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Duration of Stay:  15-30 June 2026 | Visiting Researcher funded through the Bavarian Research Alliance BayFOR BayIntAn internationalization programme, based at the Leibniz ScienceCampus
Chairing a panel at the LSC Annual Conference In/ter/dependence on 18 June, 09:30

During her time in Regensburg, Prof. Rahr will be involved in extending the collaboration between the University of Regensburg, IOS, the ScienceCampus and the University of Toronto, including the Munk School. She looks forward to exchanges with colleagues working across disciplines including American Studies, international relations and politics, and memory and cultural studies.

Alexandra Rahr is associate professor in the teaching stream in American Studies at the University of Toronto. She was previously the inaugural Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies at Toronto's Centre for the Studies of the United States, where she taught classes in cultures of populism, narratives of natural disaster, public memorial cultures and protest movements. She is taking up University of Toronto Faculty Fellowship in Experiential Learning this year, and also teaches on the Peace, Conflict and Justice Programme. She is also active in the Munk One First-Year Foundations program at the University of Toronto that combines interdisciplinary scholarship with hands-on, experiential learning while fostering a close-knit intellectual community within Canada’s largest university. Beyond research and teaching, she has a role in the University of Toronto's Teaching and Learning Subcommittee of the President's Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability, and serves on the leadership team of the University Climate Change Coalition, Campus as Lab Community of Practice (which is a group of R1 North American universities working on experiential learning through campus as a living lab).

She completed her PhD in 2014 at the University of Toronto, titled: Shelter from the Storm: Asylum in American Narratives of Natural Disaste.