Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Faculty Fellow
Mohamed Sesay is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the African Studies Program in the Department of Social Science, York University. He is also a member of the UKRI GCRF Gender Justice and Security Hub at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Women, Peace and Security. His research focuses on the rule of law, legal pluralism, customary justice, transitional justice, international criminal justice, and postconflict peacebuilding in sub-Saharan Africa. His works have appeared in many peer-reviewed journals. Sesay’s monograph, Domination through Law: Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa, is the winner of the 2021 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award and Honorable Mention for the 2022 Global Development Studies Book Award, both at the International Studies Association.
Mohamed is the Nominated PI of the Overcoming Epidemics in Transnational Black Communities research cluster which is part of the Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research Clusters (CIRC) initiative at York. This cluster aims to explore and interrogate the intersection between structural and social injustices that drive vulnerability and Black communities’ experiences in mitigation, response, and recovery from severe epidemics –broadly defined as persistent and significant disease outbreaks. To this end, the cluster seeks to: (i) establish an interdisciplinary and multisectoral research agenda at York, (ii) collaboratively leverage and further develop a team comprising interdisciplinary research groups across York, (iii) collect and analyze data aimed to inform global health justice frameworks in line with traditional/modern knowledge systems, and (iv) identify and address the many pathways through which structural and systemic inequalities shape black communities’ experiences of epidemics, including socio-economic injustice, racial injustice and discrimination.
Research keywords:
Black Health, Social (In)justice, Africa, Epidemics
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
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