amandank@my.yorku.ca
Amanda Nkeramihigo is a scholar and theorist whose work bridges historical and critical psychology, Afrofuturism, and decolonial frameworks to explore Black subjectivity, epistemic justice, and liberation. She will be continuing at the PhD level at York University, in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies in Psychology in the summer of 2026. Amanda’s research interrogates the colonial coordinates of space, time, and narrative in psychology, while developing speculative, Afrofuturist methodologies that problematizes Psychology’s engagement with Black psychological life, and reconfigures this relationship through the Black gaze and Black radical thoughts and imaginaries.
Amanda is the co-founder of the Black Students Mentorship Program in the Faculty of Health and has contributed to initiatives such as the first Work-Integrated Learning course for Black students in Psychology at York. Her publications include a sole-authored article in Theory & Psychology (2025), a co-authored Oxford Bibliography entry on Mamie Phipps Clark, and a review in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. She has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch (2023) by CIBWE and is a recipient of the Fancher-Bakan-Danziger Award for Excellence in Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology (2024). Born in East Africa and fluent in English and French, Amanda brings a transnational perspective to her work, and has presented at national conferences and engages in public scholarship to advance onto-epistemic justice and Black liberation.
Keywords: Afrodiaspora, Afrofuturism, Critical studies in Psychology, Black subjectivity