Black History Month
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cannabis
- Crime
- Criminal justice
- Defunding police
- Drug policy
- Drugs
- Policing
- Protests and marches on both sides of the border
- Public policy
- 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 Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-black racism in education
- Anti-racism education
- Black history curriculum
- Decolonizing education
Office: 4169788922
Website
Email: ann.lopez@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Charmaine Williams
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-racism
- equity and health
- HIV prevention
- LGBTQ
- Mental health
- social work practice
- women’s health
Office: 4169783255
Website
Email: charmaine.williams@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
George Dei
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
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
Languages (in addition to English): Twi
Website
Email: george.dei@utoronto.ca
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George Elliott Clarke
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- African-Canadian
- African-Canadian history/literature
- African/American/Canadian Poetry
- Anti-racism initiatives
- Canadian (poetry)
- Canadian literature
- Creative Writing (MA)
- New World African
- Postcolonial
Office: 416-946-3143
Website
Email: georgeelliott.clarke@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
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
Website
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
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: lauren.cramer@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Rinaldo Walcott
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Website
Email: rinaldo.walcott@utoronto.ca
Tanya L. Sharpe
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 946-0218
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
- 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
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William Paris
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Languages (in addition to English): French,German
Website
Email: william.paris@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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