Natasha Henry | |
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Born | Natasha L. Henry |
Nationality | Canadian |
Spouse | Fitzroy Dixon |
Children | 1 |
Academic background | |
Education | York University |
Doctoral advisor | Michele Johnson |
Website | https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/henryn/ |
Natasha L. Henry-Dixon (née Henry) 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.
Henry 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]
Henry began working with the Peel District School Board in 2014 as occasional elementary teacher. She became President of the Ontario Black History Society in 2017.[1]
She 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 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of enslaved people in Upper Canada drawn from the review of government records, church registers, newspapers and other historical documents.[5]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 joined the Department of History at York University as a tenure-stream faculty member with a focus on African Canadian History.[2]
Henry 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]
Natasha L. Henry married Fitzroy Dixon [when?]. The couple has a daughter.