Name | Title | Faculty | Department | Email | Ext. | Expertise |
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Peter Tiidus (Dean, Applied Health Sciences) | Dean | Applied Health Sciences | | | 3385 | Physiology of exercise induced muscle damage and repair; Alternative medicine (eg. Massage, icing, hyperbaric oxygen); Treatment in muscle injury or athletic recovery; Menopause and exercise in muscle/metabolic health of aging women |
Anthony Bogaert | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4085 | Sexuality; Sexual Orientation |
Eduardo Fernandez Cerna | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4819 | Global Health; Vector Borne diseases |
Brent E. Faught | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 3586 | Epidemiology; Non-Infectious Diseases; Physical Activity and Health; Pediatric Health |
Pauli Gardner | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 6176 | Aging and Community Health; Healthy Aging; Community Mobility and Active Transportation; Mindfulness and mental health; Mindfulness and Post-Secondary Education |
Janelle Joseph | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences and Sport Management | | | Racial justice; decolonization; Indigeneity; Black diasporas; Black athletes; Black wellness; health; women’s health; social health; cultural aspects of health; social determinants of health; sport, recreation; leisure; globalization and sport; race and sport; transnational sport; diaspora; immigration; newcomers; martial arts; dance. |
Kelli-an Lawrance | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4288 | Tobacco use (smoking) and vaping (e-cigs, Juuls) among young adults, 18-30 years old |
Paul LeBlanc | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4216 | Skeletal Muscle; Mitochondria; Metabolism; Diet; Exercise |
Jian (Jason) Liu | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 5106 | Application of biostatistics in epidemiology research; cardio-metabolic risk factors; cardiovascular disease; diabetes; obesity; study design; data analysis |
Rebecca MacPherson | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 6620 | Cellular Homeostasis; Pathophysiology; Metabolic Diseases; Regulation of Brain Beta-Amyloid Production; Lipid Homeostasis; Metabolism; Obesity, Type 2 diabetes; Alzheimer's diseas;Exercise physiology |
Adam MacNeil | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 6294 | Immunology; Allergic Inflammation; Convergent Receptor Signaling in Mast Cells; Epigenetics of Mast Cell Differentiation and Maturation |
Dan Malleck (Chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Director of Canadian Studies) | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 5108 | Drug Regulation; Alcohol Control; Alcohol Consumption; Alcohol and Drug Policy; Medical History; Addiction History; Prohibition; Medical Professions; Health Care Delivery; Pharmaceutical Industry |
Miya Narushima | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 5149 | Aging and Well-being; Community-Based Health Promotion; Lifelong Learning; Capacity Building; Volunteerism; Psycho-Social Determinants of Health |
Deborah O'Leary (Director of Brock-Niagara Centre for Health and Well-Being) | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4339 | Aging; Arterial Compliance; Blood Pressure Regulation; Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation; Exercise Physiology; Gender; Obesity; Pediatrics |
Karen Patte (Canada Research Chair in Child Health Equity and Inclusion | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 3882 | Youth mental health and substance use; School-based health in secondary school; Adolescent sleep and school start times; Youth weight perceptions; Obesity and unhealthy weight control behaviours/disordered eating |
William Pickett | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | | Epidemiology; Rural and agricultural injury; Child and adolescent health |
Ana Sanchez | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4388 | Neglected Tropical Diseases; Infectious Diseases; Zoonotic Diseases; Tropical Parasites; Global Health; International Development of Health Research; Honduras; Research Policy |
Mostafa Shokoohi | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 6619 | Social and behavioural epidemiology; Harm reduction and substance use epidemiology; HIV/AIDS surveillance and epidemiology; Real-world data and evidence (EWD and RWE) with a particular focus on health-care resource utilization and medical cost analysis, and external control arm trials; Quantitative studies and methodology |
Litsa Tsiani | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 3881 | Cell Signaling; Insulin Resistance; Muscle Metabolism; Cell Signaling Pathways in Cancer; Investigation of the Biological Effects of Food Components |
Terrance Wade | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | | Child Behaviour; Disparity; Social Determinants of Health; Social Disadvantage; Social Structural Factors & Health; Youth & Wellness |
Hui Di Wang | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Health Sciences | | 4819 | Role of adventitia in vascular function |
Allan Adkin | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4990 | Effects of cognitive factors on the central nervous system control of upright stance, balance problems and falls in older adults and individuals with musculoskeletal or neurological deficits |
Shawn Beaudette | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 6687 | Biomechanics; Neurophysiology; Low Back Pain; Human Anatomy; Motor Control; Sensory Feedback; Proprioception; Joint Stability; Data Science; Non-Linear |
Stephen Cheung | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Environmental Ergonomics; Human Temperature Regulation; Environmental Physiology; Heat and Cold Physiology; Extreme Environments; Hypothermia; Hyperthermia; Heat Stress; Hydration; Body Fluid Balance; Occupational Physiology; Firefighting Physiology; Offshore Survival; Protective Clothing; Exercise; Exercise in Extreme Environments; Cycling science/performance |
Nicole Chimera | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 6755 | Clinical movement screening tools; Evaluating injury risk assessment using clinician friendly tools; Intervention strategies to reduce risk of injury in sport and physical activity |
Maureen Connolly | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Autism; Curricula; Disabilities; Personal Fitness and Training; Strength and Conditioning; Physical Education and Movement Education; Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Women/Feminisms/Gender Issues; Phenomenolgy and Semiotics |
Jarold Cosby | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Medication Guidelines and Policies; Health Professional and Patient Decision-Making; Qualitative Research; Program Evaluation; Illness and Health Promotion Experiences: Role of Education |
David Ditor | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 5338 | Exercise Rehabilitation, inflammation, nutrition and secondary health complications after spinal cord injury; |
Val Andrew Fajardo | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Skeletal muscle; muscle aging or sarcopenia; muscle repair; muscle disease; metabolism; obesity and diabetes; exercise physiology |
Bareket Falk | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Pediatric Exercise Physiology; Exercise and Musculoskeletal Health; Neuromuscular Development; Growth, maturation and muscle function; Exercise in the Heat - Children |
Timothy Fletcher | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 6358 | Health & Physical Education in schools; Pedagogy; Child/Youth Sport; Practitioner Research |
Gail Frost | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4497 | Problem-based learning, injury treatment and rehabilitation, therapeutic exercise, biomechanics and physiology of children's locomotion |
David Gabriel | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4362 | The biomechanical and physiological significance of the surface electromyographic (sEMG) signal, neuromuscular disorders, psychological factors involved in muscle strength assessment in field and laboratory environments |
Kim Gammage | Professor; GPD Master of Professional Kinesiology; Director, SeniorFit | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3772 | Exercise & Health Psychology; Body Image; Older Adults and Exercise; Online exercise |
William Gittings | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3266 | Musculoskeletal physiology; Exercise physiology; Nutrition; Metabolism; Fitness and athletic training; Clinical kinesiology |
Nathan Hall | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Physical Literacy; School based physical education; Physical Education Teachers; Outdoor Education; Non-Traditional Physical Activities & Sports; Mental Imagery in Physical Education & Sport; Early Childhood Physical Development; & Alternative Environment Physical Activities |
Michael Holmes (Canada Research Chair in Neuromuscular Mechanics and Ergonomics) | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4398 | Biomechanics; Ergonomics; Neuromechanics; Motion capture; Haptic robotics and virtual reality for workplace simulation; Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders; Injury Mechanisms; Sport Biomechanics; Carpal Tunnel Mechanics; Neuromechanical Control of the Hand; Muscle Mechanics; Joint Stability |
Stephen Klassen | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Neural regulation of the cardiovascular system; Autonomic nervous system; Sympathetic nervous system; Parasympathetic nervous system; Human physiology; Exercise physiology; Arterial function; Heart rate; Blood pressure; Blood flow; Sex differences in cardiovascular function |
Nota Klentrou | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Pediatric Exercise Physiology; Health, Training and Performance in Youth Sports; Endocrine Regulation; Bone Metabolism; Mechanisms of Bone Development and Adaptation; Inflammation, Immunity and Exercise; Osteoporosis Prevention; Elite Young Athletes |
Sean Locke | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Physical activity; Health behaviour change; Exercise psychology; Exercise interventions/programs; Cognitive biases. |
Kelly Lockwood | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3092 | Athletic Training and Conditioning; Biomechanics; Coaching; Equipment Design; Sport Performance; Sport Physiology |
Diane Mack | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4360 | Health-Enhancing Physical Activity; Well-Being; Bone Health; Physical Activity Interventions; Successful Aging and Health Behaviour |
Rob Millington | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 6752 | Sport for international development; Sport and the environment |
Toby Mündel | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 5457 | Exercise Physiology, Environmental Physiology, Human Temperature Regulation, Body Fluid Balance, Heat Stress, Hydration and Drinking, Female Hormones (incl. menstrual cycle, oral contraceptive pill), Nicotine |
Jae Patterson | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3769 | motor skill acquisition across the lifespan |
Ian Ritchie | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3966 | Drug Use in Sport; Olympic Games; Social Issues in Sport |
Danny Rosenberg | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4289 | Sport Philosophy; Sport Ethics; Sport Management Ethics; Sport and Religion |
Brian Roy | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3779 | Exercise and Health; Exercise Physiology; Muscle Metabolism; Nutrition and Exercise; Nutritional Supplements and Exercise; Hydration and its Effects on Exercise |
Philip Sullivan | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4787 | Coaches and Coaching; Coaching Confidence; Communication in Sports Teams; Sport Teams and Coaching; Sports Team Cohesion and Confidence; Sport Psychology |
Craig Tokuno | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4365 | Neural and Biomechanical Control of Human Movement, Balance, Locomotion, Falls, Older Adults |
Réné Vandenboom | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 4726 | Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Fatigue, Potentiation, Disease; Fitness Training/Exercise: Strength and Power, Endurance, Hockey Fitness, Sport Specific Fitness; Health: Sudden Death in Sports, Obesity, Familial Cardiac Hypertrophy; Ball Hockey |
Cathy Van Ingen | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Boxing (women, men's professional, Olympic and amateur); Gender/Race Issues and Sport |
Wendy Ward | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | 3024 | Nutrition related to Oral and Bone Health, Osteoporosis, Soy, Flaxseed |
Philip Wilson | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Kinesiology | | | Physical activity and health; Motivation for health behaviours; Psychology of health behaviours |
Joanne Crawford | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 4363 | Population-based cancer screening (breast and colorectal ) among under screened or never screened populations (i.e. immigrants and low-income groups); Public health and participatory action research; Chronic disease prevention; Blended learning strategies in oncology |
Danielle Dunwoody | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 4149 | Acute pain management and assessment, opioid safety and risk, tacit knowledge in nursing practice, Nursing- Critical Care, Peri Anesthesia and Surgical |
Lynn McCleary | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 5160 | Aging, Geriatric Nursing; Mental Health; Psychiatry; Psychiatric Nursing; Gerontology |
Jane Moore | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 4189 | Nursing Collaborative Practice and Teamwork; Patient and Health Provider Outcomes; Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives; Infections in Cancer Populations |
Sheila O'Keefe-McCarthy | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 6192 | Cardiovascular Disease; Cardiac Pain and Anxiety; Acute Coronary Syndromes; Cardiac-specific Prodromal warning Symptoms; Pain Assessment and Management; Mobile Health technology interventions (development and evaluation) for Cardiovascular Symptom Management; Nursing-Critical Care |
Dawn Prentice | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | | Gerentological Nursing; Trends and Issues in Nursing |
Jenn Salfi | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 3483 | Interprofessional Education (IPE); Collaborative Practice and Team Functionning; Nursing Education |
Connie Schumacher | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 4441 | Homecare; Care co-ordination using interRAI assessments; Community nursing models of care and self-care for heart failure and COPD |
Karyn Taplay | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Nursing | | 3789 | Nursing education, traditional and alternative learning styles, as well as the use of technology, specifically simulation as a teaching/learning strategy in nursing |
Martha Barnes | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 5011 | Interorganizational relationships in recreation and sport; Recreation planning; Social network analysis |
Corliss Bean | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | | Youth sport; Positive youth development; Program evaluation; Knowledge translation; Sport psychology |
Sanghee Chun | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 5225 | Role of Leisure in the Experience of Psychosocial Coping and Adaptation; Post-Traumatic Growth; Happiness and Subjective Well-Being for people with Spinal Cord Injury |
Scott Forrester | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | | Campus Recreational Sports; Intramural Sports; Leadership; Outcome Assessment and Measurement; Program Evaluation; Simulated Leisure and Artificial Adventure Environments; Sports Participation; Psycho-Social Determinants and Benefits of Participation in Campus Recreational Sports for Post-Secondary Students |
Alisa Grigorovich | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | | Aging/gerontology; Technology and aging; Use of intelligent technologies to improve quality of life and quality of care for older adults; Dementia care; Stigma associated with dementia; Sexual expression and dementia; Sexual and gender diversity in later life; LGBTQ2+ health |
Pei-Chun Hsieh | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | | Successful aging; Use of recreation in promoting sense of belonging in people with disabilities; Role of leisure in stress and coping among family caregivers |
Garrett Hutson | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 4784 | Place Meanings in Natural Settings; Sense of Community on Wilderness Trips; Outdoor Recreation Resource Management; Outdoor Leadership Education; Q Methodology |
Tim O'Connell | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 5014 | Outdoor Recreation; Outdoor Education; Experiential Education; Outdoor Leadership; Psychological Sense of Community; Rock Climbing; Ice Climbing; Sea Kayaking; Reflective Journaling; Wilderness Expeditions; Recreation; Leisure; Outdoor Orientation Programs |
Kyle Rich | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 4269 | Community sport and recreation; Rural community development; Community development through sport and recreation; Social inclusion in/through sport and recreation; Community sport clubs; Sport policy; Rural resiliency; Sport participation; Sport development; Policy implementation |
Erin Sharpe | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 3989 | Recreation and community, Community Development; Recreation Service Delivery; Social Inclusion; Grassroots and Voluntary Organizations,; Local Policy and Governance; Community Engagement; After-school Programs; Health and Active Living |
Shalini Singh | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Recreation & Leisure Studies | | 4103 | Domestic Tourism in Asia; Religion and Heritage Aspects of Leisure Travel/Tourism; Community Tourism |
Chris Chard | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 5875 | Triple Bottom Line; Hockey Brand Management; Sport Finance; USport (University Sport focused on hockey); Youth sport participation and management; Sports stocks; Overall brand issues |
Laura Cousens | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4748 | Organizational and field-level change, inter-organizational relationships, relationship marketing, neo-institutional theory, networks of community sport providers, sport for development. |
Ryan Clutterbuck | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 3112 | Football (NFL/CFL/U Sports/NCAA/Women's tackle football); Negotiation; Leadership; Sport for development and peace; Coaching |
Michele Donnelly | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4351 | Gender and sport; Gender equality and the Olympic Movement/Games; Gender/sex testing policies in sport; Alternative sport (roller derby, skateboarding, snowboarding), particularly girls and women in these sports; Women-only activities (including women’s home improvement workshops, entrepreneur organizations, and recreation groups); Research ethics related to qualitative research methods |
Curtis Fogel | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4617 | Sports Law; Sports Ethics; Doping; Drug Control Policy; Violence in Sport; Social Justice and Human Rights; Socio-Cultural Aspects of Sport |
Craig Hyatt | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4382 | Sports Fans |
Shannon Kerwin | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 6177 | Organizational Behaviour in Sport (e.g., Conflict, Values); Volunteer Management; Leadership; Sport Experiences |
Lisa Kikulis | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 5004 | |
Cheryl Mallen | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 3036 | Sport Environmental Sustainability (Protecting the Natural Environment at Sport Facilities and Events for Future Generations); Sport Facility and Event Management; Teaching for Change-based Times; Sport Ethics in Times of New Technologies |
Taylor McKee | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | | Violence in sport; History of Canadian sport; Open Access Publishing; The Canadian Football League; Sport and Residential Schools; The Olympic Games; Sport media; Public commemoration, sport monuments |
Brad Millington | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | | Sport and environmental sustainability; Sport media and technology |
Michael Naraine | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 5189 | Professional sport; Sport marketing |
Olan Scott | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4811 | Sport and social media; Olympic studies; Portrayal of nationalism; Gender and ethnicity at major sporting events by broadcasters and media |
Kirsty Spence | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 5027 | Leadership; Leadership Development; Executive Coaching (in Sport Management) |
Julie Stevens | Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4668 | Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of Sport; Hockey — current/history of women’s hockey, amateur and professional issues in Canada and International; Capacity and Change in Sport — policy, governance, volunteers and ethics; safe sport |
Ashley Thompson | Assistant Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 6124 | Non-profit sport organizations; the governance of non-profit sport; organizations and the Canadian amateur sport system; organizational change; and strategy development. |
Dawn Trussell | Associate Professor | Applied Health Sciences | Sport Management | | 4580 | Youth sport; Family and communities; Sport, inclusion, and allyship in sport; Motherhood and sport |
Mary Louise Vanderlee (Interim Dean, Faculty of Education) | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 4066 | Early childhood education and care (children’s interests, curriculum, documentation, environment, teacher beliefs and practice, parent engagement, program quality, class size, program models, advocacy); Inter-sector Praxis (Interagency collaboration and system approaches to early development, learning and care); Professional development; Program evaluation |
Jaime Barratt | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 6330 | Physical literacy in early childhood environments; Early Childhood Educators’ physical literacy; Physical activity promotion in child care; Health and well-being in early childhood (infants-school age); Scale/instrument development in education; Professional development for early childhood educators (surrounding health and well-being) |
Fiona Blaikie | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 4631 | Contemporary art, posthumanism and pedagogy; youth visual and cultural identity constructs - race, gender, culture, sexuality, and social media; curriculum and assessment in visual arts education; qualitative research methods. |
Sandra Bosacki | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 4987 | Social, Cognitive and Emotional Competencies in Children and Adolescents; Peer Relations in Youth; Child-Companion Animal/Pet Relations; Shy/Socially Withdrawn Children, Deception and Psychological/Emotional Bullying and Teasing in Youth; Emotional Well-being and Mental Health in Children and Youth; Identity, Solitude and Loneliness (in Children and Youth) |
Lorenzo Cherubini | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 905-547-3555 ext 3603 | Educational Policy; Aboriginal Education; Teacher Professional Development; Grounded Theory Research; Mentoring; Organizational Culture of Schools; Organizational Leadership; Secondary School English Education; Teacher Induction |
Sandra Della Porta | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5558 | Social power and power dynamics in early childhood; Informal early learning contexts (e.g., family exchanges, teacher-child interactions, social play); Social-Cognition in early childhood; Young children’s social relationships and family dynamics |
Mohammed Estaiteyeh | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 6484 | Educational technologies (technology-enhanced teaching, online learning, learning management systems, and technology and digital literacy); teacher education and professional development in technology; science and STEM education; equity, diversity and inclusion teaching practices such as differentiated instruction; innovations in curriculum, instruction and assessment in K-12 schools and post-secondary programs. |
Xavier Fazio | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Science Education; Teacher Education; Environmental Education |
Olga Fellus | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Early algebra; Mathematical thinking; Socialization in education; Theories of learning applied to teaching; Complexity theory; Mathematical identity. |
Catherine Hands | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5122 | School-community relations; Community involvement in education; Parent engagement in education; Schools as communities; Educational leadership; School reform; Professional learning communities (Professional development and adult learning) |
Debra Harwood | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5873 | Early childhood education curriculum; Pedagogy; outdoor learning/teaching; Digital technologies and young children; Educator professionalism |
David Hutchison | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 3354 | Educational Reform; Teacher Education; Project-based Learning; Social Studies Education; Environmental Education; Computers in Education; Video Games in Education; Artificial intelligence (AI) and education |
Doug Karrow | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 905-547-3555 ext 3614 | Elementary Science Education; Environmental Education; Curricular and Pedagogical Theory and Practice |
Steven Khan | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Mathematics Teacher Education (Elementary/Middle); Mathematics knowledge for teaching; Ethnomathematics; Culturally responsive mathematics pedagogy; Anti-racist / anti-oppressive mathematics education; Mathematics Identities; Mathematics popularization; Assessment & Equity in contexts for learning mathematics |
Julian Kitchen | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 905-547-3555 ext 3633 | Aboriginal Education; Education Law, Professionalism and Ethics; Teacher Education and Induction; LGBT Issues in Education; Safe Schools |
Rahul Kumar | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and education; Academic integrity in education |
Chunlei Lu | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5343 | Body-Mind Holism; Cross-Cultural Studies, Inter-Civilization Dialogue, Multicultural Education; Curriculum Studies; East-West Cultural Discourse; Eastern Martial Arts & Meditation; Eastern Philosophy; Holistic Approach to Health; Immigrant Health; Mindfulness; Physical Education; Sports Pedagogy |
Michelle McGinn (Associate Vice-President, Research) | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 4730 | Graduate Student Development; Researcher Development; Research Ethics; Research Integrity; Internationalization of universities; Mentoring and Mentorship; Identity and Belonging in Academe; Research Methodologies; Situated Learning; Problem Solving in Mathematics and Science |
Robert McGray | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Adult Education; Postsecondary Teaching and Learning; Postsecondary Governance; Community Based Education; Social Movement Learning |
Joyce Mgombelo | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5117 | Mathematics Education; Teacher Education; Curriculum Issues (culture, popular culture, cognition); Qualitative Research Methodologies (action research, phenomenology, etc.); Complexity Science; Enactivist and Psychoanalytic Inquiry in Education; International Education Research; Development Projects |
Michael Mindzak | Assistant Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5219 | Educational policy; Education reform; Sociology of education; Educational technology; Educational work and labour |
Dolana Mogadime | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 3733 | Sociology and Equity Studies; Social Justice and Education; Social and Cultural Contexts of Education; Race and Ethnicity in Education; Feminism and Black Feminism in Education; Gender and Education; Women and Leadership |
Trevor Norris | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5897 | Philosophy of Education, High School Philosophy, History of Educational Thought, Critical Pedagogy, Globalization and Development Theories, Critiques of Consumerism and Neoliberalism, Education and Social Change, Modernity and Postmodernity |
Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Poverty in education and educational communities; Social justice and equity issues in secondary schools, elementary schools and communities; Stories of experience in educational communities; Literacy narratives, teacher identity, and student (youth) identity, and stakeholder (community) identity in community landscapes; Diverse systemic issues and exclusion in school/communal settings such as race, identity, culture, socio economics, gender, religion, LGBTQ and mental health |
Camille Rutherford (Vice-Provost, Strategic Partnerships & International) | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5344 | Educational Leadership; Leadership; School Reform; School/Teacher Leadership; Social Media & Education; Educational Technology/Innovation; 21st Century Teaching & Learning |
Peter Vietgen | Associate Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | 5116 | Art Education; Art Gallery/Museum Education Links with Schools; Social Justice Issues & the Arts; Teacher Education & the Arts; Architecture in the Curriculum |
Louis Volante | Professor | Education | Educational Studies | | | Global governance of education; International organizations and policy diffusion; Policy planning, implementation, and evaluation; Politics and education reform; Artificial intelligence (AI) and assessment policies |
Barry Wright (Dean, Goodman School of Business) | Dean | Goodman School of Business | Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship & Ethics | | 6789 | Leadership; Organizational change |
Andrew Gaudes | Professor | Goodman School of Business | | | | |
Kareen Brown | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Accounting | | 6230 | Executive Compensation; Earnings Management |
Fayez Elayan | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Accounting | | 4160 | Executive Compensation; Credit Rating; Merger and Acquisitions; Real Estate Investment Trust; Capital Markets; Business and Human Rights |
Barbara Sainty | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Accounting | | 3182 | Professional Judgment; Accounting Education; Social Capital; Ethics, Religion and Culture; Public Sector Operating Budgets |
Paul Scarbrough | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Accounting | | 3915 | Manufacturing; Toyota Production System; Lean Production, Manufacturing, Health care; Cost Management; Manufacturing in Canada, Europe, Japan; Culture and Manufacturing |
Tanya Tang | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Accounting | | 3132 | Tax avoidance, Earnings management, Corporate governance, Capital market-based accounting research |
Samir Trabelsi | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Accounting | | | Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility and sustainability |
Michael Armstrong | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 5323 | Quality; Reliability; Product Recalls; Cannabis industry; Cannabis regulation; Missile defense |
Anteneh Ayanso | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 3498 | Data Management; Business Analytics; Electronic Commerce, and Electronic Government |
Ernest Biktimirov | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 3843 | Financial Education; Investments (Index Effects; Event Studies); Creative Thinking |
Donald Cyr | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 4960 | Corporate and Investment Finance; Financial Research as it applies to the Viticulture and Wine Industry; Financial implications of Weather and Climate Change |
Teju Herath | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 4179 | Information Assurance; Information Security and Privacy; Diffusion of Information Assurance Practices; Economics of Information Security; Security Management; Phishing Scams |
Kenneth Klassen | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 3968 | Managing Service Businesses - Operations; Efficiency, Quality; Demand and Capacity Management in Services; Outpatient Appointment Scheduling; Healthcare Process Improvement |
Jin Lei | Assistant Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 4385 | Corporate liquidity policies; Investments; Corporate financial distress and bankruptcy; Financial contagion; CEO/forecaster overconfidence |
Tatyana Sokolyk | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 4781 | Corporate Governance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Capital Structure; International Investments |
Francine Vachon | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Finance, Operations & Information Systems | | 3720 | Data breaches; Knowledge discovery; Research methodology; Online experiments; Information systems meta-research; Cognitive fit |
Abdul Ashraf | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5195 | Online consumer decision making; Technology adoption; E-commerce; M-commerce |
Eric Dolansky | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5159 | Pricing; Consumer Behaviour; Consumer Reaction to Price; Decision-Making; Perceptions of Value |
Todd Green | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5593 | Corporate social responsibility/irresponsibility and ethics; Green marketing; Non-profit and charity marketing; Music consumption and management; Socially responsible gift giving |
Wesley Helms | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5191 | Role of Conflict - its Strategic and Non-Strategic Management, and its Settlement in Institutionalization Processes; Historical Contestation around the Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) |
Magnus Hultman | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | | International marketing; internationalization; place/country branding; tourism marketing; strategic decision making |
Antonia Mantonakis | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5383 | Marketing; Consumer Behaviour; Consumer Psychology; Wine Marketing |
Joachim Scholz | Assistant Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | | Augmented reality / mixed reality / virtual reality; Social media firestorms / online controversies; Branding / brand storytelling; Influencer marketing / social media influencers; Digital and social media marketing; Consumer culture; Pokemon Go |
Francis Sun | Associate Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5376 | Trade disputes; International business; Global and transnational strategy; Institutional relativity across societies; Comparative business systems; Cross-cultural management; Business practices in China and elsewhere in East Asia |
Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5195 | New Product Development; Innovation and Technology Management; E-Commerce; Strategic Marketing Management in High Technology Environments |
Kai-Yu Wang | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Marketing, International Business & Strategy | | 5597 | Digital marketing; Service recovery on social media; Marketing communication; Counterfeit and ethical consumption |
Paul Dunn | Professor | Goodman School of Business | Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship & Ethics | | 4185 | Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Issues in Business Ethics |
Francois Cote-Vaillancourt | Assistant Professor | Goodman School of Business | Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship & Ethics | | | Ethics, diversity and pluralism; Political cultures and cross-cultural management; greenwashing |
Michael Carter | Professor | Humanities | Classics and Archaeology | | 3796 | Acculturation; Amphitheatres; Gladiatorial Spectacles; Greek History; Greek Language; Latin Language; Roman History |
Fanny Dolansky | Associate Professor | Humanities | Classics and Archaeology | | 5372 | Ancient Roman History; Roman Family History; Childhood in Antiquity; Roman Religion; Latin literature (late Republic and early Empire) |
Allison Glazebrook | Professor | Humanities | Classics and Archaeology | | 3319 | Women; Gender, Sexuality and Prostitution in the Ancient World; Greek language, literature and history |
Elizabeth S. Greene | Associate Professor | Humanities | Classics and Archaeology | | 5373 | Maritime archaeology; Ancient shipwrecks, trade and economy; Cultural heritage protection; Archaeological ethics; Mediterranean migration and mobility |
Carrie Murray | Associate Professor | Humanities | Classics and Archaeology | | 4530 | Cultural Interaction in the Central Mediterranean primarily during the Archaic and Republican Periods; Ritual Practices in Sacred and Funerary Contexts |
Angus Smith | Professor | Humanities | Classics and Archaeology | | 3798 | Archaeology; Minoan; Mycenaean; Aegean/Greek Prehistory; Ceramic Analysis; Archaeological Theory; Mortuary Archaeology; Ethnic Identity; Processes of Colonization and Acculturation; Rise and Fall of Complex Societies |
Jason Hawreliak | Associate Professor | Humanities | Digital Humanities | | 6159 | Game develop; Game design; Ethics in gaming; Semiotics and rhetoric in gaming |
Aaron Mauro (Chair, Department of Digital Humanities) | Associate Professor | Humanities | Digital Humanities | | 4253 | Data science; Data visualization; Machine learning; Cyberpunk; Cybersecurity |
Sarah Stang | Assistant Professor | Humanities | Digital Humanities | | 5482 | Game Studies, Video Games, Feminist Media Studies, Representation, Gender and Sexuality, Interactive Storytelling, Dungeons and Dragons |
Robert Alexander | Associate Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 3886 | Long-Form Narrative/Literary Journalism; Journalism Studies; History of Linguistic Thought; Rhetoric and Composition |
James Allard | Associate Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 3531 | British Romantic Literature and Culture; History of the Body; 18th and 19th Century Medical History; Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film |
Gregory Betts | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 5318 | Avant-Garde; Canadian Literature; Experimental Writing; Modernism; Poetry; Small Press; Canadian Literature including Contemporary Canadian Fiction, Contemporary Canadian Poetry & Modern Canadian Literature |
Natalee Caple | Associate Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 3155 | Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry); Contemporary Canadian Literature; Feminist Writings; Feminist Comic Books; Historiographic Metafiction; Revisionist Western Genre Literature and Media |
Tim Conley | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | | James Joyce; Literature & Cognition; Modernism; Poetry & Poetics; Samuel Beckett; Translation; Jazz Writing; 20th-century literature; Imaginary languages |
Martin Danahay | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 5203 | Victorian Literature and Culture, Steampunk, Arts and Crafts Movement; War studies |
Adam Dickinson | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 5315 | Poetry & Poetics; Creative Writing; Literature & Science; Literature & Environment |
Neta Gordon | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 3863 | Contemporary Canadian Fiction; First World War Narratives; Comic Books |
Ann Howey | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 4302 | Arthurian literature/popular culture; Tennyson; Children’s fantasy literature |
Lissa Paul | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 5198 | Children's Literature; Literary Theories; Feminist Theories; Post-Colonial Discourse; Cultural Studies; Diversity; Eighteenth-Century Studies |
Andrew Pendakis | Associate Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 5319 | Political Culture and Rhetoric; Politics; Contemporary Cultural Change; Philosophy; Critical Theory; The Economist Magazine; Post-War British and American Political Culture, Literature and Film |
Elizabeth Sauer | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | 3887 | Early Modern (17th C) English Literature; Value of Studying Literature in our Day; Women's Literary History |
Barbara K. Seeber | Professor | Humanities | English Language & Literature | | | Jane Austen; 18th century fiction; Animal welfare and Rights discourses in the 18th and early 19th century. |
John Bonnett | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 5552 | Digital History (3D Modeling; Digital Heritage; Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality); Digital Humanities; Canadian Communication Thought; The U.S. Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Jessica Clark | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 4303 | Modern British History; History of Beauty, Grooming, and Appearance; History of Women, Gender, Sexuality; British Empire after 1750 |
Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 5145 | Latin America; History, culture and society; arts and society; 20th century; Latin America(ns) in Canada |
Tami Friedman | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 3709 | Modern U.S. history; 20th-century history of labor, business and race relations; the South and conservatism; Women's history; U.S. politics and government |
Gregor Kranjc | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 6161 | Modern European History; East-Central Europe and the Balkans (War and Society; Historical Trauma and Memory, and the History of the Region’s Ethnic and Religious Minorities); History of terrorism |
Jane McLeod | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 3501 | 18th Century French History; French Revolution; Printers |
Behnaz Mirzai | Professor | Humanities | History | | 5283 | Middle East; Modern Iran; Slavery in Iran; African diaspora in Iran |
Elizabeth Neswald | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | | History of science and technology, including the history of nutrition science; Diabetic sugar monitoring; Thermodynamics and energy |
Olatunji Ojo | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 5146 | Africa; African Diaspora; Slavery |
Colin Rose | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 5554 | History of homicide; History of violence; History of Europe 1300-1800; History of Italy; Digital history; Digital tools for research; Digital humanities, Digital teaching |
Renee Salhany | Adjunct Professor | Humanities | History | | | War of 1812; Military culture in the late 18th-19th centuries (i.e., not tactics or military planning!); History of religion; History of alcohol |
Daniel Samson | Associate Professor | Humanities | History | | 3503 | History of colonialism; rural life; agriculture; food; Nova Scotia; British North America |
Mark Spencer | Professor | Humanities | History | | 3506 | History of Early America; Eighteenth-Century History of Ideas; American Revolution; American Enlightenment; David Hume |
Keri Cronin | Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Visual Arts | | 5306 | Art and Activism, Canadian Art History (Pre Second World War), Canadian National Parks, Environmental Cultural Studies, History of Photography, Animals in Art, Animal Advocacy (esp. as it relates to visual culture) |
Amy Friend | Associate Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Visual Arts | | 4656 | Photography; Experimental Photography, Photo History; Contemporary Art; Studio Practices, Art and Education |
Linda Steer | Associate Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Visual Arts | | 3821 | 20th and 21st century art history and visual culture; History of photography; Avant-garde, especially surrealism; Photography and drugs/addiction; Photography and empathy; Photography and social media; contemporary art. |
Donna Szoke | Associate Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Visual Arts | | 4116 | Media Art; Video Art; Experimental Practises; Contemporary Art |
Karen Fricker | Adjunct Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Dramatic Arts | | 5780 | The Eurovision Song Contest; Contemporary Circus including Cirque du Soleil; Robert Lepage; Contemporary Theatre and Globalization; Contemporary Québec Theatre; Popular Performances of Nation and Cultural Identities; Theatre Criticism |
Gyllian Raby | Adjunct Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Dramatic Arts | | 3221 | Creativity And Improvisation; Critical Performance Theory: RSVP & Directing Theatre; Playwrights of Canada; Scriptwriting & Dramaturgy |
David Vivian | Associate Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Dramatic Arts | | 4401 | Design for Theatre; Les Arts au Quebec (de Montreal); Performance Drama; Prague Quadrennial of Scenography and Theatre Architecture; International Federation for Theatre Research; Set; Costume and Lighting Design; Theatre; Theatre Education; Theatre Production; Stagecraft; Municipal Culture Planning; Studies in Arts and Culture |
Karin Di Bella | Associate Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Music | | 3820 | Piano; Music performance and Teaching; |
Nina Penner | Assistant Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Music | | | Opera; Musical theatre; Film music; Narrative theory; Music and philosophy; Video game music |
Matthew Royal | Associate Professor | Humanities | Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts - Music | | 5377 | Music theory; Music cognition; Renaissance music theory; Theories of rhythm; Choral composition |
Renee-Claude Breitenstein | Associate Professor | Humanities | Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures | | 5889 | French Literature of the Renaissance; Rhetoric (praise and blame) and Argumentation; Poetics of Literary Genres and Parody; Construction of Publics; Book History; Print Culture; Iconography; Representation of Women |
Nicholas Hauck | Assistant Professor | Humanities | Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures | | | Translation theory and practice; European avant-garde; 20th century French literature; Critical literary theory; Contemporary poetry (English and French); Experimental writing |
Cristina Santos | Associate Professor | Humanities | Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures | | 4498 | Gender and sexuality studies, especially female sexuality; Virginity studies; Popular culture and film; Human rights and literature; Storytelling and personal identity; Latin American feminism and culture; Immigrant identities in Canada |
Athena Colman | Associate Professor | Humanities | Philosophy | | 3323 | 20th Century Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Phenomenology; Psychoanalysis; Feminist Philosophy; Critical Theory; Aesthetics |
Christine Daigle | Professor | Humanities | Philosophy | | 3316 | Philosophy (Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir, Existentialism); Feminism; Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities; Posthumanism; Interdisciplinary Humanities; Anthropocene and extinction |
Michael Bidochka | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 3394 | Microbiology; Biotechnology; Fungi; Endophytes; Plant-Microbe Interactions; Biocontrol |
Debbie Inglis (Director, Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute) | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 3828/3227 | Yeast Biotechnology and Biochemistry; Icewine Fermentation; Yeast Stress Responses and the Link to Wine Quality; Etiology of Grape Sour Rot; Wine Remediation for Taints |
Ping Liang | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 5922 | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Genetics; Molecular Biology; Human Genome/Genetics; Genetic Diversity |
Lori Macneil | Assistant Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | | |
Aleksandar Necakov | Associate Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 3829 | Cell Signaling; Live imaging; Optogenetics; Neurodegenerative disease; Cancer Biology; Stem Cells; Gene Editing; CRISPR/Cas9 |
Gary Pickering | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences, Psychology | | 4715 | Sensory Evaluation of Wine and Foods; Taste Genetics; Wine Tasting; Climate change psychology; climate change communication; Perception of sustainable food and wine |
Sudarsana Poojari | Senior Scientist | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 4227 | Epidemiology and management of grapevine virus diseases; Virus-free plant production systems (Clean Plant Programs); Virus disease diagnostics and management of fruit trees, small fruits, and vegetable crops; Cannabis disease diagnostics; Virus and insect vector interactions; High throughput sequencing-based virus diagnostics |
Gaynor Spencer | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 3391 | Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Plasticity in the Nervous System; Growth Cone Behaviour; Retinoic Acid Effects on Growth Cone Behaviour and Neuronal Outgrowth |
Jeff Stuart | Associate Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 4814 | Metabolism, Cell biology, Aging & Longevity, Free radical biology |
Liette Vasseur | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Biological Sciences | | 4023 | Ecology; Sustainable Agriculture; Climate Change; Adaptation and Resilience; Sustainable Development; Community-Based Ecosystem Management (including ecological restoration and biodiversity assessment) and Environmental Health; Women in science/STEM |
Jeffrey Atkinson | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Chemistry | | 3967 | Antioxidants; Lipid Biochemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Organic Synthesis; Protein Chemistry; Tocopherol; Vitamin E; Biotechnology |
Travis Dudding | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Chemistry | | 3405 | Organic Synthesis; Catalysis; Synthetic Methodology development; Computational Chemistry; Physical Organic Chemistry |
Art van der Est | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Chemistry | | 4602 | Photosynthesis; Time Resolved EPR Spectroscopy; Electron Transfer Reactions; Light-Induced Electron Spin Polarization |
Costa Metallinos | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Chemistry | | 3848 | Synthetic Organic and Organometallic Chemistry |
Paul Zelisko | Associate Professor | Mathematics & Science | Chemistry | | 4389 | Silicon Biotechnology; Silicone Polymers; Silicone-Modified Materials; Silicon-Based Coatings; Silicon-Containing Lipids; Organosilicon Chemistry; Polymer Chemistry |
Robson De Grande | Associate Professor | Mathematics & Science | Computer Science | | 3090 | Mobile Cloud Computing; Mobile Networks; High Performance Computing; Modeling and Simulation |
Naser Ezzati-Jivan | Assistant Professor | Mathematics & Science | Computer Science | | 3520 | Software and System Engineering; Performance and Security Evaluation; Green Computing |
Sheridan Houghten | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Computer Science | | 4526 | Combinatorics, Algorithms and Coding Theory, including some Applications to Bioinformatics |
Brian Ross | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Computer Science | | 4284 | Artificial Intelligence; Evolutionary Algorithms |
Jim Willwerth | Assistant Professor | Mathematics & Science | Cool Climate Oenology & Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) | | 6118 | Viticulture - Applied and Aspects of Grape and Wine Production; Plant Biology and Cold Tolerance; Crop protection (freeze protection strategies and bird deterrents); Impact of vineyard practices on wine quality |
Richard Cheel | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Earth Sciences | | 3512 | Clastic Sedimentology; Experimental Sedimentology and the Sedimentology of Shallow Marine Storm Deposits |
Gregory Finn | Associate Professor | Mathematics & Science | Earth Sciences | | 3528 | Geology - Earth’s Crust; Minerals |
Martin Head | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Earth Sciences | | | Anthropocene; Earth history; The geological time scale |
Francine McCarthy | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Earth Sciences | | | Holocene (and Anthropocene) paleoclimates and paleolimnology; freshwater resources, eutrophication and algal blooms; paleontology/ micropaleontology; Great Lakes |
John Menzies | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Earth Sciences | | 3865 | Climate Change; Glacial Geology; Global Warming; Ice Ages; Soils |
Mariek Schmidt | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Earth Sciences | | 3527 | Volcanology and Mars Geology |
Syed Ejaz Ahmed | Dean | Mathematics & Science | Mathematics & Statistics | | 3421 | Big Data Analytics; Statistical Consulting; Statistical Process Control |
Omar Kihel | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Mathematics & Statistics | | | Algebra; Number Theory; Cryptography; Mathematics for general audience; Discrete Mathematics including combinatorics |
Yuanlin Li | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Mathematics & Statistics | | 4626 | Algebra; Math Promotion for Gifted Kids; Combinatoric Number Theory; Coding Theory |
Pouria Ramazi | Assistant Professor | Mathematics & Science | Mathematics & Statistics | | | Machine learning; Data science; Prediction and management of diseases; Systems and control; Game theory; Decision-making dynamics |
Thomas Wolf | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Mathematics & Statistics | | 3803 | Differential Equations; Japanese/Chinese Game GO and its Computerization; Theory of General Relativity, Mathematics Contests for Elementary and High Schools |
Shyamal Bose | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Physics | | 3876 | Solids - Ordered and Disordered, Electronic Properties |
Thad Harroun | Professor | Mathematics & Science | Physics | | 5905 | Neutron Scattering |
Gavin Hester | Assistant Professor | Mathematics & Science | Physics | | | Neutron scattering; quantum materials; quantum phase transitions; and magnetic materials. |
Barak Shoshany | Assistant Professor | Mathematics & Science | Physics | | | General relativity; Quantum mechanics; Quantum gravity; Quantum computing; Particle physics; Astrophysics and cosmology; Scientific computing; Time travel and faster-than-light travel |
Edward Sternin | Associate Professor | Mathematics & Science | Physics | | 3414/4457 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Relaxation Measurements in Soft Condensed Matter Systems |
Lynn Dempsey | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Linguistics | | 5168 | Child language development; Child language disorders; Early literacy acquisition; Early language comprehension; Children's story comprehension |
Thomas Farrell | Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Linguistics | | 3846 | Applied Linguistics; Language Teacher Education; Reflective Practice for Language Teachers |
Gary Libben | Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Linguistics | | 4315 | Psycholinguistics; Neurolinguistics; Language Comprehension and Production; Mental Lexicon |
Cheng Luo | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Linguistics | | 4285 | Chinese Languages and Culture; Language Testing; Second Language Acquisition; Theories of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics; Typological Linguistics; Chinese-English English-Chinese Translation |
Ron Thomson | Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Linguistics | | 5842 | Second Language Acquisition; Pronunciation Training; Issues related to Foreign/Non-Native Accent |
Alison Cox | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Disability Studies | | | Applied Behavioural Pharmacology; Assessing and Treating Severe Problem Behaviour; Applied Behaviour Analysis; Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention; Caregiver Training; Autism and Other Intellectual and Developmental Disorders; Traumatic Brain Injury; Program Evaluation |
Julie Koudys | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Disability Studies | | 6706 | Applied Behaviour Analysis; Autism and Developmental Disabilities; Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention; Mental Health and Autism; Autism Policy in Ontario; Parent Training in Autism; Augmentative Alternative Communication Systems |
Nicole Luke | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Disability Studies | | 3951 | Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) in education; verbal behaviour; and virtual reality applications in education and psychology. |
Valdeep Saini | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Disability Studies | | 3950 | Animal behaviour; Behaviour analysis; Behaviour modification; Experimental analysis of behaviour |
Kendra Thomson | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Disability Studies | | 6710 | Applied behaviour analysis (behavioral intervention); Neurodevelopment disabilities (mainly autism); Early intensive behavioral intervention; Evidence-based training for staff, caregivers, teachers, etc.that work with people with disabilities; Sexual offending and adults with intellectual disabilities; Mental Health; Behavioural applications to sport and physical activity (e.g., dance); Acceptance and commitment therapy/training |
Kimberley Zonneveld | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Applied Disability Studies | | | Behavior analysis; Assessment and treatment of problem behavior (e.g., aggression, self-injury, pediatric feeding disorders); Autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities; Early intensive behavioral intervention; Caregiver and teacher training; Feeding disorders; Helping children tolerate dental exams, eye exams, haircuts, etc; increasing physical activity in children |
Naomi Andrews | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | | Aggression; victimization; bullying; teasing; peer relationships; children’s friendships; children’s social status; parenting; mother-child relationships. |
Voula Marinos | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | | Crime; courts; sentencing and punishment - adults and youth; Criminal Law and Reform; Mental health and the law; Public Attitudes Toward Crime; Youth Criminal Justice Act; Forensics and the law - adult and youth; Developmental disabilities and the law |
John McNamara | Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 3835 | Learning Disabilities; Reading; Child Development |
Richard Mitchell | Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 5085 | Human rights of children and young people; Qualitative research methods; Sociology of childhood/youth; UN Human Rights monitoring and theorizing; |
Thomas O'Neill | Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 3110 | Youth Political Engagement; Second-Generation Diaspora Youth Identity; Child and Youth "Living Rights" in International Development; Nepal; Sri Lanka |
Erin Panda | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 3178 | Developmental Neuroscience; Brain; Brain Development; Language; Reading; Language and Cognitive Development; Developmental Trajectories; Language Acquisition and Processing; Evidence-based Intervention; EEG; ERPs; Brain Networks; Functional Connectivity; Computational Neuroscience; Learning Disabilities; Reading Disabilities; Epilepsy; ADHD; Second Language Learning; Brain Plasticity; Neurolinguistics |
Shauna Pomerantz | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 5371 | TikTok; Social Media; Dress Codes; Teen Girls and Social Issues; Sexism & Sexual Harassment; Children/Youth & Popular Culture; Gender & School; Identity & the School; Feminisms; Girlhood Studies; Qualitative Research Methods; Social Justice; Sociology of Education; Youth Culture; Popular Culture; Teen Dating in the Social Media Era; Barbie; Taylor Swift's impact on teen girls and young women. |
Rebecca Raby | Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 3172 | Gender and Sexuality in Childhood and Youth; Peer Cultures; Schoolrules including dress codes; Young people's first jobs; Academic Success and Gender in High School; The participation of children and youth in decision-making, in political organizations and in activism both on-line and off |
Daniel Sirianni Molnar | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 6127 | Perfectionism; Personality; Youth dance; Mental health in children and youth |
Christine Tardif-Williams | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 4557 | Companion Animals/Pets & Children/Youth; Adolescent Autonomy and Socio-Emotional Development; Human Rights Training for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities; Impact of Immigration, Acculturation on Parent-Child Relationships; Parent-Child Relationships, Conflict, Attachment |
Ayda Tekok-Kilic | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 3937 | Developmental Neuropsychology & Cognitive Electrophysiology; Cognitive Functions in Children & Youth using Electrophysiological and Neuropsychological Methodologies; Impact of Anxiety and Worry on the Cognitive Performance; Youth and adults with ADHD; Sensory processing and cognitive functions; Pupillometry as an index of cognition and emotion |
Anthony Volk | Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 5368 | Aggression; Bullying; Child Faces; Parenting; Adolescence; Civility; Personality; Psychopathy; Cross-cultural development; Infant and Child Mortality; Developmental Psychology; Evolutionary Psychology |
Dawn Zinga | Professor | Social Sciences | Child & Youth Studies | | 3152 | Cultural Diversity in Educational Contexts; Childrens' and Adolescents' Perceptions of Multiculturalism; Indigenous Education; Indigenous Pedagogy and Practice; Multiculturalism and Education; Experiences of Racism; Cyber-bullying; E-learning; Children and Youth in the Digital Age; Discourses on Child and Youth Rights; Indigenous and non-Indigenous Research Collaborations |
Marian Bredin | Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | 4658 | Media Policy; Canadian Television; Indigenous and Aboriginal People in Media or Popular Culture; Digital Media and Transmedia |
Liz Clarke | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | | Women in film and television; Silent film; Hollywood film history; Seriality; Binge-watching; War films; Race, class, ideology and sexuality in cinema; TV and film guilds/unions |
Derek Foster | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | 5366 | Strategic Use of Symbols (visual rhetoric); Popular Culture and Memory; Place Promotion; Communication Activism; Reality TV, Social Issues and Social Problems; Audience Research; Language and Power; Theories of the Media; Human Communication Processes; Communication of Social Issues |
Jennifer Good | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | 3707 | Media Effects; Media Use and People's Relationship with the Environment; Television, Materialism and the Environment; The Communication of Climate Change; Psychology of Screens; Implications for What We are Not Told by the Media; Media Audiences; Media Research |
Anthony Kinik | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | 6397 | Cinema and the city; Experimental and avant-garde film; Expanded cinema; Documentary film; Expo 67; 1960s Montreal; City symphonies; Rockumentaries; Popular music documentaries; Quebec cinema of the 1960s and 1970s; Denys Arcand; Errol Morris; Bob Dylan on screen; Nick Cave on screen |
Duncan Koerber | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | | Public relations; crisis communication; damage control; social media |
Karen Louise Smith | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Communication, Popular Culture & Film | | 6497 | Digital and Social Media; Data; Privacy; Access; Internet and Technology Related Policies |
Robert Dimand | Professor | Social Sciences | Economics | | 3125 | Development of Macroeconomics before 1936; History of Game Theory; History of Women in Economics; Origins of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis |
Diane Dupont | Professor | Social Sciences | Economics | | | Environment - Economic Policy; Commercial Fisheries in Canada; Public Perceptions of Water Quality; Non-Market Valuation |
Joe Kushner | Professor | Social Sciences | Economics | | 3165 | Urban Economics; Industry Studies such as Electrical Utilities and the Wine Industry |
Ivan Medovikov | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Economics | | 6148 | Financial markets; Big data; Data technology and its applications to investing |
Marcel Oestreich | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Economics | | 5262 | Environmental Economics, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization and Empirical Finance |
Jeffrey Boggs | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | | Cultural Industries; Regional Economic Development; Workforce Development; Innovative Teaching; Interactive Digital Media as Industry; Service Learning |
David Butz | Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | 3205 | Jamaican Reggae Music; Social Change in Pakistan's Northern Areas; Autoethnography; Rural Road Construction in the Global South |
Chris Fullerton | Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | 3487 | Public Transit; Urban Transportation; Rural Economic Development; Rural Land use Planning; Economic Development in the Niagara Region; Tourism in the Niagara Region |
David Goldblum | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | | Forest fires; Climate change and forests; Urban trees; Human impact on ecosystems |
Michael Pisaric | Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | 6152 | Climate change; Environmental change; Arctic; Dendrochronology; lakes; Northern ecosystems; Ecosystem disturbance |
Michael Ripmeester | Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | 4416 | Geographies of Popular Memory; Geography and Ethnohistory; Historical and Cultural Geography; Historical Geographies of First Nations in Ontario |
Kevin Turner | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Geography and Tourism Studies | | 5399 | Impact of climate and landscape change on lakes and rivers |
Simon Black | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Labour Studies | | | Labour; Work; Unions; Labour movement; Care work; Child care in Canada and the US; Hip hop; Racism in the labour market and at work; Social justice organizing social movements, sports/labour/pro athletes |
Alison Braley-Rattai | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Labour Studies | | | Labour and employment law and policy; the Charter and freedom of association; human rights law; vaccine mandates/vaccine policy. |
Paul Gray | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Labour Studies | | | Labour and working conditions; Unions; Canadian labour movement; International labour movement; Social movements; Social inequality; Gig economy; App-based work |
Larry Savage | Professor | Social Sciences | Labour Studies | | | Unions; Strikes; Labour and Politics; Labour Relations; Federal, Provincial and Municipal Elections; Political Parties; Collective Bargaining; New Democratic Party (NDP); Workers' rights; Employment Standards |
Charles Conteh | Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 4075 | Public Policy; Public Administration; Economic Development Policy and Politics in Developing Regions; Machinery of Government in Canada; Regional Economic Development Policy in Canada; |
Hevina Dashwood | Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | Corporate social responsibility in the mining sector; Natural resource governance in Africa |
Stefan Dolgert | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | Ethics/Politics of Technology; Democratic theory; Environmental Ethics; Animal Rights; American Politics; Citizenship, Ancient Philosophy |
Nicole Goodman | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 3893 | Digital technology in Canadian politics; Political behaviour and public policy; Adoption of technology in elections; Political participation; Indigenous politics; Local government |
Blayne Haggart | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | International Relations; North American Politics; Copyright Policy; Canada-US Relations; Smart cities; Data governance; Platform governance; Internet policy; Australian Rules football |
Paul Hamilton | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 4646 | American Politics; British Politics; European Politics (Integration); Nationalism |
Tim Heinmiller | Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | Canadian Politics; Public Administration; Public Policy; Water Policy; Climate Change Policy; Canada-US Water Issues; Great Lakes Water Issues; Prairie Water Issues; Emissions Trading Policies; Cap and Trade Policies |
Matthew Hennigar | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | Canadian Politics; Constitutional Politics & Rights; Courts & Law |
Joanne Heritz | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 5412 | Public Policy; Public Administration; Municipal-Indigenous Relations; Affordable Housing Policy |
Pierre Lizée | Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 4076 | International Security; Conflict and War Issues; Asia-International Politics; Cambodia; Conflict of War; Globalization - Politics |
Pascal Lupien | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 3478 | Latin American politics; Democracy and democratization; Populism; Participatory development; Social movements |
Danielle McNabb | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | Criminal Justice Policy and Administration; Policing and Police Oversight; Courts and Law (including decision-making at the Supreme Court of Canada); and Legal Responses to Sexual Violence |
Liam Midzain-Gobin | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | 3987 | Indigenous politics; Settler colonialism; Settler-Indigenous relations; Decolonization |
Livianna Tossutti | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Political Science | | | Canadian Politics; Elections; Voting and Political Parties; Political and Civic Engagement of Immigrants, Minorities Youths and Women; Immigration and Immigration Policy; Diversity Policies. |
Michael Ashton | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 3993 | Personality & Other Psychological Characteristics |
Angela Book | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | | Violence; Psychopathy; Vulnerability to victimization |
Michael Busseri | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 4798 | Happiness; Well-being; Life Satisfaction |
Karen Campbell | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 4281 | Aging; Memory; Attention; Cognition; fMRI; Brain networks; Functional connectivity |
Kimberly Coté | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 4806 | Sleep; Sleep Deprivation; Sleepiness; Napping; Sleep Across the Lifespan; Insomnia |
Paula Duarte Guterman | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 3109 | Behavioural neuroscience; Parental experience; Sex differences; Aging; Hormones; Neuroplasticity |
Veena Dwivedi | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 5389 | Sentence comprehension and the brain; EEG; Bilingualism; Emotion and language; Languages of India. |
Stephen Emrich | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | | Cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; Working memory; Attention; Perception; Vision |
Angela Evans | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | | Children’s honesty; Children’s truth and lie-telling; Interviewing children |
Caitlin Mahy | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 6151 | Children’s cognitive development; Early memory development; Prospective memory; Future thinking; Self regulation; Social understanding; Children's procrastination |
Cathy Mondloch | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 5111 | Face Recognition; Identity Perception; Emotion Recognition; The Development of Face Recognition; Photo Identification; The Own-Race and Own-Age Recognition Advantage |
Tim Murphy | Professor | Social Sciences | Psychology | | 4639 | Performance While Sleepy; Sleep Deprivation |
Scott Neufeld | Lecturer | Social Sciences | Psychology | | | Stigma and Substance Use; Opioid Overdose; Stigma and Health Inequities; Community-Based Research; Engaging People With Lived and Living Experience (of substance use etc.) in Research, Policy, Governance; Drug Policy and History in Canada |
Kate Bezanson | Professor | Social Sciences | Sociology | | 6352 | Social policy, Gender, care; family policy, Parental and other leaves; Child care; public and constitutional law |
Thomas Dunk | Professor | Social Sciences | Sociology | | 4762 | Relationships between social class and masculinities; Economic sociology and economic anthropology; Relationships between industrial ruination, regionalism, populism and environmental controversies |
Samantha McAleese | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Sociology (Critical Criminology) | | 4731 | Criminal records; Pardons and record suspensions; Criminal justice policy; Prisoner re-entry and reintegration; Policing and surveillance; Non-profit organizations and community engagement. |
Trent Newmeyer | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Sociology | | 5188 | Community & Resistance; Crafts; Domesticity as Leisure; History of Recreation & Tourism; HIV/AIDS & Stigma; Hobbies; Organizations in Recreation; International Education; Tourism in Cuba; HIV/AIDS and Pregnancy |
Mary-Beth Raddon | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Sociology | | | Local Currencies; Community Service Learning |
Julia Baird | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Environmental Sustainability Research Centre | | | Human dimensions of water resources; Water resilience; Improving outcomes of water governance by improving processes; Agricultural decision-making and its impacts on water |
Jessica Blythe | Assistant Professor | Social Sciences | Environmental Sustainability Research Centre | | 5986 | Climate change adaptation; societal transformation related to sustainability; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); ocean sustainability |
Marilyne Carrey | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Environmental Sustainability Research Centre | | 4556 | Environmental applications of geospatial technologies (e.g., remote sensing/satellite imaging); Environmental sustainability; Urban tree canopy; Mapping and monitoring wetlands, vineyards, and forested ecosystems; land-use and land-cover changes over time; invasive species (trees, plants and insects); and community engagement |
Ryan Plummer | Director, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre | Social Sciences | Environmental Sustainability Research Centre | | 4782 | Co-Management of Natural Resources; Social- Ecological Systems; Water Governances |
Robyn Bourgeois (Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement) | Associate Professor | Social Sciences | Centre for Women's and Gender Studies | | 6650 | Gender-based violence; violence against Indigenous women and girls; settler colonial politics and the Canadian state; Indigenous women’s political leadership and activism; current social and political issues impacting Indigenous people in Canada; human trafficking. |
Tim Ribaric | Digital Scholarship Librarian | James A. Gibson Library | Library Systems and Technologies | | 5358 | Open Access/ Creative Commons Copyright; Electronic Theses and Dissertations; Metadata |
David Sharron | Head Archives & Special Collections | James A. Gibson Library | Special Collections and Archives | | 3264 | Archival Records; Preservation of Records and History; Rare Books; Brock University History |
Elizabeth Yates | Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian | James A. Gibson Library | Research Lifecycle Development | | 4469 | Evidence synthesis (systematic reviews, scoping reviews, etc); Open Access; Scholarly Publishing; Predatory publishing; Research metrics |
Rajiv Jhangiani | Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning | Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning | | | | Teaching and learning; open educational resources; open pedagogy; educational technology; academic integrity; experiential education; equity, diversity and inclusion; distance education; adult education; genocide and political violence. |