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AFFILIATED FACULTY

Social justice issues require a multidisciplinary perspective. Meet our affiliated faculty.

Business

Engineering and Computer Science

Fine Arts

  • 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
    • 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)
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art Institutions (Tier 1)
    Status: On sabbatical until June 30, 2025
    Research areas: contemporary art, new media, contemporary Asian art, Asian Canadian, diaspora, ethnocultural art histories, migration, mobility, global art, critical curatorial studies
  • 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
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Design, 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

  • 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
  • Mary Esteve
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: American studies
  • 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
  • Pablo Gilabert
    • Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics
  • 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 Lectuer
    Research 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
  • 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
    • Department Chair , Communication Studies
    Status: Not accepting PhD students at this time
    Research areas: Media & Environment, interactive documentary, immersive documentary, VR, human rights, community based research, participatory documentary, feminist media, climate change, research-creation
  • Katharina Nieswandt
    • Associate Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: Ethics, Political Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  • Alessandra Renzi
    • Associate Professor, Communication Studies
    • Graduate Diploma Director, 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 students
    Research 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
  • Roberto Viereck Salinas
    • Associate Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
  • Anya Zilberstein
    • Associate Professor, History

Sciences

  • 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
  • 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
  • Lisa Serbin
    • Professor, Psychology
  • 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.

Social Sciences

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