Researcher
Cory Legassic
Department of Humanities & Sociology, New School
Expertise
Cory Legassic is a tenured faculty member in the Humanities and Sociology Departments and New School Co-Coordinator at ĢƵ, and a Ph.D. candidate in Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His doctoral research, Toward Collective Care as Teaching Praxis: Exploring Lewis Deep Democracy in Higher Education Classrooms, uses a participatory action research (PAR) framework with a community of practice of CEGEP teachers to collaboratively build the concept of collective care as a teaching praxis. He is a licensed Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD) trainer who designs and leads Deep Democracy workshops for higher education practitioners and professionals, building capacity for conflict-engaged, relational facilitation in academic settings. His work sits at the intersection of critical pedagogy, participatory action research, and facilitation, and explores how relational, conflict-engaged approaches to teaching can foster collective care in higher education classrooms. His research has been presented at international conferences, including CIES, and is developed in collaboration with a community of practice of Dawson colleagues.
Publications
- “Towards a Theory of Collective Care as Pedagogy in Higher Education,” LEARNing Landscapes 17, no. 1 (2024): 125–142
- “Deep Democracy as Relational Research: Toward an Affective Methodology for Collective Care,” paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2026
- with Rachel Collins, Ajay Heble, and Bart Vautour, “Webography: Human Rights Education: Resources for Research and Teaching,” in Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education, ed. Ajay Heble (University of Toronto Press, 2017), 150–220
- “The Perfect Neanderthal Man: Rondo Hatton as ‘The Creeper’ and the Cultural Economy of 1940s B-Movies,” in Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade, ed. Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé, and Kristopher Woofter (Lexington Books, 2015), 295–318
- “Reasonable Accommodation as a Settling Concept,” Canadian Women Studies Journal: Women and Canadian Multiculturalism 27, no. 2–3 (2009): 46–52
Education
- Ph.D. (in progress), Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University – Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Levitan
- M.A., Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, 2008
- B.A. with Distinction, Individual Studies, University of Guelph, 2004