Carleton Experts Available – Black History Month

January 28, 2026

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February is Black History Month, and Carleton experts are available to comment on related topics.

If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to reach out to them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.

For other experts, please visit the Carleton Experts Database: https://experts.carleton.ca/

Philip Kaisary
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies and Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University

Email: philip.kaisary@carleton.ca

Kaisary is available to discuss Black literature, art, and culture; Black radicalism; Black resistance to slavery – especially as it appears in literature and film.

Kaisary is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the world, and addresses the intersections of law, politics, and culture.

For more on Kaisary, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/philip-kaisary

Evelyn Namakula Mayanja
Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University

Email: evelyn.mayanja@carleton.ca

Mayanja can speak to issues of racism, anti-Black racism, Blackness and mineral extraction, migration, and violence and human rights.

Mayanja is passionate about global peace and security, with a focus on Africa. Her research follows trajectories of critical theory, decoloniality, phenomenology, Afrocentricity and African Indigenous philosophy to explore issues around the international political economy of resources, race, politics, and governance in global systems of accumulation and international relations.

Her research centers on the agency, interests, human rights and human security of those marginalized by colonial systems of oppression, resource looting, environmental destruction, authoritarianism and political repression.

For more on Mayanja, visit: https://carleton.ca/iis/people/evelyn-namakula/

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Professor, Institute of African Studies at Carleton University

Email: SamuelOjoOloruntoba@cunet.carleton.ca

Oloruntoba can discuss issues of Black entrepreneurship, diaspora engagement with Africa, remittances and intellectual exchanges, and Canada-African relations.

Oloruntoba is the principal investigator of the intercontinental research project on Indigenous knowledge and youth entrepreneurship in Africa.

His research interests are in the political economy of development in Africa, regional integration, Indigenous knowledge and politics of knowledge production, migration, global governance of trade and finance, politics of natural resources governance, and EU-African Relations.

For more on Oloruntoba, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/samuel-ojo-oloruntoba

Media Contact
Steven Reid (he/him)
Media Relations Officer
Carleton University
613-265-6613
Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca

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