Shirley Anne Tate

Shirley Anne Tate is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and holds the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality. She is also an Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa) and a Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University (UK). Her research focuses on Black decolonial feminism, institutional racism, and anti-racist aesthetics, with a particular emphasis on Caribbean and diasporic perspectives. She has published extensively on topics such as intersectional racism, decolonization, and the racialized body.

Education: PhD, MPhil, MA (all unspecified), BEd (Honours). Teaching includes courses on colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, and race/gender/culture. She leads the Antiracism Lab, a comparative research initiative addressing racism in universities across multiple countries. Her work bridges theory and activism, emphasizing decolonial methodologies and Black feminist thought.

Research interests include critical race theory, Black cultural studies, and antiracist pedagogy. Recent publications analyze vaccine hesitancy among Black Canadians, European BIPOC feminisms, and the politics of beauty in racialized contexts. She actively advises PhD students and collaborates internationally to advance anti-racist academic transformation.

Her contributions extend to institutional reform, advocating for universities to confront systemic racism through decolonial frameworks. Current projects explore Black feminist approaches to decolonization and the intersection of race, gender, and globalization.