REI Faculty and Research Interests
Faculty teaching the Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity program at York are internationally renowned scholars in their field, committed to conducting research that has relevance for both local and global communities.
Core REI Faculty
Alston, Vermonja - Caribbean literature (in English, French, and Spanish); Indigenous North American literature; literary and cultural theory; environmental justice literature; legal theory
Das Gupta, Tania - Race, gender and class concerns for the workplace; labour market; families; multiculturalism; South Asian diaspora; immigrant women's activism; labour movement
Dereyah, Minoo - Gender and religion; modernity and tradition; religion and social justice; multicultural and multiracial education
Dua, Enakshi - Racism and anti-racism, anti-racism and indigeniety, immigration processes, women and health, equity policies, globalization and biodiversity.
Goodman, Mark J. - Slavery and enslaved communities in the Americas; African-American family structure and culture; racism and colonial practices; state authority and the retrenchment of the equality agenda in the United States since the 1960s
Haque, Eve - Linguistic rights; race, language policy and nationalism; immigrant language training programs and ‘integration’; language and multicultural nationalism; multilingualism and language shift; language death and revitalization.
Jacobs, Merle - Employment Equity, Collegiality, Vicarious trauma and helping professions; race as a category; Burmese refugees in Toronto: Trauma in ethnic women; social justice and human rights; relocation in Canada
Lawrence, Bonita - Regulation of Native identify; gender and colonization; Indigenous justice, sovereignty and literature; traditional Native singing
McNab, David - Aboriginal Land and Treat Rights; British imperial history; Canadian history; Ontario history
Moghissi, Haideh - Middle East politics and culture; Islam and gender; human rights; diversity, ethnicity and immigration; race relations and policies
Oikawa, Mona - Race and anti-racism studies; gender and culture studies; internment of Japanese Canadians
O'Riley, Patricia - Indigenizing research methodology; Indigenous self-empowerment; technology discourses in education; environmental justice; cultural studies; poststructural theory. Currently on Leave of Absence
Shewell, Hugh - Social policy; history of social welfare; first nations; poverty; ideology and the State; the Holocaust and State oppression (LOA) Currently on Leave of Absence.
Associated Faculty
Bannerji, Himani - Women and development; Colonial and post-colonial social and political formations; Feminist theory and its relations to race and class; Immigrant women in Canada; Culture and politics
Cooper Clark, Diana - Caribbean studies; diaspora; race; ethnicity; gender and myth
Goulding, Jay - Chinese philosophy; Japanese philosophy; hermeneutic phenomenology; popular cultures: east and west; racism and colonialism
Kernerman, Gerald - Contemporary social and political thought; refugee policy; nationalism; national and international rights regimes; multiculturalism; identity politics
Mensah, Joseph - Gender, population and migration; social and cultural spaces.
Sanders, Leslie - Black Canada; African American Literature and Culture
Slowey, Gabrielle - Neoliberal globalization, treaties, land claims, economic development and Indigenous governance. Her work draws upon community-based research conducted across the Canadian Arctic and in New Zealand (Tainui and Ngai Tahu)
Sturino, Franc - Immigration and ethnic history; the relationship between technology, immigration and ethnicity; technology and cultural change
Contract Faculty
Man, Guida C. - Social relations and processes of racialization; gender and class and their articulation to globalization; colonization; immigration; transnational migration; family relations and work
