Social Sciences

Beverley Essue is an associate professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the Dalla Lana School...

Beth Coleman is the inaugural director of the University of Toronto’s Black Research Network – an Institutional Strategic Initiative and...

Mireille Norris is an assistant professor at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a geriatrician...

Lori Chambers is a postdoctoral fellow at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. As a community health researcher, her work...

Notisha Massaquoi is an assistant professor in the department of health and society at U of T Scarborough, with a...

Amani Hitimana is a doctoral candidate in Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for...

Sharlene Mollett is an associate professor in the department of human geography at U of T Scarborough. As a feminist political ecologist and cultural geographer, Mollett studies the relationship between land and culture, and how gender and race shape access to natural resources. Her research areas include land and natural resource conflicts, development geography and property rights.

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.

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.

Rhonda McEwen is U of T Mississauga's vice-principal academic and dean and a member of the BRN Steering Committee. McEwen is also Canada Research Chair in Tactile Interfaces, Communication and is professor of emerging media and communication at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology.