Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, political ecology, globalization and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of life work. Her dissertation project explores the constructions of indigeneity among African-descended marginalized workers as […]
Temitope Oriola is joint Editor-in-Chief of the African Security journal and associate professor at the University of Alberta. A recipient of the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal (first presented in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin), Oriola’s book Criminal Resistance? The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers is one of a small number of […]
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 […]
A native from Bahia, Fabio Silva, aka Fabio Cascadura, is a Brazilian-Canadian MA in History at York University. His MRP is a biographical study of the slave trader and Luso-Brazilian military officer Caetano Mauricio Machado (c.1750–1807) and his business with Bight of Benin.His interests encompass economy, ethnography and culture related to Western Africa from the […]
I am a fourth-year student in the Human Rights and Equity Studies program at York University minoring in History. After working as a research assistant and content coordinator for the Equiano’s World website from May 2020 to December 2021, I have been accepted into placement as a research assistant with the Centre for Research on […]
Joe Konieczny is a writer, educator, and master’s student in the Art History and Visual Culture program at York University. His research focuses primarily on the cultural history of the Swahili Coast, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial theory and archival epistemology. Joe’s thesis work focuses on emerging philosophies of representation in artist’s run centres […]
Andrea González is a masters student in the Public and International Affairs program at Glendon
Janice J. Anderson is a PhD candidate whose doctoral research, “Being Otherwise: Black Women’s Literary Interventions into Radical Being, Knowledge and Power,” considers self-fashioning and world-making in Black women’s intellectual traditions and literatures in the Americas. Her areas of research interest include the Black Radical Tradition, Black feminism/womanism, Black aesthetics and Black literatures. “I am […]
Tii Nchofoung holds a Master’s of Science in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He also holds a Diploma in Administration from the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), Cameroon. He works as an Administrator with the Ministry of Trade, Cameroon, at the same time, a doctoral candidate in Economics at the […]
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 […]