Jacqueline Peters
Part-time professor, Department of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Science
Jacqueline Peters is a member of the steering committee of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Black Racism and a co-lead of the Employment Initiatives subcommittee. She is also the inaugural EDI Officer for CUPFA; Co-ordinator of the Caucus of Black Concordians and was a member of Concordia’s Advising and Working Groups on EDI.
As a part-time professor at Concordia in the Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics Department, where she teaches Sociolinguistics, Jacqueline has made anti-racism an integral part of her work. She previously conducted studies that examined identity construction through the communicative styles of non-European immigrants, specifically those of sub-Saharan African descent living in Montreal. She has also researched the emerging Black-Canadian English dialect spoken in Toronto, and the identity (re-)construction of students of Jamaican heritage enrolled in the first university level Jamaican Creole class in Canada.
Jacqueline received her BA in Linguistics from Concordia and her MA in Linguistics from the University of Toronto and is a Doctoral Candidate in Linguistics at York University. Her doctoral dissertation, "Feeling Heard": The Discourse of Empathy in Medical Interactions, is a qualitative study on Empathy in Medical Interactions. This study includes a discussion of the role of ethnocultural empathy in dealing with racism in medical institutions.
