Denise McLane-Davison
Associate Professor Faculty of Community Services School of Social Work Toronto, Ontario dmclanedavison@torontomu.ca
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Denise McLane-Davison is an award-winning Afrofuturistic womanist social work leader and educator. Her teaching pedagogy, research, scholarship, and leadership are interconnected and inclusive of Black feminist/womanist/Africana (BFWA) epistemologies; centering critical race, womanist theologian,...
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Denise McLane-Davison is an award-winning Afrofuturistic womanist social work leader and educator. Her teaching pedagogy, research, scholarship, and leadership are interconnected and inclusive of Black feminist/womanist/Africana (BFWA) epistemologies; centering critical race, womanist theologian, and other emancipatory praxis to disrupt systems of structural oppression, while fostering innovative strategies of transformation, reconciliation and liberation.
McLane-Davison is a visual storyteller utilizing cultural memory and the intentional centering of African diasporic history and culture in the digital humanities genre to provide an interdisciplinary and intergenerational knowledge bank for public and academic scholars through her training in Black digital humanities (BDH) and Black spatial humanities.
McLane-Davison has an outstanding research background and a fulsome and prolific publication record; securing close to two million dollars in research funding in the USA as a principal investigator. Her projects have covered a range of areas, notably women’s wellness, womanist leadership, HIV/AIDS (usually focusing on racialized or Black communities) and historical retrospective studies focused on the Black social work movement. Her research has filled significant gaps in knowledge, centering strength-based epistemologies and highlighting how Blackness is experienced at the intersection of personal, communal and political.
McLane-Davison’s work on womanist research and pedagogy has been translated into three languages (Twi, Portuguese and Hebrew) and has been presented internationally in many countries. She is the 2020 Faculty Women of Color in The Academy Zenobia L. Hikes Teaching-Research National Award Winner, and past National Association of Social Workers-Maryland Chapter Social Work Educator of The Year, as well as the recipient of The Distinguished Achievement in Social Work Education Award from the National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc.
McLane-Davison is a graduate of Illinois State University, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, and The Whitney M. Young, Jr. School of Social Work, Clark Atlanta University, USA.
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McLane-Davison is a visual storyteller utilizing cultural memory and the intentional centering of African diasporic history and culture in the digital humanities genre to provide an interdisciplinary and intergenerational knowledge bank for public and academic scholars through her training in Black digital humanities (BDH) and Black spatial humanities.
McLane-Davison has an outstanding research background and a fulsome and prolific publication record; securing close to two million dollars in research funding in the USA as a principal investigator. Her projects have covered a range of areas, notably women’s wellness, womanist leadership, HIV/AIDS (usually focusing on racialized or Black communities) and historical retrospective studies focused on the Black social work movement. Her research has filled significant gaps in knowledge, centering strength-based epistemologies and highlighting how Blackness is experienced at the intersection of personal, communal and political.
McLane-Davison’s work on womanist research and pedagogy has been translated into three languages (Twi, Portuguese and Hebrew) and has been presented internationally in many countries. She is the 2020 Faculty Women of Color in The Academy Zenobia L. Hikes Teaching-Research National Award Winner, and past National Association of Social Workers-Maryland Chapter Social Work Educator of The Year, as well as the recipient of The Distinguished Achievement in Social Work Education Award from the National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc.
McLane-Davison is a graduate of Illinois State University, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, and The Whitney M. Young, Jr. School of Social Work, Clark Atlanta University, USA.
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