Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Canada
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- Migration/Diaspora
- Social
Biography
Funké Aladejebi is a scholar of the twentieth century with a specialization in Black Canadian history. Her research and teaching interests focus on oral history, the history of education in Canada, Black Canadian women’s history, and transnationalism. Her recently published book, Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers (MQUP, 2021), explores the importance of Black Canadian women in sustaining their communities and preserving a distinct Black identity within restrictive gender and racial barriers. Her writing frequently explores how legacies of race, gender, and migration influence the contemporary educational encounters of Black Canadian communities. Her articles on Black Canadian history and feminist pedagogies have appeared in Education Matters, Ontario History, and the Southern Journal of Canadian Studies. She is also currently co-editing with Dr. Michele Johnson, a collection of essays titled, Unsettling the Great White North: African Canadian History (UTP, 2022), which explores the histories of African Canadian, Canadian, and African Diasporic communities across chronological, regional and thematic subjects.
Her second research project charts international education recruitment and training programs in Canada, the Caribbean and Africa. Her work seeks to understand how Canada’s role in the development of Black Internationalism was shaped by broader social criticisms about the scope of Black freedom globally.
Education
Awards
- 2022 Best English Language Book Award for Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers Canadian History of Education Association
- 2022 Best Edited Collection Prize for Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History Canadian Studies Network
- 2022 Early Career Teaching Award Canadian Historical Association
- 2022 Early Career Teaching Award University of Toronto
Publications
- Facilitating Visual Socialities: Processes, Complications and Ethical Practices ( Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham : 2023)
- Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History (University of Toronto Press : 2022)
- Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-based and Visual Research (London & New York: Routledge : 2022)
- “Lessons in Relationality: Reconsidering the History of Education in North America" (Taylor & Francis Online : 2022)
- “Embracing New Paths in Visual Research Facilitation” (Taylor & Francis Online : 2022)
- “We the North? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship" (University of Toronto Press : 2022)
- “A Transnational Examination of Black Teachers’ Affirmations of Learners’ Socioemotional and Mental Health Needs” (Taylor and Francis Online : 2021)
- “Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History” (University of Toronto Press : 2021)
- Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers (McGill-Queen's University Press : 2021)
- “Writing Black Canadian Women’s History: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going” (University of Toronto Press : 2019)
- “‘Send Little Outbursts Across the School’: Black Women Teachers and Micro-Resistive Strategies in Ontario Schools, 1960s – 1980s” ( : 2016)
- “‘We’ve Got Our Quota’: Black Female Educators and Resistive Pedagogies, 1960s-1980s” ( : 2015)
- “‘I didn’t want to be anything special. I just wanted to teach school’: A Case Study of Black Female Educators in Colchester, Ontario, 1960” ( : 2012)