Andrea (she/her) is an accomplished teacher who has won teaching awards at the Faculty, university and national levels, including a 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship. A former Canadian Commonwealth scholar, her research focuses on the literary productions of Black women in the Americas. She is particularly interested in the intersections of the literatures of the […]
Rajendra Baikady, Ph.D.FRSA is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, at the Central University of Kerala, India, and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a Special Post-Doctoral Fellow & Assistant Lecturer at the Department of […]
Dr. Joycelyn Moody (she/they/hers/theirs) is Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio (US). Her research and teaching concentrate on Black life writing and auto/biography, Black feminisms, and Black print cultures. She earned her MA in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and […]
Patrick is a biocultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the biological and environmental impacts of infrastructure. His work lies at the intersection between culture, biology, and the environment. Patrick’s dissertation project, Dams, and Displacements: Biosocial Impacts of the Thwake Multipurpose Dam Construction on Women in Makueni County, Kenya, examined the psychosocial, nutritional, and physical health […]
Dr. Hassan is a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for African Studies and Illinois Distinguished Fellow and Research Associate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research examines the relationship between race, digital technology, and technoscientific capitalism. Dr. Hassan’s work is at the intersection of social and racial […]
Sayan Dey is a Bengali. He was born and brought up in Kolkata, and he traces his ancestry to different parts of Bangladesh. Currently, he works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Bayan College (affiliated with Purdue University Northwest), Oman. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship with Wits Centre for Diversity […]
Ghanaian-born George Sefa Dei is a renowned educator, researcher and writer who is considered by many as one of Canada’s foremost scholars on race and anti-racism studies. Currently, he is Professor of Social Justice Education & Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University […]
Elvis Dze Achuo is a Cameroonian and holder of a PhD in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He currently serves in the Ministry of Secondary Education, Cameroon. His research interests are in the domains of Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Resource Economics and Macroeconomics. He is a sustainable development enthusiast, passionate about environmental […]
Dr. Karen Cyrus is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator with a background in ethnomusicology and applied linguistics. Her research focuses on narratives andcultural expressions of Afrodiasporic communities in Ontario as well as pan-African children’s repertoires. She has a driving interest in developing content to increase representation for learners of African descent, which led her to […]
Winfried Siemerlingis University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, andAssociate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for The Black AtlanticReconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015; www.blackatlantic.ca;French translation forthcoming 2022). Earlier books include Canada […]