Professor of Global Race at the Institute of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg

Dr. Jemima Pierre is Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver. She is also a Research Associate at the inaugural Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Trained as a sociocultural anthropologist with a special focus on Africa and the African diaspora, her teaching and publications cover a wide range of topics that include, race and political economy, politics of migration and diasporas, Western resource extraction in Africa, and the history and politics of U.S. imperialism in Haiti and the Caribbean. She is the author of The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, and her next book, Of Natives, Ethnics, and True Negroes: A Counter-History of Anthropology, will be published next year. Dr. Pierre is currently finishing work on the manuscript for her next book, “Haiti: The Second Occupation.”