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Community Scholars

CRS COMMUNITY SCHOLARS are non-student and non-academic practitioners (activists, teachers, public officials, etc.) whose activities (work or non-work) relate substantively to the research and teaching concerns of CRS. This membership category recognizes the important contributions community activists, artists, and public intellectuals make to the on-going scholarly life of the Centre. Appointments of Community Scholars are made for up to three years, renewable, by the Executive Committee, using criteria approved by the Council, if any.

Tom Clark, tom.clark@kos.net  

Research interests: Refugee Rights and protection

Gillian Kerr,Ph.D. (Psychology, York) gkerr@realworldsystems.net

 

President, RealWorld Systems Inc., a management consulting firm that works mainly with government and non-profit organizations in policy development and information systems.
Edit Petrovic, Ph.D. (Socio-Cultural Anthropology) editp@shaw.ca  

Research interests: gender, ethnicity, identity, processes associated with ethnic nationalism, transnationalism and translocality: identity negotiation, deconstruction of terms such as "social integration" or "community" within the context of mainstream culture(s).
Mohamed Sambul, Ph.D. (Ohio University) sambul0491_@hotmail.com   Research interests: educational experience of Horn of Africa refugee children, identity issues among refugee children in the diaspora, mental health issues among children in civil unrest.

Paul St. Clair, Ph.D. (OISE/UT) p_stclair@yahoo.com

 

Research interests: settlement of refugees and newcomers in Canada, Canadian immigration process, settlement of the East European Roma in Canada, detention of refugees in Canada.