What are liberatory approaches to Black community mental health? How is resistance to racism and oppression linked to collective wellbeing?
Marie-Jolie (MJ) Rwigema
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Applied Human Sciences
- mental health27
- critical race studies20
- Black feminist futures6
- racialization32
- urban families
- youth development13
- intergenerational relations6
- gender and sexuality46
- LGBT2Q+2
- intersectionality16
- violence against women7
- trauma and resilience26
- health and wellness56
- decolonization36
- arts-based learning29
- community-engaged research21
- oral history18
- documentary making24
- police and policing4
- activism26
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Jessica Bleuer
drama therapy, trauma and resilience, racialized power relations
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Nathalie Batraville
Black feminist futures, queer theory, prison abolition
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Ted Rutland
cities, history of urban planning, biopolitics
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Deanna Bowen
contemporary art, Black Canadian history, institutional critique
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Balbir K. Singh
visual cultural studies, critical ethnic studies, surveillance
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Yasmin Jiwani
violence against women, visible minorities, ethnocultural diversity
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Joana Joachim
Black Canadian history, Black feminist futures, cultural and linguistic creolization
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Sarah Ghabrial
African studies, Middle Eastern studies, Islamic law
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Jessica Bardill
Indigenous literatures, Indigenous knowledges, storytelling
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Yehudit Silverman
arts-based learning, masks, drama therapy
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Heather McLaughlin
mental health, art therapy, arts-based learning
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Kate de Medeiros
aging (ageing), health and wellness, arts in health
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Lisa Ndejuru
Black wellness, arts in health, trauma and resilience
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Marie-Pier Joly
mental health, migration studies, health and wellness
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Amanda L. McGowan
health and wellness, marginalized populations, mHealth (mobile health selfcare)
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Maurice Riley Case
Black flourishing, social transformation, institutional change
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Allan E. S. Lumba
racial capitalism, colonialism, decolonization
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Elizabeth (Liz) Howard
poetry, research-creation, Indigenous knowledges
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Koby Rogers Hall
activism, social practice, research-creation
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Nalini Mohabir
indentured labour, diasporas, Caribbean countries and territories
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Rosa Pires
citizenship, critical race studies, immigration policy
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Genevieve Renard Painter
Indigenous-Settler relations, law and society, social justice
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Catherine (Cathy) Richardson Kineweskwêw
Indigenous wellbeing, response-based practice, Indigenous studies
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Meghan Moe Beitiks
contemporary art, research methodologies, performance art
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Razan AlSalah
media arts, critical geography, Palestine
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Natalie Kouri-Towe
gender and sexuality, international solidarity activism, solidarity across difference
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Rosemary C. Reilly
trauma and resilience, post traumatic growth, social creativity
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Bonnie Harnden
drama therapy, trauma and resilience, attachment
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Jesse Arseneault
African studies, animality, cultural studies
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Jacqueline Peters
sociolinguistics, sympathy/empathy, ethnomethodology
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Warren Linds
psychosocial risk, theatre for social change, performative inquiry
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Frances M. Shaver
sex industry, health and safety, gender and sexuality
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Varda Mann-Feder
foster care, aging out of care, youth in care
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Lisa Ostiguy
therapeutic recreation, leisure, inclusion/exclusion
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Sandi Curtis
music therapy, feminist methodology, palliative care
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Patti Ranahan
suicide, suicide intervention, mental health literacy
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Stephen Snow
drama therapy, ethnography, trauma and resilience
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Edward (Ted) Little
theatre for social change, dramatic theory, verbatim theatre
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Viviane Namaste
public health policy, sexual health, sexuality studies
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Sylvia Kairouz
gambling, addictive behaviors, social impacts of technology
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Natasha Blanchet-Cohen
youth in society, child and youth ecocitizenship, rights of the child
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Vivek Venkatesh
hate crimes, racialization, radicalization
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Daniel Cross
documentary making, democratic values, cultural and social change
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Erin Manning
movement, relational art, radical pedagogy
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Adam Radomsky
experimental psychopathology, fear, anxiety and stress
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Ronald Rudin
public history, French Canada, oral history
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Elizabeth (Liz) Miller
documentary making, video advocacy, social justice
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Anna K. Kruzynski
community economies, post-capitalism, participatory action research
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Andrew Ryder
mental health, cultural differences, health and wellness
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Geneviève Rail
women's health, sociology of medicine, biopolitics
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Rachel Berger
South Asia, history of medicine, queer theory
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Jean-Philippe Gouin
socio-environmental stressors, parenting/caregiving stress, immune dysregulation
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Guylaine Vaillancourt
music therapy, arts-based learning, participatory action research
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Tim Schwab
documentary making, new media studies, first person media production
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Janis Timm-Bottos
community arts, art hives, inclusion/exclusion
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Jane G. V. McGaughey
Irish Diaspora, gender and sexuality, lunatic asylums
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Thomas Waugh
documentaries, film/media theory, queer studies
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Josée Leclerc
the witness function of art, survival strategies, trauma and resilience
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Peter Morden
recreation, gentrification, cities
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Julie Podmore
geographies of gender and sexuality, Montreal's diverse neighbourhoods, urban politics
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Christine Jamieson
bioethics, Indigenous spiritualities, values
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Richard Lachapelle
aesthetic development, museum education, arts-based learning
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Roisin O'Connor
alcohol use, problematic drinking, youth culture
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Krista Geneviève Lynes
gender and sexuality, migration studies, media arts
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Dale Stack
infant development, child development, psychosocial risk
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David Pariser
teacher training, arts-based learning, critical thinking
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Louis Bherer
aging (ageing), cognitive decline, physical activity
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Max Bergholz
intercommunal violence, nationalism, historical memory
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Lorrie Blair
research methods in art education, teacher identity, teacher training
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Gada Mahrouse
critical race studies, mobility justice, feminist theory
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Lisa Serbin
child development, risk factors/protective factors, intergenerational relations
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Shannon Hebblethwaite
aging (ageing), family leisure, grandparenting
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Bina Freiwald
autobiography, subjectivity, women's writing
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Louellyn White
Indigenous studies, residential schools, history of Indigenous education
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Kevin A. Gould
political ecology, critical geography, Guatemala
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Angela Alberga
physical activity, obesity, diabetes
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Jaret Vadera
perception, cultural and social change, radical imaginaries
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Bradley L. Craig
Black Atlantic, Atlantic world, enslaved Africans
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Emer O'Toole
performance studies, Irish theatre, activist art
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Michelle Vezina
leisure, therapeutic recreation, experiential learning
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Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf
Indigenous studies, curriculum development, institutional change
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Najmeh Khalili-Mahani
neuroscience, biomedical engineering, brain functions
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Océane Jasor
gender and sexuality, gender politics, decolonization
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Nayrouz Abu Hatoum
urban ethnography, visual anthropology, Palestine
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Norman Nawrocki
creative resistance, community arts, community organizing
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Nicolas Renaud
Indigenous cinema, Huron-Wendat Nation, Indigenous ecology
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VK Preston
cultural history, performance studies, embodiment
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Michael Ferguson
Ottoman Empire, enslaved Africans, diasporas
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Joyce H. L. Lui
child and youth care, clinical psychology, socio-emotional development
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Cáel Marcas Keegan
gender and sexuality, moving image studies, popular culture
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Antonia Hernández
spatial media, poetics of governance, digital cultures
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May Chew
immersion, interactivity, cultural studies
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Manon Tremblay
Indigenous studies, institutional change, pedagogical change
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Laurel Young
music therapy, gerontology, community arts
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Luis C. Sotelo Castro
oral history performance, listening/hearing, experimental theatre
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Anna Sheftel
oral history, historical memory, trauma and resilience
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Cynthia Bruce
music therapy, critical disability studies, inclusive teaching and learning