Dr Oghenowede Eyawo is an Assistant Professor of Global Health Epidemiology at the Faculty of Health. With training in epidemiology, population and public health, Dr Eyawo’s research interest is focused on precision-based global health and the application of epidemiological methods to examine patterns of morbidity, mortality and their potential effects among vulnerable populations of children, […]
Dr Annie Bunting is Professor of Law & Society at York University. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. Since 2010, she has directed an international research collaboration (SSHRC-funded Partnership) called Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities […]
Dr Sylvia Bawa is a global sociologist and tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Canada with expertise in human rights, development, gender and globalization. With immense experience working with international and local organizations and groups on development, social justice and human rights issues, her expertise in these areas have been recognized through […]
Yvonne Simpson holds a BA from York University, M.Ed.,(University of Calgary) and PhD (York University) in Critical Disability studies. Her research interests examine the historiography of records of accountability of First Nations Peoples and racialized immigrant workers. Simpson’s presentation invites reflection on the nation’s historical reliance on a transnational colour-coded system of labour force selection, […]
Rabiat Akande works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, Islamic law, International law, and (post)colonial African law and society. Her current research explores struggles over religion-state relations in comparative contexts and illuminates law’s centrality to one of modernity’s most contested issues—the relationship between religion, and the state, and society—while also interrogating law’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
Amar Wahab is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. He has taught in the areas of critical sexuality studies, critical studies in masculinity, critical race studies, introductory and advanced sociological theory, and Caribbean cultural studies. His research interests include: sexual citizenship in liberal […]
Dr Zalik’s research examines and critiques the political economy and political ecology of oil, gas ,and other extractives, with a focus on the merging of corporate security and social welfare interventions in strategic exporters, particularly Nigeria, Mexico, and Canada. Another area of research concerns the relationship between popular resistance to extraction and risk analysis as […]
Ola Mohammed is an Assistant Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Humanities Department at York University. Her research is in the areas of Black Studies, Black Popular Music, Sound Studies and Diaspora Studies. She specializes in interdisciplinary research exploring Black cultural production, Black social life and Black being as sites of possibility.