Dr. Emmanuel Tabi

Dr. Emmanuel Tabi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and Canadian National Director of the African Diaspora Consortium. He holds a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning and an M.Ed. in Human Development and Applied Psychology, both from OISE at the University of Toronto. His intersectional Black Studies research draws on Black Feminist Thought to examine how Black communities use cultural production and personal literacy practices as tools of healing and of cultivating freedom, with a focus on Black youth mental health and the literacies through which young people tell their own stories. Working across Black Canadian Studies, literacy studies, and youth studies, he conducts arts-based, community-engaged scholarship with and within Black communities, informed by wide experience working with school boards to address issues of equity. A multi-instrumentalist and former spoken word poet of 14 years, he approaches this work as both a scholar and an artist. His scholarship is grounded in a national study funded by the Canada Media Fund, community research projects in both Toronto and Montreal, and his research as a Black Child and Youth Studies Network Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Windsor. He is the 2026 recipient of McGill Faculty of Education’s Distinguished Teaching Award.