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This directory includes Cultural Studies-affiliated faculty and can be used to identify potential supervisors or committee members using the search bar to confirm if there are professors doing research in the areas of interest to you. Keywords are non-standardized; to maximize search effectiveness, use variants or abbreviations, e.g., "cinema film video," "femini," or "histor."

Director and Curator

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Keywords: process-based, participatory curatorial practice; art as a form of social and civic engagement; “in-reach” (engaged institutional practice); transforming the nature and function of the traditional art gallery through work with communities and non-western models of cultural traditions; BIPOC cultural ecologies and the future of museological practice.

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: political ecology; critical agrarian studies; social justice; environmental sustainability; neoliberalism, the state, and collective action; peasant, Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities; water governance; social technologies; Latin America.

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. 

Associate Curator, Care & Relations

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Keywords: global Indigenous and racialised museology; animate materialism; decolonial Marxism; trans/queer visual and material culture; performance and sound art theory. 

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

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. 

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.

Professor

Computing

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

Professor

Medicine

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

Keywords: political philosophy; critical prison studies; prison abolition and carceral studies; phenomenology; continental philosophy; feminism; philosophy of race.

Associate Professor

History, Gender Studies

Keywords: twentieth-century African American history; African-diasporic women's work in beauty, modeling, and fashion design; race, gender, and sexuality; ideals of beauty and beauty culture; print culture; oral history. 

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: resource extraction; labour and social reproduction; feminist political economy; decolonization and settler colonialism; gender-based violence; labour and employment standards; northern mining and Indigenous communities.

Associate Professor

Sociology

Keywords: issues of temporality, visuality, memory, and ethnography in digital culture; consumption theory and practice; mundane technologies; cultural institutions; material culture; Science and Technology Studies. 

Assistant Professor

History

Keywords: history of medicine; gender, technology, and health policy; reproduction and the "biological clock"; history of childlessness; reproductive activism. 

Associate Professor

History

Keywords: history of modern China; political economy of agriculture; environmental history.

Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement

Agnes Etherington Art Centre