McGill plan for addressing

Anti-Black Racism

Members

Assistant Professor
Philip S. S. Howard

Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education.  His interests are in Black studies, Critical Race Studies, and decolonial thought in education.

 Professor
Adelle Blackett

Ad. E., Professor at the Faculty of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development. Her interests are in transnational labour law, slavery and the law, the regulation of domestic work, law of international organizations, and Critical Race Theory. She is the 2020 convenor of the Caucus.

Media spokesperson for the Caucus
 

Please direct any media enquiries to Professor Adelle Blackett and Emeritus Professor Glyne Piggott

Associate Professor   Patricia Faison Hewlin

Associate Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management and Students Ombudsperson. Her research focuses on employee silence, authenticity and self-presentation, minority group status dynamics, conformity and leadership. 

Emeritus Professor
Glyne Piggott

Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics, former Chair of Linguistics and former Associate Dean of Arts.
 

Media spokesperson for the Caucus
 

Please direct any media enquiries to Professor Adelle Blackett and Emeritus Professor Glyne Piggott

Assistant Professor
Régine Débrosse

Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. She examines the experiences of communities of colour, whether Black or from immigrant backgrounds, and asks how the way people view who they are impacts who they want to be, and how they forge community bonds.

Assistant Professor

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Assistant Professor in the Department of History. He specializes in post-Reconstruction United States, the African American experience and the intersections of the United States, Canada, and African Diaspora.

Assistant Professor 
Dr. Anita Brown-Johnson

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Member of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at McGill University, Interim Chief of the MUHC Department of Family Medicine and Director of the Secondary Care Division. She specializes in optimizing care transitions and continuing complex care for elderly and other vulnerable patients.

Professor
Charmaine Nelson

Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. She has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery, Race and Representation, Black Canadian Studies and is the author of seven books. 

Associate Professor

Mbaye Diouf

Associate Professor in french and francophone literatures at the Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création (DLTC). He researches postcolonial and geocriticism theories, and francophone feminine novel and writings. 

Assistant Professor 

Mugambi Jouet

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law. He researches criminal justice and comparative government from a multidisciplinary perspective. His writing focuses on the peculiar historical evolution of American law, institutions, and sociopolitical culture compared to other Western democracies.

Associate Professor 

Loydie Jerome-Majewska

Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and co-Director of the Centre for Research in Reproduction and Development (CRRD). Her research is focused on identifying the molecular and genetic causes of abnormal placental development and craniofacial malformations in newborn infants.

Associate Professor

Khalid Mustafa Medani

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for Islamic Studies, and Chair of the African Studies Program. His research and teaching interests include African politics, Islam and politics, informal economies, Middle East politics, civil conflict and social movements in the Horn of Africa.

Assistant Professor

Alicia Boatswain-Kyte

Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. She is a social justice advocate and critical race scholar.

Associate Professor 

Nicole Ives

Associate Professor at the School of Social Work. She researches refugee and immigrant issues, particularly refugee resettlement, sponsorship and reunification, as well as Indigenous social work education and Indigenous social and educational policies.

Associate Professor  
Debra Thompson

Associate Professor of Political Science. She is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state, and inequality in democratic societies. 

Assistant Professor Charles Gyan

Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work. His research and teaching interests include social policy change, refugees and immigrants’ well-being, transnational social work practice, poverty and social inequality, and community development. 

Course Lecturer

Sabrina N. Jafralie

Course Lecturer in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Her teaching and research interests include Teacher Education, Religious Literacy, and Anti-Racism Education. She is a social justice activist and the co-founder of the Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL).

Equity Advisor  

Sara Pierre

Sara Pierre is the Employment Equity Advisor. She supports the recruitment, hiring, retention and promotion of underrepresented administrative and support staff. 

Equity Advisor

Shanice Yarde

Equity Education Advisor in the Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic). Her portfolio focuses on anti-oppression and anti-racism education and she is primarily available for workshop facilitation and advising support for faculty and staff. 

Associate 

Claudine Bordenave

Associate of the Career Development Office at the Faculty of Law. She specializes in communications and events management, working closely with students associations and legal employers.