Canadian Studies Perspectives on COVID-19

Writer and educator Carrianne Leung, the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor in Canadian Culture at University College 2020-21, shares a personal account of the anti-Asian racism she has experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Emily Gilbert, director of Canadian Studies, looks at how the nation's borders have been wielded to manage disease, both historically and today during the COVID-19 pandemic.