Faculty

Keywords: oral, urban, and community-based history; the politics of heritage preservation and its relation to gentrification; southern Ontario treaty and Indigenous history; anticolonial and Indigenous theory; art as part of heritage interpretation and community building; American literature and culture before the Civil War; history of the newspaper.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: media, performance, and culture with attention to race, gender, and sexuality; digital digital media and cultures; media installation and performance art; media and performance theory; popular culture and representation; material feminist studies and feminist technology studies; critical ethnic studies and US-based race studies, especially transnational Asian/American studies; speculative media studies; anti-racist, queer, feminist, trans politics.

Keywords: documentary and film theory; documentary and interactive documentary film-making; intersections of new media, oral history, geography; Israeli and Palestinian cinemas and media; histories of colonialism, resistance, and reslilience; co-creation and ethical participatory media practices. 

Assistant Professor

Computing

Keywords: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), interaction design, fashion design, interactive furniture, accessible everyday things, aesthetic design, digital art, seamless sensing, wearable technology, smart textiles, crafting and cultural-based making, co-designing technology with marginalized groups and people with disabilities.

Associate Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: Hispanic transatlantic avant-gardes (1915-1927); spatiality & literary geography; twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature, music, and film; political song in the Hispanic world (1960-1990).

Keywords: Medieval literature, civic and religious culture; medieval drama and theatrical traditions; contemporary Muslim writing and cultural production.

Assistant Professor

Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering

Keywords: geography and international studies; Indigenous experiences of and resistance to imposed development; Canadian international mining and extractive industries in Latin America; human rights; academic activism; photography.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: popular music; visual culture; critical theory; music and violence.

Associate Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: media art; art and feminism; animation history and theory; experimental music; magic and the occult; speculative futurisms; human-animal relationships. 

Professor

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Keywords: poverty; food; the body; health; childhood; qualitative research methods.

Associate Professor

Geography & Planning

Keywords: global urban infrastructure; social reproduction; bioeconomies; urban political ecology; critical development studies; health sociology; critical race feminist geographies.

Associate Professor

Classics

Keywords: cultural relations between Roman soldiers and Indigenous peoples; religious practices of Roman soldiers; Nabataean religion and culture; ancient bath-houses and bathing technology; petroglyphs and graffiti from all cultures; history of archaeology and attitudes towards cultural heritage.