Julie Chamberlain

Title: Associate Professor and Department Chair
Phone: 204 258 3830
Office: Room:132, 541 Selkirk Avenue
Building: Merchants Corner
Email: j.chamberlain@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:
PhD – Environmental Studies, York University
MA – Adult Education & Community Development, University of Toronto
BSW – Social Work, Ryerson University

Biography:

Julie Chamberlain is Associate Professor and an activist scholar who studies the intersections of racism and anti-racism with urban and community planning and development. She is interested in how social and spatial relations interact in cities, in urban emotional and cultural geographies, and in environmental justice.

Dr. Chamberlain values community-engaged and community-based knowledge creation and sharing, and co-leads the Community-Based Research Training Centre. 

Her past work has focused on racialized residents’ perspectives on neighbourhood change and development in Hamburg, Germany; analyzed how racism is reproduced in urban planning discourse; and facilitated community-based knowledge production and sharing with community groups in Winnipeg and Toronto, on topics such as community safety. Dr. Chamberlain is from Scarborough, Ontario. 

Courses:

UIC 1001(3) - Intro to Urban and Inner-City Studies

UIC 2001(3) - Community Development

UIC 2050 (3)- Doing Urban Research

UIC 3030(3) - Urban and Community Planning

Publications:

Mayor, C., Chamberlain, J., Bannatyne, C. & Macgillivray, M (2025). How community safety hosts practice wâhkôhtowin. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Research Alliance. https://mra-mb.ca/publication/how-community-safety-hosts-practice-wahkohtowin/

Chamberlain, J. (2022). Wilhelmsburg is our home! Racialized residents on urban development and social mix planning in a Hamburg neighbourhood. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6387-7/wilhelmsburg-is-our-home/

Chamberlain, J. (2022). Theorizing Hamburg from the South: Racialization and the Development of Wilhelmsburg. In Ha, N. and Picker, G. (Eds). European Cities: Modernity, Race, and Colonialism, pp. 236-256. Manchester University Press.

Jones, C., Chamberlain, J., Sayers, G., Wood, L, Smith, N., Waddell-Henowitch, C., Fleming, C. (2022). Caring during COVID: An exacerbated burden on gender-marginalized faculty. BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education. 14(1), 37-47.

Chamberlain, J. (2020). Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: IBA Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(4), 607-625

Paterson, M., & Chamberlain, J. (2024). What makes transitional housing in Manitoba unsafe for transgender people? Spectrum, 13. https://doi.org/10.29173/spectrum230

Chamberlain, J., Cardigan Smith, S. and Perrott, D. (2024). Using literature review to inform an anti-oppressive approach to community safety. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-engaged research, teaching, and learning, 10(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v10i1.70833

Chamberlain, J. (2023). Heimat Wilhelmsburg: Belonging and resistance in a racialized neighborhood in Germany. Journal of Race, Ethnicity & the City, 4(1), 49-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/26884674.2022.2111007