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Elizabeth Dhuey

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of K-12 education
  • Kindergarten
  • Middle/Junior High School
  • Principals
  • Redshirting
  • Special Education Finance

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
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Élyse Caron-Beaudoin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biology
  • Environmental health
  • Public health
  • Toxicology

Office: 647-601-4641
Languages: French,English
Website
Email: elyse.caronbeaudoin@utoronto.ca
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Emine Fidan Elcioglu

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Class
  • Gender
  • Migration & Refugee Studies
  • Political Sociology
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Work & Labor

Office: N/A
Languages: Turkish,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: fidan.elcioglu@utoronto.ca

Garry Leonard

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century literature
  • Advertising
  • film noir
  • Gothic/horror
  • Hemingway
  • Joyce
  • Literature and film studies
  • Melodrama
  • Other Teaching Fields, Cinema.
  • Pop music
  • Rock and roll
  • Science fiction
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature
  • Westerns
  • Woolf
  • World cinema

Office: (416) 287-7141
Website
Email: garry.leonard@utoronto.ca
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Garth Frazer

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics
  • Emerging economies
  • Industrial development in Africa
  • International trade in Africa
  • Productivity
  • Public policy

Office: 416-978-3047, 416-287-7522
Website
Email: g.frazer@utoronto.ca
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Genevieve Dewar

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adaptations to Marginal Environments in the Middle Stone Age
  • Adaptive plasticity
  • Africa
  • Archaeology
  • Bio-Archaeology
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Hunter-gatherers
  • Late Woodland Period of the Great Lakes
  • Lesotho
  • Marginal environments
  • Middle Stone Age of Africa
  • Origins of modern human behaviour
  • Settlement patterns
  • South Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Subsistence strategies

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-985-0366
Website
Email: genevieve.dewar@utoronto.ca
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George Archontitsis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aquatic biogeochemical modelling
  • Bayesian inference
  • Extreme meteorological events
  • Fish contamination
  • Plankton ecology
  • Watershed science

Office: 416-287-7197
Languages: English,Greek, Modern (1453-)
Website
Email: george.arhonditsis@utoronto.ca

Gordon Cleveland

Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Child care policy
  • Compensation of child care workers
  • Economic effects of early childhood education
  • Family homes
  • Quality in child care centres, family homes

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-617-5485
Website
Email: gordon.cleveland@utoronto.ca
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Hanno Rein

Associate Professor

Hanno Rein

Areas of Expertise

  • Exoplanets
  • Gravity
  • Life in the universe
  • Planets
  • Solar System

Office: 416 287-7206
Languages: German
Website
Email: hanno.rein@utoronto.ca
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Harry Krashinsky

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Impact of training and accreditation on earnings
  • Labour economics
  • Lncluding wage inequality and differentials
  • Self-employment and job loss

Office: 416-978-1744
Website
Email: harry.krashinsky@utoronto.ca
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Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz

Professor

Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioconjugates
  • Bioinorganic chemistry
  • Biomaterials
  • Biosensors
  • Electrochemistry

Office: (416) 287-7197
Languages: English,German,French
Website
Email: bernie.kraatz@utoronto.ca
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Hilary Brown

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chronic illness
  • Disability
  • Epidemiology
  • Maternal and child health
  • Reproductive health

Office: 416-208-2239
Website
Email: hk.brown@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Irene Morra

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th-21st century (the monarchy in the arts and media, British popular music, British theatre and drama, British opera, British literature)
  • Britishness studies
  • Film and theatre adaptations of literature
  • Modern Drama - especially British and American, verse drama
  • Opera studies
  • Shakespeare on stage, in film, in literature, in music

Office: 416-926-7148
Website
Email: irene.morra@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Jason Weir

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • biogeography
  • Evolution
  • extinction
  • latitudinal diversity gradient
  • Macroevolution
  • Ornithology
  • phylogenetics
  • speciation

Office: 416-208-5152
Website
Email: jason.weir@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Dvorkin

Senior Fellow, Massey College

Former director, Journalism Program

Areas of Expertise

  • Changing role of media
  • Disinformation & censorship
  • Importance of trusted media sources
  • Journalism ethics
  • Media management and ethical decision-making
  • Misinformation
  • News ombudsmanship
  • Significance of digital freedom & government accountability
  • Social media and democratic practice
  • Spread of misinformation
  • The challenge of digital information
  • The role of cameras in court rooms
  • Youth vote reporting

Office: N/A
Home: 416-537-2892
Mobile: 647-401-5330
Languages: French, German, Hebrew
Email: jeffrey.dvorkin@utoronto.ca
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Joanna Heathcote

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Diversity
  • Justice/fair treatment of employees
  • Leadership
  • Teaching Methods

Office: (416) 208-4817
Website
Email: joanna.heathcote@utoronto.ca
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John Miron

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Agency and the human condition
  • Demographic change and housing demand
  • Location theory
  • Migration and regional economic growth

Office: 416-287-7283
Website
Email: john.miron@utoronto.ca
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John P. Trougakos

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Customer Service
  • Daily Work Behaviour & The Future of Work
  • Emotional Labour
  • Emotions
  • Employee Well-Being
  • Interpersonal Dynamics in the Workplace
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Leadership
  • Performance Management
  • Stress management
  • Work Recovery
  • Work-life balance

Office: N/A
Languages: Greek
Website
Email: john.trougakos@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Joshua Arthurs

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Dictatorships
  • Fascism
  • Italy
  • Monument and memory controversies
  • Populist far-right

Office: N/A
Languages: Italian,French,Spanish; Castilian,German,Latin,Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Website
Email: joshua.arthurs@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Julian Campisi

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • European Politics/EU studies
  • Italian politics
  • Political Risk
  • Public Policy in Canada

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Italian
Website
Email: julian.campisi@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Julian Lowman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Earth's interior and magnetic field
  • Plate tectonics
  • Terrestrial planets and rocky moons

Office: (416) 208-4880
Website
Email: julian.lowman@utoronto.ca
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Julie McCarthy

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Emotion regulation and coping
  • Emotions in management
  • Employee motivation
  • Hiring
  • Job interviews
  • Leadership
  • Resilience
  • selection tests
  • Talent management / employee retention
  • Work-life balance
  • Workplace stress and anxiety

Office: 416-287-7342, 416-946-3167
Website
Email: julie.mccarthy@utoronto.ca
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Juvénal Ndayiragije

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative syntax, African languages (Bantu, Kwa groups)
  • Linguistic theory, Syntax, Morphology

Office: 416-287-7135
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: juvenal.ndayiragije@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Karen Louise Smith

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate and atmospheric variability of the mid-latitude
  • Earth system models
  • Polar regions using a hierarchy of numerical climate
  • Statistical techniques

Office: N/A
Website
Email: karen.smith@utoronto.ca

Karen McCrindle

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Pidgins and Creoles
  • Sociolinguistics (Media and language)
  • Teaching and learning

Office: (416) 287-7138
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: k.mccrindle@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ken MacDonald

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural Identity in Northern Pakistan
  • Cultural identity politics
  • Culture and biodiversity conservation
  • Environment and development
  • Ethics and development
  • Exploitation of mountaineering porters
  • Kashmir
  • Natural hazards and vulnerability
  • New cultural ecologies of consumption
  • Restructuring of Biodiversity Conservation

Office: (416) 287-7294
Home: 416-466-2651
Languages: Balti
Website
Email: ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Kenneth Welch

Associate Professor

Kenneth Welch Jr.

Areas of Expertise

  • Bat
  • comparative vertebrate physiology
  • energetics
  • Hovering flight
  • Hummingbird
  • metabolism
  • Metabolism and energetics
  • muscle physiology
  • Physiological ecology

Office: (416) 208-5100
Website
Email: kenneth.welchjr@utoronto.ca
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Konstantine Zakzanis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical psychology and neuropsychology
  • Dementia
  • Depression
  • Malingering
  • Psychological injury and the law
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion

Office: (416) 287-7424
Website
Email: konstantine.zakzanis@utoronto.ca
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Laura Bisaillon

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian immigration system
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Horn of Africa
  • Institutional ethnography
  • Knowledge production
  • Migration, minoritization
  • Visual analysis

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Website
Email: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Leslie Chan

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Access to knowledge
  • Bridging digital and knowledge divide
  • Electronic publishing
  • Impact of new media on social practices
  • Learning with new technologies
  • Open access to scholarly literature
  • teaching

Office: N/A
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese),Chinese (Mandarin)
Website
Email: lesliekw.chan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online