Joey Power
Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Toronto, Ontario
jpower@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 556142
Bio/Research
Dr. Joey Power teaches African history, history through film and historical methods to Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) undergraduates. She taught history at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto before coming to Toronto Metropolitan in 1990. While doing fieldwork i...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Joey Power teaches African history, history through film and historical methods to Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) undergraduates. She taught history at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto before coming to Toronto Metropolitan in 1990. While doing fieldwork in Malawi she also taught at the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College campus from 1994 to 1996. Her research area is 20th-century Central Africa and she has published articles on the economic, social, and political history of Malawi and the Central African Federation in a number of international journals, including African Affairs and Journal of Southern African Studies. Funded by a SSHRCC General Research Grant, her monograph, Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi: Building Kwacha (2010) is the product of some 20 years research and writing on the region. Her current SSHRCC funded work is on chiefly governance in Malawi from c. 1850 to present. Dr. Power a long standing (and sometimes executive) member of the Canadian Association of African Studies, external link, opens in new window, a former editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies, opens in new window, and a member of the Toronto Metropolitan graduate faculty.
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