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McPhee Shelby, PhD Student

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Shelby McPhee

PhD Student

Graduate Students
Department of Political Science

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

Shelby is a PhD student at McMaster University and an adjunct at the University of the Bahamas. He holds a BA and MA in Political Science from Acadia University located in Nova Scotia and has credits from both Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus, and the University of the Bahamas.

Shelby writes at the intersection of race and gender.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, McMaster University (Current)

M.A., Political Science, Acadia University (2019)

B.A., Political Science, Acadia University (2018)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant 

POLSCI 2I03-E Global Politics 

Research

Dissertation

“Saved by Grace: toward an interdisciplinary understanding of the White Savior Complex through the lens of race and gender.” (2019). Acadia University. Master’s Thesis. Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Brickner.

Popular Press

McPhee, Shelby. “Politics and the pandemic: reprioritizing the political agenda.” The Nassau Guardian, 6 May 2020. 

McPhee, Shelby. “On Colorism: a love for light skinned, curly hair people.” The Nassau Guardian, 13 February 2020.

McPhee, Shelby. “The Fire Next Time: Dorian Was a Climate Catastrophe waiting to happen." The National Observer, 10 September 2019.

 McPhee, Shelby. “Sex, Drugs, and the White Gaze: The Postcolonial Entanglements of the Fyre Festival.”  The Athenaeum, 19, March 2019.

Conferences

McPhee, Shelby. 2019. “Mapping the Margins: postcolonial feminist theory as a rejoinder to postcolonial theory.” Paper Presented at the 2020 Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences. 3 June 2019.

McPhee, Shelby.2018. “The Black Student Manifesto.” Paper Presented at the 2018 Black Canadian Studies Association. June 2018.

Invited Talks

The Centre For Culture, Identity, and Education. “Black Activism in Education and Community: Exposing Anti-Black Racism in Vancouver.” University of British Colombia. Vancouver, BC: 6 February 2020.

Research Positions

Research Assistant. Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time (DEPOT). Concordia University. Fall 2021-Present