Dr. Marie-Jolie (MJ) Rwigema, Applied Human Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Applied Human Sciences
Status: Assistant Professor
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Sign in to editResearch areas: mental health; critical race; Black feminism; LGBTQ+ communities; Black community mental health; trauma, resistance and recovery; anti-Black racism; anti-racism; intersectionality; anti-colonialism; genocide studies; youth and social work;counselling
Contact information
Teaching activities
AHSC 311- Respecting Diversity in Human Relations
AHSC 525- Individual and Group Intervention with Youth
AHSC 698- Master's Project Seminar
Research activities
Co-Director, SSHRC Race Gender Diversity Initiative grant Community-Centered Knowledges: Fostering Black Wellness in Montreal
Principal Investigator, SSHRC Connection Grant, Resisting white supremacist violence against Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities
Publications
Fortier, C., Penak, N., Wong, E., Rwigema, MJ, (Eds.) (2023) Social Work Abolition// Abolition Social Work. Toronto: Between the Lines.
Rwigema, MJ (2023) Experts in the suffering of others? Race, knowledge production and the Rwandan Genocide. In S. Wolfe, M. Kane & T. Ansah (Eds.) In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice, Memory and Transformation within Rwanda.
Wong, E., Rwigema, MJ., Penak, N., Fortier, C. (2022) Abolishing carceral social work. In BTL Collective (Eds.) Defund the Police: On Abolition and Racism in Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines.