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Kamari Clarke receives SSHRC’s 2025 Insight Award
Published: December 1, 2025
Kamari Clarke, a distinguished professor of transnational justice and sociolegal studies and director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at U of T's Faculty of Arts & Science, has received the 2025 Insight Award from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The Insight Award is one of SSHRC’s annual Impact Awards, recognizing scholars whose work has made a significant contribution to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.
Clarke's research investigates fundamental questions of culture and power, illuminating how emerging social formations shape today’s pressing global issues. The 2025 Insight Award acknowledges her leadership as principal investigator of "Evidentiary Dilemmas and Emergent Publics," the first ethnographic project to examine how geospatial technologies are used to track mass atrocity violence and support the development of international human rights cases.
“In many ways, the award affirms the importance of research that takes seriously the lived experiences of those whose voices are too often marginalized in policy and academic discourses," said Clarke. "I’m pleased that this award is recognizing the impact that grassroots research can have in intervening into cycles of violence.”
“Kamari Maxine Clarke is globally renowned for her advancement of knowledge, theory and innovation in the areas of anthropology and law,” said Stephen Wright, interim dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science. “Her extraordinary influence is celebrated not only within academia, but by those working in the fields of international law and human rights."
