Keisha is a musician whose creative practice seeks to incorporate elements of Jamaican folk music with heritage Black American forms. She also enjoys performing repertoire that has roots in the wider Caribbean and South America. Her research interests include themes of identity, social justice, geographies, and Canadian jazz scholarship. Keywords: spatiality; race; gender; class; sexuality; […]
Mina Mir is a doctoral student at the Department of Politics at York University. Her research focuses on law enforcement agencies (policing and intelligence) and the surveillance of Black, brown, and Indigenous folks. In particular, her research focus is on surveillant biometric technologies, especially facial recognition technology. She inquires into how technologies of visual representation […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr Danielle A. D. Howard joins AMPD as an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre. She recently taught within the University of California-Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film and Television before coming to York University. Dr. Howard holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from UCLA and writes at the intersections of race, […]
Célia Romulus joined Glendon’s Department of International Studies as an assistant professor in July. She completed her PhD in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where her research focused on: the normalization of gendered state repression under the Duvalier dictatorship; how these systematized forms of violence shaped movements of population out of Haiti; […]
Dr Tamari Kitossa is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University. He earned his BA (Hons) and Magisteriate degree at York University and his PhD at OISE/University of Toronto. Research and instructional interests include: Blackness and anti-Blackness; Black masculinities; African Canadian leadership; anti-criminology and counter-colonial criminology; interracial unions; gender, sex and sexuality; race; the sociology […]
Dr Jessica Braimoh is a critical sociologist whose teaching and research interests include the interrelation between race, class, gender and criminalization; socio-legal processes and organizing institutions (e.g., social welfare, education); and the experiences of “at-risk” populations. Guided by principles of social justice, Jessica’s research uses a social justice lens to investigate the institutional processes by […]