Black Studies

Award Category: Postdoctoral Award Application Deadline: Friday, December 22nd, 2023, 5:00 pm EST Value & Duration: $70,000 for one year, with the...
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Growing Apart
In my research project “Growing Apart”, I investigate how stigma concerning racialized aspects of physical appearance (like hair) sustains Black-non-Black...
Events | Thursday, November 09, 2023
The Department of Art History is pleased to present the 2023 Ydessa Hendeles Foundation Distinguished Visitor in Fine Art Lecture....
Events | Thursday, November 16, 2023
As part of a 2023-2024 Andrew Mellon Sawyer Seminar titled “Evasion: Thinking the Underside of Surveillance” the Centre for Diasporic...
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Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present
While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding...
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Rehearsals for Living
By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and reiterating the long-disavowed histories...
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Call and Response-Ability: Black Art and the Politics of Relation 
Call and Response-Ability: Black Art and the Politics of Relation (co-edited with Winfried Siemerling) offers a Black Canadian theory of...
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The Black Prairies: An Anthology
The Black Prairies: An Anthology (2020) brings to light an archive of Black writing on the Canadian prairies from 1872...
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Karina Vernon researches and teaches in the area of Canadian literature, with a special focus on black Canadian literature, archives, critical...
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The urban process under racial capitalism: Race, anti-Blackness, and capital accumulation
This project places urban studies in conversation with theories from Black Sociology, Black Geographies, and Black Studies as a way...