Afua cooper biography of christopher

Cross appointment

• Gender and Women's Studies
• Sociology and Social Anthropology

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• PhD, University of Toronto

Research interests

Afua Cooper was the former James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies 2011- 2017.

Her research interests are African Canadian studies, with specific regard to the period of enslavement and emancipation in 18th and 19th century Canada and the Black Atlantic; African-Nova Scotian history; political consciousness; community building and culture; slavery’s aftermath; Black youth studies.

Dr.

Cooper founded the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA), which she currently chairs. Read about its first conference here.

Selected publications

• Forthcoming. 'Voices Heard Over the River: Henry and Mary Bibb, and the Role of the Black Press in the Underground Railroad Abolitionist Movements,' in A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Freedom and the Underground Railroad in