Welcome to May Farrales

May Farrales joins us as an Assistant Professor in Urban Social Change (August 1, 2020), cross appointed with the Department of Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies. May holds a PhD (2017) in Geography from UBC and has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research to date has centered on the embodied and lived experiences of people of colour in settler colonial urban geographies. At SFU she plans to develop her research with immigrant communities and the racial geographies of smaller Canadian urban centres. She is passionate about teaching and will teach courses on migration and Queer geographies in the Department of Geography at SFU. If you want to learn more about her work, contact her at may_farrales@sfu.ca.

Additional information on May's career is reported here.  https://usa.inquirer.net/57274/canadas-simon-fraser-u-appoints-its-first-filipina-professor