Participating Faculty
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Katelin Albert |
Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health and Mental Health, Sexual Health and Sexual Experiences, Qualitative Methods, Social Theory, Science and Technology |
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Kelly Aguirre |
Indigenous politics, decolonial and critical theory, storytelling and narrative, methodological ethics, rhetoric and poetics, neurodiversity and disability in decolonial discourse |
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Allan Antliff |
Modernism in the United States and Europe, anarchist studies, contemporary art, critical art, critical theory, the history of anarchism | |
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PhD (Columbia) Department of Anthropology |
Issues concerning representation of Indigenous peoples in anthropological theory, alternative ways to construct relations between Self and Other in Western political thought and on treaty relations | |
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Sara Beam |
History of human rights, torture, sex crimes, religious freedom, satire and political expression, censorship of the press and entertainment; Europe between 1500 and 1750. | |
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History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, 19th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Film | |
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Marina Bettaglio |
Twentieth-century Spanish and Italian literature, women's studies, gender studies, critical theory, translation theory. | |
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World history; intellectual/cultural history; Sino-Western relations; comparative colonialism and decolonisation; North-South relations; history of science | |
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Neilesh Bose |
Social theory, modern South Asia, historiography, post-colonialism, biography, performance studies, collective memory, nationalisms, political theology, religion, world systems, cultural studies, aesthetics, power | |
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Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier |
Visual culture, sound, creative practices, digital media, infrastructure, Cuba, Canada | |
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William K. Carroll |
Political economy; social movement theory; Marxist theory | |
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Hélène Cazes |
Renaissance Literature (French, Italian, Latin), Humanism and Humanities, Republic of Letters, Friendship, History of Medicine, History of the Book, History of Childhood, Editorial Mediations | |
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Rachel Cleves |
Early American history, 1750-1850, with a focus on the histories of gender, sexuality, and violence | (on leave) |
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Evelyn Cobley |
Russian Formalism, Modernism, Postmodernism, narratology, twentieth-century English and comparative literature. | |
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Aaron Devor |
Gender, human sexuality, transgender themes | |
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Rita Dhamoon |
Identity/difference politics and power, multicultural policies and theories, culture, nation-building, gender politics and feminism, intersectionality, critical race, post-colonial and anti-colonial politics, citizenship and democratic politics, Canadian politics |
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Mylène Dorcé |
Insular Francophone Literatures (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean); Francophone African Literatures (Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa); Québécois Migrant Literature; First Person Narratives; Postcolonial, decolonial and transnational theories; Feminist Theories and Praxis; Women Writers |
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Avigail Eisenberg |
Democratic theory, political pluralism, group authority and dissent. | |
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Emile Fromet de Rosnay |
French and Francophone culture; literature, cinema; aesthetics; intermediality/hypermediality; critical theory; experimental theory | |
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Steve Garlick |
Critical social theory; new materialisms; masculinity studies; sexuality and bodies; science and technology studies | |
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Simon Glezos |
Continental thinkers of the 19th and 20th century, including Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Antonio Negri, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Joseph Schumpeter, Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Immanuel Kant | |
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Chris Goto-Jones |
Comparative philosophy; Asian philosophy, Political philosophy, Ethics, Embodiment, Philosophy of mind, Philosophical practice, Digital and visual philosophy |
(on leave) |
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Lois Harder |
Citizenship law, social policy, regulation of intimate life | |
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Sara Harvey |
My main current research is spread over a variety of projects, all of which are linked by the desire to understand what shapes our worldview and our academic and cultural behaviour when filtered through the history of France's in early modern period. | |
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Thom Heyd PhD (Western Ontario) |
Aesthetics, Ethics, History of Philosophy with sprecial interests in Environmental Aesthetics and Ethics | |
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Sean Hier |
Surveillance; moral regulation and moral panic; risk sociology; race and racism; media; intellectual exclusion | |
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Thiti Jamkajornkeiat |
Research interests include comparative southeast Asian intellectual history, modern Indonesia and Thailand, peripheral marxism, and anti-/post-/decolonial theories. | |
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Rebecca Johnson |
Judicial dissent, sexuality, law-and-film, affect and emotion, legal theory, legal process, indigenous legal methodologies | |
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Arthur Kroker Emeritus |
Technology; culture and theory; contemporary French and German political theory; Canadian political and social thought; ethics and biotechnology | |
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Gary Kuchar |
English Renaissance literature, religious poetry and prose, intellectual history, Shakespeare, literary/critical theory | |
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Pierre-Luc Landry |
Quebecois and French literature and culture, Indigenous literature, Creative writing, Research-creation, Queer theories | |
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PhD (Alberta)
Department of Political Science
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Canadian politics; Canadian public policy; Neoliberalism. | |
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John Lutz |
Canadian. History of Indigenous Settler relations and more broadly the history of the creation and interaction of different racial groups in the Pacific Northwest. I am also interested in the use of digital tools to research, teach and display history | |
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Mara Marin |
Feminist theory, Social theory, History of political thought, Structural injustice, Oppression, Domination, Legal Theory, Authority, Political obligation | |
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Lynne Marks |
Canadian History, women's and gender history, and the social history of religion/irreligion and atheism. | |
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Martha McMahon |
Qualitative methods; feminist theory; ecological Feminism; women organic farmers | |
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Allan Mitchell |
A Medievalist whose work crosses disciplines and subjects (e.g., rhetoric, ethics, ecologies) with a focus on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | |
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PhD (Queen's University)
Department of Sociology
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Surveillance, technology, identification, biometrics, colonialism, data justice. | |
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Ana Maria Peredo |
Sustainable development; anthropology and management; alternative economies. | |
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Elena Pnevmonidou |
Research focuses on the intersection between romantic aesthetic theory and romantic conceptualizations of the other, be it the other gender or the cultural other, such as the Orient | |
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Sara Ramshaw CSPT Director July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2026 |
Critical legal studies in improvisation, family law, human rights, and law and the humanities | |
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Reuben Rose-Redwood |
Critical urban theory; cultural landscape studies; governmentality, space, and calculation; memory, culture, and the politics of place-making; geographies of performativity; history of geographical thought | |
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Stephen Ross |
Modern British literature; critical theory, especially Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism and deconstruction; spectrality studies; youth culture | |
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Political ecology, political theory and international political economy | |
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Daromir Rudnyckyj |
Social theory, anthropology of knowledge; liberalism and neoliberalism; finance; socio-technics of money; globalization; the state; colonialism and counter-coloniality; religion; development; Islam |
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Brad teaches and carries out research in First Nation fiscal relations, Taxation, Corporate law, Indigenous economic and legal orders, and maintains interests in postcolonialism and legal theory. |
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Jentery Sayers |
Comparative media studies, science and technology studies, labour studies, speculative fiction, experimental prototyping, and computational culture | |
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Charlotte Schallie |
My teaching and research interests include post-1945 diasporic and transcultural writing/filmmaking, memory studies, Jewish identity in Contemporary cultural discourse, and teaching and learning about the Holocaust(HTL). | |
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Environmental, feminist and indigenous politics; Contemporary political theory; the changing character of local, global and marginal political action | |
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Lincoln Shlensky |
Postcolonialism; Caribbean literature; Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies; diasporas | |
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Nicole Shukin |
Biopolitics across species lines; decolonial and diasporic literatures and cultures (in Canada); cultural studies; environmental and energy humanities | |
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Heidi Stark |
Indigenous comparative politics, Native diplomacy & treaty and Aboriginal rights | |
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Megan Swift |
Russian modernism and post-modernism; Soviet and post-Soviet cultural history; children’s literature and book art; Russian Formalism; Bakhtin | |
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James Tully |
Political philosophy; history of political philosophy; Canadian political theory; constitutional theory | |
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Peyman Vahabzadeh |
Classical and contemporary social theory; phenomenology; deconstruction; social movements; exile; violence and nonviolence; Iranian studies; poetry | |
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Elizabeth Vibert |
Modern history; colonial identities; colonial gender and race relations; colonial travel literatures | |
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R.B.J (Rob) Walker |
Sovereignty and subjectivity; theories of modernity; exceptionalism; ideology and culture; international political theory; concepts of space and time in political thought | |
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PhD (UVic) |
Politics, society, and religion in the Middle East and worldwide; Political theory, religion, and philosophy, including comparative political theory and comparative religion. | |
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PhD (U of Ottawa) |
Environmental justice, political ecology, community development and community engaged research | |
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Audrey Yap |
Feminist Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Mathematics and Logic (esp. 19th and 20th century) |