Faculty members from different fields come together to equip students with a deep understanding of a range of disciplines, including Arts and Science, Business Administration, Canadian Studies, Communications, Cultural Studies, Education, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Geography, and Political Studies.
DIRECTOR
FACULTY AND THEIR RESEARCH AREAS
Arnold, Martin: BMus (Alberta), MMus, PhD (Victoria)
Experimental music; the idea of experimental folk music, aesthetics and politics; counterculture; the wonderful; musical mediations; intertextualities/ ecologies; narrative
Bailey, Suzanne: BA (Queen’s), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Women’s writing; art history and visual arts; print culture; Victorian and Canadian literature; life-writing and memoir; literature and science; aging and the life course
Barr, Jessica Marion: PhD (Queen's)
Research-creation, visual art, environmental art, environmental mourning, somatics, Indigenization, social-environmental justice, wellness practices, care
Bode, Rita: BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
19th- and early 20th century American, British and Canadian literature; ecocritical, gender and transnational approaches; Shakespeare; editorial practice
Cater, Bruce: MA (Toronto), PhD (York)
Applied microeconomics; applied econometrics
Changfoot, Nadine: BA (York), MA (Carleton), PhD (York)
Arts-based methods (digital storytelling, photovoice); disability arts, arts and activism; accessing the arts
Cole, Jenn: BA, MA (Trent), PhD (Toronto)
Indigenous Performance as it intersects with settler/Indigenous relations and reciprocal relationship to the land, especially at the site of the Kiji Sibi/Ottawa River in Algonquin Territory
Cwynar, Christopher: BA (Mount Allison), MA (Western), PhD (Wisconsin-Madison)
Public media; media history; podcasting and audio media; strategic communication
Dunaway, Finis: BA (North Carolina), PhD (Rutgers)
Modern US, Canadian, and global environmental history; visual culture; popular culture; the American West; mass media and the environment; landscape photography and contemporary environmental art
Eamon, Michael: BA (Ottawa), MA (Queen's), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Queen's)
Heritage policy; archives; public history; online exhibitions and design; grant writing; heritage administration; exhibition curation; heritage plaques; partnerships and fundraising
Egan, Kelly: BA (Carleton), MA (York/TMU), MFA (Bard), PhD (York/Ryerson)
Media archaeology; technology and art; avant-garde cinema; photochemical arts; research-creation; media preservation and archival theory
Fitzmaurice, Kevin: BComm (Ottawa), BA (Queen's), MA, PhD (Trent)
Urban Indigenous Studies; housing and homelessness; Indigenous-settler politics and law; Indigenous Critical Theory; Indigenous research methods
Henderson, Scott: BA (Trent), PhD (East Anglia)
Music and locality; youth culture; popular culture and identity; British cinema and popular culture; Canadian popular culture
Hill, Lauren: PhD (Trent)
Arts-based education; arts-based research methodologies; decolonizing education; EDI in education; music education; arts-based environmental education
Malik, Amina: MBA (TMU), PhD (York)
Talent management; cultural minorities’ socialization in the workplace; perceptions of organizational trust and justice; strategic human resource management
Nicol, Heather: BA (Toronto), MES (York), PhD (Queen's)
Canadian and political geography with emphasis on the circumpolar north; Canada-US borders and geopolitics
Pasek, Anne: BA (Alberta), MA (McGill), PhD (New York)
Cultural studies; visual art; media art; political ecology and culture; art education
Peers, Laura: MA (Winnipeg), PhD (McMaster)
Cross-cultural, change administration; inclusivity; museums, arts and culture funding; grant-writing and management; Indigenous cultural heritage; repatriation; community engagement
Sagarra, Catalina: BA, MA (Carlton), PhD (Ottawa)
Second language acquisition; French didactics; neuroeducation; genocide studies; semiotics; interpretative semantics
Sherman, Paula: BA (Eastern Connecticut State), MA (Connecticut), PhD (Trent)
Indigenous historical consciousness and identities; Atlantic world and colonial encounters; international Indigenous peoples; Indigenous women
Skinner, Mark: BA (Laurier), MA (Guelph), PhD (Queen’s)
Rural aging; aging communities; voluntary sector/volunteering; community-based research; arts-based collaborative research
Synenko, Josh: BA (York), MA (Western), PhD (York)
Cinema and media studies; cities; locative media; memory studies; net art; social and political thought; visual culture