Our Team
The Building Labour team is made up of an international, cross-discipline group of individuals.
Michelle Buckley
Michelle is an urban and economic geographer and professor at the University of Toronto whose research lies at the intersections of urbanization, work and employment, and labour migration. Her two research areas of interest are developing intersectional feminist frameworks for studying urbanization and exploring the urbanization of capital and labour in Gulf Cooperation Council economies.
Paula Chakravartty
Paula Chakravartty is associate professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication. Her research and teaching interests span comparative political economy, migration, labor and social movements , and decolonial and critical race theory.
Sahiba Gill
As a CHRGJ Human Rights Scholar, Sahiba Gill is examining whether the “structural violence” that people experience during their recruitment into labor jobs in the Arabian Gulf constitutes “trafficking” under the UN Trafficking Protocol. She worked as a Global Academic Fellow in writing at NYU Abu Dhabi for two years before spending six months in Kathmandu, Nepal researching Nepal-GCC labor recruitment. Before starting at NYU Law, she was also assistant editor at The Common, a literary journal published by Amherst University Press that examines “a modern sense of place.”
Disha Mullick
Rajeev Gandhi