Faculty

At Trent University Durham, faculty across all programs play a key role in fostering a transformative educational experience for all students. They also create the collaborative learning environment for which Trent is known.

Acting as mentors and guides in the learning process, our faculty encourage students to engage in dialogue, ask questions, and challenge ideas.

At Trent University Durham, the average class size is 27 students, which means you as the student have the opportunity to really connect with your professors in an academic setting, on research projects, and beyond the classroom.

Full-time Durham-based faculty members value the collegial and warm environment of an intimate academic community. Interacting with other Durham faculty in different disciplines, Trent University Durham faculty also maintain close ties with their home departments in Peterborough. Our Trent University Durham teaching is complemented by Peterborough faculty who come to Durham to teach a course as part of their regular teaching load, and by highly-qualified and experienced part-time instructors from the GTA.

Renowned for high-quality teaching, our faculty are helping to put Trent University Durham on the map.

Anthropology (B.A. or B.Sc.)

Helen Haines

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Degrees: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Mesoamerica (specifically Ancient Maya); early states (socio-political and economic organizations and development and sustainability); diet and health of ancient populations; Euro-Canadian history and Cultural Resource/Heritage Management
Email: helenhaines@trentu.ca
Website: www.kakabish.org

Roger Lohmann

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., B.A., (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Research Interests: Ethnography; linguistics; cultural dynamics; religion; dreaming; human ecology; Melanesia
Email: rogerlohmann@trentu.ca
Website: Roger Lohmann

Jen Newton

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Degrees: Ph.D. (James Cook University); M.Sc. (Bournemouth University); B.A. (York University)
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology; paleopathology; dental anthropology; sociocultural and environmental impacts on health, Southeast Asia (especially Thailand and Cambodia); Mesoamerica (especially Belize)
Email: jennifernewton@trentu.ca
Website: Jen Newton

 

Business Administration (B.B.A.)

Anita Boey

Assistant Professor, Business Administration
Degrees: Ph.D. of Human Resource Management (York University)
Research Interests: Knowledge sharing; creativity; experiential teaching and learning
Email: anitaboey@trentu.ca
Website: Website

Ken Chen

Assistant Professor, Business Administration
Degrees: Ph.D. (Lazaridis, Wilfrid Laurier University); B.B.A. (Schulich, York University)
Research Interests: Dynamic capabilities; networks; organizational learning; strategic entrepreneurship; collaborative innovation; technology platforms; business models
Email: kenchen@trentu.ca

Amina R. Malik

Assistant Professor, Business Administration
Degrees: Ph.D. (York University); M.S. (Punjab University); M.B.A. (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Research Interests: Organizational behaviour; HR management; motivation and compensation
Email: aminamalik@trentu.ca

Yi Liu

Assistant Professor, Business Administration
Degrees: Ph.D. (McMaster University); M.Sc. (Southampton University); B.Com. (Northeastern University, China)
Research Interests: Banking; financial reporting; voluntary disclosure
Email: yiliu@trentu.ca

 

Child and Youth Studies (B.A.)

Alba Agostino

Assistant Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., B.A. (York University)
Research Interests: The development of children’s early number sense and identifying early cognitive precursors of low math achievers to aid the development of early intervention programs  
Email: albaagostino@trentu.ca

Dustin Ciufo

Assistant Professor - LTA, Child and Youth Studies
Degrees: Ph.D. in Political Science and International Development Studies (University of Guelph)
Research Interests: The new sociology of childhood; children and youth rights; international development; child protection; refugee children and youth
Email: dustinciufo@trentu.ca

Christine Goodwin-De Faria

Assistant Professor, Teaching Intensive, Child and Youth Studies
Degrees: Ph.D. (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Research Interests: Child rights; youth justice; youth participation
Email: cgoodwindefaria@trentu.ca

Nour Hammami

Assistant Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Degrees: Ph.D. in Public Health and Health Systems (University of Waterloo)
Research Interests: Public health; social epidemiology; social, health, and gender inequalities; marginalized populations; quantitative analyses; health equity; child and youth studies; multilevel analyses
Email: nourhammami@trentu.ca
Website: twitter.com/Nourishment101

Yana Berardini

Assistant Professor, Child and Youth Studies
Degrees: Ph.D. (Brock University)
Research Interests: Psychology; self-compassion; young caregivers; research methods
Email: yanaberardini@trentu.ca

 

Communications (B.A.)

Christopher Cwynar

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Communications
Degrees: Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison); M.A. (Western University); B.A .(Mount Allison University)
Research Interests: Public service media; podcasting and audio media; popular music; national identity; strategic communication
Email: christophercwynar@trentu.ca

Andrew Monti

Assistant Professor, Communications
Degrees: Ph.D. (Toronto Metropolitan University); M.A. (York University); B.Sc. (Bocconi University)
Research Interests: Propaganda; satire; experiential education; work-integrated learning
Email: andrewmonti@trentu.ca

Maggie Reid

Assistant Professor, Communications
Degrees: Ph.D. (Toronto Metropolitan University); M.I., B.A. (University of Toronto)
Research Interests: Journalism and public relations, personal branding, the public sphere, propaganda, digital storytelling
Email: maggiereid@trentu.ca

 

Computer Science (B.Sc.)

Alaa Al-Slaity

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Degrees: Ph.D.
Research Interests: HCI; personalization; persuasive computing; recommender systems
Email: AlaaAlslaity@trentu.ca

Wenying Feng

Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics
Degrees: Ph.D. (University of Glasgow)
Research Interests: Fixed point theory; differential/difference equations; neural networks; machine learning
Email: wfeng@trentu.ca

 

English Literature (B.A.)

Joel Baetz

Assistant Professor, English Literature
Degrees: Ph.D. (York University); M.A. (McGill University); B.A. (McGill University)
Research Interests: Urban theory; happiness; Canadian literature; comics
Email: joelbaetz@trentu.ca

Rita Bode

Professor, English Literature
Degrees: Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Research Interests: Nineteenth and early twentieth century British and American women writers; transatlantic studies; L.M. Montgomery; Edith Wharton
Email: rbode@trentu.ca

Ihor Junyk

Full Professor, Journalism and Creative Writing
Degrees: Ph.D.
Email: ihorjunyk@trentu.ca

Concetta Principe

Assistant Professor, English Literature
Degrees: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Representations of madness; modernism; postmodernism; writing skills; creative writing
Email: cprincipe@trentu.ca

 

History (B.A.)

Robert Wright

Full Professor, History
Degrees: Ph.D.
Email: rawright@trentu.ca

 

Philosophy (B.A.)

James Connelly

Associate Professor (Teaching Intensive), Philosophy
Degrees: Ph.D. (York University)
Research Interests: Wittgenstein; Russell; philosophy of language; history of analytic philosophy
Email: jamesconnelly@trentu.ca

Martina Orlandi

Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Degrees: Ph.D. (McGill University)
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of action; moral psychology; epistemology
Email: martinaorlandi@trentu.ca
Website: https://www.martina-orlandi.com/

 

Policing and Community Well-Being (B.A.)

Amy Spendik

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Policing and Community Well-Being
Degrees: Ph.D.
Research Interests: Perpetrators of human trafficking; prisons; punishment; policing
Email: amyspendik@trentu.ca

 

Psychology (B.A. or B.Sc.)

Jeff Adams

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D. (York University); M.A. (University of Guelph); B.A. (Concordia University)
Research Interests: Dreams; human cerebral laterality; hemispheric differences; general cognition; personality; sleep
Email:jadams@trentu.ca

Ben Bauer

Associate Professor, Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D., M.A., B.A. (University of Waterloo)
Research Interests: Visual cognition/perception
Email:benbauer@trentu.ca

Korri Bickle

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D., Forensic Psychology (Ontario Tech University)
Research Interests: Understanding helping work (e.g. police officers, correctional officers, child and youth workers, etc); unique experiences of helping professionals, what influences their work, how they conceptualize and approach their work, and how they interact with those in their care. Korri has a particular interest in correctional officer work.
Email: korribickle@trentu.ca

Jenny Eastabrook

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D.
Email: jennifereastabrook@trentu.ca

Nancie Im-Bolter

Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Psychology Durham GTA), Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D. (York University)
Research Interests: Language and cognition; social cognition; language disorders; mental health; parent-child relationships
Email: nimbolter@trentu.ca

Brenda Smith-Chant

Associate Professor, Psychology
Degrees: Ph.D. (Carleton University); M.Sc. (Carleton University); BSc (Trent University)
Research Interests: Psychology of self-regulation, stress, and learning; role of policy and programs to effect behavioural change (e.g., education, parenting, health); community-driven research
Email: bresmith@trentu.ca

 

Social Work (B.S.W.)

Kimberly Calderwood

Full Professor, Social Work
Degrees: Ph.D. (University of Toronto); M.S.W. (Wilfrid Laurier); B.A. (Waterloo University)
Research Interests: Linking ways of knowing to knowledge creation; social work education; field education; student recruitment, support, and retention; anti-oppressive micro-level practice; bereavement
Email: kcalderwood@trentu.ca

Susan Hillock

Full Professor, Social Work
Degrees: Ph.D. (Memorial University of Newfoundland); B.A. (Mount Allison University); B.S.W. (Saint Thomas University); M.Ed. (University of New Brunswick); 
Research Interests: Scholarship of teaching and learning; feminism/ femagogy; environmentalism/sustainability; structural social work; trauma informed social work practice; integration of theory and practice; queering social work
Email: susanhillock@trentu.ca

Marina Morgenshtern

Associate Professor, Social Work
Degrees: Ph.D. in Social Work (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Research Interests: Feminist intersectional analysis of oppression; immigrant families; couples and communities; diversity issues in academic classroom; critical social work practice; teaching research to social work students
Email: marinamorgenshtern@trentu.ca

 

Sociology (B.A.)

Nadiya Nur Ali

Assistant Professor, Sociology
Degrees: Ph.D., (York University)
Research Interests: Black studies; race, racism and racialization; critical Muslim studies; community-engaged research
Email: nadiyaali@trentu.ca
Website: https://www.nadiyaa.com/

James Cosgrave

Associate Professor, Sociology
Degrees: Ph.D. (York University)
Research Interests: Sociology of gambling; gambling expansion and the state; financialization; Canadian culture and identity; sociology of humour; social theory
Email: jimcosgrave@trentu.ca

 

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Ali Vaezi

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Degrees: Ph.D. (McMaster University); CSCP; CLTD; SAP Associate
Research Interests: Supply chain risk; supply chain analytics; risk mitigation; emergency management; rail hazardous materials transportation; logistics planning; network design optimization
Email: alivaezi@trentu.ca

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