Labour | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Tiana Reid

rebsl — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:22:56 +0000

Tiana Reid is an assistant professor in the Department of English at 91��ɫ and the author of the poetry collection Nightnursing (2026). Born and raised in Toronto, she holds both a PhD in English and Comparative Literature and an MA in African American Studies from Columbia University.

Her essays, reviews, and academic articles have been published in many places, including American Quarterly, Bookforum, C Magazine, Dissent, Feminist Formations, The Nation, The New 91��ɫ Review of Books, Theory & Event, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and The Yale Review. She is also an editor at Pinko, a magazine of gay communism.

Keywords: black studies, black feminist theory, literary studies, labour, diaspora, Marxism, gender, sexuality, comparative literature

Salmaan Khan

rebsl — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:06:03 +0000

Salmaan Khan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Islamophobia Research Hub at 91��ɫ, with a focus on economic integration of Muslims in Canada. Prior to this role he was an Assistant Professor (Limiter Term Faculty) in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and Research Program Manager in the Office of the Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at TMU. He completed his PhD in 2022 in the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at 91��ɫ. His research can be framed along four avenues: 1.) the systemic racial and gendered dimensions of capitalist production with a focus on the experiences of racialized workers in the Canadian labour market; 2.) the intergenerational impacts of precarious working conditions; 3.) critical epistemologies and methodologies of the social sciences with a focus on community-based research methods and practices; 4.) critical pedagogies and engaged learning practices. His community, academic and teaching work is underpinned by a political commitment to intersectional, anti-oppressive politics and a desire for social justice.

Keywords: Islamophobia, Black Muslim, anti-Black racism, Labour, Employment, Discrimination

Lorne Foster

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:38:07 +0000

Lorne Foster is Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA). He holds the 91��ɫ 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��ɫ Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC); and the inaugural Chair, Race Inclusion and Supportive Environments (RISE). In his university service, he currently serves as the Chair of the Community Safety Council (CSC); and is a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights (PACHR). Dr. Foster is also the Director of the Diversity & Human Rights Certificate (DHRC), which he established in partnership with the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA). This initiative is the first academic-industry partnership sponsored by a regulatory organization.

Yvonne Simpson

rebsl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:39:20 +0000

Yvonne Simpson holds a BA from 91��ɫ, M.Ed.,(University of Calgary) and PhD (91��ɫ) in Critical Disability studies. Her research interests examine the historiography of records of accountability of First Nations Peoples and racialized immigrant workers. Simpson’s presentation invites reflection on the nation’s historical reliance on a transnational colour-coded system of labour force selection, while maintaining a system of exclusion in accounting for those who experience disproportionate levels of injuries and disabilities. Many questions are prompted, including: How do we learn about who bears the burdens of harms in the nation’s workplaces? What past administrative record keeping practices influence current policies, such that a cycle of deep cuts and unhealing wounds are perpetuated in the messy business of workplace health and safety?

Tii Nchofoung

rebsl — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:18:43 +0000

Tii Nchofoung holds a Master’s of Science in Mathematical Economics from the University of Dschang, Cameroon. He also holds a Diploma in Administration from the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), Cameroon. He works as an Administrator with the Ministry of Trade, Cameroon, at the same time, a doctoral candidate in Economics at the University of Dschang. He is also a visiting scholar with the Association of Promoting Women in Research and Development (ASPROWADA), Cameroon. His research works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals among others: Resources Policy, International Economic Journal, Foreign Trade Review, Telecommunications Policy, and International Economics, just to name a few. His research interests are in the fields of international economics, inclusive and sustainable development.