Natalie Kouri-Towe is an Associate Professor of feminism and sexuality at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University in Montreal, QC. She served as the Program and Practicum Director for the Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality program from 2019-2024 and previously worked as a Lecturer in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh (2017/18) and as a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Thorneloe University at Laurentian in Sudbury, ON (2016/17).

She completed her PhD in 2015 in the department of Social Justice Education (formerly Sociology and Equity Studies in Education), OISE and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.

She has published her research in both academic and non-academic venues on topics related to sexuality, solidarity, pedagogy, kinship, and attachment within the contexts of social movements, gender and sexuality studies, and activist responses to conditions of war in the Middle East. Her research and teaching draw on feminist and queer theory, affect studies, transnational feminism, anti-racism, cultural studies, masculinities, securitization, migration, and digital media. Her current research examines the role of transformative approaches to both education and gender- and sexuality-based violence prevention. For more information on her research, please click here: Research.