I completed my bachelor’s degree at Acadia University where I graduated with honours, double majoring in Sociology and Political Science. My honours thesis focused on the ‘’Impact of South Sudanese Cultural Marriage Practices on Women's Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education in Canada.” My research interest includes social justice in education and the contribution of African women […]
Dr Annie Bunting is Professor of Law & Society at York University. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. Since 2010, she has directed an international research collaboration (SSHRC-funded Partnership) called Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities […]
Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, political ecology, globalization and critical development studies where she explores the everyday politics of life work. Her dissertation project explores the constructions of indigeneity among African-descended marginalized workers as […]
Ruth Murambadoro is an African scholar who works on women, transitional justice, gender justice, peacebuilding and politics of the Global South. She invests her research time curating women’s stories and amplifying African voices in peace education and scholarship. Ruth has conducted ethnographic field research in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique and Ghana, where she explored African […]
I began my post-secondary academic journey at York University in 2011, in the School of Continuing Studies, Harm Reduction Certificate program as part of a professional development opportunity funded by my employer at the time as a Prison Outreach Worker for HIV+ individuals. This motivated me to enroll into the Sexuality Studies Certificate program at […]
Janice J. Anderson is a PhD candidate whose doctoral research, “Being Otherwise: Black Women’s Literary Interventions into Radical Being, Knowledge and Power,” considers self-fashioning and world-making in Black women’s intellectual traditions and literatures in the Americas. Her areas of research interest include the Black Radical Tradition, Black feminism/womanism, Black aesthetics and Black literatures. “I am […]
Dhouha Triki is a fourth-year doctoral student interested in feminist agency and revolutionary struggles against state feminisms in the Arab region of North Africa. Her research aims to conceptualize the manner women's agency and struggle for liberation in this region transcends, extends, and complicates the political state post-colonial identity and the ghostly residue of colonialism […]
Célia Romulus joined Glendon's Department of International Studies as an assistant professor in July. She completed her PhD in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University, where her research focused on: the normalization of gendered state repression under the Duvalier dictatorship; how these systematized forms of violence shaped movements of population out of Haiti; […]
As a scholar and feminist activist, Rose Ndengue works on African decolonization, gender, and black feminisms in a colonial and post-colonial context. Her research focuses on African and Afro-descendant women's mobilizations in Europe and Cameroon. Her interdisciplinary approach blends history, political science, sociology, postcolonial studies with feminist and gender studies. Her work contributes to the […]
Dr Desirée de Jesus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She holds a PhD from Concordia University and an MA (with Distinction) from Kings College London. Dr de […]