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John Percy

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

John Percy

Areas of Expertise

  • Astronomy
  • Science education and literacy
  • stellar evolution
  • Variable stars

Office: 416-978-2577
Home: 416-231-6798
Website
Email: percy@astro.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jordana Garbati

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • academic writing
  • business communication
  • emoji communication
  • game enhanced learning

Office: N/A
Languages: French,Italian
Website
Email: jordana.garbati@utoronto.ca

Josée Johnston

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Consumer culture
  • Globalization
  • Political Ecology and Critical Social Theory
  • Sociology of Food

Office: N/A
Website
Email: josee.johnston@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Judith Andersen

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bio-psycho-social health psychology
  • Evidence-based interventions for performing during stress
  • Mental and physical health
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Psychophysiology
  • Research with first responders and law enforcement officers
  • Trauma

Office: N/A
Website
Email: judith.andersen@utoronto.ca

Julie MacArthur

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • African history
  • Politics in Kenya

Office: (905) 569-4492
Email: julie.macarthur@utoronto.ca
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Julius Haag

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Gangs
  • Police Accountability and Reform
  • Policing
  • Race and racism
  • Youth Culture and Crime
  • Youth justice

Office: N/A
Website
Email: julius.haag@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jumi Shin

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-cancer protein drugs
  • Directed evolution
  • Gene regulation
  • Genomic mutations from nanoparticle & quantum-dot exposure
  • Protein engineering

Office: 905 828 5355
Website
Email: jumi.shin@utoronto.ca
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Kate Maddalena

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy and media/technology
  • Public communication about technology and the future
  • Public environmental communication
  • Public medical/health communication
  • Public science communication

Office: 416-524-9893
Mobile: 416-524-9893
Languages: French
Email: kate.maddalena@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Katharina Braeutigam

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change
  • Epigenetics
  • Future Forests
  • Genomics
  • Plant Biology
  • Stress Biology

Office: (905) 569-4777
Languages: German
Website
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Katherine Bullock

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Muslims in Canada
  • Islamic perspectives on poverty alleviation (charity and basic income)
  • Media representation of Islam/Muslims
  • Muslim organisations and civic engagement in Canada
  • Muslim women and the veil

Office: N/A
Email: katherine.bullock@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Communication and aging (Older Adults)
  • Hearing and Hearing Loss

Office: N/A
Mobile: 672-999-4531
Email: k.pichora.fuller@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kathleen Scheaffer

Librarian

Areas of Expertise

  • contemplative and anti-oppressive pedagogy
  • digital identity literacy
  • information studies and library science
  • mindfulness resources, spaces and programs within universities and colleges

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: kathleen.scheaffer@utoronto.ca

Ken Derry

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative Religion
  • Indigenous Traditions
  • Method and Theory
  • Religion and Literature/Film
  • Religion and violence
  • Religion, Culture & Politics
  • Teaching Religion

Office: 905-569-4492
Website
Email: ken.derry@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kent Moore

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Arctic climate
  • Arctic melting
  • Climate change
  • Extreme weather
  • Ice Cores
  • North Pole atmospheric disturbances
  • Sea Ice
  • Warming at high northern latitudes & impact on the Arctic and Canada

Office: 416-978-4686
Mobile: 647-808-5132
Website
Email: gwk.moore@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kristin Victoria Plys

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Capitalism
  • Colonialism/Imperialism
  • Comparative and Historical Sociology
  • Economic History
  • Global & Transnational History
  • Histories of the Café Culture
  • Labour/Left History
  • Marxism
  • Oral history
  • Political economy
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • The Global Sout

Office: N/A
Website
Email: kristin.plys@utoronto.ca

Laura Bolt

Adjunct Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal behaviour
  • Conservation biology
  • Forest fragmentation
  • Primate behavioural ecology
  • Primate communication

Office: N/A
Website
Email: laura.bolt@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Laurel MacDowell

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Laurel MacDowell

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian labour history and relations
  • North American environmental history

Office: 905-828-5243
Website
Email: laurel.macdowell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Len Brooks

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Accounting
  • Business and professional ethics
  • Control systems
  • Corporate corruption and fraud
  • Corporate culture
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Decision making
  • Ethical investing
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Forensic accounting
  • General management
  • Governance
  • Professional services
  • Risk management
  • Social enterprises

Office: (905) 828-3916
Website
Email: len.brooks@utoronto.ca
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Lindsay Schoenbohm

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate-tectonic interactions
  • Earthquakes
  • Erosion by rivers and glaciers
  • Landscape dynamics
  • Mountain building
  • Plate tectonics
  • Record of past earthquakes
  • Volcanoes

Office: (905) 569-4400
Website
Email: lindsay.schoenbohm@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lisa Kramer

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioural finance
  • Investments
  • investor decisions

Office: (416) 978-2496
Website
Email: lisa.kramer@utoronto.ca

Loren Martin

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioural neuroscience
  • Emotional contagion
  • Empathy
  • Memory
  • Pain
  • Sex differences
  • Social interactions
  • Stress
  • Synaptic plasticity.

Office: 905-569-5784
Website
Email: lj.martin@utoronto.ca

Louis Kaplan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th and 21st century art and visual culture
  • Contemporary Jewish art and visual culture
  • Deconstruction
  • Film and media culture
  • Humour studies
  • New media art practices (especially augmented reality)
  • Photography studies

Office: 905-828-5411
Mobile: 905-569-4646
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: louis.kaplan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Lucas Wilson

Postdoctoral fellow

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th and 21st-century U.S. literatures
  • Affect theory
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Memory studies
  • The Holocaust
  • White Christian nationalism

Office: N/A
Website
Email: lucasfw.wilson@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Luis Seco

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Financial risk management
  • Hedge funds
  • Investments
  • Mathematical finance
  • Pensions
  • Stock markets

Office: (647)-891-8650
Mobile: (416) 907 0716
Languages: Spanish
Website
Email: seco@math.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Luisa Farah Schwartzman

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Brazil
  • Race and ethnicity

Office: (905) 569-4611
Website
Email: luisa.fs@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mairi Cowan

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • 17th-century Quebec
  • Medieval and early modern Europe
  • New France
  • Pedagogy
  • Scotland
  • Teaching and learning history

Office: N/A
Mobile: 905-828-3730
Languages: Latin, French
Website
Email: mairi.cowan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark Blaauw-Hara

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
  • Professional writing
  • Rhetoric and writing studies

Office: N/A
Website
Email: mark.blaauwhara@utoronto.ca

Martha Balaguera Cuervo

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Borders, migrations, and race
  • Democratic theory
  • Protest and social movements
  • Queer and trans studies
  • Transnational feminisms, and feminist theory

Office: N/A
Email: m.balaguera@utoronto.ca

Meghan Sutherland

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History & Theory of Film
  • Politics of Popular Entertainment (History & Theory)
  • Race & Gender in Visual Culture
  • Television & New Media
  • Theories of Liberalism & Populism
  • Theory & Philosophy of Representation (Politics, Art & Entertainment)

Office: 416-978-2878
Languages: Italian
Email: meghan.sutherland@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email, Text

Melissa Holmes

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult plasticity in the mammalian brain
  • Reciprocal relationship between social interactions

Office: N/A
Mobile: 905-828-3956
Website
Email: melissa.holmes@utoronto.ca