Katherine Morton Richards
Teaching Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Cultural sociology, violence, research methods, anti-colonial research, discourse analysis, cultural heritage, gender and intersectionality, settler colonialism.
Contact Information:
Office Number: AA4082
Email: kam813@mun.ca
Ph: 709-864-7446
Personal Profile:
Katherine鈥檚 research and teaching centers on cultural sociology, identity, and social inequality within Canada. Katherine鈥檚 research has analyzed hitchhiking, sex work, MMIWG2S, the TRC process, Indigenous-Crown relations and Indigenous status, media representations of race and gender, and the politics of ugliness.
She is currently working on a project on settler reflexivity and anti-colonial research design in qualitative sociology. Forthcoming publications include work on reconciliation and political apologies and a transnational social and cultural history of hitchhiking. While working and teaching at 91传媒 and Labrador, Katherine also holds an adjunct professor appointment at Acadia University and is a researcher at Dalhousie University.
While not teaching, Katherine is involved in cultural heritage, feminist activism, and local creative projects.
Research:
Morton Richards, Katherine. 2025. 鈥淭houghts and Prayers: Comparing Public Apologies for Residential Schools in Canada.鈥 American Indian Culture and Research Journal48 (2). .
Morton Richards, Katherine. 2024. 鈥淏illboards, Meaning, and the Framing of Social
Inequalities Within Public Service Announcements鈥 in Advertising and Society. Edited by Tiara Good, forthcoming fall 2025 (final submission and approval September 2024).
Morton Richards, Katherine. 2023. 鈥淲hat a Failed Project Taught Me 91传媒 Settler Research
With and For Indigenous Peoples鈥 Canada Watch. Robarts Center for Canadian Studies, York University. Toronto, Ontario. Summer 2023.
Morton, Katherine. 2019. 鈥淯nsettled Ground: the Ruins of Closed Residential Schools and
Canadian Identity.鈥 Canada Watch. Robarts Center for Canadian Studies, York University. Toronto, Ontario.
Morton, Katherine. 2018. 鈥淯gliness as Colonial Violence: Mediations of Murdered and
Missing Aboriginal Women.鈥 In The Politics of Ugliness. Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo (Ed.) Toronto: Palgrave Macmillan.
Morton, Katherine. 2016. "Hitchhiking and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Billboards on the Highway of Tears." Canadian Journal of Sociology. 41(3): 299-326.