Feminism | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Adonika Wilkes

rebsl — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:10:37 +0000

Adonika Wilkes is a PhD candidate in the Socio-Legal Studies Program at 91��ɫ. Bridging together feminist theory and critical race theory, her research looks at Black Canadian history, chronicling its effect in contemporary times. Her past research looked at the racialization of space and how Blackness is expressed and regulated in different areas. Her upcoming research will further expand on this topic, specifically looking at the surveillance Black Canadian women are subject to.

Keywords: Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Social Justice, Race, Anti-Black Racism

Yayo Vuni

rebsl — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:22:29 +0000

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 to the field of development in Africa.

Tka C. Pinnock

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:43:03 +0000

Tka C. Pinnock is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at 91��ɫ. 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 a political-economic response to the conditions of economic development, using the tourism sector in Jamaica as a case study. Pinnock’s community work also gives rise to an interest in diaspora studies and community-based research.

Janice J. Anderson

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:25:28 +0000

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 grateful to the Tubman Institute for the continued support to examine enslavement in the context of the Americas. Here I can further develop a scholarly practice that adheres to geographer Katherine McKittrick’s admonishments to shift “our analytic frame away from the lone site of the suffering [Black] body” and “toward co-relational texts, practices, and narratives that emphasize black life” (McKittrick 2014). My gratitude continues for acceptance and space in this collegial environment of innovative scholars.

Dhouha Triki

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:57:27 +0000

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 and imperialism.

Célia Romulus

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:37:13 +0000

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; and the notion of citizenship as experienced by multiple generations of migrants. Her research and teaching draws from anti-oppression and anti-racist education, Afro and decolonial feminisms, and explores questions related to the gender and the politics of memory, migrations, citizenship, political violence and interdisciplinary methods. Prior to completing her PhD, Romulus worked as a program director in the areas of gender-based violence in public spaces and in security sector reform for UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. She continues to work as a consultant and trainer on questions related to anti-oppression, anti-racism, Black femininities/masculinities, gender mainstreaming in public policies and in development.

Desirée de Jesus

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:28:45 +0000

Dr Desirée de Jesus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at 91��ɫ. 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 Jesus is also a video essayist and moving images curator. Her videographic work analyzes films centering girls, women, and folks of colour. Her previous curatorial work supported the Visual Collections Repository (Concordia University) and the Toronto International Film Festival. Dr de Jesus’ research and teaching explore the intersections of race, gender, aesthetics, and technology in narrative film and media through traditional, creative, and curatorial methodologies. She is currently a co-investigator for a Connection Grant participatory filmmaking project about racialized girls, their futures, and experiences of COVID-19 inequalities. Her previous research was supported through various awards.

Elaine Coburn

rebsl — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 02:24:40 +0000

Elaine Coburn is Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Associate Professor, International Studies at 91��ɫ's bilingual Glendon College. In addition, through the Faculty of Graduate Studies, she is a member of the Department of Sociology, the Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies and Social and Political Thought at 91��ɫ. Elaine holds a PhD in sociology from Stanford University, and a BA in Sociology and Canadian Studies from the University of Toronto. Prior to coming to Glendon, she was a researcher at the Centre d'analyse et d'intervention sociologiques (CADIS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. Currently, with Andrea Davis, she is co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and on the editorial board of the Canadian Review of Sociology. Her research interests include neoliberal forms of globalization, struggles for social justice and social theory, especially socialist feminist, Indigenous and anti-racist perspectives. Finally, she has recently begun writing for the Literary Review of Canada.