Black History Month
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Governing Board Chair, Massey College
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cannabis
- Crime
- Criminal justice
- Defunding police
- Drug policy
- Drugs
- Policing
- Protests and marches on both sides of the border
- Race and crime
- Race and ethnic relations
- Race and racism
- Racialized law enforcement
- Racism and criminal justice
- Rayshard Brooks
- Social policy
Office: 416-978-7124 ext.240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ann Lopez
Professor, Teaching Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-black racism in education
- Anti-racism education
- Black history curriculum
- Decolonizing education
Office: 416-978-8922
Email: ann.lopez@utoronto.ca
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Charmaine Williams
Interim Dean
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism
- Diversity
- Equity
- Family caregiving
- Inclusion
- LGBTQ mental health
- Mental health of Black Canadians
- Mental health services
Office: 416-978-3255
Website
Email: charmaine.williams@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
George Dei
Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism education and inclusive schooling
- Black youth dropouts/academic success
- Critical ethnography
- History of Africentric schools
- Indigenous knowledges and anti-Colonialism
- Race
Office: 416-978-0460
Mobile: 416-539-8551
Languages (in addition to English): Twi
Email: george.dei@utoronto.ca
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George Elliott Clarke
Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- African-Canadian history/literature
- African-Canadian history/literature
- African/American/Canadian Poetry
- Anti-racism initiatives
- Canadian/American/African poetry
Office: 416-946-3143
Website
Email: libretto@chass.utoronto.ca
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Harvey L. Nicholson Jr.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Black/African Americans/Black Americans
- Health and Society
- Interracial Relations
- Opioids
- Racism/Discrimination
Office: N/A
Website
Email: harvey.nicholsonjr@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Julius Haag
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Gangs
- Police Accountability and Reform
- Policing
- Race and racism
- Youth Culture and Crime
- Youth justice
Office: N/A
Email: julius.haag@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Lauren McLeod Cramer
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: lauren.cramer@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Rinaldo Walcott
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science
Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- African American/Black cultural history
- African American/Black educational issues
- African American/Black film
- African American/Black politics
- African American/Black pop culture
- Black Lives Matter
- Equality
- Police brutality
- Race equality
- visual art
Office: 416-978-0400
Email: rinaldo.walcott@utoronto.ca
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Tanya L. Sharpe
Associate Professor
Endowed Chair in Social Work in the Global Community
Founder & Director, The Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (The CRIB)
- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 946-0218
Mobile: (437)-343-8422
Website
Email: tanya.sharpe@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Pronouns: She/Her
Timothy Bryan
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: t.bryan@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Vannina Sztainbok
Adjunct Lecturer
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-0017
Languages (in addition to English): Spanish
Website
Email: vannina.sztainbok@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Winston Husbands
Associate Professor, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-988-1725
Website
Email: winston.husbands@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availability: Radio, Print/Online