Faculty Bookshelf
Welcome to our Faculty Bookshelf, which showcases books authored or edited by faculty members in the School of Social Work. Books are arranged first by their year of publication and then alphabetically by title. Descriptions of each book are taken from their publishers' websites. Hyperlinks in the books' titles will bring you to the publisher's website, and hyperlinks in the authors'/editors' names will bring you to their faculty profile pages.
2026
(Breakwater Books, 2026) by Delores V. Mullings
Juxtaposing experiences of discrimination with love and resilience, this debut poetry collection is a critique of intimate and institutional violence and hostility, entwined with a celebration of beauty and fierceness. This collection of free verse, haiku, and narrative poetry takes the reader by the hand and walks them through these parallel experiences from a personal perspective.
(Fernwood, 2026), edited by Giselle Dias, Julia Janes, Kathy Absolon, Jessica Hutchison, Jennifer Poole, and Carla Rice
This transformative collection features Indigenous and settler peoples who engaged in years of circle work to unpack how colonialism affects their lives and professional practices. Guided by circle work, digital storying, and land-based teachings, this is an intimate encounter with Indigenous knowledge and lived accounts of people who chose to wake up, to feel, and to act differently in the world.
(LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding Project, 2026), edited by A. Lee Beckstead, Sulaimon Giwa, and Iva 沤egura
Drawing on research and personal reflection, this book explains key concepts and evolving language related to sexual orientation and gender identity and examines why certain attitudes persist, how they can change, and how people can engage across differences in ways that support well-being and constructive relationships. It also provides a research-informed and inclusive response to the question, 鈥淐an people change their sexual orientation or gender?鈥 while encouraging curiosity, intellectual humility, and openness when engaging with complex and sensitive topics.
(LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding Project, 2026), edited by A. Lee Beckstead, Sulaimon Giwa, and Iva 沤egura
Drawing on research and personal reflection, this book explains how sexual and gender identity can develop over time while showing how stress and stigma shape that process and how to respond in ways that support stability, purpose, and well-being. This is not just a book about 鈥渂eing yourself,鈥 it provides clear ways to strengthen personal, social, and spiritual resilience.
(Canadian Scholars, 2026), edited by Idil Abdillahi, Geoffrey Reaume, B.A. LeFran莽ois, and Robert Menzies
Over the decade since the first edition of Mad Matters was published, Mad Studies has exploded into a new field of study across Canada and around the world. This thoroughly updated and expanded second edition continues the legacy of the groundbreaking first edition by presenting more critical voices that convey the lived experiences of psychiatrized people and which challenges dominant understandings of 鈥渕ental illness.鈥
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2025
(Demeter Press, 2025), edited by Eboni-Rai Mullings, Olasumbo Adelakun, and Delores V. Mullings
In Her Arms is a powerful collection of nonfiction stories, essays, and poems that center the intimate, complex relationships between Black women and their mothers, grandmothers, and daughters. The book's contributors explore how they have been mothered and how they mother, often while navigating the clash between Western cultural norms and traditional African or Caribbean parenting values.
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2024
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), edited by A. Lee Beckstead, Jacks Cheng, Sulaimon Giwa, Mark A. Yarhouse, and Iva 沤egura
This guidebook is designed to increase readers鈥 personal resilience, self-acceptance, and growth from minority stress and encourages readers to clarify their beliefs and improve their relationship with themselves to develop self-awareness, self-value, and self-direction. Conflicts can be resolved as readers develop knowledge of themselves and others and consider resilient ways of experiencing sexual and/or gender diversity.
(Southern Illinois University Press, 2024), edited by Roddrick Colvin, Angela Dwyer, and Sulaimon Giwa
Q Policing features eighteen contributors from around the world who explore the nature of the relationship between LGBTQ+ communities and the police. The book incorporates a variety of voices, data sources, and methodologies, but contributors share an intentional focus on race, age, sex, gender, and other identities that helps explain and contextualize queer people鈥檚 experiences around and in policing.
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), edited by A. Lee Beckstead, Jacks Cheng, Sulaimon Giwa, Mark A. Yarhouse, and Iva 沤egura
This guidebook is designed to increase readers鈥 social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe, collaborative, and peaceful coexistence with our diverse, pluralistic cultures.
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2023
(Engen Books, 2023), edited by Sulaimon Giwa, AJ Ryan, Sarah Thompson, and Ailsa Craig
Engen Books is proud to announce they have partnered with Quadrangle NL again to make this collection a reality, celebrating 2SLGBTQAI+ writers and stories. This collection features fifteen astonishing short stories hand-picked by editors Sulaimon Giwa, AJ Ryan, Sarah Thompson, and Ailsa Craig.
(Demeter, 2023), edited by Delores V. Mullings, Jennifer Clarke, and Olasumbo Adelakun
This collection provides critical discussions on the complexities of resilience in Black communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It specifically highlights the resilience of African, Caribbean, and Black people, aged 12 to 85 years, from Nigeria, South Africa, Jamaica, England, Canada, and the United States, showcasing their strengths, determination, courage, contribution, leadership, innovation, creativity, cooperation, and community involvement through the sharing of reflections, essays, stories, journals, artwork, and poetry.
(Bristol University Press, 2023), edited by Mark Henrickson, Casey Charles, Shiv Ganesh, Sulaimon Giwa, Kan Diana Kwok, and Tetyana Semigina
Containing work from scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK and the US, and research from India and Kenya, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life. Contributors consider the impacts of stigma, barriers to intimacy, physiological sequelae, long-term care, undetectability, pleasure and biomedical prevention.
(Emond, 2023) by Hugh C. Russell and Sulaimon Giwa
Transforming Community Policing demonstrates how police can empower community actors to address complex social issues in a way that fosters community growth and development, minimizing the need for police-led emergency response. Drawing on years of experience and community-based research, authors Hugh C. Russell and Sulaimon Giwa provide readers with the information necessary to promote and maintain communities that are happy, healthy, and safe.
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2022
(Fernwood, 2022), edited by Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, B.A. LeFran莽ois, and Teresa Mac铆as
In this innovative, expansive and wide-ranging collection, leading social work thinkers engage with social work traditions to bridge social work theory and practice and arrive at social work praxis: a uniting of critical thought and ethical action. The text helps students understand how to extend theory into praxis and gives instructors critical new tools and discussion ideas.
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) by Sulaimon Giwa
This important book will inspire advocates and activists, students and scholars, and will become indispensable in university and college courses on sexuality and race studies. Giwa warns against the denial that underlies much monolithic racism and highlights the strategies used by gay men of color to counter racism in their communities and to lead strong, effective lives.
(University of Calgary Press, 2022), edited by Julie L. Drolet, Grant Charles, Sheri M. McConnell, and Marion Bogo
Transforming Social Work Field Education encourages the adoption of research and scholarship into the practice of social work field education. It offers current theoretical concepts and perspectives that shape social work field education and provides case studies of practice research grounded in the experiences of diverse communities and countries.
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2021
(Engen Books, 2021), edited by Ailsa Craig, Sulaimon Giwa, AJ Ryan, and Sarah Thompson
Engen Books is proud to announce they have partnered with Quadrangle NL to make this collection a reality, celebrating 2SLGBTQAI+ writers and stories. This collection features twenty-two astonishing short stories hand-picked by editors Ailsa Craig, Sulaimon Giwa, AJ Ryan, and Sarah Thompson.
(Fernwood, 2021), edited by Delores V. Mullings, Jennifer Clarke, Wanda Thomas Bernard, David Este, and Sulaimon Giwa
The first of its kind in Canada, this book provides an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike by presenting a dynamic approach to African-centred service provision that is ethical and culturally relevant. The book鈥檚 contributors present a broad spectrum of personal and professional experiences as African Canadian social work practitioners, students and educators, and address issues that African Canadians confront daily, which social work educators and potential practitioners need to understand to provide racially and culturally relevant services.
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2016
(Routledge, 2016) by Christopher B.R. Smith
Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed 鈥渙ur narcotic modernity.鈥 Tracing the parallel evolution of 鈥渁ddiction,鈥 the (late-)capitalist cityscape, and the pathological project of modernity, the four parts of this book together constitute a users鈥 guide to urban space.
(Nova, 2016), edited by Christopher B.R. Smith and Zack Marshall
Themes prominent throughout this book include an overtly critical analysis of the multiplicity of contextual deployments of harm reduction, a recurring focus on elevating the value of experiential knowledge and the fundamentally important, central role of people with direct lived experience. Additionally, the centrality of direct action tactics in the innovation of user-based forms of harm reduction in policy, practice, and philosophically-based contexts are discussed.
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2014
(Peter Lang, 2014), edited by George J. Sefa and Paul Banahene Adjei
Emerging Perspectives on 鈥楢frican Development鈥: Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting 鈥榙evelopment,鈥 highlighting the interplay of tradition and modernity as well as contestations over knowledge production in 鈥榩ost-colonial鈥 Africa.
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014), edited by Bonnie Burstow, B.A. LeFran莽ois, and Shaindl Diamond
Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with psychiatry to theorizing how we might stop it. Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability studies, as well as feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thought.
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2013
(Canadian Scholars, 2013), edited by B.A. LeFran莽ois, Robert Menzies, and Geoffrey Reaume
With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, Mad Matters presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of 鈥渕ental illness.鈥 The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.