Members

Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin

Assosciate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures
Department of Gender Studies
 

Research interests
African Urban Futures, Racial Geographies,  Black Popular Culture, African Feminisms, Sexuality and Urban Space in Africa, Gender and Urbanization,  Critical Race Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Decolonial Theory, and Global Political Economy of Development

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Quincy Armorer

Dan School of Drama & Music Advisory Board

Oyedeji Ayonrinde

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Research interests
cannabis, marijuana, psychosis, addiction

Elijah Bisung

Associate Professor
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies

Research interests
environmental collective action for environmental health promotion, environmental stress and psychosocial health, community based participatory research, health systems resilience to climate change, and safe water and sanitation interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yolande Bouka

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation
Department of Political Studies

Research interests
Gender and security, African politics and security, International Relations, Political violence, Decoloniality

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Alana Butler

Associate Professor of At-Risk Learners & Student Success
Faculty of Education

Research interests
At-risk children/youth and their educational attainment; ‘Race’, culture, and gender studies in education; Immigration and settlement studies; Multicultural education; Qualitative research methodology

Kerrisha Campbell

Research Administrator
Department of Emergency Medicine

 

Taylor Cenac

Student Advisor and Program Coordinator
Ban Righ Centre

Research interests
Caribbean epistemologies, queer caribbean, black diaspora studies, social justice, education and community engagement, erotic power and biomythography, queer phenomenology, The Black Atlantic, anti-racist harm reduction practices

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Afolasade Fakolade

Associate Professor
School of Rehabilitation Therapy

Research interests
Health promotion, chronic neurological conditions, caregiver health and resilience, physical activity, technology-supported health programming 

Kesha Fevrier

Assistant Professor and Âé¶¹¹Ù꿉۪s National Scholar
Black Studies, Department of Geography and Planning

Research interests
Black Ecologies and Geographies, Urban Political Ecology focused on the Global South, Geographies of Waste, Informal Labour Markets in the Global South, Environmental Justice, and Investigations of Race from a Spatial perspective and vice versa

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Nazik Hammad

Professor
Department of Oncology

Research interests
Clinical and Translational Research in Colorectal cancer

Lavonne Hood

Associate Vice-Principal (Human Rights, Equity, and Inclusion)
Human Rights and Equity Office

Research interests
fairness, equity, diversity and inclusion

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Joseph Kangmennaang

Assistant Professor and Âé¶¹¹Ù꿉۪s National Scholar in Black Health & Social Change
Black Studies, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

Research interests
How the places we live, work and play impact population health and wellbeing especially with regards to (re)emerging infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Christine Keli

Administrative Operations Director, Finance

 

Jennifer Leath

Associate Professor
Black Studies, School of Religion

Research interests
The intersection of sexualities and religious in sacred communities and spaces of African Diaspora, the intersection of Afro-Diasporic women's spiritualities and social activism, the physics of metaphysics of womanism, African and Afro-Diasporic approaches to sexualities in political economies, abolition, transnational ecumenisms of marginalized peoples, the intersections of Buddhist and womanist thought, interdisciplinary approaches to interreligious dialogue, and theories of justice

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Gerome Manson

Assistant Professor
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies 

Research interests
The influence of visual information on the mapping of somatosensory target locations; the role of brain and spinal neural networks in the rapid control of movements to somatosensory targets; multisensory perception during movements to somatosensory and visual targets

Jermaine Marshall

Inclusion and Anti-Racism Advisor
Human Rights & Equity Office

Research interests
Jermaine (He/They) joined the Âé¶¹¹Ù꿉۪s family in 2021 as the Inclusion and Anti-Racism Advisor in the office of Human Rights & Equity. He now serves as a central point of contact for individuals and units who wish to access all related anti-oppression and anti-racism initiatives, processes, and services at Âé¶¹¹Ù꿉۪s. As an advisor he pulls from years of academic and professional experience in order to facilitate an intersectional approach to addressing issues of racism, discrimination and oppression. 
 
In their spare time Jermaine freelances as a queer vocalist and poet whose artistry seeks to create a vibrant soundscape that captures the contours of lived pain and joy within an oppressive society.  

 

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Katherine McKittrick

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies
Department of Gender Studies

Research interests
black studies, anti-colonial studies, the arts

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Nomusa Mngoma

Kristin Moriah

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Feminist Technologies and Artistic Praxis
Department of English

Research interests
African American literature and culture, African Diaspora Studies, Performance Studies, Sound Studies, Visual Culture

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Nadine Morrison

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Research interests
target therapy for children with drug resistant epilepsy, especially in patients with genetic etiology

Beverley Mullings

Adjunct Professor
Department of Geography & Planning

Research interests
feminist political economy, labour, social transformation, neoliberalism, and the politics of gender, race and class in the Caribbean and its diaspora

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Juliane Okot Bitek

Associate Professor 
Black Studies, Joint appointment in Gender Studies and English

Research interests
African literature; Black Studies; Creative Writing (especially poetry); Black theory; Black  Diasporic literature; oral traditions; war and trauma literature; history and cultural memory; Black and Indigenous cultural relations

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Juliana Riberio da Silva Bevilacqua

Associate Professor & Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø's National Scholar
Department of Art History & Art Conservation

Research interests
Classical African art, Contemporary African art, Colonial Museums in Africa, Afro-Brazilian art, specially collections from Afro-Brazilian religions, like Candomblé, and Modernism in Bahai, Arts of Diaspora

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Donald Sackey

Assistant Professor (Continuing Adjunct)
French Studies

Research interests
Littérature francophone, L’esthétisation de la violence impliquant les enfants dans le ‘nouveau roman’ africain

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Elliot Samuel Paul

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy

Research interests
Early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of the mind, cognitive science, creativity

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Dalitso Ruwe

Assistant Professor of Black Political Thought
Department of Philosophy

Research interests
Intellectual History of Africana Philosophy, Anti-Colonial Theory, Africana Legal History, Black Male Studies, Hip Hop Philosophy, Black Philosophies of Education

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Stephanie Simpson

Vice-Principal (Culture, Equity and Inclusion)
Human Rights and Equity Office

Research/professional interests
how racism and processes of racialization affect youth in smaller urban centres

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Ricardo Smalling

Senior Legal Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer and Director, Research Security

 

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Vanessa E. Thompson

Associate Professor & Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice
Black Studies, Department of  Gender Studies

Research interests
Black studies, critical racism and migration studies, gender studies, anticolonial theories, and critical ethnographies, transnational black urban and social movements, struggles against anti-black state violence and policing as well as abolition geographies and socialities

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Lavie Williams

Director, Human Rights and Equity
Human Rights and Equity Office

Research interests
anti-racism, anti-oppression

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Kristin Moriah, kristin.moriah@queensu.ca