The Harriet Tubman Institute is pleased to announce and congratulate Dr. Agnès Berthelot-Rafford in her participation as an expert in the new documentary "The Myth of Black Women" directed by Ayana O'Shun. Programmer's notes: In this documentary, Ayana O'Shun tackles the decades-long misrepresentation of Black women in Hollywood-led video productions, where they have been dominantly […]
Ransford Dugba Tei is a doctoral student in the Department of History at York University. He holds a B.Ed. in History from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and an MA in History from York University. His research interests straddle African history, the history of education, curriculum, and instruction, and the history of technology and […]
I am Oloto Arni, a second-year undergraduate student at York University, I am pursuing my bachelor's in International Development Studies and have minors in Information Technology. I participated in Dean's Awards for Research Excellence (DARE) project with the York University Department of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS). I am also an executive member of […]
Molade Osibodu is an assistant professor of education at York University. Her research interests include understanding how to make mathematics humanizing for Sub-Saharan African youth; harnessing mathematics education to redress injustices related to race (particularly anti-Blackness), equity, and power; and exploring African immigrant and refugee math experiences; and African indigenous mathematics practices. Dr. Osibodu situates […]
Zulfikar Hirji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto (Canada). He is interested in how human societies articulate, represent and perform understandings of self, community, and other, and on issues of knowledge production, representation and identity, visual, material, and sensory culture, and critical pedagogy. His research focuses on Muslim […]
Debbie Ebanks Schlums (she/they) is an artist-researcher and Vanier Scholar pursuing a doctorate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Her research explores methodologies of Caribbean diasporic archiving with a focus on the Jamaican Diaspora through storytelling and media art installation. Keywords: Caribbean archives, media art, Black aesthetics
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 […]