Alexander McClelland
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Department of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Centre on Culture and Society, Concordia University; Masters of Environmental Studies, York University
- DT 1714 Dunton Tower, Ӱԭ University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Email Alexander McClelland
- 613-520-2600 ext. 3353
Research Interests:
- Critical social science
- Violence
- Surveillance
- Criminalization
- Anarchism
- Qualitative research
- Research ethics
- Critical public health
- Public criminology
Select Principal Investigator funding:
- CIHR Community-Based HIV Team Grant (LOI stage), 2024-2025. Setting Directions for a Community-Based HIV & STBBI Surveillance Observatory.
- SSHRC Insight Grant, 2024-2028. Tracking (In)Justice: Advancing new knowledge on police involved deaths in Canada.
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024. Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks.
- CIHR Community-Based HIV Research Catalyst Grant, 2022-2023. Mapping the pathway of blood collected from HIV-positive people in a clinical setting: implications for public health surveillance, consent, and criminalization.
- SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Ӱԭ University, 2021-2024. Tracking (In)Justice Tracking (In)Justice: a publicly accessible online database of police-involved and carceral deaths across Canada.
- SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019-2020. Confidentiality, anonymity & epistemological exclusion: challenges & strategies for realizing ethical & inclusive research.
Book:
A. McClelland. (2024). . Rutgers University Press.
Winner POZ Awards, Best in Literature 2024,
“An unforgettable chronicle” –
Canada has been known as hot spot for HIV criminalization where the act of not disclosing one’s HIV-positive status to sex partners has historically been regarded as a serious criminal offence. Criminalized Lives describes how this approach has disproportionately harmed the poor, Black and Indigenous people, gay men, and women. In this book, people who have been criminally accused of not disclosing their HIV-positive status, detail the many complexities of disclosure, and the violence that results from being criminalized.
Accompanied by portraits from queer comic artist , and a foreword from leading activist , the book examines whether the criminal legal system is really prepared to handle the nuances and ethical dilemmas faced everyday by people living with HIV. By offering personal stories of people who have faced criminalization first-hand, McClelland questions common assumptions about HIV, the role of punishment, and the violence that results from the criminal legal system’s legacy of categorizing people as either victims or perpetrators.
Select refereed journal articles:
A. McClelland, J. Brophy, A. King, M. Owino, A. Wah, R. Peck. (2024). . Canadian Journal of Public Health.
C. Hastings, M. French, A. McClelland, et al. (2023). . Canadian Journal of Public Health.
S. Molldrem, A. K.J Smith, A. McClelland. (2022). Critical Public Health.
T. Hoppe, A. McClelland, K. Pass. (2022). Current Opinion on HIV and AIDS.
A. McClelland & C. Bruckert. (2021). Journal of Law and Society.
M. Molldrem, M. Hussain, A. McClelland. (2021). Health Policy.
A. McClelland & A. Luscombe. (2021). The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research.
E.J. Bernard, A. McClelland, B. Cardell, C. Chung, M. Castro-Bojorquez, M. French, D. Hursey, N. Khanna, B. Minalga, A. Spieldenner, S. Strub. (2020). American Journal of Bioethics.
A. McClelland. (2019). . In M. French & L. Letourneau (Eds.), Special issue on Big Data and Risk Regulation, European Journal of Risk Regulation.
A. McClelland, A. Guta & M. Gagnon. (2019). Critical Public Health.
Select refereed book chapters:
A. McClelland. (2022). Histories of living in a negative relation to the law: resistance under regimes of criminalization. In E. van der Meulen, J. Monaghan, and K. Fritsch (Eds.), . 1-24. University of British Columbia Press.
A. McClelland. (2021). Old Testament. In M.B. Syacmore (Ed.), 150-160. Arsenal Pulp Press.
A. McClelland & Z. Dodd. (2021). Thoughts on an Anarchist Response to Hepatitis C and HIV. In Z. Sharman, . 119-134. Arsenal Pulp Press.
A. McClelland. (2020). We Can’t Police Our Way out of a Pandemic. In, Between the Lines.
Courses:
CRCJ 2200: Contemporary Issues in Criminology
CRCJ 3110: Policing & Public Health
CRCJ 4001: Anarchism and Abolition