Teddy Harrison

Teddy Harrison, is a SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow and associate in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He studies the possibility of legitimate criminal justice against a background of racialized, structural injustice, focusing on Indigenous and Black people in Canada and the United States. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, specializing in Political Theory and Canadian Politics, with dissertation research on the legitimacy of criminal justice for Indigenous people in Canada. He also holds an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford and an Honours BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. Before beginning doctoral studies, he worked for two and a half years as a policy advisor in the Canadian federal Department of Justice.