Meet our RWW Chairs
Milka Njoroge is the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair and Assistant Professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Department. She joins SFU from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she completed her PhD in the Department of Gender Studies. Her research focuses broadly on the visual economy of suffering in postcolonial contexts, through a consideration of how the global flow of images transforms habits of seeing and being seen, particularly as it pertains to migration, memory, and border regimes. She is currently working on two interrelated projects that examine the circulation of humanitarian images and the impact of AI on the circulation and consumption of these images. Her second project examines black diasporic art forms as constituting visual methodologies that subvert the totalizing efforts of digital economies of suffering.
Previous Chairs
Susan Stryker
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 2007-2008
Kate Braid
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 2006 - 2007
Elizabeth Philipose
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 2005 - 2006
Louise Chappell
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, Spring 2005
Sue Wilkinson
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 2002 - 2004
Dionne Brand
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 2000 - 2002
Sunera Thobani
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1996 - 2000
Vanaja Dhruvarajan
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1994 - 1995
Margaret Malone
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Post-Doctoral Fellow January - December 1993
Margaret Little
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Post-Doctoral Fellow January - December 1993
Marnie Stanley
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Post-Doctoral Fellow September 1991 - August 1992
Deborrah Dunne
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Post-Doctoral Fellow September 1991 - August 1992
Hilda Ching
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1990 - 1991
Marjorie Griffin Cohen
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1989 - 1990
Daphne Marlatt
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1988 - 1989
Rosemary Brown
SFU Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1987
Susan Penfold
Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair, 1985 -1986