Experienced educator, researcher and community development leader with 20 years of professional experience in Social and Public policy. I have been doing strategic policy and socio-economic research work since last fifteen years. My roles have focused extensively on social and human service issues, including health equity, violence prevention, indigenous health and ecology, governance, child rights […]
I specialize in the history of Africana philosophy with a focus on modern African philosophy. I have previously published on Amílcar Cabral’s philosophy of culture, methodological debates about racism and ideology in the historiography of philosophy, classical German philosophy (especially Kant and Hegel), Paulin Hountondji’s philosophy of science, modern African political and social philosophy (with […]
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, 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 York University, and has held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He was a member of the UNESCO “Slave […]
Patrick Chukwudike Okpalaeke is a PhD student in the Department of History. He holds a BA in History and International Studies and an MA in Social and Political History both from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He is interested in African history, environmental history, history of health and medicine, and mining history during the twentieth […]
Dr. Gemechu Abeshu is a refugee and forced migration researcher currently employed as a postdoctoral fellow at York University. He is presently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow seated in the Department of Sociology at York University. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Bayreuth University (Germany) and an M.A. […]
Dr. Tamanisha J. John is an international political economist whose research focuses on economic hegemonies and their contributions to processes of underdevelopment. She has a regional interest in the Caribbean, and a broader research agenda that concerns Caribbean development, sovereignty and politics, as well as economic imperialism, financial exclusion, corporate power, and Canadian foreign policy […]
Bianca Beauchemin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. She recently was the 2022-2023 recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship in Black Feminist Thought at Queen’s University. She was also awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship while completing her PhD at the […]
Molade Osibodu is an assistant professor of education at York University. Her research interests include understanding how to make mathematics humanizing for Sub-Saharan African youth; harnessing mathematics education to redress injustices related to race (particularly anti-Blackness), equity, and power; and exploring African immigrant and refugee math experiences; and African indigenous mathematics practices. Dr. Osibodu situates […]
Zulfikar Hirji is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto (Canada). He is interested in how human societies articulate, represent and perform understandings of self, community, and other, and on issues of knowledge production, representation and identity, visual, material, and sensory culture, and critical pedagogy. His research focuses on Muslim […]