Faculty of Arts

Katharine Huemoeller

Katharine Huemoeller

Assistant Professor

Roman history, ancient slavery, gender and sexuality in the Greco-Roman world

Laura Moss, PhD

Laura Moss, PhD

Associate Professor

Canadian literature, African literature, Canadian cultural history, editor of the journal Canadian Literature, publishing in Canada

Philippe Le Billon

Professor

Natural resources and armed conflicts, oil, political economy of war, corruption

Martina Wiltschko, PhD

Professor of Linguistics

Canadian eh (and its equivalents across the languages of the world), theoretical linguistics, syntax, grammar, discourse, conversations, pragmatics, First Nations languages, language documentation

Prof. Heidi Tworek

Prof. Heidi Tworek

Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy

health communications, Covid communications, international history, media history, communications history, social media platforms, Germany, platform regulation,

Tomasz Swiecki, PhD

Tomasz Swiecki, PhD

Assistant Professor

International trade, trade policy

Patrick Baylis, PhD

Patrick Baylis, PhD

Assistant Professor

Economics, climate change, environmental economics, electricity economics, energy economics, amenity value of climate, pollution economics, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Dr. Florian Gassner, PhD

Dr. Florian Gassner, PhD

Associate Professor of Teaching

German, Ukraine, Russia, Central Europe, Censorship,

Dr. Victoria Lemieux, CISSP

Associate Professor

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology, digital trust, IT security, data privacy, records management, information governance, archival science,

Munir Squires

Munir Squires

Assistant Professor

Economics, development economics, poverty, Africa, kinship, microenterprise

Antje Ellermann, PhD

Antje Ellermann, PhD

Associate Professor

Immigration, asylum, Western Europe, Canada, the U.S

Elizabeth Hirsh

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Law and Inequality

Employment discrimination, sexual harassment, workplace diversity, employment law, corporate diversity policies, gender and race inequality and bias

Prof. Sabina Magliocco, PhD

Prof. Sabina Magliocco, PhD

Professor

Ritual, festival and religion, magic and witchcraft, modern Pagan religions (e.g. Wicca), folklore and expressive culture (narrative and belief, folk healing, material culture), ethnic/regional/national identity issues, animal studies, ethnographic methodology and writing,

David Tindall

David Tindall

Professor

Protests over pipelines and other environmental issues, social aspects of climate change, public opinion on environmental issues, social movements, social media, Twitter, Facebook, social networks, aboriginal issues concerning natural resources and the environment, media coverage of environmental issues, surveys, wilderness, activism, conservation, social aspects of global warming, climate justice, social aspects of forestry and other natural resources, social capital, social networking

Nancy Sin, PhD

Nancy Sin, PhD

Assistant Professor

Stress, emotions, well-being, positive experiences, adult development and aging, gerontology, depression, health behaviours, cardiovascular disease, health psychology, mental illness

Anne Murphy, PhD

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research

Punjabi Studies, Punjabi Canadian histories and cultural production, South Asian studies, South Asia, Punjab, Pakistan, India, Punjabi language, Punjabi diaspora, Sikh studies, Sikh diaspora, South Asian religions

Navin Ramankutty

Navin Ramankutty

Professor

sustainable agriculture, food systems, climate change, global environmental change, global data, global models,

Christine Evans, PhD

Christine Evans, PhD

Lecturer in Film Studies

Film theory, film-philosophy, critical theory, love, love and cinema, Lacanian psychoanalysis, cinema and psychoanalysis, representation, cinema and popular culture, film and philosophy, film and culture, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan

Daisy Rosenblum, PhD

Daisy Rosenblum, PhD

Assistant Professor

Language revitalization, language documentation, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, Indigenous languages, community-based research

Timothy Taylor

Associate Professor

Fiction, creative nonfiction