Alisha Grech is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose work examines how gender, performance, and social power shape public life. Alisha holds a BAH from Queen's University in Drama and Philosophy, an MA in Performance Studies from the University of Toronto, and is currently completing her doctorate at the University of Toronto with a spring 2026 defence. 

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Alisha's most recent scholarship on gender based violence and feminism can be found in Women's Studies Quarterly, The Encyclopedia of Islamic Women and Culture as well as the book Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead. 

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In addition to her academic research, Alisha is a performance artist whose practice treats performance as a tool for collective inquiry, grassroots organizing, and public engagement around oppression and social inequity. Her performance work is grounded in collaborative and community-based methodologies, using embodied practice to create spaces for dialogue and alternative forms of social relation.

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Research Interests

• Gender based violence prevention 

• Community based research 

• Masculinities 

• Applied theatre  

• Arts based interventions 

• Institutional cultures of care and control

• Policing, mental health, and crisis intervention