![]() ![]() Smith is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Calgary Black Chambers’ Lifetime Achievement Award (2023), an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Simon Fraser University (2021), Compelling Calgarians (2021), the International Studies Association’s Women’s Caucus’s Susan S. and three books on Africa, including Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism (2010).ĭr. Smith is the coauthor of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (2017) coeditor of Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics (OUP 2023) the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (UofT Press, 2022) States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (BTL 2010). Smith is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 7 books, numerous articles, book chapters and reports and has given dozens of invited keynotes and public lectures in the areas of equity, diversity, human rights, and decolonization in higher education, African political economy, and international relations. Currently, she serves on SSHRC Governing Council and Executive as Vice Chair of the Inter-Institutional Advisory Committee for the Scarborough Charter, on Statistics Canada’s Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics Advisory Committee and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s External EDI Advisory Board.ĭr. Smith has served on numerous higher education governance committees, including as Vice President (Equity Issues) for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and as Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion External Review Committee for the Canada Research Chairs. Prior to joining the UCalgary she was a full professor of political science at the University of Alberta, where she held various roles including Provost Fellow (EDI Policy) in the Office of the Provost, and Associate Chair (Graduate Studies) in the Department of Political Science.ĭr. Malinda Smith is the inaugural Vice Provost and Associate Vice President Research (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) and a full professor of political science at the University of Calgary. It ensures that we are discussing EDI and modelling our expressed commitment to human rights, human dignity and cultivating equitable pathways that enable human flourishing.ĭr. Courageous Conversations are vital to advancing EDI in a university. That’s where courage comes in – the courage to speak truth to power, to say things that the comfortable might not want to hear. Identifying, naming, discussing, and tackling historical and contemporary injustices can be profoundly unsettling. The series features locally and internationally renowned teachers, researchers, practitioners, and community-engaged scholars and activists by exploring critical questions about what needs to be done to effect sustainable change and ensure accountability. Inspired by Maya Angelou and Violet King, the series engages the campus community and beyond in difficult conversations about systemic inequities. The OEDI’s Courageous Conversation Speaker Series was launched in fall 2020, featuring discussions on racism, anti-racism, colonialism, and complaint.
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