Dr. Salsabel Almanssori
Assistant Professor, Health Education: School, Care, Community, and Practice
York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Community-Engaged Health Education | Prevention and Educational Equity | Leadership in Practice
Dr. Salsabel Almanssori is an Assistant Professor of Health Education in the Faculty of Education at York University. She is an intersectional feminist scholar and educator working at the intersection of education and public health. Her research examines how gendered and racialized violence shape young people’s educational experiences, with particular attention to technology-facilitated violence in schools and the manosphere. Her work explores how technologies can reproduce, intensify, and reconfigure systemic inequities while also creating possibilities for resistance and social change, and how schools can respond through prevention-oriented, equity-driven practice. Grounded in intersectional feminist and anti-racist perspectives, Dr. Almanssori leads research programs that draw on participatory action research, arts-based inquiry, interviews, and other qualitative approaches to study complex challenges. She develops community-engaged approaches to health education that bring young people, educators, and community partners into the research process to co-create prevention strategies responsive to lived experiences.
Dr. Almanssori’s research advances an analytical architecture that names and theorizes field-shaping socioeducational phenomena, including the “snitch factor” as a form of surveillance and social control, the “Andrew Tate effect” to capture the manosphere’s impact in schools, and the “threat of harm” to describe how technology-facilitated sexual violence is structured through fear. Across this body of work, she consistently frames sexual violence prevention as both a public health concern and an educational equity issue.
Dr. Almanssori recently co-edited a special issue of the journal Girlhood Studies titled The Girl in the Hijab, published in December 2023. She is a registered Ontario Certified Teacher and taught middle-school in the Greater Essex County District School Board for eight years prior to transitioning permanently to higher education.