Professor Donna Coker will serve as the International Visiting Fellow at the Restorative Research, Innovation and Education Lab at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Founded in 2020, the Restorative Lab is an international center of learning and initiative in restorative justice, with a focus on justice and care for those who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized. The International Visiting Fellowship is given yearly to a scholar who has conducted outstanding scholarship in the field of restorative justice. Professor Coker’s research with the lab will focus on restorative justice responses to state and institutional racial and gender violence. She will be in residence in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the 2023 spring semester.
Professor Coker is the author of numerous articles regarding restorative justice responses to gender violence. She is a nationally recognized expert in intimate partner violence law and policy. Her scholarship focuses on criminal law, gender, and race inequality. Her research concerns the connection between economic vulnerability and IPV; restorative justice responses to IPV and sexual harm; and the intersections of gender and race subordination in criminal law doctrine, policy, and application. Her research is interdisciplinary and influenced by scholarship in critical race feminism, restorative justice, public health, and criminology.
Coker has twice received the Provost’s Research Award in 2017 and 2021 and was awarded the Hausler Golden Apple teaching award in 2015. Professor Coker also served as Academic Associate Dean from 2005-2009.
