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Kanishka Sikri

Kanishka Sikri is a writer and theorist thinking about violability: the practice that marks certain lives, bodies, and lands to the possibility of violence. They are currently a PhD candidate at York University speculating on the ways violence becomes synonymous with and inhabits the flesh. Kanishka asks how we may speak about violence, lay it […]

Emmanuel Graham

Emmanuel Graham is a PhD candidate at York University Department of Politics in Toronto, Ontario Canada. In terms of research interest, Graham’s focus is on the political economy of the extractive sector, energy politics and climate change in Ghana and West Africa. He is also, interested in the social and political thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah […]

Karen Cyrus

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 […]

James Simeon

Dr James C. Simeon is the Head of McLaughlin College and Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, and a former Director of the SPPA, and a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Prior to […]

Lorne Foster

Lorne Foster is Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA). He holds the York Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies & Human Rights (Tier 1). As the Director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), Dr. Foster oversees the leading university-based survey research centre in Canada. He is past Academic Director, of the York Statistics Canada Research Data […]

Oghenowede Eyawo

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, […]

Annie Bunting

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 […]

Sylvia Bawa

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

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, […]

Bria Hamilton

Bria Hamilton is a Master's of Environmental Studies candidate in the urban planning stream. Her research surrounds using Geographic Information Systems technology to describe the current geographies Black people move through as well as to provide tools for visualizing Black futurisms and imaginings of equitable and just spatialities. This work is underpinned by Black Feminist […]