Wendy Chan

Wendy Chan is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, race, and class within criminal justice, media, immigration, and welfare systems. She holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, alongside other advanced degrees in socio-legal studies and law.

Her work examines criminalization of marginalized groups, immigration policies, welfare enforcement, and domestic violence. Notable projects include analyses of birth tourism regulation targeting immigrant women and critiques of systemic racism in Canadian criminal justice. She currently teaches SA 345 on Race, Immigration, and the Canadian State.

• Education:
• PhD (Criminology), University of Cambridge
• MPhil (Criminology), University of Cambridge
• MA (Socio-Legal Studies), University of Sheffield
• BA (Law and English Literature), Carleton University

Recent publications include Hiding in Plain Sight (2020) on immigrant women's domestic violence experiences and Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada (2014). Her research consistently critiques how legal frameworks perpetuate systemic inequalities.

• Grants:
• 2022-2025: Chairs and Directors Research Grant (PI), studying socio-legal regulation of pregnant immigrant women