She is a former Chair of York University’s School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Her research interests include: Gender and Development and Globalization, focusing on Congolese women; Gender and Post-colonialism, focusing on the Congolese; Globalization and Immigration, focusing primarily on francophone African women in the minority francophone community in Canada. Currently she is working on the Informal Sector and Women in Kinshasa, Children Born of War in DRC, and the Rape of Women and Girls in Kinshasa. In addition to Femmes africaines et pouvoir: Les maraichères de Kinshasa (1996), Professor Mianda has published a number of book chapters and articles in edited collections and journals.