JHI Undergraduate Fellow
A&S History (specialist); A&S Diaspora & Transnational Studies (major)
Supervisor: Eric Jennings, A&S History
Milton Harris Undergraduate Award in the Humanities
Fatema Mullan is a third year undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus. She is working towards a Specialist in History with a Major in Diaspora and Transnational Studies, and has been recognized as a University of Toronto Scholar, Dean’s List Scholar and has twice received the Norma Brock Award. Prior to her return to the academy as a mature student, Fatema worked in non-profit community and arts organizations and was active in voluntary grassroots initiatives for social change.
Fellowship Project—Colonial Continuities in the Postcolonial Labour Landscape of Trinidad and Tobago
This research project explores transitions from colonial modes of labour organisation into decolonized contexts and the ways in which coloniality persists. It proposes to illuminate colonial continuities in the postcolonial labour landscape of Trinidad and Tobago. Approaching independence in 1962, the newly forming nation’s political and economic landscapes became racially polarised, with Afro-Trinidadians dominant in the political arena and Indo-Trinidadians in the economic sphere. This research project suggests that this polarization is not only a legacy of Trinidad and Tobago’s colonial past but is indicative of the ways in which coloniality persists, but is obscured.