Dr. Salsabel Almanssori
Community-Engaged Health Education | Prevention and Educational Equity | Leadership in Practice
Dr. Salsabel Almanssori is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Education and Department of Interdisciplinary and Critical Studies at the University of Windsor. Her research employs creative methodologies to explore how technological innovation contributes to violence and inequity, while also serving as a tool for resistance against systemic harm, and how schools can respond to these phenomena through courageous leadership. In addition to traditional research through interview and survey methods, Dr. Almanssori leads research programs that use participatory, arts-based, and digital methodologies. Her work is grounded in a commitment to equity and innovation, which she integrates across her research, teaching, and leadership. Adopting an intersectional feminist approach that situates social experience within systemic inequity, Dr. Almanssori’s research, teaching, engagement, and impact activities tackle urgent theoretical and empirical problems around gender and racial violence, such as how digital technologies shape, disrupt, and reconfigure educational experience. She collaborates closely with students, research assistants, and international scholars to design community-engaged interventions at the intersection of education and public health that aim to reduce victimization and advance educational equity. Dr. Almanssori recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Girlhood Studies titled The Girl in the Hijab, published in December 2023. She is a registered Ontario Certified Teacher and taught middle-school in the Greater Essex County District School Board for eight years prior to transitioning permanently to higher education.