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AFFILIATED FACULTY BY DEPARTMENT OR PROGRAM


  • Anthropology
  • Art and Visual Studies
  • Cinema Studies
  • Economics
  • English
  • French
  • Geography
  • History
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Information Studies
  • International Relations
  • Munk School of Global Affairs
  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
  • Philosophy
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  • Religious Studies
  • Sociology
  • Transnational Studies
  • Women and Gender Studies Institute

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Alan Ackerman

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Harvard
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 911
170 St. George Street
alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca

19th + 20th American drama; cultural forms of American Liberalism; theories of language,
reading, and interpretation from the 1920s to the 1970s; law and literature; and, the life and
works of Lillian Hellman.

Michael Baker

Professor, Department of Economics; RBC Chair in Public and Economic Policy

Ph.D. Michigan
Max Gluskin House, Room 238
150 St. George Street
baker@chass.utoronto.ca

Labour economics; public economics, and applied econometrics.

Shyon Baumann

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Ph.D. Harvard

725 Spadina Avenue
shyon.baumann@utoronto.ca
Sociological study of media, culture, and the arts; race and gender in television
advertising; food studies.

Dan Bender

Associate Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. NYU
University of Toronto Scarborough, H334
1265 Military Trail
debender@utsc.utoronto.ca
American cultural, social, and labour history of the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Megan Boler

Associate Chair, Department of Theory & Policy Studies, Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education [OISE)

Ph.D. University of California Santa Cruz
Theory and Policy Studies, OISE
252 Bloor Street West
mboler@oise.utoronto.ca
Social justice in political and cultural contexts, pedagogy of discomfort; race, class, and gender in
education and media, explored through cultural, feminist and communication studies
.

Shiri M. Breznitz

Assistant Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs

PhD., University of Cambridge, UK
 
Munk School of Global Affairs
Bloor Street site
Room 215, 315 Bloor Street West
shiri.breznitz@utoronto.ca
 
Economic geography, Innovation, Technology transfer, Regional economic development, and University technology commercialization.

Matt Brower

Lecturer and Curator, Museum Studies and Faculty of Information Studies

Ph.D. Rochester
Visual art; photography studies; museum studies; animal studies.

Elspeth Brown

Associate Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. Yale
Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 259S
1 Devonshire Place
elspeth.brown@utoronto.ca
U.S. social, cultural, and business history 20th c; American Studies; photography studies.

Christian Campbell

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Duke
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 919
170 St. George Street
christian.campbell@utoronto.ca

Caribbean Literature; Black Diaspora Literatures and Cultures (including Caribbean, African-American,
Black British and Black Canadian); Cultural Studies/Popular Culture; Poetry/Poetics; Postcolonial Theory;
and Creative Writing
.

Jennifer Carlson

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology

Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley
Department of Sociology
725 Spadina Avenue
jennifer.carlson@utoronto.ca
American gun politics; gender; policing; conservative politics and the state. 

Tony Chambers

Associate Professor and Director, Centre for the Study of Students in Postsecondary Education,
Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE

Ed.D. University of Florida
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor Street West
tony.chambers@utoronto.ca

Leadership in higher education; improving the quality of the student experience; activism as a form of leadership and student development; understanding cultural differences and discrimination, with a view toward transformation.

Mark Cheetham

Professor, Department of Fine Art History

Ph.D. University of London
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 6036
100 St. George Street
mark.cheetham@utoronto.ca

Modern and contemporary art; art historical methodology; English cosmopolitanism in art theory since
the 18th century.

Carol Chin

Associate Professor, Department of History/International Relations

Ph.D. Ohio State
Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 306N
1 Devonshire Place
carol.chin@utoronto.ca
Nineteenth—through twentieth—century American foreign relations, specializing in U.S.-East Asian relations.

Michael Cobb

Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Cornell
University College, Room 243
Tel: 416-978-8114

American literature, queer literature, queer theory, literary theory, and critical race theory.

Corinn Columpar

Assistant Professor, Department of English/Cinema Studies

Ph.D. Emory University

Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave., Room 232A
corinn.columpar@utoronto.ca

Filmmaking practices and textual politics of various counter-cinematic traditions, especially feminist,
Aboriginal, and "independent" cinema.

Derrick de Kerckhove

Professor, Department of French; Director of McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology

Carr Hall, Room 322
100 St. Joseph Street
derrick@chass.utoronto.ca

French, technology and culture.

Jeannine DeLombard

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
298 North Building, Department of English & Drama, UTM
j.delombard@utoronto.ca
 
American Literature; African-American Literature; Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Slavery and Antebellum Reform; Law, Culture & Humanities; Book History & Print Culture; Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture.

Neal Dolan

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Harvard
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 833
170 St. George Street
nealdolan@yahoo.com

Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Ethnicity in American Literature; Liberalism; Romanticism;
Lyric Poetry; Social Class in literature and literary criticism.

Andrew DuBois

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Harvard
University of Toronto at Scarborough, H423
1265 Military Trail
dubois@utsc.utoronto.ca
Twentieth-century American lyric poetry; rap lyrics.

Shari Eli

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto, Dept. of Economics
150 St. George St.
416-978-7630
shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Economic History, Historical Demography and Health Economics.

Yonatan Eyal

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. Harvard University
118 North Building
University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. North
yonatan.eyal@utoronto.ca
 
Nineteenth-century American political and intellectual history, particularly Jacksonian America and the coming of the Civil War.

Matt Farish

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Sidney Smith Building, Room 5040
100 St. George Street
farish@geog.utoronto.ca

Militarism and geopolitics, The Cold War, environmental history, Arctic studies, and urban culture.

Rosemary Gartner

Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Centre for Criminology

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Centre for Criminology, Canadiana Building
14 Queen's Park Cres. West
gartner@chass.utoronto.ca

Comparative and historical patterns of violence, gender, and intimate violence, the imprisonment of women,
and relationships between legitimate and illegitimate violence.

Meric Gertler

Professor, Department of Geography; President of the University

Ph.D. Harvard
gertler@geog.utoronto.ca
Regional and national systems of innovation; technology production and use in its spatial context; political economy of technological change and industrial reorganization in its geographical context; local and regional economic development policy and planning, and economic change in the Toronto region.

Emily Gilbert

Director, Canadian Studies Program; Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Geography

Ph.D. Bristol, UK
University College, Room B301
emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca

Citizenship, borders, security, economy, nation-states, and globalization.

Morely Gunderson

Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Centre for Industrial Relations and

Human Resources; CIBC Chair in Youth Employment

Ph.D. Wisconsin
Centre for Industrial Relations, Room 307
121 St. George Street
morley@chass.utoronto.ca

The labour market impacts of trade liberalization and globalization; gender discrimination, including pay equity; youth unemployment; retirement and pension issues; strikes, and workers' compensation.

Jason Hackworth

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Geography

Ph.D. Rutgers
Room 5027B, Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George Street
jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca

Urban and economic geography, political economy, uneven development, governance.

Rick Halpern

Professor, Department of History; Vice-Principal, Academic, and Dean,

University of Toronto Scarborough

Ph.D. Pennsylvania
rick.halpern@utoronto.ca

Transnational race and labour; meat packing; sugar industries.

Gillian Hamilton

Associate Professor, Department of Economics

Ph.D. Queen's
Max Gluskin House, Room 310
150 St. George Street
hamiltng@chass.utoronto.ca

Economic history, and labour economics.

Elizabeth Harney

Associate Professor, Department of Fine Art History

Ph.D. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 6036
100 St. George Street
e.harney@utoronto.ca

Global modernisms, contemporary art practices in Africa and its diasporas, postcolonial theory, and
the politics of exhibition
.

Sean Hawkins

Associate Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. Cambridge
University College
UC D201
sean.hawkins@utoronto.ca

Modern social history, cultural history of sub-Saharan Africa; animal studies; Anglo-American
perceptions of African subjectivity in historical perspective.

Adrienne Hood

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of History

Ph.D. University of California San Diego
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2076
100 St. George Street
a.hood@utoronto.ca

Production and consumption in early America, particularly related to textiles and clothing; fashion,
material culture theory and methodology, and museology.

Daniel Heath Justice

Associate Professor, Aboriginal Studies

Ph.D. Nebraska-Lincoln
Aboriginal Studies
North Borden Building
563 Spadina Crescent, 2nd floor
daniel.justice@utoronto.ca

Aboriginal studies and indigenous native North American literatures; North American literatures of resistance; Cultural studies; and speculative fiction.

Louis Kaplan

Professor, Department of Visual Studies (UTM); Graduate Department of Art
Jackman Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellow (2014-2015)

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 1015
170 St. George Street
louis.kaplan@utoronto.ca
 
Photography studies, 20th and 21st century art and visual culture, film and media culture, deconstruction, humour studies, contemporary Jewish art and visual culture, new media art practices (especially augmented reality).

Russ Kazal

Associate Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. Pennsylvania
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Room H329
1265 Military Trail
rkazal@utsc.utoronto.ca

Social and (broadly defined) political history of the United States since 1877, with a focus on immigration, ethnicity and race, urban America, and ideologies of pluralism and nationalism.

Charlie Keil

Associate Professor, Department of History; Director, Cinema Studies Institute

Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison
Innis College, Room 233A
2 Sussex Ave.
charlie.keil@utoronto.ca

Film history, early cinema (pre-1915) of the U.S; early Hollywood.

Patrick Keilty

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information

Ph.D. UCLA
140 St. George Street
Bissell Room 614
p.keilty@utoronto.ca
 
Culture and technology, Gender and sexuality, Feminism and queer theory, Digital/ electronic culture, Queer electronic art, Critical theory, Visual culture/ aesthetics, Metadata.

Rob King

Assistant Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. UCLA
Sidney Smith Hall, Room IN325
100 St George Street
rob.king@utoronto.ca

Early American cinema, twentieth-century popular culture, American cultural history.

Pam Klassen

Professor, Department and Centre for the Study of Religion

Ph.D. Drew
Northrup Frye, Room 222
73 Queen's Park Crescent East
p.klassen@utoronto.cap.klassen@utoronto.ca

Gender and religion; alternative healing movements; 20th century Christianity.

David S. Koffman

SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of History

Ph.D. NYU
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2074
100 St. George Street
david.koffman@utoronto.ca
 
Cultural, ethnic, social, and religious history of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a particular emphasis on the modern Jewish experience.

Anne Lancashire

Professor, Department of English/Drama/Cinema Studies; Vice-Dean, Academic,
Faculty of Arts & Science

Ph.D. Harvard
University College, Room 277
15 King’s College Circle
anne@chass.utoronto.ca

English Medieval and Renaissance theatre history and drama; and, contemporary popular American film (including science fiction film.

Elizabeth Legge

Associate Professor and Chair, Fine Art History
Ph.D. Courtauld Institute, University of London
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 6036
100 St George Street
eliz.legge@utoronto.ca

Dada, Surrealism, and contemporary Canadian and British art.

Renan Levine

Assistant Professor and Placement Director, Department of Political Science

Ph.D. Duke
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 3009
100 St. George Street
renan.levine@utoronto.ca

Political decision-making; elections, parties, political strategy, and voting.

Robert Lewis

Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Geography

Ph.D. McGill
lewis@geog.utoronto.ca

Historical geography of North American economic restructuring; industrial and social geography
of suburban Chicago, 1850-1950; wartime manufacturing and metropolitan growth; colonial urban
India, and social exclusion.

Kathy Liddle

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

PhD Emory
University of Toronto Scarboroughl, Room B562
1265 Military Trail
kathy.liddle@utoronto.ca

Intersections of culture, gender, and organizations.

Minelle Mahtani

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Ph.D. University College, London
University of Toronto at Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
mahtani@utsc.utoronto.ca
Critical journalism, representation of minorities in the media, critical "mixed race" theory, transnationalism, the experiences of minority journalists in a variety of national contexts, diversity initiatives in the workplace, women of colour in geography.

Alice Maurice

Assistant Professor, Department of English/Cinema Studie

Ph.D. Cornell
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Room H426
1265 Military Trail
maurice@utsc.utoronto.ca

Cinema studies, American literature, narrative theory, women’s studies.

Bonnie McElhinny

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, St. George Campus;
Director, Women & Gender Studies Institute

Ph.D. Stanford
Anthropology Building, Room 364A
19 Russell Street
bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca

Language and gender, language and political economy, feminist anthropology, language and political ecology,
the anthropology of North America and of the Philippines, American empire and ethnohistory
.

Cheryl Misak

Professor, Department of Philosophy; Deputy Provost; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

D.Phil. Oxford
Simcoe Hall
27 King's College Circle
cheryl.misak@utoronto.ca

Pragmatism, especially the work of C.S. Peirce, epistemology, and moral philosophy.

Naomi Morgenstern

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Cornell
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 625
170 St. George Street,
naomi.morgenstern@utoronto.ca

American literature; feminist, psychoanalytic and literary theory; African-American literature; the political
philosophy of marriage.

Andrea Most

Associate Professor, Department of English; Associate Director, English Ph.D. Program

Ph.D. Brandeis
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 827
170 St. George Street
andrea.most@utoronto.ca

Musical theatre; Jewish studies; popular culture.

Michelle Murphy

Associate Professor, Department of History and Women and Gender Studies Institute

Ph.D. Harvard
Wilson Hall, New College, Room 2039
40 Willcocks Street
michelle.murphy@utoronto.ca

The history of technoscience, sex, gender, race, environmental politics, and capitalism in the United States, through transnational and postcolonial theoretical perspectives.

Kevin O’Neill

Assistant Professor, Department and Centre for the Study of Religion,
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

Ph.D. Stanford
170 St. George Street, Room 301
kevin.oneill@utoronto.ca

Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity; violence and affect, erotics and politics; diaspora and transnational studies; Guatemalan/LA migrations; contemporary social movements.

Ron Pruessen

Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. Pennsylvania
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2085
100 St. George Street,
pruessen@chass.utoronto.ca

20th century U.S. foreign policy and international relations.

David Rayside

Professor, Department of Political Science/Sexual Diversity Studies

Ph.D. Michigan
University College, Room 251
15 King's College Circle
david.rayside@utoronto.ca

Politics of sexual diversity in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, and in political mobilization by religious Conservatives.

John H. Reibetanz

Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Princeton
Victoria College, Room 321
91 Charles Street West
reibetan@chass.utoronto.ca

Modern American and British poetry; 16th and 17th century poetry and drama; Shakespeare.


Jeffrey Reitz

R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, and
Professor, Department of Sociology

Ph.D. Columbia, FRSC
Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 358S
1 Devonshire Place
jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca

Employment experiences of immigrant and ethnic populations.

Ted Relph

Professor, Department of Geography; Chair, UTSC Department of Social Sciences

Ph.D. University of Toronto
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Room S406
1265 Military Trail
relph@scar.utoronto.ca

Phenomenology of place and sense of place, urban form, landscapes and design, and environmental philosophy.

John Paul Ricco

Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Media Theory, and Criticism, Department of
Visual Studies UTM; Graduate Professor, Department of Art; Program Director,
Visual Culture & Communication (VCC) Specialist Program.

Ph.D. University of Chicago
CCT Building, Room 3057
3359 Mississauga Road North
john.ricco@utoronto.ca

Critical Theory, Modern & Contemporary Art, Queer Theory, Performance Studies.

Sue Ruddick

Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Ph.D. UCLA
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 5059
100 St. George Street
ruddick@geog.utoronto.ca

Space, power, architecture.

Nic Sammond

Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies/English

Ph.D. University of California San Diego
Innis College, Room 231
2 Sussex Ave.
nic.sammond@utoronto.ca

Popular culture; cinema and media studies; early animation; racial formation; wrestling.

Dana Seitler

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 833
170 St. George Street
d.seitler@utoronto.ca

Nineteenth—and early twentieth—century American literature and culture, feminist theory, queer theory and sexuality studies, cultural studies of science, and visual culture.

Mark Solovey

Assistant Professor, History of Psychology and Social Sciences,
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Victoria College, Room 314
91 Charles Street West
mark.solovey@utoronto.ca

History of the social and behavioural sciences in the United States.

Meghan Sutherland

Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies (UTM); Graduate Professor,
Cinema Studies Institute

Ph.D. Northwestern University
CCT Building, Room 3022
3359 Mississauga Road North
meghan.sutherland@utoronto.ca

Film and Media Theory; Continental Philosophy; Television and Popular Culture; Avant-Garde Media; Political Theory.

Alyson Syme

Assistant Professor, Fine Art History/Visual & Media Culture

Ph.D. Harvard
Centre for Visual and Media Culture, University of Toronto at Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. North
asyme@utm.utoronto.ca

European and American 19th & 20th century art and visual culture, queer theory, feminism, psychoanalysis,
fin-de-siècle studies, and the history of science.

Theo Verinakis

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies;
Sessional Lecturer, Department of Anthropology

Ph.D. University of California San Diego
theo.verinakis@utoronto.ca

Settler colonialism; racial formation.

Marga Vicedo

Assistant Professor, History of Biology, Institute for the History and
Philosophy of Science and Technology

Ph.D. Harvard and University of Valencia, Spain
marga.vicedo@utoronto.ca

History and philosophy of biology in the twentieth century, especially the history of genetics, evolution, and animal research; history of scientific views about human instincts.

Rob Vipond

Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Collaborative Doctoral Program
on the Dynamics of Global Change

Ph.D. Harvard
Sidney Smith Hall, Room 3008
100 St. George Street
rvipond@chass.utoronto.ca

American politics, especially American constitutional law, and Canadian politics, especially Canadian
federalism and constitutional law.

Rinaldo Walcott

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor St. W., 12th floor
rwalcott@oise.utoronto.ca
Cultural studies and postcolonial studies with an emphasis on black diaspora studies.

Michael Wayne

Professor, Department of History

Ph.D. Yale
University College, Room B202
15 King's College Circle
michael.wayne@utoronto.ca

Antebellum US; slavery; African American history
.

Sarah Wilson

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. Columbia
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 914
170 St. George Street
s.wilson@utoronto.ca

Nineteenth—and twentieth—century American literature; literary modernism; theories of ethnicity, pluralism, democracy, and cosmopolitanism; and, urban studies.

Linda White

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director and Associate Chair,
Department of Political Science; Affiliate, School of Public Policy and Governance

Ph.D. University of Toronto
Department of Political Science, Room 3030
100 St. George Street
lwhite@chass.utoronto.ca

Comparative social and family policy, particularly early childhood education and care and maternity/parental leave; gender and public policy; comparative welfare states; ideas, norms, and public policy development; and federalism, law and public policy.

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