Greetings from the Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice (CHRRJ),
We would like to invite you to the centre’s guest speaker series talk with Dr. Michele Johnson on Tuesday, February 13, 2024,
at 1.30 pm EST (Toronto time).
Our director, Dr. Juanita De Barros and Matthew Monrose, Ph.D. candidate, will talk to Dr. Michele Johnson about
her research on the history of the Caribbean and the African diaspora and her important new co-edited publication,
Unsettling
the Great White North: Black Canadian History, published by the University of Toronto Press.
About our speaker: Dr. Michele Johnson holds a BA. Hons, M.Phil. (U.W.I.), M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins
University and has taught in the Department of History at York University since July 2002. Prior to teaching at York, Professor Johnson taught at the University of West Indies (Mona) from 1994 – 2002. She is the former coordinator of the Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Programme and the former director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas (2013-2018). Her research interests and publications reflect Jamaican cultural history, and the histories of gender relations, race/racialization,
labour, domestic slavery, and domestic service in Jamaica and Canada.
We are looking forward to seeing you.
Best Regards,