Adjunct Graduate Faculty are appointed to serve as co-supervisors and may participate in all other aspects of graduate education, but they may not serve as primary supervisors without the approval of the program director and the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Adjunct Graduate Faculty status is not intended for members of the tenure stream of faculty at Trent University, but rather, as stated in the Senate policy on Honorary appointments, this title is intended for persons who are academically qualified to participate in the work of the University but who are not permanent employees of Trent University.
Examples would include Professor Emeritus/Emerita, individuals who hold contractually-limited appointments at Trent University, individuals who hold membership in a school or faculty of graduate studies at an accredited university, and individuals who hold a senior academic degree in their particular area of expertise and have appropriate research experience.
IDSR Adjunct Faculty
Eyitayo Aloh
BA (Hertfordshire), MA, PhD (Trent)
Research Interests: Humour/comedy research; Cultural Studies (broadly defined but with a particular focus on African Literature and culture); arts/culture-based methodologies, especially the ones that promotes decolonisation
Yana Berardini
BA (Ottawa), MA, PhD (Brock)
Research Interests: Mental health and wellness; positive psychology; young caregivers; at-risk youth
Evan Bowness
Department of Geography and Environment, University of Western Ontario
BA, MA (Manitoba), PhD (British Columbia)
Research Interests: Critical and community-engaged environmental social scientist studying the prospects for more equitable sustainability transitions in the food system and beyond, primarily in Canada and Brazil; just transitions in food systems; food sovereignty and agroecology; industrial capitalism in settler colonial contexts
Michael Classens
School of the Environment, University of Toronto
BA (Western Ontario), MA (Windsor), PhD (York)
Research Interests: Social and environmental justice (food, agriculture, soil and energy)
Rhea Ashley Hoskin
University of Waterloo, Sociology and Legal Studies
BA (Trent), MA, PhD (Queen's)
Research Interests: Sociology of gender; critical femininities; femme theory; sexual and gender diversity; feminist theory; queer theory; transgender studies; social inequality; fashion and aesthetics
Johanne Jean-Pierre
York University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
BSc (Montreal), BA (Alberta), MA (Ottawa), PhD (McMaster)
Research Interests: Education; children and youth; post-secondary education and research; race and racism; linguistic minorities
Sharful Islam Khan
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
MBBS (Dhaka Medical College), MHSS (Mahidol), PhD (Edith Cowan)
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; health sociology and psychology (studies on gender, masculinities, sexual and reproductive health); HIV interventions with marginalized populations
W. Stephen McNeil
University of British Columbia Department of Chemistry
BSc, PhD (British Columbia)
Research Interests: The development and assessment of innovative active learning activities in introductory science courses, the impacts of context-embedded science curricula on affective learning and the role of inclusive classroom pedagogies in addressing inequities in STEM education outcomes
Kisha McPherson
Metro Toronto University School of Professional Communication
BPA (Athabasca), MA (OISE), PhD (York)
Research Interests: Community-based approaches to develop interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the impact of media, popular culture, and contemporary representations of Blackness on the identity and education of Black youth
Patti Tracey
Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing
RN, BScN (Ryerson, Metro Toronto), MHSc (Athabasca), PhD (Toronto)
Research Interests: Global health; international nursing; community-based nursing practice; quality improvement initiatives relating to safe practices for short-term health experiences in low and middle income countries
Tom Whillans
Trent School of the Environment (Emeritus)
BA (Guelph), MSc, PhD (Toronto)
Research Interests: