Ph.D., Texas A&M

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Research interests
Intellectual History of Africana Philosophy, Anti-Colonial Theory, Africana Legal History, Black Male Studies, Hip Hop Philosophy, Black Philosophies of Education

Dr. Dalitso Ruwe holds a Cross Appointment in Philosophy and Black Studies. Previously he was a 2020-2021 post-Doc fellow under the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy at University of Guelph. His post-doc research focused on the Black Abolitionists debates on American slavery that emerged from the National Negro Conventions of 1830-1864 and the role the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and migration to Canada afforded Black thinkers’ grounds to develop socio-political and legal critiques of American Slavery. This research is central to the manuscript Dr. Ruwe is currently working on tentatively titled Ontological Sovereignty: The Quest of Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery. His recent publications appear in APA Newsletter: The Black Experience, Theory & Event, Teachers College Record and The Blackwell Companion to Public Philosophy. Dr. Ruwe enjoys playing pool, basketball, and watching anime, plays, and movies full of dark humor.

BA (Harvard University) 
M.Div (Union Theological Seminary)
MA (Yale University)
M.Phil (Yale University)
PhD (Yale University)

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Research interests
Black Studies, Religion, Womanism, Black Feminisms, Queer Studies, Transnationalism and Diaspora, Interdisciplinarity

Leath's research concentrates on the intersection of sexualities and religious in sacred communities and spaces of African Diaspora. Her scholarship also engages the intersection of Afro-Diasporic women's spiritualities and social activism. Dr. Leath's other research and teaching interests include the physics of metaphysics of womanism, African and Afro-Diasporic approaches to sexualities in political economies, abolition, transnational ecumenisms of marginalized peoples, the intersections of Buddhist and womanist thought, interdisciplinary approaches to interreligious dialogue, and theories of justice.

Jennifer S. Leath (she/they/xe) is the Queen's University faculty as Queen's National Scholar and Assistant Professor of Black Religions in the School of Religion. Bridging concerns of religious ethics and African American studies, much of her current writing and reaching focuses on the sexual ethics and economies of historically Black churches and Afro-Diasporic religion in the United States.

Committed to interdisciplinary scholarship, Leath's first monograph, From Black to Quare (and then) to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Leath is also completing her monograph, Childcare Activists: Reframing Afro-Diasporic Faith from the Home to the Streets, which actively engages the intersection of the spiritualities, activism, and secular childcare work of Afro-Diasporic women in the United States.

Leath also co-founded the Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics & Social Justice at Columbia University where she served as a Senior Fellow, Director for Research, and Assistant Director for Research. She was a 2014-15 research associate and visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program. Prior to joining the Queen's faculty, Dr. Leath was Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice and Director of the Masters of Social Justice & Ethics at Iliff School of Theology. 

In addition to her research, Leath is a member of various academic communities, including the Society for the Study of Black Religion, the American Academy of the Religion, and the Society for Christian Ethics. Dr. Leath is also an Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church where she has served as a pastor in White Plains, New York and in Media, Pennsylvania; she has served as an associate pastor at churches in Philadelphia, New York, and New England. Most recently, she served as the pastor of Campbell Chapel AME Church (Denver, CO).

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PhD (University of Waterloo)
MA (Western University)
B.A (University of Ghana)

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Research interests
Community wellbeing; Immigrant health; Health inequalities; Anti-Black Racism and health; Social change and health; Non-Communicable Disease control and prevention 

Joseph Kangmennaang is a Queen’s National Scholar in Black Health and Social change. Joseph is a health geographer by training and his primary research examines how the places we live, work, worship and play impact population health and wellbeing especially with regards to (re)emerging infectious and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among Black populations in continental Africa and North America. His current research explores Black immigrants’ experience in the United States and Canada towards understanding how Black immigrants’ health and wellbeing are impacted by social, technological, and demographical changes. Joseph employs social theories, participatory action research and mixed methods to answer various questions and work with marginalized communities to promote their health and wellbeing. Joseph is committed to impactful and transformational research in global Black health. 

B.A. University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Jamaica 
MES York University 
PhD York University 

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Research interests
Black Ecologies, Black Geographies, Geographies of Waste, Critical Resource Geographies, Urban Political Ecology, Globalization, Work and Social Justice, Critical Environmental Justice Studies

My research unfolds broadly at the intersection of race and space. I am particularly interested in how this co-constitutive relationship informs the everyday lived experiences of marginalized groups in the global South. Through a case study of electronic waste recycling in Ghana, my last research project demonstrated how the politics of race and ethnicity coalesce in Ghana to inform the value of space, shaping through discriminatory and harmful acts, the urban sphere, and the identities and experiences of informal waste workers, creating in its wake distinct, uneven, racial/ethnic geographies and landscapes. My immediate research interest remains focused on unpacking the idea of waste-as-commodity and exploring the ability of waste in commodity-form to transform local geographies as it traverses geo-political borders. In paying particular attention to the tensions, conflicts and the socio-ecological, and spatial transformations produced, and the livelihoods shaped as a result of the circulation of things, my research offers critical insights into global material flows and the connections, ruptures and (dis)articulations that define such flows across space.

Student Supervision:
I am open to supervising students with complementary research interests.  I am particularly interested in supporting students from equity-seeking groups and exploring ways to increase accessibility for students traditionally underrepresented in academic institutions.

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