Shayma Bashawieh is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies (GFWS) at 91ÑÇÉ«. Her research areas include Black Studies, Black Feminisms and Africana Studies — with a focus on Black Feminist Methodologies and the Black Radical Tradition. Her PhD research is about what it means to be human […]
Kai Butterfield is an artist, Ontario Certified Teacher, and PhD candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). They work as a primary-junior occasional teacher in the Toronto District School Board and a course instructor in the Master of Teaching program. Their doctoral research […]
Jen Katshunga is a Congolese (Mukwa Luntu/Kalonji/Luluwa,etc)-diasporic multidisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and cultural worker raised and based in Tkaronto, specifically Scarborough. They are a PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies program where their SSHRC funded research-creation project focuses on the ecologies of Congolese and Black/African trans* and queer cultural production in […]
Dr. Joycelyn Moody (she/they/hers/theirs) is Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio (US). Her research and teaching concentrate on Black life writing and auto/biography, Black feminisms, and Black print cultures. She earned her MA in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and […]
Ruth Murambadoro is a Black political feminist and seasoned public speaker whose scholarship sits at the intersection of feminist theory, politics, and justice. Her work interrogates the structures of power and oppression that shape the lived experiences of marginalized communities in the Global South—particularly women in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently an Assistant Professor of […]
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; […]
Cameroonian scholar-activist, Rose Ndengue is a historian socio-politician who defines herself as a black feminist from the transatlantic space, straddling Africa, Europe and the Americas. She is currently associate Professor in the Department of Global and Social Studies at Glendon, 91ÑÇÉ«, where she is developing a teaching program in African Studies and black feminisms […]