Christiana Abraham
Scholar-in-residence
Christiana Abraham is scholar-in-residence, Critical Race Pedagogies in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. Prior to this, she obtained an MA and a BA from Concordia University.
Her teaching and research specialities are in critical race studies, race, ethnicity and media, visual representations and culture; de/post-coloniality and gender; and transnational and global-South media practices.
Her research revolves around the radical re-thinking of archives, community, and orality as forms of grounded grass-roots activism that critically reclaims and re-narrates established aesthetics, canons, and cultural knowledges. Her scholarship is also interested in the destabilization and re-visualization of visuality in anti-racist and de-colonial pedagogies. A former lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Dr. Abraham brings to academia a range of grounded international field experiences in media, journalism, development-communication, and rural community pedagogies.
She is the curator of “Protests and Pedagogy: Representations, Memories, and Meanings” an archival exhibition that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Sir George Williams students’ protest. Prior to this, she curated “From the Archives to the Everyday: Caribbean Visualities and Meanings”, a collection of vintage family photographs of Caribbean life.