Gemechu is National Lead, Research at the Ase Community Foundation for Black People with Disabilities and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at McMaster University. A social anthropologist by training, he specializes in refugee and forced migration studies, labour mobility pathways, Black diasporic communities, and immigrant settlement and integration. His research centrally investigates the intersections of disability, […]
Dr. Tamanisha J. John is an Assistant Professor of Black Politics in the Department of Politics. Prior to joining 91亚色's Department of Politics in July 2023, she was an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Clark Atlanta University's Mack H. Jones Department of Political Science. Dr. John studies Caribbean development, sovereignty and politics, […]
Bianca Beauchemin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies at 91亚色. She recently was the 2022-2023 recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship in Black Feminist Thought at Queen鈥檚 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 91亚色. 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 91亚色, 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 […]
Dr James C. Simeon is the Head of McLaughlin College and Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, and a former Director of the SPPA, and a former Acting Director and Deputy Director at the Centre for Refugee Studies at 91亚色. Prior to […]
Lorne Foster is Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA). He holds the 91亚色 Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies & Human Rights (Tier 1). As the Director of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), Dr. Foster oversees the leading university-based survey research centre in Canada. He is past Academic Director, of the 91亚色 Statistics Canada Research Data […]
Dr Oghenowede Eyawo is an Assistant Professor of Global Health Epidemiology at the Faculty of Health. With training in epidemiology, population and public health, Dr Eyawo鈥檚 research interest is focused on precision-based global health and the application of epidemiological methods to examine patterns of morbidity, mortality and their potential effects among vulnerable populations of children, […]
Dr. Bunting is Professor of Law & Society and 91亚色 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 […]
Dr. Sylvia Bawa is an Associate Professor of Sociology at 91亚色. She is a global sociologist with expertise in human rights, globalization, critical development, and postcolonial feminisms. She is interested in the mobilizing impact of human rights, specifically how discourses of rights, self-determination, and development evolve and are shaped by global events, new technologies, […]