Hidden Figures
in the Social and Natural Sciences
The Hidden Figures project explores how racism and Whiteness occur in the social and natural sciences in Canada. More specifically, this project also seeks to understand how both racism and Whiteness can impact the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons of Colour) scientists contribute to knowledge creation as well as the ways that their knowledge is distributed.
With team members from McMaster University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and the University of Calgary, this project will employ several methods to examine this these issues, including syllabi analysis, interviews with BIPOC scientists, and lab ethnographies.
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This project is supported in part by the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).
“Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.”
— Edward Said