Malinda S. Smith

Dr. Smith holds a PhD in political science from the University of Alberta, an MA, MDA, and a BA magna cum laude in political science and criminal justice, from Western Michigan University.

A member of the Senior Leadership Team at the UCalgary, Dr. Smith sits on the Vice President Research-Ops, serves as the Co-Chair, President's Task Force on EDIA, Chair, Dimensions EDI Executive and Steering Committees, and Lead on the One Child Every Child Equitable Pathways Accelerator and Equitable Pathways Council.

Nationally, Dr. Smith serves on SSHRC Council and Executive, Statistics Canada’s Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics Advisory Committee, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) External EDI Advisory Board. She is the vice chair of the Scarborough Charter Steering Committee.

Dr. Smith is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Friends of Diversity, from the Diversity Magazine (2024), Lifetime Achievement Award, from the Calgary Black Chamber (2023), a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Simon Fraser University (2021), Compelling Calgarians (2021), Susan S. Northcutt Award from the International Studies Association (2020), 100 Accomplished Black Women Honouree (2020), Rosalind Smith Professional Award (2020), Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2018), ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award (2018-19), the Equity Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (2015), and Academic Woman of the Year Award, from the Academic Women’s Association (2011).
 

UCalgary Committees

• Co-Chair, President's Task Force on EDIA (PTF-EDIA)
• General Faculties Council, APPC
• Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
• Provost Team
• Vice President Research – Operations
• Chair, Faculty Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (FEDI) Leads
• Chair, EDI Data Group
• Chair, Dimensions EDI Executive and Steering Committee

National Advisory Committees

• Member, External EDI Advisory Board, Innovation, Science and Economic Development
• Governor, SSHRC Governing Council and Executive
• Member, Advisory Committee on Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics, Statistics Canada
• Member, Inter-Institutional Advisory Committee for the Scarborough Charter
• Member, Education Committee, BlackNorth Initiative
• Chair, Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2020-2021)
• Former Member, Canada Research Chairs Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy
• Working Group on Black Communities in Canada, Statistics Canada

Webinars and Podcasts

• Diversity in Mental Health on Post-Secondary Campuses (Kome Odoko, Dr. Bukola Salami, Dr. Gregor Wolbring, Dr. Malinda Smith), July 22, 2021.
• Racism, Gender Equity, and data-driven solutions to systemic inequalities in academia, REDI@Work Podcast (Dr. Malinda Smith and Ruth A. Mojeed), May 6 2021.
• The Power of Stories to Shape a COVID Recovery, Pluralism Initiative (Meredith Preston McGhie and Dr. Malinda Smith), April 14 2021.
• Embedding Anti-Racism and Decolonization in University Approaches to EDI, (Dr. Shelia Cote-Meek and Dr. Malinda Smith), Western University, March 23 2021.
• Identifying Opportunities for Change: Critique of Deficit Model and Critical Introspection for Black Inclusion (Dr. Malinda Smith), National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities, University of Toronto Scarborough, October 1 2020.
• Episode 2: Unlearning racism. University of Calgary Podcasts, September 23 2020.
• Anti-Racism: The Urgency of Action (The Honourable Bardish Chagger, Dr. Kofi Campbell, Dr. Malinda Smith, Dr. Jasmin Zine, Jean Becker), Renison College, September 1 2020.
• Inclusive Excellence in Science Post-COVID19 (Dr. Malinda Smith and Dr. Imogen Coe), Canadian Science Policy Centre EDI Panel, July 20 2020.
• Hearings on Systemic Racism, City of Calgary (Co-Chairs Coun. Gian-Carlo Carra and Dr. Malinda S. Smith), July 7-9 2020.
• EDI and Canadian Postsecondary Sector (Dr. Malinda S Smith with Alex Usher), Higher Education Strategy Associates, June 12 2020.
• An African Canadian Response to the Pandemic and International Uprisings, (Dr. Malinda Smith, Dr. George Elliot Clarke, Dr. Afua Cooper, Idil Issa, Ras Rico, Neil Donaldson, Dr. Handel Kashope Wright, Matt Thomas, Lauren Carter), June 7 2020.

Articles

• Deconstructing the EDI Acronym with Dr. Malinda Smith. Ideas-Idees Blog. June 3, 2021.
• Igniting Change: Final Report and Recommendations on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) (Malinda Smith, Chair), Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, March 8, 2021.
• Racial Equity Leadership in Covid Times, UAffairs Magazine, Feb, 25, 2021.
• More training, and education needed to fight systemic racism in public institutions, say Black scholars at U of A. October 2020. UAlberta News.
• Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are at the core of Dr. Malinda Smith's research. October 2020. RonFanFair.
• Beyond a Single Story: Black Lives and Hidden Figures in the Canadian Academy. Ideas-Idees Blog, February 18, 2020.

Books

• Co-Editor. Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching While Black, with Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, and Handel K. Wright (UofT Press, 2022).
• Co-Author, The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities, with F. Henry, E. Dua, C. James, P. Li, and H. Ramos (UBC Press, 2017).
• Editor, Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism. (Routledge, 2016).
• Co-Editor, States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the Twenty-First Century, S. Razack and S. Thobani (BTL, 2010).
• Editor, Beyond the African Tragedy: Discourses on Development and the Global Economy (Routledge, 2006).
• Editor, Globalizing Africa, (Third World Press, 2003).
• Co-Editor, Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics, with Janine Brodie and Sandra Rein), 5/E (Pearson, 2013); 6/E (revised and updated, in-process, with Oxford University Press).

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