Nia Akilah Wilson (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of Humanities at 快播视频. She is a research associate with the YRC II in Black Sonic Cultures. Nia earned her MA in Human Geography from University of Toronto. Her SSHRC CGS-M funded thesis focused on the experiences of Black women with anti-black surveillance […]
Carlito Lopes de Oliveira Junior is a PhD candidate in History at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and holds a Master's degree in History from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), where he was advised by Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Saraiva. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anita Correia […]
Zainab Gaafar is an architect and project manager specialising in research and design. She is the founder of Studio Urban, a Khartoum-based research studio that explores urban studies at the intersection of culture and knowledge accessibility. The studio produces multimedia content and integrates community engagement tools into its research methodologies. In recent years, Zainab has […]
Amanda Nkeramihigo is a scholar and theorist whose work bridges historical and critical psychology, Afrofuturism, and decolonial frameworks to explore Black subjectivity, epistemic justice, and liberation. She will be continuing at the PhD level at 快播视频, in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies in Psychology in the summer of 2026. Amanda鈥檚 research interrogates the […]
Sheba Abena Wiafe is currently completing her PhD at 快播视频 in the Social and Political Thought Program. Her research focuses on investigating the migratory movements of African women to Europe against the histories of the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade through Black critical theoretical and psychoanalytic approaches. Her written work is forthcoming with The […]
Britney Andrews is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Social Science at 快播视频. Her research examines gendered and racialized experiences of state-sanctioned and interpersonal violence, with attention to the ways these experiences are complicated through various vectors of power and privilege. She is currently focusing on police violence, carcerality and approaches to addressing […]
Taylar Carty is a history PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores the lives and experiences of enslaved and apprenticed Black girls in Barbados from 1750-1838. She is passionate about education and museums and has worked as a consultant and curator at various heritage sites in the UK.
Norman Smith is a Master鈥檚 student in the Graduate Education Program. His current project through the lens, is a cultural critique on the subtleties of racism that exist within Canadian culture, that utilizes photographic elements to bring to the forefront the hidden truth of the social norms we hide behind. His goal for his research […]
Erragab Eljanhaoui is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco, and a Fulbright scholar at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. Eljanhaoui鈥檚 focus includes Barbary captivity narratives, desert studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, ecocriticism, and nomadism. With his background in comparative literature studies, he challenges how the […]
Daniel Richardson is a Ghanaian filmmaker and multimedia professional with over a decade of experience in television and video production. He is fascinated by the African story and narratives that have the potential to positively impact humanity. He holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), Ghana, […]