George JS Dei

Professor George J. Sefa Dei is an acclaimed scholar in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Prof. Dei is the Director of the Centre for Integrated Anti-Racism Studies, and one of Canada's foremost scholars on race and anti-racism studies. Prof. Dei is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and honoree of many awards including the prestigious Whitworth Award for Career Research in Education (2016) and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (2021) from the Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators [ONABSE]. He teaches courses in anti-racism education, sociology of race and ethnicity, Indigenous knowledge and decolonization, and education in African contexts.

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