Faculty & Staff

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Full- time SJCS Faculty

Benita Bunjun
Associate Professor
McNally South 202
902-496-8161
benita.bunjun@smu.ca

For details on Dr. Bunjun's work, please see:
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Val Marie Johnson
Associate Professor
McNally South 203
902-420-5879
vjohnson@smu.ca

For details on Dr. Johnson's work, please see:
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Jessica Ticar 
Assistant Professor
McNally South 209
jessica.ticar@smu.ca

For details on Dr. Ticar's work, please see:
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Please note that Dr. Ticar is on leave in Winter 2024 

Rachel Zellars 
Associate Professor
Senior Research Fellow
McNally South 207
rachel.zellars@smu.ca

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Adjunct SJCS Faculty 

Yvonne Brown
yvonne.brown@smu.ca 

Dr. Yvonne Brown brings to SJCS over forty years of training, experience, and innovation at all levels of the education system. At the post-secondary level, she has engaged in extensive and ongoing research and teaching in feminism, critical multiculturalism, slavery, anti-racism, globalization, decolonization, African and diaspora literature and history, and Caribbean Studies. Yvonne has a strong commitment to mentoring students as they navigate their way through very complex university bureaucracies, mindful of the obstacles facing students with challenges of indigeneity, race, class, disabilities and language. She believes in making racism and other forms of discrimination objects of scholarly inquiry that aim to transform curricula, policies, and practices in ways that acknowledge emotions of pain, shame, rage, and fear, and look at ways we can provide spaces for healing, dialogue, and reconciliation. Dr. Brown is the author of the autoethnography Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica (2010), and in the process of preparing a second edition. 

Part- time SJCS Faculty

Community Educators Collaborating with SJCS

Michelle Paul:
michelle.paul@smu.ca
Michelle Paul (Dalhousie University, Sociology/Anthropology; University of King's College, journalism) is a mother, treaty rightsholder, water protector, land defender, advocate, and activist. Her rights-based advocacy work is within Indigenous communities in solidarity with allies, and mainly around resistance to colonial interests’ infringements on Mi’kmaw sovereignty in their unceded territory. This importantly includes environmental concerns and resisting industry exploitation of Mi’kmaq lands without Mi’kmaq consent, such as in the Alton Gas Resistance.

SJCS Staff

Sayan Maity

SJCS Administrator
McNally South 218
902-491-3374
sjcs@smu.ca