Monisha Logan
Research Assistant
About
Monisha Logan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She is currently a Research Assistant on the Prison Transparency Project and has been with the project since 2019. Her research interests include looking at experiences of racialization and state violence under the guise of care-based narratives. Her current dissertation explores the intersections of mental health, race, culture, and institutional care/violence. Specifically, she aims to do research on South Asian mental healthcare in Peel Region, and explore the ways in which cultural understandings of mental health inform organizational resources and programming. Previously, her MA research looked at the relationship between affect, race, and police brutality. Focused on the emotional impact of audiovisual material depicting incidences of police violence, her research looked at how a victim’s race influences how the public as spectators view, listen, and react to their deaths online, and how that in turn, may influence how the larger issue of police violence is understood.