Fellows

Andil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Justice and Arts at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. He is also a member of the Graduate programs in Sociology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. His research and arts practice examines the imbrications of ecology, migration and desire, and includes publications in various journals and anthologies. His solo exhibitions have included Coolie Coolie Viens (2016-2019) and All the Flowers (2018) in Canada, and rêvenir (2020) in Trinidad and Tobago, and curator of the groundbreaking exhibitions Wendy Nanan at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC and everything slacksens in a wreck, which will open at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York in 2022. Dr. Gosine’s most recent book Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean will be published by Duke University Press in Fall 2021.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean, Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Visual Arts, environmental justice, ‘race’-racism, sexuality, gender, Indentureship

Ricardo Grinspun is associate professor of Economics, a fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), and one of the initiators of the University Consortium on the Global South at York. He specializes in questions of development and international trade, hemispheric integration, and globalization in the Americas. He is a former director of CERLAC and has directed several large scale international development projects, including now a CIDA-funded linkage project with Chilean partners on agroecology and sustainable rural development. He is co-editor and co-author of four books and one briefing paper series, and the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and technical reports. He is now co-editing and co-authoring a volume for McGill-Queen’s University Press on “deep integration” in North America.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Latin America

Keywords: Development, economics

Originally from Nicaragua, Professor Guevara has harbored a lifelong interest in the intersections of theatre, performance and politics. During the Nicaraguan Sandinista government he participated in a cultural brigade, received training at the National Theatre School and was a member of Alan Bolt’s Nyxtayoleros Theatre. He has collaborated in a number of inter-cultural theatre organizations including Teatro Sin Fronteras (Toronto), Mise au Jeu (Montreal), Théâtre autochtone Ondinnok (Montreal), Dalit Theatre Group (Nepal), Act!vision (Lethbridge) and Chocolate Woman Collective (Toronto). He received an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Theatre, Social Anthropology and Communications.

Professor Guevara’s scholarly work focuses on a number of interconnected areas, including the theatricality of power, performance and nationalism – with a focus on the contestation of dominant narratives, art and revolution, theatre for social change, Indigenous art and performance, the aesthetics of violence and affliction, the body in performance, and ethnographic methods. A unique strength of his scholarship and teaching is his combination of contemporary performance theory and ethnographic methodologies. Thus, while field research forms the backbone of his performance studies scholarship in Nepal and Nicaragua, the measurable outcomes of this research are diverse and include: documentary films, exhibitions, performances, and an interdisciplinary open-access online journal InTensionshttp://www.yorku.ca/intent/index.html. He has published in Visual Anthropology Review, The Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA, 452F: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, and Intensions among others. His film work has been shown internationally at venues such as DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Planet in Focus Environmental, International Film and Video Festival, The RAI: Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Films, and ASPEKTY among others.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Latin America, Nicaragua

Keywords:  The Theatricality of Power, Performance and Nationalism

María Constanza Guzmán is full professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. She holds a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton, an MA in Translation from Kent State University (USA) and an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her main scholarly interests are translation studies and Latin American literature. She has worked as a translator and project manager. She is a member of the graduate program in translation studies (MATS), the Graduate Program in Humanities, and the research centres  CERLAC et CRLCC, and coordinates the Research Group on Translation and Transcultural Contact. She currently holds a SSHRC Insight grant for the project “Translators’ Archives: Voicing Cultural Agency in Print Culture in the Americas” (2022-2027).

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Latin America

Keywords: Latin America literature, translation, english/spanish, translation studies

Carl E. James holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education at York University. He is Professor in the Faculty of Education and holds cross-appointments in the Graduate Programs in Sociology, Social and Political Thought, and Social Work. He is also the university’s Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer, and was the Director of the York Centre on Education & Community (2008-2016) which he founded and Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology (2007-2008). He was one of six Advisors to the Ontario Minister of Education and Premier (2017-2018).

James is widely recognized for his research contributions in the areas of intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, class and citizenship as they shape identification/identity; the ways in which accessible and equitable opportunities in education and employment account for the lived experiences marginalized community members; and the complementary and contradictory nature of sports in the schooling and educational attainments of racialized students. In advocating on education for change, James documents the struggles, contradictions and paradoxes in the experiences of racialized students at all levels of the education system. In doing so, he seeks to address and move us beyond the essentialist, generalized and homogenizing discourses that account for the representation and achievements of racialized people in educational institutions, workplaces, and society generally.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Caribbean, Jamaica

Keywords: Equity in relation to race, class, gender, racialization, immigration and citizenship.

Dr. Tamanisha J. John is an international political economist whose research focuses on economic hegemonies and their contributions to processes of underdevelopment. She has a regional interest in the Caribbean, and a broader research agenda that concerns Caribbean development, sovereignty and politics, as well as economic imperialism, financial exclusion, corporate power, and Canadian foreign policy towards Caribbean states. Given her critical approach towards Canada and the Caribbean, her work sits within fields of international political economy, Canadian foreign policy, and Caribbean studies.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: the Caribbean (Belize, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, Cuba, Haiti, Suriname, the Bahamas, Antigua & Barbuda, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique, and Puerto Rico)

Keywords: Caribbean, International political economy, Canadian foreign policy, imperialism

Caribbean, Social, Cultural

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Interest: Caribbean

Keywords: Caribbean, Social, Cultural