A Black Think Tank in canada

Dr. Kemi S. Anazodo is an Assistant Professor at the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor. Dr. Anazodo’s research primarily focusses on giving voice to marginalized and stigmatized persons navigating employment, and the employment process. Through this work, Dr. Anazodo integrates mixed methodologies to explore social phenomena such as identity, equity, and stigma and explore how individuals navigate the complexity of their experiences in employment. Dr. Anazodo’s research captures experiences of, and processes involved in integrating and reintegrating justice-involved persons into employment.  Dr. Anazodo is currently leading a SSHRC funded project: A Second Chance in Sight: Employer Perspectives of Employment for Individuals with a Criminal History, which involves capturing the perspectives of Canadian HR professionals and organizational leaders towards hiring justice involved persons. 

Dr. Clinton Beckford is the Vice President of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Professor of Education at the University of Windsor. His expertise, research, teaching and publications are in: 

1. Education

• Geography Education
• Environmental and Sustainability Education 
• Teacher Education
• Vulnerability, Marginalization, and Education
• Participatory and Collaborative Active Research Methodologies  
• Research in non-western contexts
• Service-learning and teacher development

and 

2. Geography

• Sustainable agriculture and tropical small-scale farming systems
• Food security and food justice
• Food, agriculture, and rural development
• Urban agriculture
• Environmental change, food, and agriculture
• Local/ traditional/indigenous epistemologies in food and agriculture
• Participatory and Collaborative Active Research Methodologies

 Dr. Natalie Delia Deckard is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Windsor. She is a critical criminologist working from the paradigms of Critical Race Theory. While seeking to deconstruct racialization as a social process, she interrogatesthe criminalizing processes through which North Americans collectively imagine the non-White other. By investigating the inherent criminality of the racialized body, and the ways in which that designation is complicated by migrant identity, she is able to speak to questions of identity, conflict, violence and the construction of the racial and ethnic “other.” By employing this perspective, she is able to critically engage with questions of gender, class, and their meaning in the larger political economy.  

Dr. Richard Douglass-Chin is an Associate Professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Windsor and specializes in American literature, especially pre-twentieth-century, and African American and Asian American writing.  He has published articles in MELUS, FUSE, and Revista la Torre. His critical text, Preacher Woman Sings the Blues, investigates the literary connections between contemporary African American female authors and their eighteenth and nineteenth-century predecessors. He has also published poems and short stories in Rampike and several anthologies, and is experimenting with Arabic, West African, and Chinese poetic forms. His examination of the influence of Asian and African literary and philosophical traditions on American transcendentalism, modernism and postmodernism have taken him to South Africa, the Caribbean, and the Yale-China Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He has been a featured speaker at Isaac Royall House and Slave quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, where he presented his ongoing and ground-breaking research on one of the first extant records of African American women’s experience in writing-- the 1783 petition of Belinda Royall to the Massachusetts Legislature.  His short story “Blood Guitar,” about the integral influence of West African art on Picasso’s cubism and modernism in general, was published in The African American Review in 2015 and  his article “Madness and Translation of the Bones in NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!” is forthcoming in the essay collection Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions:  Aesthetics of Resistance  (Palgrave Macmillain, eds. Caroline Brown and Johanna Garvey). Other interests include cultural studies, imperialism and terror in American media and literature. 

Dr. Christie Ezeife is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Windsor. She is a Senior ACM professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery ACM).

Dr. Ezeife teaches, researches, and publishes in:

• Physical design of database/warehouse systems (eg. data fragmentation)
• Sequential pattern mining and other mining methods
• Recommendation systems in domains (eg. Web, E-Commerce, Education)
• Social network analysis (eg. influence maximization, posts mining)

 Danardo Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. Professor Jones comes to the Faculty with years of criminal law experience, having worked as a staff lawyer at various Legal Aid organizations across Eastern Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia) and Ontario. He was also the Director of Legal Services for the African Canadian Legal Clinic. In that role, he intervened in precedent-setting cases before the Supreme Court of Canada (Tran v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2017 SCC 50; British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal v. Schrenk, 2017 SCC 62).

Professor Jones's research interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal sentencing, and race and the law. His research draws on scholarly literature from law and cognate disciplines, including penology and criminology, law and geography, philosophy of law, critical race theory, and prison abolitionist and restorative justice literature.

 Dr. Judith Sinanga-Ohlmann is an Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at the University of Windsor. She is a graduate of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Queen’s University . After her M A degree in Semiotics and Literary Sciences at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, she continued her studies at Queen’s University where she obtained her PhD degree in Francophone literatures.

Her areas of expertise, teaching, and publication include:

• francophone literatures,
• feminist literature and
• Cultures from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Her areas of interest include

• Diaspora,
• exile,
• social justice and feminist literature.

The condition of African women, the History, conduct and struggles of Black people constitute the main focus of her research.

 Dr. James Oloo is an Assistant Professor in Educational Administration, Policy and Leadership at the University of Windsor. His research explores ways of improving learning experiences for all students. Dr. Oloo’s research also seeks to better understand factors and conditions that enhance success among underrepresented students, including Indigenous students, and those from immigrant and refugee backgrounds. He is a former high school teacher. 

Dr. Eric Tanlaka is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate nursing courses and serves as academic advisor to 4 Master of Science in nursing students and 1 PhD in nursing student. He co-supervises a master’s thesis and a PhD thesis and serves in multiple graduate student thesis committees as internal and external reader. He has supervised hundreds of undergraduate Nursing Research projects. Dr. Tanlaka has expertise in stroke rehabilitation research and has published manuscripts on inpatient stroke rehabilitation care, focused on the impact of stroke severity, timing, and patient’s sex on inpatient stroke rehabilitation outcomes. He recently studied the use of the CHADS2 Scoring index in predicting functional outcomes of stroke patients who had multiple comorbidities and were admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation unit in a Southwestern Ontario hospital. The manuscript for this study has been published in a peer reviewed journal. He is a co-investigator and recipient of a competitive WeRPN research grant for an ongoing multisite study examining the roles and contributions of RPNs to stroke rehabilitation, and a two times recipient of the Bill and Marian Sayers’ Gerontological Nursing Research award.