Kuir ë Garang (PhD) is a contract lecturer with the school of child and youth care. With nearly a decade of experience working with immigrant and refugee youth, Dr. Garang has developed a passion for research on how minority youth, especially African-Canadian youth, are related to in social service organizations and institutions. He holds a BA in philosophy from McGill University, an MA in interdisciplinary studies (cultural studies & philosophy) from Athabasca University and a PhD in social work from York University. His current primary area of research looks at how African-Canadian youth and children are marginalized in Canadian institutions and social service organizations. He uses Husserl’s phenomenology and Afrocentric framework to make sense of youth marginality.
Dr. Garang's upcoming book, Interrogating “blackness” as a human identity: Ethical implications and phenomenological predicaments, will be published by Routledge in 2026.
- Youth institutional marginality
- Youth mentorship
- Phenomenology and youth work
- Philosophy and youth work
- Colorism and youth
- Racial and ethnic identity
- Identity and epistemology
- Multiculturalism and interculturalism
- Youth, politics and society
- Blackness as a moral problematic