Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Africa
- Canada
- Social
Areas of Interest
Black Canada, Southern Africa, Social Movements, Liberation Movements, Black internationalism
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- Canada
- Africa
Minor 1
Working Dissertation
Title
Supervisors
Biography
Arshad Suliman earned his BA and MA in History, as well as the Black Canadian Studies Certificate, from York University. As a Coloured South African born to an anti-apartheid Freedom Fighter, Arshad knows the importance of oral history and its necessity in retelling the narratives of Freedom Fighters. Using this methodology, his research uncovers the role of Black Canadian activism in Southern African liberation movements in the mid-twentieth century. His research recognizes both the efforts of these organizations in the transnational struggle against anti- apartheid, as well as their influence on Black activism’s eventual pivot towards combating systemic racism in Canada.
Awards
- 2026 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Scholar Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation
- 2025 Canada Graduate Scholarship to Honour Nelson Mandela - Doctoral (CGS-D) Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2023 TATP Teaching Excellent Award University of Toronto
- 2021 Bennett Family Graduate Bursary York University
- 2021 Jeanne Armour Graduate Scholarship in Canadian History University of Toronto
- 2019 Chantel Dunn Memorial Award York University
Publications
- "To Be 'Un/silenced': The Interplay of Archives, Blackness, and Canadian History in That Happy Road" (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press : 2023)
- “The Early Demography of Moçamedes, 1839-1869, a preliminary analysis” ( : 2019)