Racial Uprisings Lab
​The Racial Uprisings Lab was created by Jamein Cunningham and I in the Spring of 2016 thanks to funding from the University of Victoria Internal Research/Creative Project Grant. The lab's work and scale has expanded since receiving support from a SSHRC Insight Development Grant in 2017. The lab is working to create a new database of all racialized uprisings in the United States post-1991 with a particular emphasis on the Black Lives Matter movement. It follows in the tradition of a previous data creation project from by Susan Olzak and Elizabeth West (1995), which collected similar data from the early 1950s until 1991.  

Location
BEC 385, University of Victoria

Research Team Members
Project Leads: 
Professor Rob Gillezeau
Professor Jamein Cunningham

Team Members (Past and Present):
Rebecca Wortzman
Lu Qincheng
​Sean Li
Jonathan French
Zoe-Blue Coastes
Alicia Armstrong
Thomas Kempster
Arjun Gupta