Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
Assistant Professor
Department of Gender Studies
Department of Geography & Planning
Research/professional interests
how the forms of labour cultivated and performed by youth in African cities are affected by coloniality, postcolonial politics of identity and racial capitalism, Critical Race Theory, and Black futurity in popular culture
Quincy Armorer
Adjunct Lecturer
The Dan School of Drama & Music
Mofiyinfoluwa Badmos
Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator
Smith School of Business
Research/professional interests
fostering inclusive spaces for Commerce students, supporting the transition needs of International and Domestic students, and working with colleagues on developing and implementing equitable strategies.
Elijah Bisung
Assistant Professor
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Research/professional interests
environmental collective action for environmental health promotion, environmental stress and psychosocial health, community based participatory research, health systems resilience to climate change, and safe water and sanitation interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Alana Butler
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Education
Research/professional interests
academic achievement of low socio-economic students, race and schooling, equity and inclusion, multicultural education
Celina Caesar-Chavannes
Senior Advisor, EDI Initiatives and Adjunct Lecturer
Faculty of Health Sciences
Research/professional interests
Inclusion of marginalized populations in clinical research
Kerrisha Campbell
Health Promotion Program Assistant
Student Wellness Services
Taylor Cenac
Black Studies Program and Administrative Assistant
Department of Gender Studies
Research/professional interests
Caribbean epistemologies, queer caribbean, black diaspora studies, social justice, education and community engagement, erotic power and biomythography, queer phenomenology, The Black Atlantic, anti-racist harm reduction practices
Coco Doré
Senior Advisor, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII)
Office of Advancement
Afolasade Fakolade
Assistant Professor
School of Rehabilitation Therapy
Research/professional interests
Health promotion, chronic neurological conditions, caregiver health and resilience, physical activity, technology-supported health programming
Kesha Fevrier
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, Department of Geography and Planning
Research/professional interests
Black Ecologies and Geographies, Urban Political Ecology focused on the Global South, Geographies of Waste, Informal Labour Markets in the Global South, Environmental Justice, and Investigations of Race from a Spatial perspective and vice versa
Nazik Hammad
Associate Professor
Department of Oncology
Research/professional interests
Clinical and Translational Research in Colorectal cancer
Joseph Kangmennaang
Professor
Black Studies, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Research/professional interests
How the places we live, work and play impact population health and wellbeing especially with regards to (re)emerging infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Christine Keli
University Registrar - Records & Services
Jennifer Leath
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, School of Religion
Research/professional interests
The intersection of sexualities and religious in sacred communities and spaces of African Diaspora, the intersection of Afro-Diasporic women's spiritualities and social activism, the physics of metaphysics of womanism, African and Afro-Diasporic approaches to sexualities in political economies, abolition, transnational ecumenisms of marginalized peoples, the intersections of Buddhist and womanist thought, interdisciplinary approaches to interreligious dialogue, and theories of justice
Gerome Manson
Assistant Professor
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Research/professional interests
The influence of visual information on the mapping of somatosensory target locations; the role of brain and spinal neural networks in the rapid control of movements to somatosensory targets; multisensory perception during movements to somatosensory and visual targets
Jermaine Marshall
Inclusion and Anti-Racism Advisor
Human Rights & Equity Office
Research/professional interests
Jermaine (He/They) joined the Queen’s family in 2021 as the Inclusion and Anti-Racism Advisor in the office of Human Rights & Equity. He now serves as a central point of contact for individuals and units who wish to access all related anti-oppression and anti-racism initiatives, processes, and services at Queen’s. As an advisor he pulls from years of academic and professional experience in order to facilitate an intersectional approach to addressing issues of racism, discrimination and oppression.
In their spare time Jermaine freelances as a queer vocalist and poet whose artistry seeks to create a vibrant soundscape that captures the contours of lived pain and joy within an oppressive society.
Daniel McNeil
Professor and Queen’s National Scholar Chair in Black Studies
Department of Gender Studies
Research/professional interests
Black Atlantic cultures, politics and intellectual traditions; diasporic identities and decolonial praxis; migration and multiculturalism; public history and humanities
Nomusa Mngoma
Gopolang Mohlabeng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute
Research/professional interests
Various aspects of dark matter phenomenology
Kristin Moriah
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Research/professional interests
African American literature and culture, African Diaspora Studies, Performance Studies, Sound Studies, Visual Culture
Nadine Morrison
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology
Research/professional interests
target therapy for children with drug resistant epilepsy, especially in patients with genetic etiology
Juliane Okot Bitek
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, Joint appointment in Gender Studies and English
Research/professional interests
African literature; Black Studies; Creative Writing (especially poetry); Black theory; Black Diasporic literature; oral traditions; war and trauma literature; history and cultural memory; Black and Indigenous cultural relations
Juliana Riberio da Silva Bevilacqua
Assistant Professor & Queen's National Scholar
Department of Art History & Art Conservation
Research/professional interests
Classical African art, Contemporary African art, Colonial Museums in Africa, Afro-Brazilian art, specially collections from Afro-Brazilian religions, like Candomblé, and Modernism in Bahai, Arts of Diaspora
Elliot Samuel Paul
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Research/professional interests
Early modern philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of the mind, cognitive science, creativity
Dalitso Ruwe
Assistant Professor of Black Political Thought
Department of Philosophy
Research/professional interests
Intellectual History of Africana Philosophy, Anti-Colonial Theory, Africana Legal History, Black Male Studies, Hip Hop Philosophy, Black Philosophies of Education
Stephanie Simpson
Associate Vice-Principal (Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion)
Human Rights and Equity Offices
Research/professional interests
how racism and processes of racialization affect youth in smaller urban centres
Ricardo Smalling
Legal Counsel
Vice-Principal Research Partnerships and Innovation (Research Contracts Unit)
Vanessa E. Thompson
Assistant Professor
Black Studies, Department of Gender Studies
Research/professional interests
Black studies, critical racism and migration studies, gender studies, anticolonial theories, and critical ethnographies, transnational black urban and social movements, struggles against anti-black state violence and policing as well as abolition geographies and socialities