Dr. Delores V. Mullings BA, BSW, MSW, PhD
Dr. Delores V. Mullings is Memorial University of Newfoundland’s first Black senior administrator and first Vice Provost of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism. Her award-winning work as an engaging and challenging professor in the School of Social Work is recognized inside the institution and nationally. Accordingly, she has earned the YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Education and Mentorship), the President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (Faculty), was appointed Chair in Teaching and Learning in a competitive process in the School of Social Work, and was a 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women honouree.
Her interdisciplinary scholarship explores decolonizing post-secondary education, mental health and wellness, LGBTQ+ concerns, the Black Church, aging, migration, and community engagement. Additionally, Dr. Mullings’ scholarship includes mothering and parenting using critical pedagogies such as anti-Black racism, Africentric theory, and critical race theory. Presently, she is focusing on using a racial justice lens to explore equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism. In particular, she investigates these themes in relation to accessibility and systemic discrimination.
Dr. Mullings’ strong history of community engaged scholarship informs her teaching strategies. She participates in community collaboration, supports students in community service-learning projects, and partners with interdisciplinary scholars nationally and internationally. Her innate love for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is exemplified in her decolonized, learner-centric, community-engaged approach. She employs this by integrating a variety of teaching and learning pedagogies. As a result, she challenges and engages learners in ways that respect their knowledge, life experiences, agency, and differing social locations.
Recent publications include: Community service learning and anti-Blackness: The cost of playing with fire on the Black female body, In T. Kitossa, H. Wright and A. Ibrahim (Eds.); and Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy. She is the lead editor on a recently published anthology, Black People’s Resilience During COVID-19: A Global Perspective (Demeter), and a seminal text, Africentric Social Work (Fernwood).