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Paul E. Lovejoy

As Distinguished Research Professor the Department of History, York University, he was Founding Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University and held the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History (2000-2015). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was a member of […]

Bianca Beauchemin

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 […]

Annie Bunting

Dr. Bunting is Professor of Law & Society and York Research Chair (YRC) in International Gender Justice & Peacebuilding (2024-29). Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods; feminist international law; contemporary slavery; and SGBV in war. From 2010-2022, she directed an international research collaboration, Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study […]

Nathanael Ojong

Dr. Ojong is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies. He is Associate Editor of the journal Sustainable Development, Associate Editor of Energy Exploration & Exploitation, and is a member of the Knowledge Network of African Experts established by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa to help shape economic and social policy […]

Gertrude Mianda

Gertude Mianda is the former Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University. She is a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies program at Glendon College and was the Chair of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University (2011–15). Her research focuses on […]

Denielle A. Elliott

Denielle A. Elliott is Associate Professor at York University in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. She is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Science and Technology Studies program. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Her research for the large part focuses on arts-based ethnography and the intersections […]

Damilola Adebayo

Damilola Adebayo is an Associate Professor of History and a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies (STS). He serves as Vice President of the Canadian Association of African Studies and Associate Editor of History and Technology. An award-winning historian of Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria, his research and teaching lie […]