Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Colonialism, Racialization, Indigeneity
- Health & Mental Health
- Qualitative Methods
Areas of Interest
- Critical Whiteness Studies
- Indigenous Evaluation
- Indigenous Public Health
- Racialization of Indigenous People
- Urban Indigenous Housing
Biography
Dr. Sofia Locklear is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She graduated with her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Mexico in 2021 and was a recipient of the American Sociological Association's Minority Fellowship Program in 2020-2021 (MFP Cohort 47). Her research more broadly studies the racialization of Indigenous people in North America. This includes but is not limited to white identity formation, housing and health outcomes for urban Indigenous people, as well as applied Indigenous Evaluation in the field of public health. She is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
Recent Publications
Locklear, S. (Forthcoming) “People love playing the ‘what are you?’ game with me”: Street Racialization of American Indian and Alaska Native People. Social Problems
Echo-Hawk, A., Locklear, S. McNally, S., Baker L., & Gurule, S. (2025) “Towards the Elimination of Data Genocide”. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
Locklear, S., Hesketh, M., Begay N., Brixey, J., Echo-Hawk A,. and James, R. (2023) “Reclaiming our Narratives: An Indigenous Evaluation Framework for Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Communities”. The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 38(1):8-26.
Korver-Glenn, E., Locklear, S., Howell, J., and Whitehead E. (2023). “Displaced and unsafe: The legacy of settler-colonial racial capitalism in the U.S. Rental Market”. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City 4(2):113-134.