Gjógv, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands

Professor Anthony Kinik

Director

Anthony Kinik is the new Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. He is a film studies scholar specializing in documentary film, popular music & film, and cinema & the city, and he has a particular interest in Canadian and Québécois cinema. He has taught in Canada and Europe, and he has presented research in North America, South America, and Europe. Together with his colleagues Steven Jacobs and Eva Hielscher, he co-edited the book The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars (Routledge, 2019), which was launched at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy in combination with a program of rare examples of the city symphony genre, and which has inspired symposia, conference workshops, and an extensive film retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.  His contributions to this book include a chapter on the Canadian city symphonies of Gordon Sparling, the Toronto-born director and producer who was responsible for roughly 200 films at Associated Screen News of Montreal and the National Film Board of Canada. Earlier, he was part of the CinemaExpo67 research team, and his essay “Celluloid City: Montreal and Multiscreen at Expo 67” appeared in the collection Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (McGill-Queen’s, 2014). Recent publications include the article “The Beluga Triangle: Pour la suite du monde (1962), New Quebec Cinema, and the Urban/Rural Dialectic,” which was published in the journal Shima in 2024. Kinik is an active member of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada, and until recently he was the book reviews editor of the Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies. He is currently working on a book on Sixties Montreal as a cinematic city.

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Ibrahim Berrada

Part-Time Instructor

Ibrahim completed his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a Concentration in International Relations at Carleton University. Throughout his career in the public service, Ibrahim worked with different Members of Parliament on various national and international portfolios. Ibrahim’s most recent political role supported the Minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada before returning to complete his MA in Canadian-American studies at Brock University and State University of New York at Buffalo. Ibrahim completed his PhD at Laurentian University.  He explored populist influence in a Canadian-American crossborder context. Ibrahim is a TA and Lecturer in Canadian Studies at Brock University.  Listen to his latest podcast “Populism and (Mis)information here.

Fortress of Louisbourg, on the southeaster coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Brian de Ruiter

Part-Time Instructor

Dr. Brian de Ruiter lectures in the Centres for Canadian Studies and Digital Humanities. His research interests include Indigenous media and video games, perceptions of the Arctic and the War of 1812. He was the recipient of the Clarke Thomson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching in 2018. His teaching philosophy revolves around student-centred learning while creating an engaging and comfortable environment for students. The courses he instructs include CANA 1F91, CANA 2P92 and CANA 2P92.

On top of Silverstar Mountain, just outside Vernon, British Columbia

Jeff Reichheld

Part-Time Instructor

Jeff Reichheld is currently pursuing his doctorate in Rural Studies at the University of Guelph. His research broadly focuses on rural identity, especially in terms of the role that farmers play in defining Canada’s rural spaces and Jeff’s current project investigates barriers to the adoption of agri-environmental stewardship on Canada’s dairy farms. Jeff has taught Intercultural Communications; Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse; and Digital Humanities at Brock, and he is currently a writing consultant at Guelph. Alongside his research, Jeff has a small farm locally, on which he makes maple syrup, harvests firewood to heat his home and raises Canadian horses.

Geiranger, Norway

Michelle Vosburgh

Part-Time Instructor

Michelle Vosburgh, historian, teaches in the Canadian Studies and History departments at Brock University and is the Archivist at the L.R. Wilson Heritage Research Archives. She teaches CANA 1F91, CANA 3P95 and CANA 3P15, along with Canadian and American history courses in the history department. Her areas of research interest include pre-Confederation Ontario, land settlement and property history, along with local and public history. Her articles have appeared in published books by McGill-Queens University Press, the St. Catharines Museum, and journals such as Ontario History, Ontario Provincial Surveyor, and Public History.  Dr. Vosburgh is an active public speaker, sharing research and local history with a wide variety of audiences. She is a Brock graduate, having completed her B.A. (History and Geography) and B.Ed. at Brock. Her M.A. (History) and Ph.D. (History) were completed at McMaster University. 

Tonya Norton
Administrative Assistant
GLA 257
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Jordan Hawman
Academic Coordinator
GLB 309
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