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President’s Task Force on Anti⁠-⁠Black Racism

President’s Task Force on Anti⁠-⁠Black Racism

Curriculum and educational resources

Responsibilities Subcommittee co-leads Members

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Responsibilities 2020–22

  1. researching and exploring means of integrating Black perspectives into existing curriculum across the university
  2. researching Black Studies major and minor programs in other Canadian universities to recommend the best options for Concordia
  3. examining curricula and educational tools currently offered and develop recommendations to ensure that these reflect the diversity of Concordia’s community, the diversity of global knowledge, and support an anti-racist framework
  4. further the inventory of courses currently available around Black perspectives
  5. diversify resources and content for courses to include Black perspectives
  6. research other universities’ protocols to address issues of the lack of Black perspectives curriculum in STEM and the John Molson School of Business
  7. identify access to information on the courses available and ability to register 

Subcommittee co-lead

Françoise Naudillon Professor and Chair, Département d'études françaises, Faculty of Fine Arts Françoise Naudillon is Chair of French Studies department and a specialist of francophone literature and culture. She joined Concordia university in 2000. She is working on Caribbean and African popular culture such as detective novels, science-fiction, links between films and literature and more recently on Afrofuturism. Courses she teaches have, for most of them, a strong black perspectives component. Joining the President's Task Force on Anti-Black Racism was a logical choice informed by her 20 years experience in implementing diversity of global knowledge on Black francophone communities in the world with an anti-racist framework. With the other members on the Curriculum subcommittee, she is working on educational tools integrating Black perspectives into existing curriculum across the university and analyzing Black Studies major and minor programs in other Canadian universities to recommend the best options for Concordia

Françoise Naudillon
Professor and Chair, Département d'études françaises, Faculty of Fine Arts

Françoise Naudillon is Chair of French Studies department and a specialist of francophone literature and culture. She joined Concordia university in 2000. She is working on Caribbean and African popular culture such as detective novels, science-fiction, links between films and literature and more recently on Afrofuturism. Courses she teaches have, for most of them, a strong black perspectives component. Joining the President's Task Force on Anti-Black Racism was a logical choice informed by her 20 years experience in implementing diversity of global knowledge on Black francophone communities in the world with an anti-racist framework. With the other members on the Curriculum subcommittee, she is working on educational tools integrating Black perspectives into existing curriculum across the university and analyzing Black Studies major and minor programs in other Canadian universities to recommend the best options for Concordia.

Subcommittee co-lead

Angela Kross Assistant professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and GIS Summer Certificate Director, Geography, Planning and Environment

Angela Kross
Assistant professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment and GIS Summer Certificate Director, Geography, Planning and Environment

Angela Kross is a full-time faculty member in Geospatial Technologies.  She has obtained an M.Sc in Geographic Information Science / Remote Sensing from Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands and a Ph.D in Physical Geography / Remote Sensing from McGill University. Prior to joining Concordia in August 2015, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In her research she uses GIS and Remote Sensing technologies in combination with ground measurements and models to answer questions related to ecosystem processes, vegetation development and land use change in response to anthropogenic and natural events, such as agriculture practices, mining activities and climate change.

Subcommittee members

Judnie Robert
Undergraduate student

Tallie Segel
Graduate student

Robert Weladji
Professor
Department of Biology and Graduate Program Director, Faculty of Arts and Science

Former subcommittee member

Desirée de Jesus
Part-time professor, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Faculty of Fine Arts

 
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