Natasha L. Henry-Dixon

Natasha Henry-Dixon is a Canadian historian, educator and academic known for work related to Black history in Ontario. She is a faculty member in the Department of History at York University and has served as the President of the Ontario Black History Society since 2017.

Natasha Henry-Dixon
Born
Natasha L. Dixon
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
EducationYork University
Doctoral advisorMichele Johnson
Websitehttps://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/henryn/

Education

Henry-Dixon obtained a B.A., B.Ed. and M.Ed. from York University continuing on at the school to complete her doctoral studies.[1] Her doctoral work was supervised by Michele Johnson.[2]

Career

Henry-Dixon began working with the Peel District School Board in 2014 as occasional elementary teacher.[1] She became President of the Ontario Black History Society in 2017.[1]

Henry-Dixon has written and created numerous education resources related to Black history in Ontario and Canada, including articles for The Canadian Encyclopedia related to the topic.[3] In 2022 she authored Change Starts Now: Our Stories. Our History, summarizing archival research related to Black history in Guelph, Ontario. Henry-Dixon drew on her PhD dissertation project - "One Too Many: The Enslavement of Africans in Early Ontario, 1760 - 1834" - to create an online resource about slavery in Ontario.[4] The work draws on research into the history of enslaved people in Upper Canada drawn from the review of government records, church registers, newspapers and other historical documents.[5]

In 2022, Henry-Dixon joined the Department of History at York University as a tenure-stream faculty member with a focus on African Canadian History.[2]

Awards

Henry-Dixon received the 2017 Curriculum Development Award from the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario in recognition of classroom resources she created for Black History Month.[6] In 2018 she was awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.[7][8]

Publications
  • Henry, Natasha L. (2010). Emancipation Day : celebrating freedom in Canada. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books. ISBN 978-1554887170.
  • Henry, Natasha L. (2011). Talking about freedom : celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1459700505.
  • Henry, Natasha L. (2022). Change Starts Now: our Stories, our History, our Heritage. PS Guelph. p. 28. ISBN 9781989157121.

References
  1. Junor, Paul (28 April 2022). "Natasha Henry appointment as Professor of History at York University". Toronto Caribbean Newspaper. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  2. "Congratulations to Natasha Henry on her new appointment". Department of History. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  3. "Natasha Henry". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  4. Okwuosa, Ashley (4 February 2022). "'Centre Black lives': Natasha Henry on changing how people look at Canada's history". www.tvo.org.
  5. Silver, Mathew (8 March 2022). "We know little about the Black people once enslaved in Upper Canada. Natasha Henry, president of the Ontario Black History Society, is trying to change that". Toronto Life.
  6. "Peel teacher Natasha Henry wins ETFO Curriculum Development Award". www.etfo.ca. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  7. "Congratulations to PhD Student Natasha Henry on her Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship". Department of History. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  8. "Vanier Scholars 2018". Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Government of Canada. 3 July 2018.
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