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 of knowledge; and war and militarism. Toward a general understanding of the dialectical relationship between social order and resistance, he reads widely across the disciplines of sociology and social-psychology; anthropology; economic, political and social history; race and moral philosophy; social theory; and sociology of knowledge and science studies. He is contributor and editor of Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism and Erotic Racism (University of Alberta Press, 2021). With Erica Lawson and Philip S. S. Howard, he is lead editor and contributor to African Canadian Leadership: Continuity, Transition, and Transformation (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Along with Awad Ibrahim, Malinda Smith, and Handel K. Wright, he is co-editor and contributor to Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning and Researching while Black (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Research keywords: Blackness; anti-Blackness; anti-criminology; race and racialization