Prof. Naila Keleta-Mae
College Member
Current Employer
University of Waterloo
Election Year
2023
Academy
College of New Scholars
Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Race, Gender, and Performance, Associate Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, and multi-disciplinary
artist. In 2017, Principal Investigator Keleta-Mae founded Black and Free—a research-creation
project that brings together artists, academics, students, and public and private sector partners to
examine – through research, scholarship, and art – what Black expressive culture teaches us
about blackness and freedom.
artist. In 2017, Principal Investigator Keleta-Mae founded Black and Free—a research-creation
project that brings together artists, academics, students, and public and private sector partners to
examine – through research, scholarship, and art – what Black expressive culture teaches us
about blackness and freedom.
Naila Keleta-Mae est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 2 sur la race, le genre et la performance, professeure agrégée en arts de la communication au sein de la University of Waterloo et artiste multidisciplinaire. En 2017, elle a fondé Black and Free, un projet de recherche-création qui réunit des artistes, des académiques, des étudiants et des partenaires issus des secteurs public et privé afin d’examiner, par la recherche, l'érudition et l'art, ce que la culture expressive noire nous enseigne sur le fait d’être noir et la liberté.
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