Faculty

Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Keywords: disability and assistive technologies; human-machine interfaces; universal design.

Associate Professor

Philosophy, Gender Studies

Keywords: intersectionality, diaspora, and feminist thought; bioethics and applied ethics; Jewish philosophy; Emmanuel Levinas; narrative reasoning; critical thinking; pornography and objectification. 

Keywords: feminist, Queer, and Trans theory and cultural production; history of sexuality; public history; digital history; affect theory; audio-visual preservation and digitization; community-based archives.

Associate Professor

French Studies

Keywords: medical humanities and narrative medicine; ageing, dying, and palliative care; twentieth-century French literature. 

Professor

History, Global Development Studies

Keywords: Canadian-Cuban cultural and non-governmental relations; Canadian-Global South histories; transnational adoption and iconography of children in global social and political movements; political movements of the 1960s; Cuban popular music; gender and sexuality.

Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: social history of Southern Africa; gender and sexuality, especially cultural constructions of masculinity and non-normative sexualities; environment and health; HIV/AIDS; pedagogy for development (e.g., methods and ethics of work-study abroad programs); the politics of public history. 

Keywords: Indigenous literatures; Indigenous-settler relations in Canada; climate crisis literature and environmental justice; gender and critical race; Holocaust studies; diaspora and transnationalism. 

Adjunct Professor

History

Keywords: Cultural History, Global and Transnational History, Politics and the State, Race, Music, Social History, Canada, Brazil, North America, 20th Century

Professor Emeritus

Drama & Music

Keywords: musical theatre; theatre administration; directing; lighting and scenery design.

Professor

Environmental Studies, Global Development Studies, Gender Studies

Keywords: environmental justice; women, health and environment; local food issues/movements; resource management, social forestry, agriculture, urbanization and housing in Southern Africa; social impacts of climate change.

Keywords: digital game design, accessibility of digital systems, games for health, games and education.

Keywords: public health and family medicine; primary care; quality of care; equity in health; Indigenous health.