ANTI-RACISM LAB

Shirley Anne Tate is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality in the Sociology department of the University of Alberta. Her area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, beauty, hybridity, 'race' performativity and Caribbean decolonial studies while paying attention to the intersections of \"race\" and gender. Her current research project is on antiracism and decolonization in universities. She is Honorary Professor, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and affiliated to CriSHET, and Visiting Professor in CEREN, University of Helsinki and CRED, Leeds Beckett University, UK.University, UK.

shirleya@ualberta.ca

Dia Da Costa is Professor of Social Justice and International Studies in Education at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger called Theatre (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and Development Dramas: Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India (Routledge, 2009) both of which analyze the complex relationship of activism in contemporary India to state violence and state benevolence (e.g. development discourses). Her current work is focused on the relationship of caste, colonialism and the reproduction of Brahmanical domination within and beyond higher education.

ddacosta@ualberta.ca

Kim TallBear is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying the genome sciences, their discourses of race, and disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena, and a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.

tallbear@ualberta.ca

Dr. Chris Andersen (Michif) is a Professor, and the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He is the author of two books including, with Maggie Walter, Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Indigenous Methodology (Left Coast Press, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eMétis\u003c/i\u003e: Race, Recognition and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood (UBC Press, 2014), which recently won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Associations Best Subsequent Book Award for 2015. With Jennifer Adese, he also co-edited the recently published A People and a Nation: New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies (UBC Press, 2021). Andersen was a founding member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Executive Council and is editor of the journal aboriginal policy studies. In 2014, he was named to the Royal Society of Canadas College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists inaugural class.

cta1@ualberta.ca

Dr. Malinda S. Smith is the inaugural Vice Provost (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) and a Professor of Political Science professor at the University of Calgary. She serves on the Social Science and Humanities Research Council’s Governing Council, Statistics Canada Committee on Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics, and Working Group on Black communities in Canada, and the Inter-Institutional Advisory Committee for National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities. She is a former Vice President Equity Issues for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and currently serves as Chair of its Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization. \n \nDr. Smith has published widely in areas of international and comparative politics, and equity, diversity, and human rights. She is a coauthor of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (2017), and a coeditor of the forthcoming book, Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (UofT Press, 2021). She is also editor of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism (2010), Beyond the African Tragedy: Discourses on Development and the Global Economy (2006), and Globalizing Africa (2003); and coeditor of Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, 6/E under revision with OUP; and States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (2010). \n \n

malinda.smith@ucalgary.ca

Carl E. James holds the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora in the Faculty of Education at York University and is the Senior Advisor on Equity and Representation in the Office o the Vice President of Equity, People and Culture. He is Professor in the Faculty of Education and holds cross-appointments in the Graduate Programs in Sociology, Social and Political Thought, and Social Work. He is also served as Affirmative Action, Equity and Inclusivity Officer (206-2020); was the Director of the York Centre on Education \u0026 Community (2008-2016) which he founded, and Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology (2007-2008).\n\n\nJames is widely recognized for his research contributions in the areas of intersectionality of race with ethnicity, gender, class and citizenship as they shape identification/identity; the ways in which accessible and equitable opportunities in education and employment account for the lived experiences of marginalized community members; and the complementary and contradictory nature of sports in the schooling and educational attainments of racialized students. In advocating on education for change, James documents the struggles, contradictions and paradoxes in the experiences of racialized students at all levels of the education system. In doing so, he seeks to address and move us beyond the essentialist, generalized and homogenizing discourses that account for the representation and achievements of racialized people – particularly Black Canadians -- in educational institutions, workplaces, and society generally.

cjames@edu.yorku.ca

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez holds the Chair in Sociology with a focus\non Culture and Migration, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. She\nis an Adjunct Faculty Professor in Sociology and Modern Languages and\nCultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Visiting Professor\nin the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson\nMandela University, South Africa.

GutierrezRodriguez@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Alex Da Costa is Professor of Social Justice and International Studies in Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. His research examines policing in schools through a historical, sociological, and intersectional framework rooted in anti-oppression. He also writes about institutional whiteness and systemic racism in K-12 and teacher education, as well as higher education. He has edited volumes and/or published in a range of journals like Critical Sociology, Cultural Studies, Race Ethnicity and Education, Third World Quarterly, and Policy Futures in Education covering topics like anti-racism, decoloniality, multiculturalism, social movements, and educational policy.

adacosta@ualberta.ca

Enakshi Dua teaches feminist theory, antiracist feminist theory, postcolonial studies, development studies, and globalization. Her research includes the historical construction of the categories of nation, race, and gender in Canada, immigration processes, women and health, equity policies, criminalization, and the racialization of masculinity and femininity, globalization, and biodiversity. She has over 20 years of experience in antiracist feminist organizing at the community level, and has held administrative positions that deal with feminist, antiracist and equity issues within the academy.

edua@yorku.ca

Dr. Paulina Johnson, Sîpihkokîsikowiskwew (Blue Sky Woman), is Nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and a citizen of Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis, AB. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at Western University in London, ON focused on Nêhiyaw law and governance. Her current research is focused on the importance of Indigenous womxn’s voices and matriarchal resistance to oppressive systems that are embedded in our settler colonial societies and institutions. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Peoples and Society at the University of Alberta in the Sociology Department.

prjohnso@ualberta.ca

Nykkie Lugosi-Schimpf is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Nykkie is a Métis and European scholar and her work crosses the disciplines of Indigenous Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Her research investigates issues of racism and nationalism in post-colonial (Canada and the US) and post-communist (Central Eastern Europe) contexts.

nicole.lugosi@ualberta.ca

Prof-Collins Ifeonu completed his doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Alberta. He has a broad range of academic interests, particularly focusing on the intricate connections between Canada’s labor, migration, and education policy, and their subsequent effects on the lived experiences of racialized international students. His doctoral research is a qualitative exploration of the social and political integration of international students from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in Canada. This project centers the sense-making processes of these students as they assess their decisions to further their education in Canada, relationship to Black-themed racial justice organizing, and navigation of several forms of precarity.

pifeonu@sfu.ca