, Policies, and Communities in Canada (2016), as well as co-edited volumes such as A Romani Women’s Anthology: Spectrum of the Blue Water (2017). Her recent work explores creative nonfiction and narrative inquiry as tools for social research.

Levine-Rasky supervises graduate students on topics ranging from immigrant settlement to racial formation theory. She emphasizes qualitative methods and community engagement in her teaching and research. Her current projects include a co-edited book We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times, addressing contemporary social justice challenges.