Dr. Mark Currie

Pronouns: He/Him/His

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PhD, MAIS, MTeach, BA

 

Dr. Mark T. S. Currie is a settler South African-Canadian living on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabek, Attiwonderonk (Neutral), and Mississauga peoples in St. Thomas, Ontario.

 

Mark achieved his PhD in Education from the University of Ottawa and recently completed a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Carleton University, with his research for both looking at collective memory, social geographies, and enacting antiracisms. He is now an Adjunct Professor in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. He holds a Master of Arts in Island Studies for investigating postcolonial education and cultural identity on the island of Dominica, and a Master of Teaching after examining in-class student motivation in a secondary school in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

Through engaging with social and cultural activities and building relationships with community members, Mark works to create space where community members can safely and comfortably share their stories and lived experiences.

 

To date, he has conducted nearly 40 one-on-one interviews and facilitated several group interviews. The majority of those interviews were discussions of participants’ lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions on histories, social structures, and relations with racism and antiracism in the communities in which they grew up and/or now live. He has taught courses at the K-12, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels and contributed to research projects around critical History education, Indigenous representations in curriculum, and developing antiracist research and teaching.