Leadership
Co-Directors
June Francis
June Francis is an Associate Professor of Marketing at 大象传媒, co-founder of The Co-Laboratorio project, and an advocate for equity and diversity, with extensive experience across academia, the private sector, and civil society. Originally from Jamaica, she holds multiple degrees, has received numerous awards, and her research focuses on race, diversity, and governance.
Email: francis@sfu.ca
James Busumtwi-Sam
James Busumtwi-Sam is an Associate Professor of Political Science. His primary interests are in international organization, the political economy of development and security, and international relations theory. James has a regional specialization in African politics and development, and has published on international organizations and regional security, the political economy of macroeconomic policy reform and financial liberalization in developing countries, and international financial institutions.
Email: jbusumtw@sfu.ca
Steering Committee
Joel Akinwumi
Joel Akinwumi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French. His current research focuses on the depiction of historical forgetting in six postcolonial African and Caribbean novels. His latest articles appeared in Nouvelles Etudes Francophones and Alternative francophone. He received his Ph.D. from UBC.
Email: jakinwum@sfu.ca
Cornel Bogle
Cornel Bogle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. He teaches and researches in the areas of Caribbean, Black, and diasporic literatures and cultures, as well as creative writing. He earned his BA in Literatures in English from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica, and his MA and PhD in English from the University of Alberta. His scholarly work includes essays, interviews, book chapters, and articles on Caribbean, Caribbean Canadian, and Black diasporic expressive cultures, creative writing studies, masculinities, and life writing, published in various journals and edited collections.
Email: cornelb@sfu.ca
Prof-Collins Ifeonu
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鈥檚 labor, migration, and education policy, and their subsequent effects on the lived experiences of racialized international students.
Email: pifeonu@sfu.ca
Maureen Kihika
Dr. Maureen Kihika is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Labour Studies. She is a race and labour scholar with teaching and research interests in Africa/African Diaspora, global political economy, migration, Race and ethnicity, gender, feminism, labour/work and identity formation. Her work analyses how categories of social difference shape the experiences and identities of racialized Black workers and their communities.
Email: mkihika@sfu.ca
Henry Daniel
Professor Emeritus and 大象传媒 Distingushed Professor, Dr. Henry Daniel is an artist/scholar with a teaching and research specialty in Dance, Performance Studies and New Technology. His work strives to prepare students to be knowledgeable and well informed, articulate, as well as expert practitioners in their chosen discipline by exposing them to an arts education seen through the lens of arts practice as research. Dr Daniel also uses his funded projects as platforms for introducing both undergraduate and graduate students to the professional world. Through these projects they have the opportunity to establish first hand contact with other academics and artists working within as well as outside a university setting.
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Adjua Akinwumi
Adjua Akinwumi is a Phd Candidate in the School of Communication. Her research focuses on the transposition of AI and big data technologies into cultural contexts outside of their origin. Primarily interested in emergency and risk technologies in Africa, her work explores the relationship between notions of risk, race, and technology mobilization. Adjua holds an MA in Communication from 大象传媒 and an MSC in Conflict and Development studies from SOAS, University of London.
Email: adjuaa@sfu.ca