Hidden Figures: Racism and Whiteness in the Canadian Academy

The Hidden Figures research project seeks to explore the way racism and Whiteness occur in the social and natural sciences. More specifically, this project also seeks to understand how both racism and Whiteness can impact the ways in which racialized scientists and researchers contribute to knowledge creation as well as the ways that their knowledge is distributed.

With team members from McMaster University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and the University of Calgary, this project will employ several methods to examine this these issues, including a syllabi analysis, interviews with BIPOC scientists and scholars, a comparative conference ethnography, and a podcast.

  • Dr. Akalya Kandiah (PDF, McMaster University)

  • Dr. Nathan Andrews (PI, McMaster University)

  • Dr. Annie Duchesne (co-PI, UNBC)

  • Dr. Malinda Smith (co-PI, UCalgary)

  • Dr. Joseph Shea (co-PI, UNBC)

Upcoming Events

  • Plenary lecture on “The Importance of EDI in 2025” at the Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (Saskatoon, SK: May 25 - 29)

Past Events

  • 2024: EDI session at Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (Ottawa, ON; May 2024)

  • 2024: EDI session at Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Congress 2024 (Montreal, QC; June 2024)

  • 2023: The Hidden Figures Workshop: Mobilizing Knowledge on Marginalization and Epistemic Oppression (Calgary, AB; November 2023)