New Hire! Deirdre McCorkindale - Assistant Professor in Black Canadian History

The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Deirdre McCorkindale as Assistant Professor in Black Canadian History, effective July 1. She will be teaching in both the History department and the new Black Canadian Studies Minor program.  

McCorkindale is currently completing her PhD dissertation in History at Queen’s University, which is entitled “What Colour is Intelligence?: Kent County and the Tanser Study.” Her current research explores the history of racial intelligence testing conducted on Black children in Kent County, Ontario and questions of scientific racism. She has been active in a number of public history projects connected to the history of Chatham, Ontario’s historic Black community, including the Chatham-Kent Black Mecca Museum and Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Dresden, Ontario, as well as contributing to a documentary series about Black Canadian history produced by TVOntario.

Earlier this year, McCorkindale published a chapter entitled “Black Education: The Complexity of Segregation in Kent County’s Nineteenth-Century Schools” in Unsettling the Great White North: African Canadian History, edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi (University of Toronto Press). 

From all of us -- Welcome!!