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Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture

Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture

Faculty profiles

Overview

Humanities PhD students are able to draw on the expertise and creative excellence of outstanding scholars and artists at Concordia. Students create their own path and pursue unique interdisciplinary projects of research or research-creation (which combines creative practice with scholarly investigation) under the mentorship of an advisory committee of three faculty members: a Major field supervisor (usually in the same discipline as the student’s MA or MFA) and two Minor field advisors.

Applicants to the Humanities program are required to approach Concordia faculty members who could serve on their advisory committee, and upload confirmations from them as part of their application. Consult the guide on how to approach potential advisors. For any questions, please get in touch with the Humanities director at gpdhumanities@concordia.ca.

Faculty

Learn more about full-time faculty members in departments across the Faculties of Arts and Science and Fine Arts.

Faculty of Arts and Science

Faculty of Fine Arts 

Below is a list of Concordia faculty members who have served on Humanities students’ advisory committees over the last few years. 

  • Charles R. Acland
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries
  • Vered Amit
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Community, Mobility, Travel, Transnational links, Elites and Youth
  • Paul F. Bandia
    • Professeur titulaire, Études françaises
    Research areas: translation theory and history, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory. He is considered a leading scholar in postcolonial translation theory and history, transcultural and transnational studies, decoloniality, with particular interest in Africa and its diaspora, as well as encounters between the Global South and the Global North.
  • Rachel Berger
    • Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Development , School of Graduate Studies
    • Associate Professor, History
  • Beverley Best
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory
  • Donald L. Boisvert
    • Affiliate Professor, Religions and Cultures
  • Jason Camlot
    • Concordia University Research Chair (Tier I) in Literature and Sound Studies, English
    • Professor , English
    Research areas: Victorian literature & culture / 19th century print culture & rhetoric, history of technology, sound recording, poetry
  • Wilson Chacko Jacob
    • Professor, History
  • Frank Chalk
    • Professor, History
  • Owen Chapman
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation
  • Maurice Charland
    • Professor, Communication Studies
  • Lynda Clarke
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Shiism, Sunni-Shiite relations,Women and Islam,Islamic Law, Islam in the West
  • Murray Clarke
    • Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: Contemporary Epistemology/Experimental Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Psychology/Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science
  • Mia Consalvo
    • Professor and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, Communication Studies
    Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.
  • Jill Didur
    • Associate Dean and Professor, English
  • Arseli Dokumaci
    • Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies
    • Director, Access in the Making (AIM) Lab
    • Associate Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: critical disability studies, performance studies, research-creation, medical anthropology, environmental humanities
  • Meredith Evans
    • Associate Professor, English
    Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / Milton / gender studies / philosophy & literature / critical theory
  • Debbie Folaron
    • Professeure agrégée, Études françaises
    Research areas: translation, technologies, digital world, minority and low-resource language translation, Romani, localization, humanitarian, community translation, Indigenous, multilingual
  • Richard Foltz
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Iranian History, Religions of Iran, Zoroastrianism, Kurdish Religion, Central Asian history, Tajiks, Ossetia, Caucasus
  • Gavin Foster
    • Irish history, School of Irish Studies
  • Marcie Frank
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: Restoration & 18th century British literature / drama / the novel / literary criticism / 20th century American popular culture / media theory
  • Ariela Freedman
    • Professor, Liberal Arts College
  • Matthias Fritsch
    • Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy
  • Andre Ondino Furlani
    • Fellow, School of Irish Studies
    • Full Professor, English
    Research areas: modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / urban and mobility studies
  • Monika Kin Gagnon
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics
  • Orit Halpern
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
  • Judith Herz
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: early modern literature / Bloomsbury / poetics / literary history
  • Steven High
    • Founding Member, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
    • Professor, History
    Research areas: deindustrialization, oral history, just transition, populism, public history, forced migration, capitalism, genocide, urban change.
  • David Howes
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Anthropology of the Senses, Sensory Ethnography, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics
  • Satoshi Ikeda
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Food and Sustainability, Social Economy, World-System Studies
  • Andrew Ivaska
    • Associate Professor, History
  • Nora E. Jaffary
    • Professor, History
    Research areas: Latin America, gender, religion, crime, contraception, deviancy, Mexico, fiction, race, medicine
  • Christine Jourdan
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Creolization, Language and Culture, Food
  • Michael Kenneally
    • Co-Founder, School of Irish Studies, Concordia University
    • Principal, School of Irish Studies, 2009 - 2021
    • Co-Founder, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation
    • Trustee, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, 2022-
    • Concordia University Chair in Canadian Irish Studies, 2002-2017
    • Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, 2019
    • Recipient, Honorary Doctorate, National University of Ireland, 2014
    • Recipient, Honorary Doctorate, University of Innsbruck, 2012
    • Academic Leadership Award, Concordia University, 2012
    • Recipient, Montreal Community Award, St. Patrick's Society of Montreal, 2009
    • Grand Marshall, St Patrick’s Day Parade, Montreal, 2002
    • Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2000-2003
    • Irishman of the Year, United Irish Societies of Montreal, 1997
    • Named to the Global Irish 100 list by Irish America Magazine, 2009
    • Chair, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, 1994-2000
    • President, St. Patrick’s Society, 1993-1996
    • President, Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 1987-1990
    • Professor, School of Irish Studies
    • Honorary Consul General for Quebec, Government of Ireland, 2002-2022
  • Jordan LeBel
    • Professor, Marketing
    Research areas: Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies, Food and Foodservice Innovation
  • Erica Lehrer
    • Professor, History
    Research areas: Memory/Heritage/Museums, Jewish-Polish Heritage, Decolonial Museology in East Central Europe
  • Louis Patrick Leroux
    • Professor, English
    • Professeur titulaire, Études françaises
    Status: Professor and Associate Dean, Research
  • Warren S. Linds
    • Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences
    Research areas: Arts based research and Wellbeing of Indigenous Youth Ethical Considerations of Arts Based Research Creative Practices in Teaching in Higher Education Facilitation Skills Ethical Know How
  • Krista Lynes
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    • Director, Feminist Media Studio
    • Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
    Research areas: feminist media studies; contemporary art and activism; queer theory; migration studies; globalization; border theory; feminist STS; infrastructure studies; critical race studies; affect; research-creation; environmental humanities

  • Ingrid C Bachmann
    • Professor, Studio Arts
    Research areas: continge, embodiment, senses, generativity, media arts, participation, audience, interactivity, installation, digital technologies, human body, organ transplants, art practice, kinetic, sculpture, installation, drawing, art medicine, art and technology, transdisciplinary, automata
  • Sandeep Bhagwati
    • Professor, Music
    • director, matralab - lab for research-creation in the performing arts , Fine Arts
    • GM500-21, Music
    Status: Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art (2006-2016)
    Research areas: music, musicking, music composition, comprovisation, research-creation, transdisciplinary aesthetics, interactive scores, trans-traditional musicking, experimental theatre, situative scores, dramaturgy, performance, contemporary music, improvisation, intercultural music, artistic research, music notation, music technology, voice, computer music, opera, music theatre, piano music, orchestra music
  • Deanna Bowen
    • Assistant Professor, Studio Arts
  • Jessica Carmichael
    • Associate Professor, Theatre
    Research areas: Directing, Acting, Creation & Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Avant Garde Theatre, Devising, Dance Theatre, Performance Studies, Theatre for Social Change, Cultural Continuity, Indigenous Storytelling, Landscape Connectivity, Embodiment, Youth Culture
  • Juan Carlos Castro
    • Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: complex dynamic systems, arts-based learning, teaching training, social media, internet studies, urban futures, pedagogy, curriculum development, data visualization, place, democratic values, youth media, youth engagement, social justice education, youth culture, critical disability studies
  • Elaine Cheasley Paterson
    • Professor of Craft Studies, Art History
    • Associate Dean, Academic Programmes and Pedagogy, Fine Arts
    Research areas: critical craft studies, women's cultural philanthropy, feminism, material culture, handmade, social movements, textile arts, Arts and Crafts movement, Victorian Child migration, Irish studies, materiality, decorative arts, Canadian cultural history, design history, ornament, tradition/modernity, ceramics, canadian art history, curatorial practices, craftivism
  • May Chew
    • Assistant Professor, Art History
    • Assistant Professor, Cinema
    Research areas: interactivity and immersion; public art and social engagement; affect; haunting and spectrality; cultural studies; visual and material cultures; museums and archives; critical race studies; settler and postcolonial studies.
  • Carmela Cucuzzella
    • Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design And Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE)
    • Founding Co-Director, Next Generation Cities Institute
    Research areas: design studies, sustainability studies, architecture studies, built environment, cities, eco-design, eco-architecture, public space design, architecture competitions, teaching buildings, sustainability assessment tools, complex dynamic systems
  • Rebecca Duclos
    • Professor, Art History
    Research areas: Contemporary art, material culture, critical museology, curatorial practice, exhibition design, thing theory, non-traditional research, research-creation methodologies, radical research methods, art + sci transdisciplinarity, leadership issues in arts administration, death studies (developing)
  • Lynn Hughes
    Status: Professor Emerita
  • Cynthia Imogen Hammond
    • Professor, Art History
    Status: On medical leave
  • Kristina Huneault
    • Professor, Art History
    • Associate Dean, Faculty Relations & Inclusion, Fine Arts
    Research areas: meaning, Canadian art history, selfhood, women artists, subjectivity, colonialism, indigenous-settler relations, aesthetics, art historiography, 19th century, art-historical method, feminism, visual culture, Canadian cultural history, art theory, art and philosophy, material culture, identity
  • Heather Igloliorte
    • Associate Professor , Art History
    • Special Advisor to the Provost, Advancing Indigenous Knowledges
    • Co-Director, Indigenous Futures Cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Hexagram-Concordia
    • Tier 1 Concordia University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts, Art History
    • Director, Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership
    Research areas: Circumpolar Indigenous arts, Inuit, Metis, First Nations, Indigenous art and art history, curatorial practice, critical museology, Indigenous futures, sovereignty, continuity, decolonization, indigenization, contemporary art, new media, performance art, community consultation, collaborative art practices
  • Shauna Janssen
    • Chair, Theatre
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism (2018-2023), Fine Arts
    • Associate Professor, Theatre
    Research areas: site-specific performance practice, dramaturgy, intermedial performance creation, scenographic practices, 3D creative technologies & performance, Queer-feminist practices, hemispheric performance, performance & public space, theatre & architecture
  • Alice Jarry
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (New Scholar), Design and Computation Arts
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    Research areas: Materiality; Waste Remediation; Waste Infrastructures; Urban Futures; Bio-Inspired Design; Critical Design; Design for Sustainability; Biocomposites; Biomaterials; Active Materials; Surfaces and Scaffolds
  • Alice Ming Wai Jim
    • Graduate Program Director (GPD), as of July 1, 2023, Art History
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art Institutions (Tier 1)
    • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas (Brill)
    • Professor of Contemporary Art History, Art History
  • Martha Langford
    • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Art History
    • Research Chair and Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
    • Editor-in-chief, Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien
  • Josée Leclerc
    • Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
    Research areas: witness function of art, response-art, survival strategies, trauma, Holocaust art, genocide studies, racial discrimination, art therapy, art psychotherapy, ethics of reception, art and psychoanalysis, postmodern theory, creativity, heuristic paradigm
  • Martin Lefebvre
    • Chair of the School of Cinema; Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies (Hon.), Cinema
    Research areas: General and applied semiotics, philosophy (Peirce and pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language, epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics), classical and contemporary film theories, modern and postmodern film, narrative theory, cultural studies, cinéma québécois, Hollywood cinema, Hitchcock, Eisenstein, Truffaut, Godard and the French New Wave.
  • Jonathan Lessard
    • Primary Investigator (LabLabLab)
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    Research areas: history of games, game studies and design, digital games, adventure games, interactive narrative, genre, narrative, 3d Imaging, interactivity, interaction design, rendering, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, virtual environments, interface design
  • Jason Edward Lewis
    • Director, Initiative for Indigenous Futures
    • Special Advisor to the Provost on Indigenous Spaces
    • University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary
    • Co-director, Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media
    • Professor of Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
    • Co-director, Indigenous Futures Research Centre
    • Co-director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
    Research areas: Indigenous new media, Indigenous futures, digital poetry, the future imaginary, computational typography, computational culture, media arts, digital games, game studies and design, digital textuality, experimental typography, virtual environments, poetry, typographic design, computational aesthetics, Indigenous Peoples, mobile media, interface design, digital culture, science fiction

  • Erin Manning
    • Professor, Studio Arts
    • Professor , Cinema
    Status: Professor
    Research areas: process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation, ProTactile, blackness, ecology
  • Rosanna Maule
    • Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
    Research areas: women and film/media, feminist media studies, creative economy, women's cinephilia, feminist theory, contemporary auteur cinema, moving image studies, postmodernism, globalization and women's cinema, silent films, film/media theory, theories of national cinemas, critical theory, screen culture, history of the moving image, French cinema, Italian cinema, Spanish cinema, literary theory
  • Christopher Moore
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    • Graduate Program Director, Design, Design and Computation Arts
    Research areas: humour and parody, playfulness, social change, visual communication, information design, semiotics, design theory, typographic design, satire, new media studies, art practice, Cuddle Commandos, installation, performance art, sculpture, storytelling, interactivity, everydayness, design economies, graphic design
  • Nadia Myre
    • Assistant Professor, Studio Arts
    Research areas: contemporary art, Indigenous Art, research-creation, art practice, Indigenous Peoples, visual arts, Indigenous knowledges, decolonization, Algonquin, cultural continuity, transcultural objects, cultural identity, sculpture, installation, video, public art, beadwork, photography, fibres, performance art, experimental theatre
  • Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer
    • Associate Professor, Theatre
  • Joshua Neves
    • Associate Professor, Cinema
    Status: Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab
    Research areas: global media, digital culture, China/Asia, cultural theory, political theory, overdevelopment
  • Marielle Nitoslawska
    • Professor (Film Production); Concordia Research Chair in Experimental Nonfiction Practices, Cinema
  • Nicola Tullio Pezolet
    • Chair, Art History
    • Associate Professor, Art History
    Research areas: modernism, architecture, built environment, material culture, synthesis of the arts, post-WW2 reconstruction, Cold War, social history of art,Christian art and culture, Roman Catholic Church, Second Vatican Council, print culture, public art, abstraction in visual art, utopian thought, theological aesthetics, photography, history of the avant-garde, historiography
  • John Potvin
    • Member, Centre for Sensory Studies
    • Professor, Art History
    Research areas: Design History; Orientalism in Design & Art; Visual & Material Cultures of Masculinity; Modernism in Art, Design & Fashion; History of Interior Design; Fashion Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Body Studies & the Senses
  • Rhona Richman Kenneally
    • Member, Textiles and Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute
    • Chair, Dept. of Design and Computation Arts (2010-12)
    • Concordia Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2015
    • 2019 Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad
    • Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Fine Arts, 2014
    • Distinguished Professor Emerita, Design and Computation Arts
    • Academic Co-Founder and Fellow, School of Irish Studies
    Research areas: design justice, built environment, critical materiality, food studies, design theory, domestic space, Irish studies, Expo 67, fibres and wearables, ecosophy, culture and commemoration, mindful eating
  • Catherine Russell
    • Distinguished Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
    Research areas: cinephilia, experimental cinema, Japanese cinema, ethnographic film, women and film/media, cultural studies, film/media theory, criticism, North American cinema, melodrama, Walter Benjamin, phantasmagoria, classic Hollywood, film/media historiography, moving image studies, urban futures, cinema, Japan, sound, history of media arts
  • Christopher Lloyd Salter
    • University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses
    • Co-Director, Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture
    • Director, Hexagram Concordia
    • Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    • Director, xmodal
    • Professor Emeritus, Design and Computation Arts
    Research areas: immersion, machine learning, new media theory, STS, performance, haptics, senses, embodiment, digital audio, sensory studies, sensory ethnography, interaction design, media art history, sound design, critical AI studies, posthumanism, philosophy of technology, enactive cognition, research-creation
  • Johanne Sloan
    • Professor, Art History
    Research areas: Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture
  • Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro
    • Associate Professor, Theatre
    Research areas: oral history performance, listening/hearing, experimental theatre, research-creation, social innovation, documentary theatre, walking, participatory processes, sound, activism, war and memory, theatre for social change, relational art, storytelling, representation, drama/performance, violence, performance studies, Latin America, participatory art
  • Mark J. Sussman
    • Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
    • Professor, Theatre
    Research areas: performance studies, material performance, avant-garde and experimental theatre, animation of public space, object theatre, performance ethnography, Hemispheric performance, magic,cantastoria, political circus, parades, pageantry, collective creation, festival, pedagogy
  • MJ Thompson
    • Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Art Education
    Research areas: performance studies, dance studies, writing and writing pedagogies, performing arts, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, movement, the body, embodiment, theories of everyday life, art and climate change, art and the environment
  • Kathleen Vaughan
    • Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Art Education
    • Coordinator of the Community Art Education (BFA Major) program, Art Education
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
    • Professor, Art Education
    Research areas: socially engaged art, public pedagogies, place, posthumanism, environmental justice, human-animal ethics,interdisciplinarity, science-art collaborations, museum education, research-creation, oral histories, mapping, walking, hand-based and digital textiles, photography, collage, audio walks, urban futures, community arts, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Iceland
  • Haidee Wasson
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Cinema
    • Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Inclusion, Fine Arts
    Research areas: muselogy, feminism, moving image technologies, portable film technologies, cultural histories of cinema, moving image studies, film/media historiography, women and film/media, film/media theory, cultural studies, history of media arts, cinema, sound, television, web videos, critical curatorial studies, emergent media
  • Angelique Willkie
    • Co-chair of the Concordia University Task Force on Anti-Black Racism
    • Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance
    Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies

  • Jordan LeBel
    • Professor, Marketing
    Research areas: Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies, Food and Foodservice Innovation

Interdisciplinary Teams

Through their advisory committee, Humanities students gain access to Concordia’s many outstanding interdisciplinary teams. Learn more about these teams below:

 
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