Past Directors | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Paul E. Lovejoy

rebsl — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:53:44 +0000

Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, �첥��Ƶ, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Lovejoy is Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at �첥��Ƶ, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO “Slave Route” Project (1996-2012) and continues as General Editor of The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora (Africa World Press). He was co-editor of the journal, African Economic History for 37 years and has published more than forty books, including Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (1775-1850) (2016), Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa (2019), and most recently co-edited with Ali Moussa Iye and Nelly Schmidt, Slavery, Resistance and Abolitions: A Pluralist Perspective (2019), co-edited with Dale Tomich, The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and Beyond (2021), and co-edited with Kartikay Chadha, Henry B. Lovejoy and Erika Melek Delgado, Regenerated Identities: Documenting African Lives (2022). He has received numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Research keywords: Social justice; economic history; slavery; migration; ethnicity

José C. Curto

rebsl — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:43:34 +0000

Annie Bunting

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:53:19 +0000

Dr. Annie Bunting is a Professor of Law & Society at �첥��Ƶ and York Research Chair in International Gender Justice & Peacebuilding. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. Since 2010, she has directed an international research collaboration (SSHRC-funded Partnership) called Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities with historians of slavery, community-based researchers and women’s human rights scholars. This project includes partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Canada and England.

She is the co-editor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa (Ohio University Press 2016) with Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts; Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (University of British Columbia Press 2017, Cornell University Press 2018) with Joel Quirk; and Research as More than Extraction? Knowledge Production and Sexual Violence in Post Conflict African Societies (openDemocracy/ Beyond Trafficking and Slavery, eBook 2020) with Allen Kiconco and Joel Quirk.

Keywords: International gender justice; contemporary slavery; conflict-related SGBV

Nathanael Ojong

rebsl — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:15:07 +0000

Dr. Ojong is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies. He is Associate Editor of the journal Sustainable Development, Associate Editor of Energy Exploration & Exploitation, and is a member of the Knowledge Network of African Experts established by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to help shape economic and social policy in Africa.

His work encompasses renewable energy technologies and electricity capitalism, energy and sustainability, urban and rural livelihoods, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, informal economies, social determinants of health, and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa.

His work has appeared in journals such as Nature Energy, Energy Research & Social Science, Environmental Research Letters, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Rural Studies, and Journal of Business Research.

Gertrude Mianda

rebsl — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:14:28 +0000

Gertude Mianda is the former Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at �첥��Ƶ. She is a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Glendon College and was the Chair of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at �첥��Ƶ (2011–15). Her research focuses on gender and post-colonialism in Africa—particularly on Congolese women—gender development and globalization as well as on immigration. Her immigration research focuses primarily on francophone Africans in the minority francophone community in Canada, particularly their economic and social integration.

Denielle A. Elliott

rebsl — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:20:00 +0000

Denielle A. Elliott is Associate Professor at �첥��Ƶ in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. She is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Science and Technology Studies program. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Her research for the large part focuses on arts-based ethnography and the intersections of colonialism, medicine and science, and politics. She has conducted fieldwork in British Columbia (Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on HIV/AIDS, epidemiological surveillance and colonial health) and in Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya (‘Safari Science’, experimental medicine, scientific infrastructure, and the politics of transnational science).

Her current project entitled "Neurological Imaginaries" explores the sensorial and affective dimensions of traumatic brain injuries.

Her recent book publication, (Routledge 2019), is a collaborative account of immunologist Davy Koech's life's work building bioscientific infrastructure in Kenya and his relationship with former president Daniel arap Moi.

She is co-editor with Anna Harris of the with Somatosphere.