Vanessa Oliveira Andreotti
Dr. Vanessa Oliveira Andreotti is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research examines historical and systemic patterns of reproduction of inequalities and how these limit or enable possibilities for collective existence and global change. Her publications in this field include analyses of political economies of knowledge production, discussions of the ethics of international development, and critical comparisons of ideals of globalism and internationalization in education and in global activism, with an emphasis on representations of and relationships with marginalized communities. Her work in teacher education conceptualizes education as an expansion of frames of reference and of fields of signification with a view to expanding possibilities for ethical solidarities. My academic work is committed to protecting the public role of the university as critic and conscience of society and as a space of independent, multi-voiced, critically informed and socially accountable debates about alternative futures. Dr. Andreotti is also a research fellow at the University of Oulu, where she was chair of global education from 2010 to 2013. Further, she is also a research fellow at the Centre for Global Citizenship Education at the University of Alberta.