Dr. Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, BAH,MPA, PhD Co-Chair

Dr. Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is currently an assistant professor at Queen’s University Department of Geography and Planning. Dr. Adeniyi-Ogunyankin obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology and Global Development Studies from Queen’s University in 2005. She completed her Master of Public Administration degree from Queen’s University in 2006 and received her PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University in 2014.  

Dr. Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is a feminist scholar who is interested in place-making and subjectivity through the study of African urbanisms and popular culture. In her study of African urbanisms, she is intrigued by how local engagements with the Africa Rising rhetoric and global aspects of the political economy work together to (re)produce spatial and social inequalities and provoke resistance in African cities. Her research focus on popular culture explores the issues of subjectivity and belonging and the use of Afrofuturism and Afropolitan Imagineering in geographic projects that address the colonial politics of difference. Her other research interests include new cities in sub-Saharan Africa, critical race theory, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, postcolonial urbanisms, global political economy of development, gender and urban development planning, social justice and the city, African postcolonial literature, sexuality and urban space in Africa, and gender, development and NGOs.