February is Black History Month and Carleton experts are available to comment on related topics.
If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to reach out to them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.
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Gerald Grant
Professor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University
Email: Gerald.Grant@carleton.ca
Grant is the Director of the Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People and the principal investigator for the Black Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (BEKH).
BEKH is a critical pillar in the Black Entrepreneurship Program funded by the federal government through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. The BEKH seeks to build a robust knowledge base for Black entrepreneurship in Canada. It focuses on closing the gaps in information, research, and statistics about Black entrepreneurs, the businesses they are engaged in, and their needs for business support, access to funding, and business and technical know-how to help their businesses grow sustainably into the future.
For more on Grant visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/gerald-grant
Philip Kaisary
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies and Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University
Email: philip.kaisary@carleton.ca
Kaisary is available to discuss Black literature, art, and culture; Black radicalism; Black resistance to slavery – especially as it appears in literature and film.
Kaisary is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the world, and addresses the intersections of law, politics, and culture.
For more on Kaisary, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/philip-kaisary
Evelyn Namakula Mayanja
Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University
Email: evelyn.mayanja@carleton.ca
Mayanja can speak to issues of racism, anti-Black racism, Blackness and mineral extraction, migration, and violence and human rights.
Mayanja is passionate about global peace and security, with a focus on Africa. Her research follows trajectories of critical theory, decoloniality, phenomenology, Afrocentricity and African Indigenous philosophy to explore issues around the international political economy of resources, race, politics, and governance in global systems of accumulation and international relations.
Her research centers on the agency, interests, human rights and human security of those marginalized by colonial systems of oppression, resource looting, environmental destruction, authoritarianism and political repression.
For more on Mayanja visit: https://carleton.ca/iis/people/evelyn-namakula/
Amina Mire
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University
Email: Amina.Mire@carleton.ca
Mire has a new book, From Antebellum Light-Skinned Slaves to the Globalization of Skin Whitening Biotechnology, coming out soon, which she is excited to discuss.
Mire believes Black History Month in Canada should focus on issues about Canada instead of recycling American narratives. For example, she is interested in discussing how the implementation of the Fugitive Slave Act in the United States was one of the primary reasons African Americans sought shelter from the slave catchers in Canada.
Her research interests include the racialization and bio-medicalization of women’s bodies and skin, and anti-racist and anti-colonial research.
Mire’s research examines changing skin-whitening technologies by tracing their emergence from colonial encounters, in which white skin was accorded social and cultural capital, toward the contemporary global marketing of biotechnology products that promise smooth, brightened and youthful-looking skin to affluent women.
For more on Mire visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/amina-mire
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Professor, Institute of African Studies at Carleton University
Email: SamuelOjoOloruntoba@cunet.carleton.ca
Oloruntoba can discuss issues of Black entrepreneurship, diaspora engagement with Africa, remittances and intellectual exchanges, and Canada-African relations.
Oloruntoba is the principal investigator of the intercontinental research project on Indigenous knowledge and youth entrepreneurship in Africa.
His research interests are in the political economy of development in Africa, regional integration, Indigenous knowledge and politics of knowledge production, migration, global governance of trade and finance, politics of natural resources governance, and EU-African Relations.
For more on Oloruntoba visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/samuel-ojo-oloruntoba
Erin Tolley
Professor, Political Science at Carleton University
Email: erin.tolley@carleton.ca
Tolley is available to discuss Black Canadians’ participation in politics. Tolley has a new report and podcast, both called Black on the Ballot, which were done in collaboration with Operation Black Vote Canada.
Tolley, the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Race, and Inclusive Politics, is available to discuss race, gender and diversity in politics for print, web or radio news. She is an expert on the relationship between socio-demographic diversity and Canadian politics, with a specific interest in representation and gendered and racialized dynamics in political institutions.
For more information on Tolley, please visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/erin-tolley
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