Professor Daniel McNeil is an award-winning author, editor, and mentor who explores how movement, travel, and relocation have transformed and boosted creative development, the writing of cultural history, and the calculation of political choices.
Over the past two decades, he has contributed to research, teaching, and program development within and across disciplinary and institutional boundaries in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
In 2021, he was appointed the Queen's National Scholar Chair in Black Studies in recognition of his award-winning research achievements; his development of innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research programs; and his provision of rich and rewarding learning environments for students to engage the connections between the arts, social justice, and decolonial thought. He is currently a producer and co-host of the Black Studies Podcast.
For more information, please see Professor McNeil's website.
2024 Black Excellence in Mentorship Award, Queen's University
2023 Canadian Podcast Awards (Outstanding Education Series) Finalist
2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist
2022 Foreword Indies Book Award Finalist
2022 Black Scholars Excellence in Mentorship Award, Queen’s University
2022 Patrick O’Neill Award (Honourable Mention), Canadian Association for Theatre Research
2022 Editor’s Award, Canadian Journal of Communication
2021 Queen’s National Scholar Chair in Black Studies, Queen’s University
2019 Inaugural Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow, University of Toronto
2018 Research Achievement Award, Carleton University
2015 Research Achievement Award, Carleton University
2012 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Visiting Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies, DePaul University
2005 Robert F. Harney Research Award, University of Toronto
2001 Oxford-Canada Scholarship, Canadian Rhodes Scholars Foundation
2000 Hart Prize for Modern History, Oxford University
- Black Atlantic Studies
- Cultural, Global, and Intellectual History (19th-21st centuries)
- Diaspora and Decolonial Studies
- Migration and Multiculturalism in Canada (20th-21st centuries)
- Public Humanities and Public History