Faculty of Arts

Brett Eaton

Associate Professor

Rivers, erosion, flooding, fish habitat, geomorphology, sediment transport, natural hazards due to floods and erosion, watershed protection, river restoration, river engineering

Connor Kerns, PhD

Assistant Professor

Assessment and treatments of childhood anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety and stress in children with ASD

Pheroze Unwalla

Instructor

Middle East, Turkey, Arab world, Ottoman Empire, terrorism, conflict, violence, history, memory, commemoration, memorialization

Anna Casas Aguilar, PhD

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Spain, Catalonia, masculinities, gender, contemporary Spanish literature and culture

Jeffrey Byrne, PhD

Associate Professor of International & Global History

International relations, Africa, Middle East, revolution, postcolonialism, terrorism, foreign affairs, global affairs

Leila Harris, PhD

Professor

water governance, water security, gender, Turkey, South Africa, Environmental Justice

Prof. Tara Cookson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Gender, Development and Global Public Policy

Gender and development, gender data, social protection, care, social policy, cash transfers, Sustainable Development Goal 5, gender equality

Patrick Rizzotti

Assistant Professor of Scenic and Production Design

Theatre, theatre design, scenic design, production design, film design, devised theatre, virtual reality, AR, augmented reality, mixed reality, XR, site specific, storytelling, narrative

Video games, digital media, critical race theory, queer theory, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Oceania, tourism, The Philippines, literature, Asian North America, American empire, multiculturalism, colonization, creative writing, fiction, speculative fiction, travel writing, travel, migration, diaspora

Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa

Professor

knowledge, epistemology, rape culture, consent, sexual assault, sexual harassment, presupposition, context-sensitive language, skepticism,

Juliet O’Brien

Lecturer

learning, teaching French language, multilingualism, teaching literature, medieval Occitan poetry, medievalism, feminism, ecocriticism, consent, twitter as academic outreach and public humanities, philology

Ervin Malakaj, PhD

Assistant Professor of German Studies

Germany, Austria, Central Europe, literary studies, media studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice education

Tom Koch

Adjunct Professor

Factors that promote or inhibit the spread of disease

Kristen Hopewell

Associate Professor

International political economy, international trade, trade policy, World Trade Organization (WTO), industrial policy, development, emerging powers, BRICS, trade barriers, trade war, United States, China, India, Brazil, Brexit,

Bradley Miller

Associate Professor

Canadian history, Canadian politics history, criminal justice history, law history, Canada constitution history, British Empire history, Canadian-American relations,

Kimberley Brownlee

Professor of Philosophy

Loneliness, Isolation, Belonging, Social human rights, Freedom of association
Civil disobedience, Conscience, Protest, Punishment,

Katherine Bowers, PhD

Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies

Russia, Eastern Europe, Russian literature, Russian culture, Russian language, Siberia, gothic literature, narrative, genre, digital humanities, media studies,

Hugh Gusterson

Professor

Nuclear weapons policy, drone warfare, counterinsurgency, professional ethics, the polygraph, militarism, neoliberalism, securitization, drug policy, cultural context of COVID-19,