Amelia Curran

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.258.3878
Office: 3C49
Building: Centennial Hall
Email: a.curran@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

MA University of Manitoba

PhD Carleton University 

Biography:

Dr. Amelia Curran received her PhD from the University of Carleton Sociology and Anthropology Department where she wrote her dissertation on gang territories in Winnipeg. Her book, Slipping the Line: the assembled geographies of gang territories was released in 2023 (Palgrave McMillian).

Dr. Curran is currently involved in two research projects. She is the Principal Investigator on a Manitoba Research Alliance/SSHRC-funded project with studying the use, experiences, and implications of bail conditions, (e.g., do-not-attend/no contact/area restrictions, residential conditions, curfews) for marginalized communities in Manitoba, and a second SSHRC-funded project looking at the effect of gang designations on bail and conditions of release, both with researcher Dr. Sarah Zell (Urban and Inner-city Studies, UW).   

Dr. Curran is Co-lead (with Dr. Elizabeth Comack), Justice, Safety, and Security Stream of the Manitoba Research Alliance (MRA) and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba (CCPA-MB).

Courses:

CJ-1002 Introduction to Criminal Justice

CJ-2100 Foundations of Criminal Justice

CJ/SOC-3223 Green Criminology

Research Interests:

Social Justice, Youth Justice, Youth Gangs, Carceral Geographies and Geographies of Crime/Justice, Critical Carcerality, Social Justice Policy, Policing, Housing and Justice, New Materialist Theory and Methodologies.

Publications:

Heath, S., Curran, A, & Zell, S. 2026, “Beyond Release or Remand: Community Supervision as a Supportive Alternative to Pre-trial Detention”, The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research. Volume 15, pp. 87-123. 

Comack, E & Curran, A. “Realizing Transformational Change in the Winnipeg Police Service.” The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba, (September 2025). https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/realizing-transformational-change-in-the-winnipeg-police-service/

Comack, E & Curran, A. (2024). Supporting and Promoting Safe and Just Communities? In, Hajer, J. (ed.) Public Service in Tough Times, University of Manitoba Press. 

Curran, A. (August 2023). Slipping the Line: The Assembled Geographies of Gang Territories. Palgrave McMillan.

Zell, S & Curran, A. (August 2023). Making Space: Relational Ethnography and Emergent Resistance. In Hughes, S. (ed). Critical Geographies of Resistance, Edward Elgar Publishing.