Cheryl Thompson
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Cheryl Thompson

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Dr. Cheryl Thompson holds the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Expressive Culture and Creativity and is an Associate Professor of Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the Founder and Director of Mapping Ontario's Black Archives (MOBA), and the author of four books: Beauty in a Box, Uncle, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, and her most recent work, Staging Blackface in Canada, which examines variety shows, public amusements, and racial caricature in Canada between 1898 and 1919. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Her work has been featured by Canada's History, the Literary Review of Canada, the New Books Network, the Authority File Podcast, Open Book, Spacing, Toronto Life, the Toronto Star, the Writers' Trust of Canada's Amplified Voices, and CTV's The Social, among others. She has also appeared on All Write in Sin City and is a TEDx speaker (TEDxUTSC). Dr. Thompson grew up in Scarborough, just east of Toronto, where she played the cello, piano, and competitive soccer as a child. Her love of archives began with collecting 1970s and 1980s reggae and soul vinyl records — a passion that, in many ways, anticipated the archival work she does today.
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