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U of T Mississauga

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

Melissa Milkie

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender
  • Mental health
  • Parenting/Family relations
  • Time Use
  • Work-Family Balance

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

Michael Liut

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Algorithms
  • Computer science education

Office: (905) 828-3797‬
Languages: Italian
Website
Email: michael.liut@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mihkel Tombak

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Competition policy and antitrust
  • Economics of technological innovation
  • Industrial organization
  • Technology strategy and policy

Office: 905-828-5398
Mobile: 905-483-7877
Website
Email: mihkel.tombak@rotman.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Minlei Ye

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Auditing
  • Financial accounting

Office: 905-828-5443
Website
Email: minlei.ye@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mitchell Huynh

Lecturer, Department of Management, U of T Mississauga

Areas of Expertise

  • Personal finance

Office: 416-564-6260
Email: huynh.mitch@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Professor

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Areas of Expertise

  • Historical & political context of U.S. multi-year presence in Afghanistan & firm removal deadline
  • Iran
  • Iranian Modernity, Nationalism and Islamism
  • Islam
  • Islamic Modernity
  • Memory, History and Historiography
  • Modern Middle East
  • Orientalism and Occidentalism
  • Persian diaspora
  • Scientific Imagination and Modern Persian Political Language

Office: 416-978-5039
Home: 416-767-2064
Languages: Persian
Email: m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Naomi Adiv

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Community development
  • Public space
  • Swimming and bathing
  • Urban geography

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,Hebrew
Website
Email: naomi.adiv@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nate Charlow

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Metaethics
  • Philosophy of Language

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-978-3311
Website
Email: nate.charlow@utoronto.ca

Neda Maghbouleh

Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Areas of Expertise

  • Immigration
  • Iran
  • Islamophobia
  • Racism
  • Syrian refugees in Canada and the U.S.
  • The Middle East

Office: N/A
Email: neda.maghbouleh@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Collins

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Contrast between how much variance we believe we can explain in and how much is actually explainable
  • Difficulties in managing fisheries resources
  • Effects of predation risk on activity patterns and habitat use by littoral fishes
  • Evolution of effect sizes in nature
  • Facilitating warmwater temperature regimes for fish in shallow Great Lakes embayments
  • Freshwater fish behaviour
  • Human development of lake shorelines
  • Implementing Open Science initiatives in ecology and evolutionary biology
  • Importance of activity costs in determining fish growth differences among lakes
  • Managing false discovery rates in ecology and evolutionary biology
  • Utility of habitat characteristics in determining the growth and abundance of nearshore fishes

Office: 905-828-3998
Website
Email: nick.collins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Woolridge

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • COVID-19 – visualizing the structure and activity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
  • Visual resources in health education
  • Visualizations of the progress of the pandemic in Canada and abroad

Office: N/A
Mobile: (905) 569-4264
Website
Email: n.woolridge@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicola Lacetera

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics in markets
  • Health economics
  • Industrial and innovation economics.
  • Motivations for altruistic behaviour
  • Strategic Management

Office: N/A
Mobile: +14169962753
Languages: Italian,French
Website
Email: nicola.lacetera@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicole Novroski

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Forensic biology
  • Forensic DNA analysis
  • Human identification
  • Missing person(s) and human remain(s) identification using DNA
  • Population genetics

Office: (905) 569-4627
Mobile: 315-709-2424
Website
Email: nicole.novroski@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Norman Farb

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Depression
  • Interoception (body awareness)
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Mindfulness
  • Psychedelics

Office: 905-828-3959
Website
Email: norman.farb@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Pascal Michelucci

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • French literature and culture
  • French thinkers
  • Language teaching and technology
  • Modern and contemporary French writers
  • Semiotics of mass media and information and communication technologies(ICTs)

Office: (905) 828-3774
Languages: French
Website
Email: pascal.michelucci@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Paula Maurutto

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • AI in criminal justice
  • Criminal records
  • Risk assessments in criminology

Office: N/A
Languages: Italian
Website
Email: p.maurutto@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Peter Kotanen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biological invasions
  • Ecology of plant populations and communities
  • Grazing by geese
  • Invasive plants
  • natural history
  • Plant-soil interactions
  • Seed ecology

Office: 905-828-5365
Website
Email: peter.kotanen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Peter Solomon

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Criminal law and procedure in the post-soviet world
  • Criminal policy and policy-making
  • Judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia and Ukraine
  • Law and courts in authoritarian and transitional states
  • Politics of Criminal Justice in Various Countries
  • Russian legal system
  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics

Office: 416-946-8959
Website
Email: peter.solomon@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Philip Oreopoulos

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioural economics
  • Economics of education
  • Education policy and program evaluation
  • Labour economics
  • Research design and methods

Office: 416-978-4407
Mobile: 416-904-6736
Website
Email: oreo@economics.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Pierre Desrochers

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • (Over)population
  • Economic development
  • Environmental policy
  • Environmentalist movement
  • Food policy
  • Population Growth and the Environment
  • Science and technology policy
  • Sustainable Development

Office: N/A
Mobile: 905-828-5206
Languages: French
Website
Email: pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Randy Besco

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian government and politics
  • Elections
  • How political polls dictate voter behaviour
  • Public opinion
  • Race & immigration

Office: 905-569-4377
Website
Email: randy.besco@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Evil
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Psychopaths
  • Serial killers
  • violence

Office: (647) 575-4196
Languages: English, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish
Website
Email: rosenberg.larsen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Rhonda McEwen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Communication technology
  • Digital culture
  • Emerging technology (VR/AR/Robots/etc.)
  • Mobile communication
  • Social media
  • Tech and disabilities (esp. cognitive)

Office: 905-828-3719
Mobile: 416-301-3181
Website
Email: rhonda.mcewen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Robert R Reisz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Dinosaurs and other fossils
  • Evolution of herbivory
  • Evolution of Terrestrial vertebrates
  • Extinctions
  • Mammal-like reptiles
  • Origin of major groups of vertebrates
  • Patterns of vertebrate diversification, origin of major groups of vertebrates
  • Vertebrate paleontology

Office: 905-828-3981
Mobile: 647- 830-5364
Languages: French, Hungarian, Romanian
Website
Email: robert.reisz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ronald Buliung

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Access to education
  • Child/youth education and disability
  • City planning
  • Cycling/Bicycles
  • Disabilities
  • Food access
  • Pandemic
  • Telework
  • Transportation

Office: 647-406-7460
Website
Email: ron.buliung@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ronald Wolthoff

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Job search
  • Labour market
  • Recruiting
  • Unemployment
  • Wages

Office: +1 416 978 5588
Languages: Dutch; Flemish,English
Website
Email: ronald.wolthoff@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Samuel Ronfard

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive Development
  • Conceptual Development
  • Culture and Cognition.
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Learning

Office: N/A
Mobile: 905-828-5415
Website
Email: samuel.ronfard@utoronto.ca

Sarianna Metso

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Editing of biblical manuscripts and physical manuscript reconstruction
  • Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially ancient Jewish legislation
  • Methods of textual and redaction criticism
  • Problems related to reconstructing history from ancient Jewish literature
  • Second Temple Jewish Literature

Office: 905-828-3771
Home: 416-275-9494
Email: s.metso@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online