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 […]
Mary Uhunoma Isibor, PhD is a Lecturer in History and International Studies at the University of Benin, Nigeria. Her research spans gender and economic history, entrepreneurship, migration and diaspora studies, socio-cultural history, and peace and conflict studies, with current work examining the resilience of African and Black women entrepreneurs in Toronto and across the diaspora. […]
Sylvia Esther Gyan (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ghana and a visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, 快播视频, with over a decade of experience in teaching and research. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and actively mentors and supervises students. From December 2018 to November 2023, […]
Dr. Roshnie Doon (she/her/hers) is the Secretary of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) Regional Executive at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. In this role, she oversees all chapters across the Caribbean, including those in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados. Additionally, she […]
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, 快播视频, 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 快播视频, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO 鈥淪lave […]
I completed my bachelor鈥檚 degree at Acadia University where I graduated with honours, double majoring in Sociology and Political Science. My honours thesis focused on the 鈥樷橧mpact of South Sudanese Cultural Marriage Practices on Women's Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education in Canada.鈥 My research interest includes social justice in education and the contribution of African women […]
Dr James C. Simeon is the Head of McLaughlin College and Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, and a former Director of the SPPA, and a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies at 快播视频. Prior to […]
I am a Master's student in Social Anthropology, focusing my thesis on the activism of Malian undocumented migrants in the Paris region. My work hopes to shed light on migrants' experiences of state violence and practices of resistance. In particular, I will be studying the political discourses that emerge from migrant collectives, which tie contemporary […]
Mary Goitom is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, 快播视频. Dr Goitom鈥檚 research explores migration, mobilities, diasporic connections, transnational processes, and social relations. Her work is centered on community-based research and is grounded in Ethiopian epistemologies and larger African traditional knowledge systems. Dr Goitom鈥檚 work explores transnational social fields in relation […]