Minelle Mahtani is Head of Canadian Studies at UBC. Previously she held the role of the Senior Advisor to the Provost on Racialized Faculty where she supported the recruitment and retention of racialized faculty. She was a national television news journalist at the CBC and was previously a journalism and geography professor at University of Toronto. She hosted a radio show at Roundhouse Radio, 98.3 Vancouver called “Sense of Place” and her show was unapologetically anti-racist and feminist in its approach, focusing on the stories of systemically disadvantaged communities. The show won four awards, including a Canadian Ethnic Media Association award for building relationships between ethnic communities and Indigenous communities, and a British Columbia Association of Broadcasters award for best community service reporting. She is the author of “Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality” with UBC Press and her memoir “May It Have a Happy Ending” has been named one of the top ten memoirs of the year by Audible Canada and has been noted by the Toronto Star, The Tyee, The Walrus, BC Review and she has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. She won a Digital Publishing Award for her piece in The Walrus Magazine (a gold medal).

Selected Publications

Journal articles and editorials

Mahtani, M. Forthcoming. “Risk, Relation, Revolution, Repair: Anti Colonial Storytelling in the Classroom.” Accepted with revisions, Emotion, Space and Society.
Mahtani, M. Forthcoming. “Voice.” Carte Blanche.

Mahtani, M., & Shafer, D. 2018. “Dialogue, discourse, disjunctures: Building critically affirmative politics in radio.” Dialogues in Human Geography 8(2) 156-159.

Mahtani, Minelle. 2017. “Telling Stories: University of Toronto Scholar Discovers New Role as Radio Host” Academic Matters Spring. 10-12.

Mahtani, Minelle. 2016. “Covering Immigration: Review of Rodney Benson’s “Representing Immigration” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 741-746.

Books and edited collections

Mahtani, Minelle. 2014. Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.

O’Riain King, Rebecca, Paul Spickard, Miri Song, Minelle Mahtani and Stephen Small (eds). 2014. Global Mixed Race. New York: NYU Press. (co-edited)

* Mahtani, Minelle, Danielle Kwan- Lafond and Leanne Taylor. 2014. “Exporting Multiculturalism: Mixed Race Identity and the Commodification of Multiracialism” in O’Riain, Rebecca King, Paul Spickard, Miri Song, Minelle Mahtani and Stephen Small (eds). Global Mixed Race. New York: NYU Press. Pp. 145-167. Percentage completed by me: 30%

Book chapters

Mahtani, Minelle, Danielle Kwan- Lafond and Leanne Taylor. 2014. “Exporting Multiculturalism: Mixed Race Identity and the Commodification of Multiracialism” in O’Riain, Rebecca King, Paul Spickard, Miri Song, Minelle Mahtani and Stephen Small (eds). Global Mixed Race. New York: NYU Press. Pp. 145-167.

Mahtani, Minelle and David Roberts. 2012. “Afterword: the Future of Asian Canadian Studies” in Coloma, Roland et al. (eds). Spectres of Invisibility: Philipina/Canadian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. 213-226.