Malinda Smith

Malinda Smith

Malinda S. Smith, PhD, is the inaugural vice-provost (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), a professor of political science and a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellow at the University of Calgary.

Smith has published widely in areas of international and comparative politics, as well as equity, diversity, human rights and decolonization. She is a co-author of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (UBC Press, 2017), and a co-editor of Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (University of Toronto Press, 2022). She is editor of three books on Africa, including Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism (2010); and co-editor of Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics (6/E currently under revision with OUP) and States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (2010).

She serves on the Statistics Canada Advisory Committee on Ethnocultural and Immigration Statistics, and its working group on Black communities in Canada, and the Inter-Institutional Advisory Committee for the National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities. Smith is a former vice-president, Equity Issues, for the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and currently serves as chair of its Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization.

Smith has won numerous awards and honours, including the 2021 Compelling Calgarians, the 2020 Susan S. Northcutt Award from the International Studies Association, and the 2018-19 Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association-Canada. Smith was named to the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women list for 2020.

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