Jane Komori

Jane Komori is an Assistant Professor whose research focuses on race, labor, and ecology. Her work examines the labor history and self-organization of Asian immigrant and Indigenous workers in Western Canada’s resource industries from the 1850s to the mid-20th century. She theorizes how racial forms, particularly labor racialization, intersect with settler colonialism, resource extraction, and environmental change.

Her writing appears in academic journals such as Historical Materialism, Crime, Media, Culture, and Critical Ethnic Studies, as well as public platforms like The Globe and Mail and Viewpoint Magazine. She co-authored Our Edible Roots: The Japanese Canadian Kitchen Garden (2018) with the Tonari Gumi Japanese Community Volunteers Association.