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Dr. Kristi Kenyon is an Associate Professor and Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Winnipeg's Global College. Her work bridges health and human rights through interdisciplinary research and participatory pedagogy. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and an MA in Human Rights from the University of Essex. Current research includes CIHR-funded studies on lymphatic filariasis stigma in Ghana and SSHRC-funded work on gender, disability, and development in South Africa.
Her academic career includes postdoctoral fellowships at Dalhousie University (SSHRC) and the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law. She is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar and a Research Fellow at Dalhousie’s Centre for the Study of Security and Development. Publications include her award-winning monograph Resilience and Contagion (2017) and over 20 peer-reviewed articles.
Teaching focuses on experiential and interdisciplinary methods, with notable projects like using civic monuments for human rights education. Awards include SSHRC and CIHR research grants, and she serves on editorial boards for Journal of Human Rights Practice and international organizations like the Human Rights Cities Alliance.
Key projects combine activism and scholarship: exploring legal systems’ health impacts through Vancouver’s Downtown Community Court, analyzing Botswana’s HIV advocacy, and advancing human rights localization in African urban contexts. Her work emphasizes participatory approaches and global-local intersections in rights-based interventions.
