Emilie Jabouin is doctor in Communication & Culture, whose research interests focus on black women in the Americas, black feminism and performance, newspaper and archives, liberation movements of the early 20th-century.
Research: The Body As An Archive
Emilie Jabouin’s research practice merges historical knowledge and live performance to explore how Black women dancers in Canada have shaped and been impacted by the evolution of dance since the late nineteenth century. Emilie provides dance research in academic and creative settings to bring history to life through performance.
Research Interests: Migration Stories, Black Histories (Canada, U.S., Caribbean), Black Women in the Americas, Black Dance, Black and Indigenous Pedagogies and Methodologies, Communication and Media, The Press, Performance, Black Women Writers (19th Century to Contemporary), Black Feminisms.
Book Me For:
An Academic Presentation for Corporate or Education Audiences
A Research Support Session
An Interview or Feature Article
A Custom Research Curriculum
Archival Research
Movement Research
Emilie Jabouin will accompany you in identifying and applying the tools and skills required to dissect and contextualize knowledge historically, socially, politically and culturally. Receive support facilitating partnerships with communities, historians, scholars, and like-minded individuals and organizations that can help move your project forward.
“I had the pleasure of hosting Emilie for a lively discussion about her own research, in which she led a thought provoking discussion, weaving together vectors of race, power, and representation with her excellent research.”
- Aaron Tucker, Lecturer, Poet & Novelist, Toronto, Ontario
Articles and Publications
Academic Publications
Emilie Jabouin, “Black Women Dancers, Jazz Culture and ‘Show Biz’: Re-centering Afro-culture and Re-claiming Dancing Black Bodies in Montreal, 1920s-1950s,” 229-265, in Canadian Journal of History (Special Issue), Fall 2021, 56:3. - Canadian Historical Association Jean-Fecteau Prize Honourable Mention, 2022 -
Cheryl Thompson and Emilie Jabouin, "Black Media Reporting on Theater, Dance, and Jazz Clubs in Canada: From Shuffle Along to Rockhead’s Paradise,"1-21, Journal of Communication Inquiry, September 1, 2021: Black Media Reporting on Theater, Dance, and Jazz Clubs in Canada: From Shuffle along to Rockhead’s Paradise - Cheryl Thompson, Emilie Jabouin, 2021 (sagepub.com).
Cheryl Thompson and Emilie Jabouin, “Blackface in the Kodak Archive, Ryerson’s Special Collections: Context for Reading ‘Racist’ Images”, Toronto Metropolitan Archives and Special Collections, 2021
Emilie Jabouin, “Michèle Moss: Dancing the Human Experience,” Dance Collection Danse Magazine, Issue 81, Fall 2021, 7-11.
Emilie Jabouin, “Communicating Black Health: Consciousness, Hygiene and “Black Newspaper Activism” in the Canadian Observer (1914-1919) in Early Twentieth-Century Canada” in eds. Claudine Bonner, Nina Reid-Maroney, Boulou Ebanda de Bbéri, Canada's 19th Century Black Press: Roots and Trajectories of Exceptional Communication and Intellectual Activism. University of Toronto Press, 2021 (Under Review)
Emilie-Andrée Jabouin: “Writing (black) Citizenship: Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the Political Imaginary and Experience in 19th-Century Canada West”, pp. 209-230, in eds. Nina Reid-Maroney, Boulou Ebanda de Bbéri, Wanda Thomas Bernard, 2018. Women in the “Promised Land”: Essays in African Canadian History. African Diaspora Cultural Series. Canadian Scholars’ Press.
Emilie Jabouin, « Chapitre VI: Mary Ann Shadd: une agentivité féminine comme exemple d’une citoyenneté canadienne transgressive » [« Mary Ann Shadd: Women’s Agency as an Example of Transgressive Canadian Citizenship »], p. 69-84, Afroscopie I, 2014: Le Leadership féminin et l’action politique au Canada, L’Harmattan.
Magazines and Online Articles
Ulrich, Tania. “Prof Cheryl Thompson and PhD Candidate Emilie Jabouin on Underexplored Histories of Black Performers”, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University, 1 Feb. 2022.
Emilie Jabouin, “The Black Creek Community Farm: A “Fruitful” Model for Food Security, Community Health and Collective Empowerment,” Spacing Magazine, August 2020
Emilie Jabouin, “How Public Institutions Fail Black Children,” Spacing Magazine, July 14, 2020
Thompson, Cheryl (with photographic the assistance of Emilie Jabouin), “Janice Reid’s “Real Love” Intersects Race and Space,” Spacing Magazine, October 3rd 2018: the photographs used for the article were taken by Emilie Jabouin
Jabouin, Emilie. “Community Urban Farms: Spaces of Pride, Togetherness, ‘Struggle’ and Joy.” Park People Amis Des Parcs, Park People, 4 Oct. 2021.
Speaking Engagements
Dance Immersion, 2022
Community Corner Conversations - Live Series - Episode 3 - Pulga Muchochoma and Emilie Jabouin
Dance Immersion’s Administrative Assistant Zahra Badua sits down with Mozambican dance artist Pulga Muchochoma and dance artist/researcher Emilie Jabouin to discuss their perspectives on the false dichotomy in the arts of trained vs self-taught artists.
Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO), 2020
Exploring Documenting and Mapping Black Arts Practices / Spaces and Places for Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO), Part of the The Gathering Fall 2020: Exploring Anti-Black Racism in the Arts and Thinking Digitally: Integrative Strategies for IBPOC Arts Practices.
Toronto Metropolitan University, 2020
Communicating Black Health: Consciousness, Hygiene, and Black Newspaper Activism in the Canadian Observer (1914-1919) Talk for Toronto Metropolitan University, 2020
21st Century Black Podcast, 2021
21st-Century Black is a podcast hosted by Cheryl Thompson, Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in the School of Creative Industries, and Emilie Jabouin, Ph.D. Candidate in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture, Ryerson and York University. We have spent the past two years having many thought provoking conversations in private and we felt that now is the right time to share these conversations in a public forum. This podcast will cover social and cultural history in Canada and across the Black diaspora, media and popular culture, and contemporary discussions about race, anti-Black racism, the colonial, post-colonial and de-colonial. This podcast is funded through a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.