Jordan Stanger-Ross

Jordan Stanger-Ross is a Professor and Provost's Engaged Scholar (2020-2025) in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. He holds a BA from McGill University and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on migration, race, and inequality in twentieth-century North America, with emphasis on Japanese Canadian internment and dispossession.

He directs the Landscapes of Injustice project and co-directs Past Wrongs, Future Choices, a multinational research initiative on Japanese diaspora persecution. His award-winning research has redefined understandings of systemic racism, property confiscation, and state violence in Canadian history.

Recent publications examine transnational apology politics, constitutional violations during wartime, Holocaust memory in settler cities, and resistance strategies against dispossession. His community-engaged methodology integrates archival research with descendant perspectives.