Tia Dafnos

Tia Dafnos serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, where she joined in 2015 and currently coordinates the Law in Society program. Her academic journey includes doctoral studies in Sociology at York University, where she also taught undergraduate courses in Criminology and Sociology.

Dr. Dafnos's research centers on three interconnected domains: policing, security and pacification; racialization and colonialism; and resistance, protest, and social movements. Grounded in historical materialism, her work integrates critical race theory, feminist perspectives, anti/postcolonial frameworks, and Indigenous scholarship to examine how security discourses legitimize institutional secrecy. She pioneers methodological approaches using freedom of information requests to investigate 'powerful' state and corporate entities.

Her publication record (2011-2020) reveals consistent thematic evolution toward analyzing critical infrastructure within national security paradigms, particularly state-private partnerships for intelligence sharing. This body of work demonstrates interdisciplinary reach across

• settler colonial studies
• socio-legal analysis
• critical criminology
• Indigenous sovereignty movements
• security governance
• emergency management systems

with recurring emphasis on Canada's colonial foundations.

As an active supervisor, Dr. Dafnos mentors students in critical criminology, socio-legal studies, and resistance movements while contributing to the anti-security collective—an international network examining law, surveillance, and policing through activist-scholar collaboration. Her research program bridges theoretical rigor with practical engagement in decolonial security praxis.