FSSH Associate Professor earns 2023 Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution
Dr. Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, received a 2023 Emerald Literati Award in the Outstanding Author Contribution category for her chapter Black on Blue, Will Not Do – Navigating Canada’s Evidence Based Policing Community as a Black Academic – A Personal Counter-Story. The chapter appeared in a book entitled Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance.
Using counter-storytelling, the chapter explores how race and racism may play a role in the collection and dissemination of research that examines racial bias in Canadian policing. .
Emerald Publishing, a leading publisher of academic journals and books, presents the annual Emerald Literati Awards to authors and reviewers to recognize contributions of scholarly works that create impact, generate real change beyond academia, and contribute a new body of knowledge to the field.
