Jamilah A.Y.
Dei-Sharpe
Bio
Jamilah A.Y. Dei-Sharpe is a Ghanaian-Jamaican-Canadian PhD candidate in sociology at Concordia University, Montreal. She specializes in critical race and gender relations in North America, focusing on Black Canadian history, the African diasporas, men and masculinities and decoloniality. She is a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Joseph Armand Bombardier Award for her doctoral research, “Black Masculinities in Canada: Multimedia Research on Black Men and Gender Advocacy.”
Her research projects include transforming the representation of Black men and masculinities, mapping decolonizing practices in higher education and exploring African masculinities and gender relations in Ghana, West Africa. She has published in the fields of political science, education studies and masculinity studies. She is also a Queen Elizabeth Scholar in the Advanced Scholars West Africa program on transnational feminism, working with scholars at the University of Ghana to inform progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Aside from research, she is a sociology instructor, an educational consultant, an avid community organizer and critical pedagogue of antiracism and anti-Black racism. She co-founded the National Black Graduate Network, co-leads the Canadian Sociological Association's Race and Ethnicity cluster, founded the Decolonial Perspectives and Practice Hub and is a project architect for the
Forthcoming Publications
Dei-Sharpe, J, and M. Lafrance. 2024. “Black Men and Emotional Expression: Understanding Intimate Masculinities in Mainstream Rap”. The Forgotten Realities of Men. University of British Columbia Press.
Dei-Sharpe, J, and K. Manning. 2024. ‘Reworlding Canadian Universities through Student Leadership’, Feministing in Political Science, edited by A, Cattapan, E, Tungohan, N, Nath, F, MacDonald and S, Paterson, 1-17, The University of Alberta Press.
Dei-Sharpe, J., Crandall, K., Ford, J., Jreidini, N., Ozyonum, E. & Sidibé, H. 2024. “Addressing Biases through Decoloniality in STEM: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue,” Handbook on Equity-Oriented, Discipline-Based STEM Education Research edited by G. Cochran and J. Adams. 1-27. Springer Nature Group.
Dei-Sharpe, J., and E. Ozyonum. 2024. ‘Beyond Equity: A Case of Student- Led Activism in a Canadian (Quebec) University’ The Bloomsbury Handbooks of Crises and Transformative Leadership in Higher Education, edited by Y. Waghid, and M. Drinkwater, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
Course Instructor
Race and Ethnic Relations | Concordia University | SOCI/ANTH 230 |
Black Montreal | Concordia University | LOYC 298-02 |
Sociology of Intersectional Feminism | Carleton University | SOCI404 |
Quantitative Methods | Dawson College | 3600-300-DW |
Sociology of Sex and Sexuality | Carleton University | SOCI3044 |
Foundations of Sociological Inquiry | Carleton University | SOCI2000 |
Academic Conference Presentations
'Black Masculinities in Canada: Multimedia Research on Black Men and Gender Advocacy' (CSA) Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Challenging Hate: Sustaining Shared Futures (Montreal, June 2024). 'Rap and Modern Love: The Expression of Intimate Masculinity in Mainstream Rap' Concordia Faculty of Arts & Science: Masculinity, Emotion and Popular Music (Montreal, April 2024). 'Humanizing Education: Adopting a Decolonial Approach to the Syllabus' (ASHE) American Studies of Higher Education Conference (invited Las Vegas, November 2022). 'The Everyday Application of Science: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue with Emerging Researchers' SALTISE Conference: The Role of Active Learning in Today's Educational Realities (Montreal, June 2022). 'Cultivating an Aspiring Decolonial Pedagogy within the Academy' (CIES) Comparative and International Education Society Conference: Illuminating the Power of Idea/lism (Minneapolis, April 2022). 'Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy: One Syllabus at a Time' (CIES) Comparative and International Education Society Conference: Illuminating the Power of Idea/lism (Minneapolis, April 2022). 'Anti-Racist Coalition Work and Academic Transformation.' (ASAC) Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference (Virtual, June 2021). 'Grounding Black Studies in Canadian Universities' The Black Canadian Studies Conference: Asserting Black Life, Insisting on Black Freedom, Imagining the Decolonial, Demanding Reparations and State/Institutional Accountability (Vancouver, June 2019). ' Rap and Modern Love: The Expression of Intimate Masculinity in Mainstream Rap' The Black Canadian Studies Conference, Asserting Black Life, Insisting on Black Freedom, Imagining the Decolonial, Demanding Reparations and State/Institutional Accountability (Vancouver, June 2019). 'Black Scholars: A Citation Practice Challenge Workshop' the Living Black Studies Conference (Montreal, March 2019). 'Black Masculinity as Rap Show: A Progressive Perspective on a Marginalized Race' The 5th Annual (AGSU) University of Toronto Anthropology Graduate Student Union Conference – Diversity: Complicating Identity in the 21st Century (Toronto, March 2018). 'Where are the mothers' Groups? A Pilot Study in Toronto,' Mothers, Mothering, Motherhood in Today's World: Gala Conference Celebrating MIRCI's 20th Anniversary (Toronto, October 2016).
Grants, Fellowships & Awards
Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) Research Fellow QES-Advanced Scholars West Africa (QES-AS-WA) Program on Global Gender Equity and Decolonization, Concordia University, and the University of Ghana (2022-2024). On-Going Connections Grant for the 'Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub' SHIFT Center for Social Transformation, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2021-2023). SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019-2022). Educational Innovators Award, SALTISE Supporting Active Learning & Scientific Technological Innovation in Studies of Education, Montreal, Quebec (2022). Graduate Student Award of Merit, SWAAC Senior Women's Academic Administration of Canada (2021). Community Building Fund for the 'Anti-racist Pedagogy Project' School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2021-2022). Special Projects Fund, for the 'Anti-racist Pedagogy Project', The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2020). Strategic Investment Funds, for the 'Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub' SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2020). Carolyn Richard Renaud Award for the 'Anti-racist Pedagogy Project', School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2020). Carolyn Richard Renaud Award for the 'National Black Graduate Network' School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2020). Community Building Funds for the 'Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub' School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (2019). Le Fonds Société et Culture (FRQSC) Doctoral Grant, Québec (declined, 2019). Susan Russell Memorial Graduate Award, Concordia University, Montreal QC (2018 ).