Cheryl Thompson

Dr. Cheryl Thompson is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Black Expressive Culture and Creativity and an Associate Professor in Performance at The Creative School. Dr. Thompson is Director, Research and Creative Strategy of Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA), an Ontario Early Researcher Award, and Social Science Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project. MOBA is reimagining Black archives in the province of Ontario by making Black archival collections accessible and searchable via an open access online platform. She is also director of Black Creative Lab, an incubator for the curation of public exhibits, speaker events, and YouTube content. She is the author of Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty (2021) and Beauty in a Box (2019). Her next book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom, 1812-1897, will be published in April 2025.