Dr. Mark T. S. Currie is a SSHRC-funded Post-Doctoral Fellow (2022-2024) at the School of Canadian Studies. Mark is a settler South African-Canadian, born and raised on traditional Haudenosaunee territory in Aylmer, Ontario, and now living on traditional Algonquin territory in Ottawa, Ontario. His post-doctoral research focuses on small-town communities in southern Ontario and investigates whether community members remember and/or see racism occurring in the town; if they see their town as an antiracist community; and how Whiteness is maintained or disrupted in the memories and perceptions of the town. Mark’s overall aim is to seek out possibilities for combatting banal racisms by addressing social memory and readings of sociohistorical geographies through antiracist approaches in History and Social Studies education. This post-doctoral research builds on Mark’s PhD in Education, which focused on sociohistorical geographies and enacting antiracisms. His doctoral research examined how the Ontario Black History Society’s walking tour in downtown Toronto acts as an educational tool for engaging and (re)shaping sociohistorical spaces as antiracist geographies.
As a part-time professor at University of Ottawa and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, he has taught courses in teacher education on History and Social Studies education teaching methods. Mark holds a Master of Arts in Island Studies from the University of Prince Edward Island, for which he investigated postcolonial education and cultural identity on the Caribbean island of Dominica. He also achieved a Master of Teaching from Griffith University, for which he conducted action research on in-class student motivation in a secondary school in Cape Town, South Africa.
Journal Affiliations:
Member of Editorial Team
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
Peer-Reviewer