Migrations | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Yvonne Simpson

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:39:20 +0000

Yvonne Simpson holds a BA from �첥��Ƶ, M.Ed.,(University of Calgary) and PhD (�첥��Ƶ) in Critical Disability studies. Her research interests examine the historiography of records of accountability of First Nations Peoples and racialized immigrant workers. Simpson’s presentation invites reflection on the nation’s historical reliance on a transnational colour-coded system of labour force selection, while maintaining a system of exclusion in accounting for those who experience disproportionate levels of injuries and disabilities. Many questions are prompted, including: How do we learn about who bears the burdens of harms in the nation’s workplaces? What past administrative record keeping practices influence current policies, such that a cycle of deep cuts and unhealing wounds are perpetuated in the messy business of workplace health and safety?

Matthew Robertshaw

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:50:22 +0000

Matt Robertshaw is a PhD candidate in History at �첥��Ƶ. He focuses on Haiti, the Caribbean and French colonialism in Africa. He is also a video essayist via Sleeper Hit History on YouTube.

Elaine Coburn

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:24:40 +0000

Elaine Coburn is Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Associate Professor, International Studies at �첥��Ƶ's bilingual Glendon College. In addition, through the Faculty of Graduate Studies, she is a member of the Department of Sociology, the Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies and Social and Political Thought at �첥��Ƶ. Elaine holds a PhD in sociology from Stanford University, and a BA in Sociology and Canadian Studies from the University of Toronto. Prior to coming to Glendon, she was a researcher at the Centre d'analyse et d'intervention sociologiques (CADIS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. Currently, with Andrea Davis, she is co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and on the editorial board of the Canadian Review of Sociology. Her research interests include neoliberal forms of globalization, struggles for social justice and social theory, especially socialist feminist, Indigenous and anti-racist perspectives. Finally, she has recently begun writing for the Literary Review of Canada.