Researchers on the UoE and the Question of Palestine   Dr Shaira Vadasaria   Shaira Vadasaria in a lecturer in sociology of race and decolonial studies in the School of Social and Political Science. Prior to joining UoE, she held an Assistant Professorship appointment at Al-Quds University, Bard College, Palestine (2016-2019) and a Visiting Professorship […]

Community Engagement Officer   Samantha Likonde Samantha Likonde is the community engagement officer for the Research and Engagement Working Group (REWG).   Prior to assuming this position, she earned an Honours degree in law in 2022. She has participated in a number of EDI committees at the University of Edinburgh due to her enthusiasm for change, and she […]

Mentors   Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History, specialist in Caribbean history and history of slavery) Diana grew up and near London and did her first degree at Warwick University, followed by a PhD at Yale University, where she studied with Emilia Viotti da Costa, Gilbert Joseph, and Nancy Cott. After a year as a […]

Affected community members   Esther Stanford-Xosei (Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, PARCOE)     Esther has been deeply involved in reparations scholar-activism, within and beyond the UK, for over two decades and therefore brings a lot of practical knowledge, lived experience and recognition of reparations ethics to this role. She is a Motherist, and decolonial Pan-Afrikanist Jurisconsult, Reparationist and […]

Research Assistant Obasanjo Bolarinwa will be analysing University data linked to racially minoritised students and staff     Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa is a young, dynamic global public health and data science expert with extensive experience in developing and managing public health interventions through rigorous research among minority groups. He holds a Master of Science in Global […]

Research fellows   Dr Simon Buck will be looking at the links between the University and African enslavement     Dr Simon Buck is an historian and medical humanities scholar with interests in the US South, histories of medicine and music, and the impacts of slavery-derived wealth on British charities in the eighteenth and nineteenth […]

The Co-Chairs Professor Tommy Curry (Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies)     Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and holds a Personal Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory & Black Male Studies. He is […]

Professor Tommy Curry  Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy and holds a Personal Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory & Black Male Studies. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of […]

The Co-Chairs Dr Nicola Frith (Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies and specialist in slavery studies and reparatory justice)  Professor Tommy Curry (Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies)   Research fellows Dr Ian Stewart will be looking at the links between the University and colonialism Dr Simon Buck will be looking at the links […]