Hayley Brooks (PhD, 2023)

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Hayley H. Brooks (she/her) is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (LTA) in Social Justice Education at the 91ֱ�� (OISE), University of Toronto. Dr. Brooks specializes in the areas of critical international education, media and cultural studies, gender-based violence prevention education, and sociological research methods for social justice. Her research utilizes an original global ethnographic framework, using digital art and cultural productions made by women around the world, to illuminate and connect various political, social, and cultural ontologies in/across the global South and North. The approach endeavours to engender critical classroom conversations related to gender, power, violence, difference, and feminist resistance across borders.

She has delivered guest lectures, workshops, and scholarly presentations to academic and community audiences including K-12 educators in Ontario, international exchange students in higher education, international scholars and activists in violence prevention, and colleagues at the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the Association for Women and Gender Studies/Recherches Féministes, among others.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Media Literacy Education, Comparative and International Education, and Annual Review of Comparative and International Education and Violence Against Women (forthcoming). Dr. Brooks’ research and writing have received the University of Toronto’s Graduate Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence, the Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences Merit Award for research excellence, and the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education’s Dissertation Award.

Dr. Brooks teaches courses exploring sociological research methods for social justice, critical media literacy education, violence prevention in higher education, and (transnational) feminist theories and methods in/for education.

Reflections written by Hayley Brooks in January 2026.

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Hayley Brooks (PhD, 2023)

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