IIS Team
Dr. Domale Dube
Interim Director
Domale Dube, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the interim director of the Institute for Intersectionality Studies at the University of Alberta. She works in the areas of Black and African women’s experiences of safety and wellness, gender-based violence and organizing for racial and gender justice. She is the author of Ogoni Women’s Activism: The Transnational struggle for Justice Against Big Oil and the State (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2025) which was awarded the National Women’s Studies Association’s First Book Prize.
Dr. Siobhan Byrne
Director (currently on sabbatical leave)
Dr. Siobhan Byrne is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Intersectional Research and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Byrne’s research and teaching are in the areas of feminist anti-war activism and peacebuilding in societies transitioning from conflict, with a special focus on Northern Ireland and Palestine/Israel. Dr. Byrne’s work has appeared in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Political Science Review, International Peacekeeping, and elsewhere. She is co-editor of the volume Power-Sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (Routledge), and she is currently completing a book manuscript with Dr. Allison McCulloch titled Gender, Peace, and Power-Sharing (University of Toronto Press). Dr. Byrne earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Queen’s University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland.
Heather Gray Lamm
Research Assistant
Heather Gray Lamm is a research assistant for the Institute for Intersectionality Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She is a PhD candidate in Educational Administration and Leadership at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include women in STEM, anti-colonial and de-colonial approaches to education, intersectionality, Caribbean epistemologies and global learning, access to post-secondary education and education policy. Through her previous research experience Heather has contributed to courses on intersectionality as well as research on the experience of Black people who work in STEM. She also serves on the advisory board for the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology.
Iiesha Moume
Research Assistant
Iiesha Moume is a research assistant with the Institute for Intersectionality Studies and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Black Women’s Safety and Wellness Project. She is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Alberta pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Political Science and Sociology. Her academic interests include critical theories (race, gender, disability), ethnic studies, and intersectional feminisms, with a particular focus on how these frameworks interrogate systemic inequities and inform approaches to social and systemic change. Iiesha has engaged extensively with intersectional inquiry in her involvement in multiple interdisciplinary research environments, informing her commitment to scholarship that foregrounds equity, care, and community-oriented knowledge production.
Baiyu Su
Research Assistant
Baiyu received a PhD in History in 2018 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Alberta. Adopting the Kaozheng School’s critical approach, which integrates archival analysis with interview accounts, Baiyu has co-authored two books and several peer-reviewed articles stemming from interdisciplinary research. Her earlier work examined state–society relations in pre-1949 China. Her current research uses a digital sociology framework to explore Chinese women’s experiences in communities of practice during diaspora.