Alisha Stranges is a queer, community-based public humanities scholar and multi-modal artist whose work bridges oral history, performance, and digital research creation. She is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga where she serves as Research Manager and Lead Oral Historian for the Collaboratory.

Stranges holds an M.A. in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, with a collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies (2020). Before entering academia, she earned a Diploma in Theatre Performance from Humber College (2006) and spent a decade devising original plays within Toronto’s queer, independent theatre community.

From 2010 to 2015, she returned annually to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre as a teaching artist and co-facilitator for PrideCab, an intensive training program in collective creation and performance for queer, trans, and gender variant youth. In 2019, she launched the Qu(e)erying Religion anti-Archive Project, which blends oral history with whiteboard animation to document over a decade of programming for life-giving queer spirituality at the University of Toronto.