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
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
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
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
Nazik Hammad
Professor
Department of Oncology
Research interests
Clinical and Translational Research in Colorectal cancer
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Elliot Samuel Paul
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Research interests
Early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of the mind, cognitive science, creativity
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
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