Editorial: "The Ethics and Politics of Knowledge Production," Critical Reflections on Social Work and Social Sciences Research

Teresa Macias has a PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE-University of Toronto. Her PhD Thesis entitled "On the Pawprint of Terror": The Human Rights Regime and the Production of Truth and Subjectivity in Post-Authoritarian Chile traces 20 years of history in the development of Chilean state policy to deal with human rights abuses. Her work deals with issues of disappearances, torture, truth commissions and compensation policy. Her research and teaching interests also include professional and research ethics, nation and identity making, and anti-oppressive and anti-colonial practice and teaching methods. She is currently conducting research on the Canadian Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission.