I am a digital historian and cultural producer whose work focuses on public scholarship, memory, Global Africa, historical slavery, and art education. I have been developing multimedia educational projects in the Global South, Digital Public History initiatives such as the Project Baquaqua. I am currently directing the UNESCO project Fragments of Memory: Artistic Representations of […]
Dr Akolisa Ufodike is Assistant Professor in the School of Administrative Studies where he will be teaching auditing. His research interests include accountability, public-private partnerships, and actor networks. He is a licensed public practitioner by CPA Alberta. Prior to academia, he spent 25 years as a finance executive with professional experience spanning telecoms, banking, oil […]
I am a fourth-year doctoral student interested in feminist agency and revolutionary struggles against state feminisms in the Arab region of North Africa. My research aims to conceptualize the manner women’s agency and struggle for liberation in this region transcends, extends, and complicates the political state post-colonial identity and the ghostly residue of colonialism and […]
Dr Tameka Samuels-Jones is Assistant Professor in the School of Administrative Studies, LA&PS. She teaches corporate social responsibility and sustainability with an emphasis on developing country contexts. Her research interests include legal pluralism and environmental regulatory law in the Caribbean and her most recent work examined environmental regulatory compliance among Jamaica’s legally autonomous Maroons. Dr […]
Célia Romulus joined Glendon’s Department of International Studies as an assistant professor in July. She completed her PhD in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where her research focused on: the normalization of gendered state repression under the Duvalier dictatorship; how these systematized forms of violence shaped movements of population out of Haiti; […]
Jamie is Assistant Professor of Acting and Directing for York University’s Department of Theatre. He has been a Toronto-based professional artist since 1997 as an actor, director, producer, teacher, and writer. Upcoming, Jamie will be directing the world premiere of 1184 in collaboration with The Aga Khan Museum in spring 2022. Other director credits include: […]
Chidinma Umahi Nwankwo is second-year Master’s candidate in Interdisciplinary studies. Her MA thesis traces sexual violence in conflict as a continuum of violence against women and girls in northern Nigeria. Her research interest includes law and development, international human rights, Immigration and refugee law, international security, and gender and women’s studies. Chidinma graduated from Tulane […]
As a scholar and feminist activist, Rose Ndengue works on African decolonization, gender, and black feminisms in a colonial and post-colonial context. Her research focuses on African and Afro-descendant women’s mobilizations in Europe and Cameroon. Her interdisciplinary approach blends history, political science, sociology, postcolonial studies with feminist and gender studies. Her work contributes to the […]
Catherine Mutune is a second-year master’s student in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her SSHRC-funded research project investigates the lived experiences of recent East African immigrant women who came to Canada under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWK) and the challenges they encounter socially, economically, and politically. Her research work is inspired by her experiences as an African […]
Melissa McLetchie is a doctoral candidate of Caribbean descent in the Department of Sociology. She grew up in the City of Scarborough in Toronto, Ontario and for over 20 years has been in a relationship with a man who has a history of imprisonment. Melissa uses her experiences of supporting her incarcerated loved one to […]