Sharon Henry is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at York University.Sharon is a long-standing graduate member of Race Inclusion and Supportive Environments (RISE); an executive graduate caucus member of the Harriet Tubman Institute (HTI); a graduate representative at Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC); a graduate representative on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.