Sheri Fabian

BIOGRAPHY

Sheri Fabian is a university lecturer in SFU’s School of Criminology, director of Transforming Inquiry into Learning and Teaching (TILT), and has served as the School’s associate director of undergraduate programs (2014-17). Under Fabian’s leadership, the TILT team supports and mentors SFU instructors who want to understand the effects of their teaching by engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). She has co-facilitated several intensive faculty seminar series including Decolonial Teaching and Learning, Well-Being in Learning Environments, and Disrupting Colonialism through Teaching. Fabian’s teaching practice is informed by 15 years of experience validating residential school survivors’ claims. She accepts her settler responsibilities to decolonize education, engage in anti-racist pedagogical practices, and incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into classrooms and institutions. Fabian received Canada’s highest teaching honour for post-secondary instructors in 2019 when she was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Qualitative research methods; academic integrity; minorities and justice; scholarship of teaching and learning.

EDUCATION

BA (UBC)
MA/PhD (SFU)

NOTE FOR POTENTIAL GRADUATE STUDENTS:

SFU teaching faculty cannot supervise graduate students.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Murdoch, D., Fabian, S., Love, H., O’Doherty, T., & Scott, M-A. (2023, March 14). Why is self-reflection core to decolonisation and antiracism in the Academy? Times Higher Education Campus. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-selfreflection-core-decolonisation-and-antiracism-academy
Lam, V., King, S., Fabian, S., Anderson, G. (2023) Transnational Comparison of the Impact of COVID-19 on Medicolegal Death Investigations and the Administration of Justice: Early Stages of the Pandemic. Medicine, Science and the Law. https://doi.org/10.1177/00258024231182361
Butler, A., Nicholls, T., Samji, H., Fabian, S., & Lavergne, M. R. (2021). Prevalence of Mental Health Needs, Substance Use, and Co-occurring Disorders Among People Admitted to Prison. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), appips202000927-appips202000927. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000927
Schmitt, M., Neufeld, S., Fryberg, S., Adams, G., Viljoen, J., Patrick, L., Atleo, C., & Fabian, S. (2021). “Indigenous” Nature Connection? A Response to Kurth, Narvaez, Kohn, and Bae (2020). Ecopsychology, 13(1), 64-67. https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2020.0066
Fabian, S. C. (2014). Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Resolving Emotionality and Research Responsibility When Working for the Traumatizer. In J. M. Kilty, M. Felices-Luna, & S. C. Fabian (Eds.), Demarginalizing Voices: Commitment, Emotion, and Action in Qualitative Research (pp. 245-266). UBC Press.
Fabian, S. C. (2014). "If I Can’t Have You, No One Can,” and Other Gendered Constructions of Criminal Harassment. In J. M. Kilty (Ed.), Within the Confines: Women and the Law in Canada (pp. 144-173). Women’s Press, in Canadian Scholars Press.
Kilty, J. M., & Fabian, S. C. (2010). Deconstructing an Invisible Identity: The Case of Reena Virk. In M. Rajiva & S. Batacharya (Eds.), Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder (pp. 122-155). Canadian Scholars Press.

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019 3M National Teaching Fellow, Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2016 SFU Excellence in Teaching Award
2014 SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Cormack Award for Excellence in Teaching
2019, SFU Institute for Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, Indigenous Student Experiences at Simon Fraser University: A Student-led Collaborative Study (Co-Investigator, Value: $10,000)
2016, SFU Institute for Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, Teaching About Victimization in Respectful and Inclusive Ways (Principal Investigator, Value: $12,000)
2013, SFU Institute for Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, Regular session, i>clicker and On-line Tutorials: Exploring Student Experiences and Learning Outcomes with Emerging Learning Technologies (Principal Investigator, Value: $10,000)

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Rethinking Course Design Workshop. Centre for Educational Excellence, SFU. May 2023
Blended Learning Design. Centre for Educational Excellence, SFU. Jan-Apr 2023
Facilitator Development Trainer Certification Workshop, Instructional Skills Facilitator Network, Simon Fraser University, 2022
Anti-Racist Pedagogies Program: Healing from Racism Journey. Centre for Educational Excellence, SFU. Summer 2021-Spring 2022

RECENTLY TAUGHT COURSES

CRIM 131: Introduction to the Criminal Justice System – A Total Systems Approach
CRIM 321: Qualitative Research Methods
CRIM 864: Advanced Qualitative Research Methods

Courses

Summer 2025

Future courses may be subject to change.

School of Criminology