AFFILIATED FACULTY
Social justice issues require a multidisciplinary perspective. Meet our affiliated faculty.
Business
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Amr Addas
- Lecturer, Director Van Berkom Investment Management Program, Finance
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Joel Bothello
- Associate Professor, Management
- Concordia University Research Chair in Resilience and Institutions
Research areas: Institutional Theory, sustainability, stakeholder theory, the informal economy -
Cédric Lesage
- Professor, Accountancy
- Lawrence S. Bloomberg Chair, Accountancy
- Associate Dean Research & Impact
Research areas: Audit, Ethics, Corporate Governance, Responsibility -
Claudine Mangen
- Full Professor, Accountancy
- RBC Professorship in Responsible Organizations
- Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
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Robert S. Nason
- Associate Professor, Management
- Concordia University Research Chair in Entrepreneurship and Society
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Rajshree Prakash
- Assistant Professor, Management
Research areas: Institutional theory, Sustainability, Social Innovation -
Caroline Roux
- Associate Professor, Marketing
- Concordia University Research Chair in Psychology of Resource Scarcity (2018-2023)
Research areas: Resource Scarcity & Pro-social Behavior -
Anton Shevchenko
- Concordia University Research Chair in Operations & Sustainable Development
- Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Business Technology Management
Research areas: Supply chain sustainability Sustainable operations -
Thomas J. Walker
- Professor, Finance
Research areas: Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Securities Litigation & Regulation, Sustainability & Climate Change, Banking, Initial Public Offerings, Insider Trading, Institutional Ownership, Venture Capital
Engineering and Computer Science
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Govind Gopakumar
- Associate Professor (cross-appointed) , Geography, Planning and Environment
- Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
Research areas: Technology and Society, Urban Infrastructure, Cities, Development Studies, Engineering Education, Global Engineering
Fine Arts
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Shira Avni
- Associate Professor (Film Animation), Cinema
Research areas: Neurodiversity, motherhood, animation, animated documentary, under camera animation, clay animation, direct animation, community based animation, autism, gender and neurodiversity, Down syndrome, maternal health, diversity, inclusion, social justice animation -
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 -
Bonnie Harnden
- Associate Professor and practicum coordinator, Drama Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: Drama therapy, trauma, attachment, research-creation, performed autoethnography, psychoanalysis, ethnography, embodied knowledge, play therapy, family therapy, parenting, experimental theater, theater for social change, arts-based learning, risk factors/ protective factors, borderline personality disorder, child and youth care, suicide intervention, mental health, pedagogy -
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 -
Alice Ming Wai Jim
- Professor of Contemporary Art History, Art History
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas (Brill)
- 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)
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Jason Edward Lewis
- Professor of Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
- Co-director, Indigenous Futures Research Centre
- Co-director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
- Co-director, Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media
- Director, Initiative for Indigenous Futures
- Special Advisor to the Provost on Indigenous Spaces
- University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary
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 -
Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo
- Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Visual Culture , Design and Computation Arts
Research areas: Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Typography, Semiotics, Social Justice, Aesthetics, Editorial Design, Adversarial Design, Visual and Material Culture, Social Movements, Community Organizing, Relationality, Poetics, Commensality, Anti-racism -
Maya Rae Oppenheimer
- Assistant Professor, Studio Arts
Research areas: cultural history, art and re-enactment, art and archives, creative writing, social practice art, social justice and art and politics, critical pedagogy, histories of social science and medicine, historiographies in art and design -
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 -
Guylaine Vaillancourt
- Associate Professor, Music Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: music therapy, arts-based research, participatory action research, qualitative methods, community music therapy, mental health, palliative care, pain management, guided imagery and music, social justice, leadership development, mentoring, professional network building -
Heather McLaughlin
- Art Therapy Graduate Program Director, Creative Arts Therapies
- Assistant Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
- Director, Concordia Arts in Health Centre, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: mental health, art therapy, arts-based learning, life transitions, youth development, lifespan developmental, self esteem, anger, anxiety and stress, parenting, family therapy, trauma, mind/body, grief and bereavement, peer relationships, couple therapy, child therapy, child and youth care, child development
Humanities
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Emilia Angelova
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
Research areas: 20th C Continental Philosophy (esp. Heidegger, Derrida, French Feminism), 19th C Continental Philosophy (Hegel, Kant) -
Carly Daniel-Hughes
- Professor, Religions and Cultures
Research areas: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Religious Studies; Queer Theory and Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; History of Christianity; Early Christianity; Roman Empire -
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 -
Matthias Fritsch
- Professor, Philosophy
Research areas: Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy -
Ulf Hlobil
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
Research areas: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, Moral Psychology, Metaethics, Philosophy of Psychology -
Jing Iris Hu
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
Research areas: Ethics, Moral Psychology, Confucian Philosophy -
Christine Jamieson
- Undergraduate & Certificate Program Advisor and Associate Professor, Theological Studies
Research areas: Indigenous Spirituality, Ethical deliberation, Frameworks for ethical deliberation, Bioethics, Medical ethics, Christian ethics, Lonergan, -
Yasmin Jiwani
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Race; Gender;, Representations; News Media; Popular Television; Critical Race Theory; Colonialism/decoloniality; Youth Studies; Violence Against Women; Islam/Muslim representations; Girl Studies; Memorials; Virtual Graveyards -
Natalie Kouri-Towe
- Program and Practicum Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
- Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
Research areas: gender, race, sexuality, social movements, solidarity, transnational feminism, queer theory, masculinities, securitization, war, gender-based violence, refugees and migration, affect studies, digital media, gender & sexuality pedagogy and curriculum -
Marc Lalonde
- Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Religions and Cultures
Status: Senior LectuerResearch areas: Philosophy of Religion, Critical Theory, Jewish and Christian Thought, the philosophy and ethics of Charles Taylor -
Krista Lynes
- Professor, Communication Studies
- Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
- Director, Feminist Media Studio
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 -
Gada Mahrouse
- Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
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Ted McCormick
- Fellow, School of Irish Studies
- Professor, History
Research areas: Early modern British/Irish/Atlantic history, intellectual history, history of science, history of economic thought -
Brian McDonough
- Lecturer, Theological Studies
Research areas: Encounter between spiritualities; Faith & culture; Cosmology & eco-justice; Relations with Indigenous peoples; Photography -
Elizabeth (Liz) Miller
- Professor, Communication Studies
Status: Chair of the DepartmentResearch areas: New media, environment, interactive documentary, VR, human rights, community based research, participatory documentary, feminist media, climate change, refugee youth, research-creation -
Katharina Nieswandt
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
Research areas: Metaethics, Political Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences -
Alessandra Renzi
- Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Social Movements Media, Data Justice, Collaborative and Participatory Media, Art and Activism, Surveillance, gentrification and housing rights, algorithmic governance, Media Democracy, co-research and co-design, data activism. -
Steven Richard Scott
- Part-Time Professor, Theological Studies
Research areas: Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Israelite Religion, Second Temple Judaism, Historical Jesus, New Testament, Early Christianity, and Gnosticsm -
Peter C. van Wyck
- Professor, Communication Studies
Status: Not accepting new graduate studentsResearch areas: environmental and ecological humanities; atomic photography; nuclear and atomic history and aesthetics; cultural theory; writing as method; north and nordicity; monuments, archives and memory; risk and futurity -
Theresa Ventura
- Associate Professor, History
- Public History Honours Program, History
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Roberto Viereck Salinas
- Associate Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
Sciences
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Bengi Akbulut
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Economic Alternatives Political Ecology, Feminist Economics, Social Movements -
Silvano De la Llata
- Associate Professor - Co-Director of Next Generation Cities Institute’s Cluster of Design, Art and Culture (On Sabbatical), Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: public space, urban design, social movements, collaborative community planning, open-source cities, planning theory, urban environmental psychology, subaltern urbanisms and insurgent planning/design. -
Kristen Dunfield
- Associate Professor, Psychology
- Associate Chair, Psychology
Research areas: cognitive development, social cognition, comparative cognition, prosocial behaviour, trust, cooperation -
Kevin A. Gould
- Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Political ecology, historical and economic geographies of the Americas and particularly Guatemala, social theory, entanglements of development and militarization, politics of expertise, post-disaster reconstruction -
Lisa Kakinami
- Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
- Research Member, PERFORM Centre
- Affiliate, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
- Fellow, Science College
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Nalini Mohabir
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Indentured Labour; Postcolonialism, Caribbean Studies, Decolonization; Diaspora, Migration, and Transnationalism; Protest and Resistance -
Norma M. Rantisi
- Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring -
Craig Townsend
- Associate Professor and Chair, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Transportation policy, projects and politics; built environment characteristics of Canada's metropolitan areas; urban sprawl and the effect of legally protecting non-urban land; urban planning in the developing world.
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Beverley Best
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory -
Elizabeth Bloodgood
- Associate Professor, Political Science
Research areas: International Relations & Nongovernmental Organizations -
Erik Chevrier
- Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Part-Time Instructor, Geography, Planning and Environment
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Harold Chorney
- Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Political Economy; Urbanization; Globalization; Macroeconomics -
Nicole De Silva
- Associate Professor, Political Science
Research areas: global and regional institutions and law, human rights, international criminal justice -
Effrosyni Diamantoudi
- Professor, Economics
- Dean, Graduate Studies, School of Graduate Studies
Research areas: Game Theory, Coalition Formation, Cartel Stability Environmental Economics, International Environmental Agreements -
Martin A. French
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Risk, Surveillance, Privacy and Social Justice -
Xintong Han
- Assistant Professor, Economics
Status: Full timeResearch areas: Digital Economics, Empirical IO, Network Economics, Econometric Methodology -
Tina Hilgers
- Associate Professor , Political Science
Research areas: Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Informal Politics; Subnational Politics; Urban Politics; Clientelism; Urban Violence; Developing Areas; Latin America; Caribbean; Brazil; Jamaica; Mexico -
David Howes
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Anthropology of the Senses, Sensory Ethnography, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics -
Chris Hurl
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Labour Studies, Urban Governance, Political Economy, Social Movements -
Satoshi Ikeda
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Food and Sustainability, Social Economy, World-System Studies -
Meghan Joy
- Associate Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Urban Politics; Public Policy; the Politics of Aging; the Nonprofit Sector -
Anna Kruzynski
- Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
Research areas: Community economies, Post-capitalism, Collective Autonomy, Anarchism, Social Justice, Contentious feminism, Participatory Action Research, Community Organizing, Activism -
Marc Lalonde
- Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Religions and Cultures
Status: Senior LectuerResearch areas: Philosophy of Religion, Critical Theory, Jewish and Christian Thought, the philosophy and ethics of Charles Taylor -
Ming Li
- Professor, Economics
- CIREQ research fellow
- CIRANO research fellow
Research areas: game theory; microeconomics; political economics -
Jean François Mayer
- Associate Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Civil society organizations; social movements; resistance; precariousness; informal workplaces; chronic violence; urban periphery; marginalized/invisible people; labor politics; ethnography; Brazil; Mexico; Latin America. -
Marguerite Mendell
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Community and Public Affairs
Research areas: Social finance; impact investing; co-construction of public policy; the commons; Karl Polanyi studies; the social and solidarity economy in Quebec and internationally -
Szilvia Pápai
- Associate Professor, Economics
Research areas: Matching Theory, Axiomatic Resource Allocation, Market Design, Game Theory -
Mireille Paquet
- Associate Professor, Political Science
- Concordia University Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration
Research areas: Immigration, Public Policy, Public Policy and Canadian politics. -
Stephanie Paterson
- Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Feminist and Critical Policy Studies; Feminist Governance, State Feminism and Gender Mainstreaming; Reproductive Politics. -
Amy R. Poteete
- Undergraduate Program Director, Political Science
- Associate Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Comparative Politics; Policy; Africa; natural resources; (de)centralization; elections; social justice and inclusion; research design -
Jason Keenan Prince
- À temps partiel, School of Community and Public Affairs
- Part-time Faculty, School of Community and Public Affairs
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Daniel Salée
- Professor, Political Science
- Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
Research areas: The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics -
Marlene K. Sokolon
- Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Ancient Political Thought; Political Emotions; Politics and Literature; Ethics and Justice; Ethics and Public Policy. -
Amy Swiffen
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Sociolegal Studies, Social and Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Criminology