Dan Yon
Associate Professor
B.Ed. (Hons) Bristol University; M.A. York University; Ph.D. York University
dyon@edu.yorku.ca
268 Winters College
416-736-2100 x 88806
Daniel Yon’s interest in pedagogy and school ethnography bridges his joint appointment to the Faculty of Education and the Department of Anthropology. His previous career in education and administration includes teaching history in St Helena and later Zimbabwe where he also worked as a writer/lecturer for the National Curriculum Development Unit. He was director of York’s Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology, 2002-07 and been visiting academic and professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University and in the Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town. Yon’s scholarly interest in race and racism draws upon the fields of postcolonial studies, concerns with globalization and questions of identity and subjectivity. He is the author of Elusive Culture, an ethnography of a Toronto high school, and more recently the producer and director two films, One Hundred Men and It Just Goes both engaging questions of citizenship, multiculturalism, landscape and memory. His new research project takes him back to Cape Town and Brazil examining questions of affirmative action and identity.
Scholarly Interests
school ethnography; race, racism, critical multiculturalism and anti-racism; postcolonial theory, diasporas, cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, identity; ethnographic film.