Mary Anne Vallianatos
Assistant Professor
Accepting graduate students
- Contact:
- maryannev@uvic.ca 250-472-4260
- Credentials:
- BA (McGill); JD (Dalhousie); LLM (Columbia); PhD (UVic)
- Area of expertise:
- Canadian legal history, Asian Canadian history, critical race studies
Biography
Mary Anne Vallianatos joined the 樱花影视, Faculty of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2025. She holds a PhD from the 樱花影视, an LLM from Columbia Law School, and a JD from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Professor Vallianatos’ research areas are Canadian legal history, law and empire, and race, ethnicity and migration. Her PhD dissertation is titled A Legal History of Asian Migration, Race and Exception in British Columbia, 1885-1949. Prior to joining the faculty, she was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, where she taught property law, access to justice, and Asian Canadians and the law. Before this, she held fellowships at UVic Law and Dalhousie, where she taught critical race theory and contract law, respectively. Before her doctoral studies, Professor Vallianatos was called to the bars of Ontario and British Columbia and practiced Aboriginal law in Vancouver.
Education
- BA (International Development Studies), McGill University;
- JD, Dalhousie University;
- LLM, Columbia University;
- PhD, 樱花影视.
Selected publications
- “Marginal Citizens: Interracial intimacies and the incarceration of Japanese Canadians, 1942-1949” (2022) 37:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 49-67.
- “When Redress is Being Here: history, myth and bias in Mack v Canada” (forthcoming) Journal of Law and Social Policy, Special Edition, Locating RDS in the 21st Century.
Other work
Recognition and Awards
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Honourable Mention, English Article Prize 2023, Canadian Journal of Law and Society