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News | Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Work-study position helps U of T student explore passion for science and technology studies

Awa Hanane Diagne, a research assistant at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) at...

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News | Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Technology that shaped Black life in New York almost 200 years ago ‘just the tip of the iceberg,’ says U of T historian

New research from an award-winning historian at the University of Toronto will offer rare insight into the unwritten and intertwined...

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Edward Jones-Imhotep

Edward Jones-Imhotep is the Director of the Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology at the University...

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Nicole Charles

Nicole Charles is an assistant professor in the department of historical studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research focuses on women, gender and sexuality studies, including Caribbean feminisms and Black feminist health science studies. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach in her research, Charles questions issues of care, gendered and racialized risk, technoscience and coloniality in the Black Atlantic.

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News | Thursday, March 24, 2022

UTM prof’s debut book unpacks suspicion behind HPV vaccine in Barbados

In 2015, Nicole Charles headed to Barbados to unpack the reasons behind parents’ hesitancy toward the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine....

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News | Thursday, March 17, 2022

From resilience to resistance: Placing Black Canadian history at the forefront of academia

University of Toronto historian Funké Aladejebi is on a mission to place Black Canadian history at the forefront of academia....

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Funké Aladejebi

Funké Aladejebi is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Toronto. Her research focus is oral history, Canada’s education system, Black Canadian women’s history, and transnationalism.

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Black Canadian Black Women Feminism History

News | Wednesday, March 2, 2022

‘A project of freedom’: U of T’s William Paris on the wisdom of Africana philosophy

William Paris, a new assistant professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Toronto, recently spoke with U...

African History Philosophy

News | Wednesday, February 16, 2022

‘Written in blood’: U of T professor explores turbulent history of Caribbean in new literature seminar

Conrad James, associate professor at U of T’s Centre for Comparative Literature, recently spoke with U of T News about...

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