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Postdoctoral Fellows
Francesco C. Campisi
Francesco Campisi is a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University and a sessional lecturer at the Université de Montréal. His research examines how extremist groups and social movements use social media to recruit members, spread ideologies, and organize.
During his fellowship, he is working with professor Richard Frank on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded project titled "Unmasking Stochastic Terrorism in Canada”. The project focuses on detecting and analyzing diverse forms of online hate content within gender-related political discourse. Through this project, Francesco aims to use computational analysis to better understand how online hate speech can increase unpredictable, real-world violence.
Jennie Pearson
Jennie Pearson is a posdoctoral fellow working under the supervision of assistant professor Andrea Krüsi as part of the CARE study. Her research focuses on mutual aid practices and community care models among sex workers across both physical and digital spaces. Using participatory approaches, she examines how sex workers navigate and resist criminalization, surveillance, deplatforming, and labour precarity through collective forms of support.
During her fellowship, Jennie is leading a participatory action research project in collaboration with local sex work organizations and activists in Vancouver. In the context of service closures and reduced organizational capacity, this work explores the chronic precarity facing traditional non-profits, as well as grassroots alternatives to community care and safety.
Together with community partners, she is co-developing a mutual aid intervention model aimed at supporting sex workers' health and safety, while strengthening the sustainability of peer-based care infrastructures.