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	Joseph Mensah: Brief Bio
	I was born and raised in post-colonial Ghana, where I did my undergraduate degree in geography (with philosophy minor) at the University of Ghana. I came to Canada in 1987 under a graduate academic scholarship at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, where I received my Master’s degree in human geography. My PhD, also in human geography, is from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. After many years of teaching in several universities/colleges in British Columbia—including the Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Douglas College, and the Kwantlen University College, with the latter being my main employer—I joined York University in 2002, as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2005, and to Full Professor in 2010. I was the Coordinator of York’s International Development Studies program at the Department of Social Sciences from June 2008 to June 2011. My current research interests are in critical development theory; socio-spatial dialectics; globalization, religious transnationalism, and cultural identity; race, space, and employment; and research methods. I have written several journal articles and contributed chapters to a number of books. I am the author of the well-received book, Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions, published by Fernwood in 2002; and co-editor of Globalization and Development: The Human Factor: Critical Insights, published by Ashgate in 2004; the editor of Understanding Reforms in Africa: The Tale of Seven Nations (Palgrave, 2006); and Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations from the Embattled Continent (Palgrave, 2008).
	Last updated: October 26, 2004