Faculty Research Expertise

Faculty Research Expertise

Chloë G.  K. Atkins:  PhD (Political theory) University of Toronto
Comparative human rights and anti-discrimination legislation (disability, gender, sexuality); autoethnography; applied political, feminist and legal theory; bioethics

Maria Bakardjieva:  PhD (Communication) Simon Fraser University; PhD (Sociology) Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
New media and society; Internet use in everyday life; social uses and implications of information and communication technologies; media and democracy

Bart Beaty:  PhD (Communication) McGill University
Comic books as visual culture; issues of cultural value; Canadian cultural policy; history of mass communication

Gwendolyn Blue:  PhD (Communication) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Science, technology and society: science communication, food studies, environmentalism, the body, popular culture

Doug Brent:  PhD (English) University of British Columbia
Writing in the disciplines; rhetoric and composition; post-secondary educational practices

Denise Fay Brown:  PhD (Anthropology) University of California
Socio-spatial analysis; cultural landscapes; community development; indigenous peoples; Latin America

Lyndsay Campbell:  PhD (Jurisprudence and Social Policy) University of California, Berkeley
Regulation of expression; legal history (Canadian, American, English); normative and extralegal regulation; labour, employment and human rights

Regina Cochrane:  PhD (Political Theory) York University
Feminist theory; critical theory; globalization; social justice; ecopolitics, feminist/environmental activism in the global justice movement

Heather Devine:  PhD (History) University of Alberta
Canadian Native history; American Indian policy; Western Canadian ethnic history; museum and archival studies; public history; cultural resource management

Janice Dickin:  PhD (History) University of Alberta
History; Canadian law

Edna Einsiedel:  PhD (Communication) Indiana University
Biotechnology; genomics and nano-biotechnology applications; public participation on technological issues

Charlene Elliott:  PhD (Communication) Carleton
Obesity and public health; taste and communication; intellectual property; sensorial communication; children and media studies; food marketing/branding

Marcia Epstein:  PhD (Medieval Studies) University of Toronto
History and sociology of music; musical rhetoric; music therapy; acoustic ecology.

Lorry Felske:  PhD (History) University of Toronto
Western urban culture; cultural history of the Calgary Stampede Parade

Patrick Feng:  PhD (Science and Technology Studies) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Science and technology policy; politics of international standards-setting; health informatics and health policy; philosophy of technology; social innovation; technological governance

Max Foran:  PhD (History) University of Calgary
History of Western Canadian agriculture with a major focus on the Alberta cattle industry; Alberta and the Great Depression

Ron Glasberg:  PhD (History) University of Toronto
Interdisciplinary theory; knowledge unification strategies; popular culture; history of ideas; world history

Richard Hawkins:  PhD (Political Economy) University of Sussex
Science, technology and innovation policy

Maureen Hiebert: PhD (Political Science) University of Toronto
Government and politics; human rights; international law and organizations; genocide

Margo Husby Scheelar:  PhD (Education) University of Calgary
History and theory of rhetoric; women's roles in Christianity; medieval mystics; history of ideas; hermeneutics and ethics in post-secondary teaching

Michael Keren:  PhD (Political Science) University of Minnesota
Political communication; political literature; online life-writing; media and journalism

Malek Khouri: PhD (Communication) McGill University
Film theory; post-colonial theory in connection with film and media discourse; representation of class in Canadian cinema; Arab and 'third world' cinemas  - Currently on leave till July 2010

Cooper Langford:  PhD (Chemistry) Northwestern University
Innovation studies and research policy; cluster studies; knowledge flow between academia and users; social dimensions of innovation systems

George Melnyk:  MA (Philosophy) University of Toronto 
Canadian film and literary history; Western Canadian identity; peace studies

David Mitchell:  PhD (Communication) McGill University
Communication theory, communications policy, social context of information and communications technology; broadband networks and community development

Fiona Nelson:  PhD (Sociology) University of Alberta
Motherhood; gender and sexual identities; lesbian families; cultural constructions of identity; research methods and ethics

Aradhana Parmar:  PhD (Political Science) Delhi University
Development studies with a focus on gender, South Asia, women and India; gender, race and ethnicity; immigrant women in Canada

Brian Rusted:  PhD (Communication) Northwestern University
Ethnography; performance studies; visual culture; organizational culture

Barbara Schneider:  PhD (Education) University of Calgary
Ethnomethodology and discourse analysis; organizational communication (particularly writing and decision making in organizations); research methods; communication theory

Lloyd Sciban: PhD (Philosophy) University of Toronto
East Asian culture; Confucianism; ethics, philosophy of Chinese history

Tamara Palmer Seiler:  PhD (English) University of Alberta
Canadian literature; history and representation of immigrant experience; multiculturalism; North American cultural history; the West in North America; Alberta history

Tania Smith:  PhD (English) Ohio State University
Contemporary rhetorical theory and practice; rhetorical education; rhetorical history; professional communication; higher education innovation and leadership; community-university partnership

Paul Stortz:  PhD (History of Education) University of Toronto
Intellectual history of Canadian universities; history of knowledge transfer; discipline construction.

Rebecca Sullivan:  PhD (Communication) McGill University
Film and media studies; gender and sexuality; communication studies of religion and science

Christine Sutherland:  MA (English) McGill University
History and theory of rhetoric; 18^th Century studies (particularly women writers and drama)

Chui-Ling Tam:  PhD (Geography) University of Waterloo
Political ecology; comparative development; participation; environmental management; communication; identity; cross-cultural research (Indonesia, SE Asia)

David Taras:  PhD (Political Science) University of Toronto
Political communication; news and journalism; effects of new information technologies on politics and society

Charles Tepperman:  PhD (Film Studies) University of Chicago
History of motion pictures; motion picture technology and audiences; amateur media; fan cultures and new media; home movies; media archive and film preservation

Wisdom J. Tettey:  PhD (Political Science) Queen's University
ICTs, politics and civic engagement; globalization and the knowledge society; media and democracy; political economy of Africa; diasporas, transnationalism and citizenship