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Research Interests 

My research interests include settler-colonialism, mainly in the context of human rights and international law, and how Canada’s immigration policies are impacted by its own colonial history. My PhD dissertation research explores the lived experiences and motivations of pro-Palestine activists in southern Ontario during the genocide of 2023 – 2025, within the framework of social movement theory. Understanding this can assist in knowing how to motivate others for this and other social justice movements. I believe that all sociological research should have a practical application.

Select Publications

Chapter in Edited Collection

• 2021. Fantina, R. Chapter 5: Government: Calling on Racism to Run Federal and State Governments. Duke W. Austin and Benjamin P. Bowser (ed.) Impacts of Racism on White Americans in the Age of Trump. 55- 70. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Review

• 2024. Fantina, R. Liberal White Supremacy: How Progressives Silence Racial and Class Oppression. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 53(2): 118 – 120. https://doi.org/10.1177/009430612412271

Books

• 2022, Fantina, R. Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir. New York: Independent Press.
• 2020, Fantina, R. Propaganda, Lies and False Flags: How the U.S. Justifies its Wars. North Carolina: Red Pill Press.
• 2020, Fantina, R. Occupied Palestine: Israel, the U.S. and International Law. North Carolina: Red Pill Press.
• 2013, Fantina, R. Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy. North Carolina: Red Pill Press.

Presentations

• 2025. Unveiling the Myth of Multiculturalism: Systemic Racism, Islamophobia, and Othering in Canadian Contemporary Refugee Policies (Co-presented with Neela Hassan and Meray Sedak). Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Conference. June 11 -13. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
• 2025. The Lived Experiences of Pro-Palestine Activists during the Genocide of 2023 – 2025. Seventh Annual Socio-Legal Studies Graduate Symposium. 10 April. North York, Canada.
• 2025. Disrupting the Image of Canada’s Multicultural Immigration Policies: An Analysis of the Temporary Residence Visa Program for Palestinians (Co-presented with Neela Hassan). Annual Meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association: Law and Society in an Age of Connections and Distraction. 21-22 February. Oshawa, Canada.
• 2023. The Crisis of Waiting in the Gaza Strip. Canadian Law and Society Association’s Midwinter Meeting, Brantford, Ontario, 3 – 4 February.
• 2022. The Impact of Racism on White Americans in the Age of Trump. Pacific Sociology Association Annual Conference, 7 – 9 April. Sacramento, United States.
• 2022. The Impact of Waiting on Recent University Graduates in the Gaza Strip. York University’s Socio-Legal Studies Graduate Student Symposium, April, 2022. Toronto, Ontario.