Trent University ::: Frost Centre for Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies

Faculty associated with the Frost Centre M.A. and Ph.D. programs

The Frost Centre draws members from Trent’s humanities and social sciences departments. Their presence and interaction create the interdisciplinary core for both the M.A. and Ph.D. programs.

Frost Centre members are organized below according to department. Click on a department link to see Frost Centre members, and for links to their academic information and contact numbers. We encourage you to contact Frost Centre members and discuss with them your interest in specific research projects that you could pursue at the Frost Centre.

Anthropology
Business Administration
Canadian Studies
Cultural Studies
Economics
Education
English Literature
Environmental and Resource Studies
Geography
History
International Development Studies
Indigenous Studies
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Women’s Studies

Anthropology
Julia Harrison

Jacqueline Solway

Business Administration
John Bishop
Kathryn Campbell
Ray Dart
David Newhouse
Maeve Quaid

Canadian Studies
Davina Bhandar
Sally Chivers

Jonathan Greene
Michèle Lacombe
John Milloy
Bryan Palmer
Jim Struthers
Tom H. B. Symons
John Wadland (Professor Emeritus)

Cultural Studies
Jonathan Bordo
Richard Dellamora
Veronica Hollinger
Sean Kane
Alan O’Connor
Doug Torgerson
Andrew Wernick

Economics
Jacqueline Muldoon

Education
Deborah Berrill

English Literature
Suzanne Bailey
Richard Dellamora
Charmaine Eddy

Gordon Johnston
Sean Kane (Professor Emeritus)
Michael Peterman (Professor Emeritus)
Margaret Steffler

Environmental and Resource Studies
Stephen Bocking

Chris Furgal
Stephen Hill
David Holdsworth
Tom Hutchinson (Professor Emeritus)
Robert Paehlke (Professor Emeritus)
Doug Torgerson
Tom Whillans

Geography
John Marsh (Professor Emeritus)

Heather Nicol
Mark Skinner
Susan Wurtele

History
Dimitry Anastakis

Christopher Dummitt
Finis Dunaway
Bruce Hodgins (Professor Emeritus)
John Milloy
Janet Miron
Joan Sangster
David Sheinin
Jim Struthers
Keith Walden

Robert Wright

International Development Studies

Winnie Lem

Jacquiline Solway
David Morrison (Professor Emeritus)

Indigenous Studies
Lynne Davis
Mark Dockstator

Chris Furgal

Roronhiakewen (Dan Longboat)
Edna Manitowabi (Professor Emeritus)
Don McCaskill
Neal G. McLeod
David Newhouse

Paula Sherman

Politics

Nadine Changfoot

Jonathan Greene
David Morrison (Professor Emeritus)
Robert Paehlke (Professor Emeritus)
Elaine Stavro
Doug Torgerson

Psychology
Rory Coughlan

Sociology
Gillian Balfour
Debra Clarke
James Conley
Alena Heitlinger
Stephen Katz
Alan Law
Barbara Marshall

Momin Rahman
Deborah White

Women’s Studies
Margaret Hobbs

Winnie Lem
Barbara Marshall
Colleen O’Manique
Carla Rice
Joan Sangster
Elaine Stavro

Carol Williams

Adjunct Professors
Robert Bringhurst

Melanie Buddle
Robert Gibson

Don Gill

Lassi Heininen

Laura Peers

Marc Shell
Leanne Simpson

Dimitry Anastakis, B.A. (Western), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: 20th Century Canadian economic and political history, particularly post-World War II trade, economic and business history; US political and economic history; government and politics.
Telephone: 705-748-1011 x 5149
E-mail: danastakis@trentu.ca
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Suzanne J. Bailey, B.A. (Queen's), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Literature and science, including environmental studies; disability studies; travel writing; life writing
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1739
E-mail: sjbailey@trentu.ca

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Gillian Balfour, B.Sc., M.A. (Ottawa), Ph.D. (Manitoba)
Research Interests: Aboriginal peoples and the criminal justice system; feminist criminology and critical socio-legal theory, research methods.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1607
E-mail: gillianbalfour@trentu.ca

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Deborah Berrill, B.A. (Northwestern), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (East Anglia)
Research Interests: Education and culture, with culture being interpreted in its broadest terms and focussing on issues of identity, gender and the negotiation of cultural borders. Specific areas of research: (1) Emergent literacy from a sociocultural perspective; (2) gender and science from feminist and cultural psychology perspectives.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1607
E-mail: dberrill@trentu.ca

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Davina Bhandar, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. PH.D. (York)
Research Interests: Contemporary critiques of the concept of citizenship that have emerged through notions of transnationalism and politics of diaspora, particularly, the notion of the migrant concept of citizenship; contemporary political and social theory, critical race studies, post-colonial theory and feminist theory.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1837
E-mail: davinabhandar@trentu.ca
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John Bishop, B.A. (New Brunswick), M.A., M.B.A. (Mcmaster), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Research Interests: Personal ethics in business; Ethics and corporate policy; Ethics and capitalism; Advertising.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7701
E-mail: jbishop@trentu.ca

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Stephen Bocking, B.Sc., M.A. Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: History of ecology and environmental sciences in Canada, Great Britain and the United States; history of northern science; history of Great Lakes fisheries research; roles of expertise in public policy; environmental history; environmental issues in developing countries, with special emphasis on dams.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1520
E-mail: sbocking@trentu.ca
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Jonathan Bordo, B.A. (McGill, Alberta), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)
Research Interests: A philosophically trained cultural historian and theorist, Dr. Bordo is one of the leading scholars in geopoetics and the interdisciplinary study of landscape. His work bridges his interests between picturing, testimony and institutions of memory with Canada, as a proper name, site and stabilizing topos for his inquiry. Dr Bordo has received many grants and held many fellowships, having been a Research Fellow at such distinguished Institutes and Centres as the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, the Australian National University, The University of Chicago and the University of Calgary. He was also the recipient of a Swedish Institute Fellowship.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011
E-mail: jbordo@trentu.ca
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Kathryn Campbell, B.A. (Trent), M.B.A. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Women in Management; women entrepreneurs; women and Third World Development; Ecofeminism.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7603
E-mail: kcampbell@trentu.ca

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Nadine Changfoot, B.A. (York), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Social movements, art and politics (especially community arts), women and politics, law and society, political economy, political and feminist theory (19th century and contemporary).
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 6005
E-mail: nadinechangfoot@trentu.ca

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Sally Chivers, B.A. (Calgary), Ph.D. (McGill)
Research Interests: Disability Studies, Canadian Literature and Film, Western Canada, Gender.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1436
E-mail: sallychivers@trentu.ca
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Debra Clarke, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Research Interests: Ethnographic analysis of television audiences; television information production and ideological reproduction; media and gender; media ownership and control; family processes.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1202
E-mail: dclarke@trentu.ca
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James Conley, B.A. (Alberta), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Research Interests: Class formation; protest and social movements; labour history.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1221
E-mail: jconley@trentu.ca
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Rory Coughlan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Victoria)
Research Interests: Medical discourse, gerontology, nursing, health policy and social theory, and critical
socio-historical approach to psychology.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1079
E-mail: rorycoughlan@trentu.ca

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Ray Dart, B.A. (Trent), MES, Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Cross between theoretical and applied concerns, located in and around the nonprofit sector; human service organizations (health, social services, environmental, community development) and the ways that they deal with calls for more "business-like" approaches to charitable and community work; qualitative and community research (theory, design, analysis); institutional, pattern and network theories of organizations.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7744
E-mail: rdart@trentu.ca

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Miriam Davidson, B.A., (York) B.Ed. (Queens), M.Ed., (McGill), Ph.D (Concordia)

Research Interests: arts education; documentary photography; visual culture; digital storytelling; relationship between visual arts, literacy and student engagement; service learning; arts-based and action research methods.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7217

E-mail: miriamdavidson@trentu.ca

Lynne Davis, B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. (Sussex), M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Native Studies.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7241
E-mail: lydavis@trentu.ca
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Richard Dellamora, A.B. (Dartmouth College), B.A. (Cambridge), M.Phil, Ph.D. (Yale)
Research Interests: Cultural studies.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1712
E-mail: rdellamora@trentu.ca
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Mark Dockstator, (Oneida), B.Sc. (Waterloo), L.L.B. (York), D. Jur (York)
Research Interests: Native Studies
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7077
E-mail: mdockstator@trentu.ca
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Christopher Dummitt, B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser)

Research Interests: 20th-Century Canadian cultural and political history, morality, modernity, gender and masculinity, western Canada.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x

E-mail: cdummitt@trentu.ca

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Finis Dunaway, B.A. (North Carolina), Ph.D. (Rutgers)
Research Interests: Modern United States cultural, environmental, and political history; American Studies; visual culture.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5076
E-mail: finisdunaway@trentu.ca
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Charmaine Eddy, M.A. (Western Ontario), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary American fiction; African-American fiction; 19th century American women poets; black literary and critical theory; theories of subjectivity and the body; Faulkner; Morrison.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7398
E-mail: ceddy@trentu.ca
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Paul Elliott, B.Sc., Ph.D (Wales)

Research Interests: Relationship between science, literacy and society; public understanding of science; the impact of personal schooling experiences on new science teachers’ professional practice; nature of good practice in biodiversity education.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7084

E-mail: paulelliott@trentu.ca

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Chris Furgal, B.Sc. (Western Ontario), M.Sc. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (Waterloo)

Research Interests: Environmental health impact assessment; environmental health risk management, assessment, and communication; mixed methods and involvement of indigenous knowledge and western science in environment and health studies; Aboriginal and circumpolar health and environmental change (e.g. contaminants, climate change and food security).

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7953

E-mail: chrisfurgal@trentu.ca

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Jonathan Greene, B.A. (Manitoba), M.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), Ph.D. (Queen’s)

Research Interests: Comparative and urban political economy and politics, the dynamics of collective action and protest, Marxism, immigration, poverty, and homelessness.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 6004

E-mail: jgreene@trentu.ca

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Julia Harrison, B.A. (Saskatchewan), M.A. (Calgary), D.PHIL (Oxford)
Research Interests: Tourists and the tourist experience; representation issues in museums; the relationships between museums and Aboriginal peoples; and aspects of the culture or research and educational institutions.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7772

E-mail: jharrison@trentu.ca
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Alena Heitlinger, B.A. (Kent), Ph.D. (Leicester)
Research Interests: Comparative study of the position of women; women’s policy machinery; demographic and emigration/immigration issues; health professions.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1616
E-mail: aheitlinger@trentu.ca
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Stephen Hill, B.Sc., B.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Calgary), PEng.
Research interests: Environmental risk management and decision making, particularly for corporations, Climate change management & policy. The application of environmental management tools such as environmental accounting, economic instruments, environmental indicators, impact assessment, and environmental auditing
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 5368
E-mail: stephenhill@trentu.ca
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Margaret Hobbs, B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Canadian women`s history; women and the Great Depression; women, the state, and social welfare policy; women and environment in historical and contemporary contexts in both North America and the "Third World", especially the grassroots environmental activism informing ecofeminist theory and practice.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1515
E-mail: mhobbs@trentu.ca

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Bruce Hodgins, Professor Emeritus, B.A. (Western Ontario), M.A. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Duke)
Research Interests: Aboriginal-settler relations; Ontario resource land and wilderness management and heritage; comparative federalism; Temagami and Northern Ontario.
E-mail: bhodgins@trentu.ca

David Holdsworth, B.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Western Ontario)
Research Interests: Foundations of risk analysis; nuclear regulation; science policy; environmental philosophy; foundations of Quantum Theory, Category Theory and Topos Theory.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1642
E-mail: dholdsworth@trentu.ca
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Veronica Hollinger, M.A. (Concordia), M.Ed. (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne), Ph.D. (Concordia)
Research Interests: Contemporary science fiction and technoculture; current apocalyptic trends in western culture; contemporary theatre and performance theory; feminist and queer theories of gender and sexuality.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1808
E-mail: vhollinger@trentu.ca
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Thomas Hutchinson, Professor Emeritus, B.Sc. (Manchester), Ph.D. (Sheffield)
Research Interests: Environmental history of industrial developments in Canada, especially mining and smelting in Ontario; history of pioneer agriculture in the province of Ontario; history of purebred livestock introductions into Ontario.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1261
E-mail: thutchinson@trentu.ca
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Luigi Iannacci, B.A., B.Ed. (York), M.Ed., Ph.D. (Western)

Research Interests: Language and literacy; early childhood education; culturally and Linguistically diverse learners; critical multiculturalism; disability studies; narrative research methods.
E-mail: luigiiannacci@trentu.ca

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Gordon Johnston, B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Harvard)

Research Interests: Canadian poetry, Ezra Pound, Lampman’s poetry.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7745

E-mail: gjohnston@trentu.ca

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Sean Kane, Professor Emeritus, B.A. (Carleton), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Aboriginal American oral literature and metaphysics; he is interested in the study of myths as heterarchical ecological knowledge-systems.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1755
E-mail: cultstudies@trentu.ca
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Stephen Katz, B.A. (York), M.A. (McGill). PH.D. (York)
Research Interests: Aging and lifecourse studies; sociology of the body; culture; knowledge; genealogies of the human science.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1621
E-mail: skatz@trentu.ca
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Michèle Lacombe, M.A., PH.D. (York)
Research Interests: Writers/fiction; ecofeminism; francophone communities in Canada/literary representations of identity; Canadian literary theory and identity formation.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1287
E-mail: mlacombe@trentu.ca
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Alan Law, B.A.S. (Sydney), M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Alberta) Research Interests: Sport; leisure and tourism; business ethics; welfare and social administration.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1064
E-mail: alaw@trentu.ca
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Winnie Lem, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Global migration, agrarian change, gender relations, urbanization, ethnic economies, nationalism, citizenship.
Telephone: 705-748-1011 x 7785
Email: wlem@trentu.ca

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Roronhiakewen (Dan Longboat), (Mohawk), M.Es. (York), Hon. B.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (York)

Research Interests: Haudenosaunee Cultural Knowledge, Indigenous Environmental Studies, Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Scientific Environmental Knowledge, Natural Resource Development and Ecological Restoration, Traditional Foods and Medicines, Indigenous Peoples Health and the Environment, Indigenous Agriculture, Sustainability for Communities, and International Indigenous Networks.

Telephone: 705-748-1011 x 7844

E-mail: dlongboat@trentu.ca

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Edna Manitowabi, Professor Emeritus, (Anishinabe),

Mide.III (3-Fires)
Research Interests: Native issues.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7211
E-mail: emanitowabi@trentu.ca
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John Marsh, Professor Emeritus, B.A. (Reading), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Calgary)
Research Interests: History, planning, management and interpretation of parks; wilderness; heritage; trails and tourism (especially in Canada, but also Europe, Latin America, Australia and Antarctica.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1440
E-mail: jmarsh@trentu.ca
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Barbara Marshall, B.A., M.A. (Guelph), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Research Interests: Canadian feminist movement; gender and sexuality; social policy (especially with respect to women); theory.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1334
E-mail: bmarshall@trentu.ca
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Don McCaskill, B.A. (Winnipeg), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (York) Research Interests: Aboriginal education; justice, criminology and corrections; urbanization; cross cultural relations; international development; culturally-based aboriginal institutional development.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7820
E-mail: dmccaskill@trentu.ca
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Neal G. McLeod, B.A., M.A. (Saskatchewan), Ph.D. (Regina)
Research interests: Cree culture and history, oral history, Indigenous narratives and literature, Indigenous art, Indigenous philosophy and eligion, Indigenous political history and the history of Indigenous people of western Canada.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7544
Email: nealmcleod@trentu.ca
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John S. Milloy, B.A. (St. Patrick’s), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Oxford)
Research Interests: Plains Cree history, government policy and Canadian residential schools.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 6064

E-mail: jmilloy@trentu.ca

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Janet Miron, B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (York).
Research interests: cultural history; medicine and crime in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; sexuality; Canadian history.
Telephone: 705-748-1011 x 5517
E-mail: janetmiron@trentu.ca
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David Morrison, Professor Emeritus, M.A. (Saskatchewan), D.Phil. (Sussex)
Research Interests: Canadian North-South (International Development) Policies, Practices and Relations.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5375
E-mail: dmorrison@trentu.ca
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David Newhouse, (Onondaga), B.Sc., M.B.A. (Western Ontario)
Research Interests: Development of modern aboriginal societies with a focus on examining the underlying philosophical assumptions, notions and ideas which animate them; aboriginal economies.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7497
E-mail: dnewhouse@trentu.ca
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Heather Nicol, B.A. (Toronto), M.E.S. (York), Ph.D. (Queen’s)

Research Interests: Canadian and Poltiical Geography with emphasis on the Circumpolar North, Canada-US Borders and Geopolitics.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7107

E-mail: heathernicol@trentu.ca

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Alan O’Connor, B.A. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Sociology of culture and mass media, subcultures, art and culture in small cities, global media studies, community media In Latin America.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1798
E-mail: aoconnor@trentu.ca
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Colleen O'Manique, B.A. (Carleton), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Global political economy of health, with a specific focus on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. Current research examines the ways in which HIV/AIDS is becoming securitized in various parts of the global South. Other research and academic interests encompass debates about global human rights and citizenship, feminist epistemology, and gender and science.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5348
E-mail: comanique@trentu.ca
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Robert Paehlke, Profeesor Emeritus, B.A. (Lehigh), M.A. (New School For Social Research), Ph.D. (British Columbia)
Research Interests: Canadian and comparative environmental policy; the integration of economic, social and environmental policy; and the history of the environmental movement.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1261
E-mail: rpaehlke@trentu.ca
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Bryan D. Palmer, B.A. (University Of Western Ontario), M.A., Ph.D. (State University Of New York At Binghamton)
Research Interests: Canadian Labour and Social History; North American radicalism; history and theory.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1834
E-mail: bpalmer@trentu.ca
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Michael Peterman, A.B, Professor Emeritus, (Princeton), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Early Canadian authors (19th Century): Moodie, Traill, Richardson, Duncan, Leacock, etc; Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Timothy Findlay, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart; Canadian-American comparisons and connections; Scott Young; Canadian culture.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1737
E-mail: mpeterman@trentu.ca
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Maeve Quaid, B.A. (McGill), M.Sc. (London School Of Economics), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Research Interests: Welfare reform in Canada and the U.S; international aid to developing countries; international/global volunteerism.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7760
E-mail: mquaid@trentu.ca

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Momin Rahman, Hon. B.A., Ph.D. (Strathclyde)

Research Interests: Sociology of gender and culture, with an emphasis on the intersections of race/ethnicity and sexuality; rights agenda for lesbians and gays, and the problems that such strategies create; Muslim queers identities and how these complicate our understandings of 'western' gay politics, culture and identity.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7812

E-mail: mominrahman@trentu.ca

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Carla Rice, B.A. (Harvard), M.Ed. (OISE/UT), Ph.D. (York)
Research Interests: Narratives of body, identity, and difference in the passage to womanhood; experiences of women with disabilities in health care encounters; and young women`s accounts of body image as an equity issue within educational settings.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5214
E-mail: carlarice@trentu.ca

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Joan Sangster, B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D. (Mcmaster)
Research Interests: Working-class and women`s history; labour and social policy; women in conflict with the law.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5506
E-mail: jsangster@trentu.ca
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David Sheinin, B.A. (Ryerson), M.A., Ph.D (Toronto)
Research Interests: Inter-American Relations, 1900-1940; History of the Pan American Union.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5253
E-mail: dsheinin@trentu.ca
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Paula Sherman, (Omamiwinini), B.A. (Eastern Connecticut), M.A.

(University of Connecticut), PH.D. (Trent)

Research Intersts: Indigenous historical consciousness and identities, Atlantic World and colonial encounters, International Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous women.

Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 7904

E-mail: psherman@trentu.ca

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Mark Skinner, B.A. (Wilfrid Laurier), M.A. (Guelph), Ph.D. (Queen's)
Research interests: Health, rural and social geography; Voluntarism; Aging communities; Health and social care; Rural and small town Canada; Welfare state restructuring; Public policy.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 5382
E-mail: markskinner@trentu.ca
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Jacqueline Solway, B.A. (Oakland), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Research Interests: Culture and development; politics, ethnicity and minority rights; rural political economy; Africa and arid lands.

Telephone: (705) 748 1011 ext. 7219

E-mail: jsolway@trentu.ca

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Elaine Stavro, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Traditional and contemporary political theory, socialist and post modern political theory, democratic theory and feminist thought.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1430
E-mail: estavro@trentu.ca
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Margaret Steffler, B.A., (Victoria), M.A., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Research Interests: The construction of girlhood in Canadian fiction; Canadian Children’s Literature; Romanticism in Canadian Literature; Women’s Life Writing.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1822
E-mail: msteffler@trentu.ca
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Jim Struthers, M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Canadian social policy; aging. Caregiving, social citizenship and welfare state formation.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1749
E-mail: jstruthers@trentu.ca
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Tom H. B. Symons, Vanier Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Canadian heritage issues.
E-mail: thbs@trentu.ca

Doug Torgerson, A.B. (California-Berkeley), M.E.S. (York), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Environmentalism, policy discourse, managerialist ideology, political theory.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1808
E-mail: dtorgerson@trentu.ca
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John Wadland, Professor Emeritus, B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Waterloo), PH.D. (York)
Research Interests: Bioregionalism; landscape theory; art history; environmental history.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1804
E-mail: jwadland@trentu.ca
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Keith Walden, M.A., Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Research Interests: Modern Canadian social, cultural and intellectual history; special interest in the development of consumer culture and the historical meaning of symbols, myths, and rituals.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1757
E-mail: kwalden@trentu.ca
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Andrew Wernick, B.A. (Cambridge), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Modern and cultural theory; media and popular culture.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1794
E-mail: awernick@trentu.ca
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Tom Whillans, B.A. (Guelph), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Natural resource management, especially fisheries and wetlands; community-based environmental regulation; bioregionalism.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1389
E-mail: twhillans@trentu.ca
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Deborah White, B.A. (Ryerson), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interests: Sexual assault and the medico-legal process in Canada, focusing on the ways in which science and technology produce forensic evidence which is constructed as "legal truth" within the judicial system, a knowledge which often contradicts that of the sexually assaulted woman. Also, continuing work on Canadian radio broadcasting and policy in the new media environment.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1065
E-mail: deborahwhite2@trentu.ca
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Carol Williams, B.A. Fine Performing Arts (SFU), M.A. Social History of Art (Leeds) Ph.D. US & Women's History (Rutgers)

Research Interests: US History 19thC & Progressive Era; Women's History in the North American West; Women's Studies & histories of feminism; Indigenous people and photography; Contemporary art and photography Canada & United States.

E-mail: carolwilliams@trentu.ca

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Robert Wright, B.A. (Trent), M.A., Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Research Interests: Modern Canadian intellectual, cultural and diplomatic history.
Telephone: 905-721-3003
E-mail: rawright@trentu.ca
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Susan Wurtele, B.Sc. (Trent); Ph.D. (Queen’s)
Research Interests: Themes of gender, historical and urban geography; domestic support services for immigrant communites; immigrant and native handicraft work in inter-war years.
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 x 1454
E-mail: swurtele@trentu.ca
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Kelly Young, B.A. (Ottawa, York), B.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D. (York)

Research Interests: Language and literacy; curriculum theorizing; ecojustice and environmental educational leadership; arts-based research.

E-mail: kellyyoung@trentu.ca
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Adjunct Professors

Robert Bringhurst, B.A. (Indiana), M.F.A. (UBC): private scholar

M. Buddle, B.A. (Guelph), M.A. (UNBC), Ph.D. (Victoria), relationship between adverting and consumption, the history of gender, women and families in Canada.

Robert Gibson, B.A. (York), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto): Professor, Dept. of Environment & Resource Studies, University of Waterloo

Don Gill, Professor, Department of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lethbridge

Lassi Heininen, M.A. (Tampere, Finland), Ph.D. (Lapland, Finland): University Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Univesity of Lapland; Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Oulu; Chairman, Steering Committee, Northern Research Forum

Laura Peers, Hon.B.A. (Trent), M.A. (Winnipeg & Manitoba); Ph.D. (McMaster): Curator, Americas, Pitt rivers Museum; Reader in Material Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography; Fellow, Linacre College, University of Oxford

Marc Shell, B.A. (Stanford), M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge), Ph.D. (Yale): Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University

Leanne Simpson, B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. (Mount Allison), Ph.D. (Manitoba): Independent Scholar