Amrita Daftary is Assistant Professor at the School of Global Health, York University. She applies social sciencemethods and frameworks to study TB stigma and treatment adherence, particularly in the contexts of TB-HIV comorbidity and drug resistant TB. She contributes to the design and evaluation of complex interventions to informequity and person oriented approaches to programming […]
Immaculée Uwanyiligira is a second year PhD student in Social Work. She holds a BA in Languages and Literature (Makerere University), an MSc in Information and Telecommunication Systems (John Hopkins), and an MA in International Affairs (Columbia). She worked for the UN World Food Program as Head of the Information Technology and Telecommunication Unit (1998–99); […]
Beauty is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics and health policy and equity passionate about mobility and social justice. Her sociolinguistic work has allowed her conduct research on language, migration, and social change. Her work focuses on Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town, drawing on their everyday lived experiences as immigrants to examine their social positioning as […]
I am a Master's student in Social Anthropology, focusing my thesis on the activism of Malian undocumented migrants in the Paris region. My work hopes to shed light on migrants' experiences of state violence and practices of resistance. In particular, I will be studying the political discourses that emerge from migrant collectives, which tie contemporary […]
Sandra Sagbohan is an international development practitioner interested in gender equity, diversity and inclusion, women economic empowerment and evidence-based policy making with a combined research and work experience of more than 8 years in performance and impact measurement including monitoring, evaluation, and learning and data analysis. She currently a doctoral student at the School of […]
Matt Robertshaw is a PhD candidate in History at York University. He focuses on Haiti, the Caribbean and French colonialism in Africa. He is also a video essayist via Sleeper Hit History on YouTube.
Jellisa Ricketts is currently a master's student in the Humanities with a focus on abolition, spatial theory and the arts.
Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, political ecology, globalization and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of life work. Her dissertation project explores the constructions of indigeneity among African-descended marginalized workers as […]
Temitope Oriola is joint Editor-in-Chief of the African Security journal and associate professor at the University of Alberta. A recipient of the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal (first presented in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin), Oriola’s book Criminal Resistance? The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers is one of a small number of […]
Ruth Murambadoro is an African scholar who works on women, transitional justice, gender justice, peacebuilding and politics of the Global South. She invests her research time curating women’s stories and amplifying African voices in peace education and scholarship. Ruth has conducted ethnographic field research in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique and Ghana, where she explored African […]