Toby Rollo is a political theorist and Associate Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University. His scholarship examines childhood, democracy, and intergenerational justice across settler colonial, liberal, and capitalist contexts.

Rollo seeks to bring political theory into conversation with the history of childhood, Indigenous studies, critical race theory, and feminist and anarchist traditions, with a particular focus on how modern political orders conceptualize authority and agency.

Rollo’s work is widely recognized for advancing childist and decolonial approaches. Across journal articles, handbook chapters, and edited volumes, he has developed influential critical analyses of adultism and the role of child labor in sustaining economic systems. .

Rollo’s intellectual commitments are informed by formative experiences of poverty in early life and a later ASD diagnosis, which together shape his sustained attention to vulnerability, embodied experience, and the moral economies of care and neglect.

In addition to his research, Rollo has held significant academic leadership roles, including serving as Chair of the Department of Political Science at Lakehead University.