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Lucan Way

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Authoritarianism
  • Democratization
  • Russian/post-communist politics

Office: (416) 287-7295
Home: 416-805-0579
Website
Email: lucan.way@utoronto.ca
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Malama Tsimenis

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th century French literature
  • Innovative pedagogy
  • Literary criticism

Office: 416-287-7498
Mobile: 416-302-0841
Website
Email: malama.tsimenis@utoronto.ca
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Marc Cadotte

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Ecosystem services
  • Evolution and ecology
  • Exotic species invasions
  • Plant physiological ecology
  • Restoration
  • Urban environments

Office: 416-208-5105
Website
Email: marc.cadotte@utoronto.ca
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Marco Zimmer-De Iuliis

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Mathematics.
  • Specifically chemistry
  • Teaching science

Office: N/A
Email: m.zimmer.deiuliis@utoronto.ca

Margaret Kohn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cities
  • Contemporary political thought
  • Privatization of public space
  • Social justice
  • Urban theory

Office: 4163208840
Website
Email: peggy.kohn@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark Fitzpatrick

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Behaviour genetics
  • Behavioural ecology
  • Candidate gene approach
  • Complex traits
  • Epistasis
  • Evolutionary genetics
  • Frequency-dependent selection
  • Neurogenetics
  • Pleiotropy

Office: (416) 208-2703
Home: 905-239-8908
Website
Email: mark.fitzpatrick@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Marlene Goldman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Age studies
  • Contemporary Canadian literature
  • Disability studies
  • Health Humanities
  • Memory studies

Office: (416) 923-0756
Website
Email: mgoldman@chass.utoronto.ca
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Mathew Wells

Professor

Mathew Wells

Areas of Expertise

  • Circulation in lakes
  • Lakes
  • Oceanography and ocean dynamics
  • Water quality in lakes

Office: 416 208 4879
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Matthew Hoffmann

Professor

Matthew Hoffmann

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change politics
  • Climate-related policy
  • Environmental policy
  • Global environmental politics
  • Global governance
  • International relations
  • Investing in green technology

Office: 416-287-7287
Mobile: 647-987-1961
Website
Email: matt.hoffmann@utoronto.ca
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Maydianne Andrade

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal behaviour
  • Mating behaviour
  • Sexual cannibalism
  • Sexual selection
  • Spider biology

Office: 416-287-7425
Website
Email: maydianne.andrade@utoronto.ca
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Michael Inzlicht

Professor

Michael Inzlicht

Areas of Expertise

  • Empathy
  • Leisure, social media, digital devices, recreational cannabis use
  • Motivation & Effort
  • Open science, replications, methods reform
  • Self-Control, Cognitive Control, Self-Regulation
  • Stigmatization, Prejudice & Discrimination

Office: 416-208-4826
Languages: English,French,Hebrew
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michael Krashinsky

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of Child Care
  • Economics of education
  • Public Finance

Office: 416-287-7341
Website
Email: michael.krashinsky@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michelle Silver

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gerontology, Aging & Society, Life course research
  • Health information seeking
  • Health information seeking behaviors
  • Intergenerational activities (exercise and health)
  • Perceptions about aging
  • Retirement and later life transitions
  • Seniors
  • Work identity and retirement

Office: 416-287-5642
Website
Email: michelle.silver@utoronto.ca
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Neil ten Kortenaar

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • African literature
  • Caribbean literature
  • Multicultural literature
  • South Asian literature

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416 461-3795
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: neil.kortenaar@utoronto.ca
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Obidimma Ezezika

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Food Security & Sovereignty
  • Global Health equity
  • Global Health Pedagogy
  • Global Nutrition with a focus on Africa
  • Implementation Science
  • Science & Technology Policy in Africa

Office: (416) 208-5635
Website
Email: obidimma.ezezika@utoronto.ca

Pankaj Aggarwal

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Consumer-Brand Relationships
  • Judgment and decision making
  • Product and Brand Anthropomorphism

Office: N/A
Website
Email: pankaj.aggarwal@utoronto.ca

Patricia Landolt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Global migration
  • Non/citizenship
  • Precarious legal status

Office: 416-287-7156
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,French,Portuguese
Website
Email: p.landolt@utoronto.ca
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Patricia Romero-Lankao

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Governance and institutional capacities to adapt to and mitigate environmental risks in cities.
  • The dynamics of urbanization and urban systems that shape inequality in risk at multiple scales
  • The links between risks and food, energy and water (FEW) systems in cities

Office: 416-208-5066
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,English,German
Website
Email: paty.romerolankao@utoronto.ca

Paul Kingston

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Historical Institutionalism
  • Political Economy of the Middle East

Office: (416) 287-7305
Website
Email: kingston@chass.utoronto.ca
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Pauline Beange

Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian government and politics
  • Elections Canada
  • Federalism and public policy
  • Party finance Canada US Britain

Office: 905 887 9355
Mobile: 647 209 0111
Email: pauline.beange@utoronto.ca
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Phani Radhakrishnan

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural differences in workers
  • Diversity in the workplace including racial harassment
  • Diversity in the workplace including racial harassment & discrimination
  • Leadership skills training

Office: (416) 287-7319
Home: 416-656-3234
Website
Email: phani.radhakrishnan@utoronto.ca
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Phil Triadafilopoulos

Professor

Phil Triadafilopoulos

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian public policy
  • Immigration and Citizenship Policy
  • Immigration and multiculturalism in Canada and Germany
  • Immigration and party politics in Canada
  • Immigration in Germany
  • International Migration
  • Nationalism
  • Politics in Greece

Office: 416-208-4813
Home: 416-778-7259
Mobile: 416-346-8067
Languages: English,Greek, Modern (1453-),German
Website
Email: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca
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Ping-Chun Hsiung

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Changing Family Life in Canada
  • Family and Society
  • Family in Transition
  • sociology of gender

Office: 416-287-7291
Mobile: 416-222-5283
Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese
Website
Email: pc.hsiung@utoronto.ca
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Rafael Grohmann

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • AI and Labour
  • Future of work
  • Platform cooperativism
  • Platform labour
  • Public policies for technology and labor
  • Work and artificial intelligence
  • Work and data

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Website
Email: rafael.grohmann@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Rania Salem

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic Sociology of households, labor markets, and economic development
  • Family and marriage in the contemporary Middle East
  • Women and gender in the contemporary Middle East

Office: 647-287-7679
Website
Email: rania.salem@utoronto.ca
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Rena Helms-Park

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Acquisition of reading by children and adults
  • Creolization
  • Cross-linguistic transfer
  • Electronic literacy
  • First and second
  • First and second language lexical (vocabulary) acquisition
  • Language and Power
  • Language lexical (vocabulary) acquisition
  • Language transfer
  • Lexical acquisition
  • Monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition
  • Psycholinguistics of reading
  • Second language acquisition
  • Undergraduate writing curriculum

Office: 416-287-7142
Website
Email: rena.helms.park@utoronto.ca
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Renan Levine

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • American politics
  • Israeli politics
  • Political strategy
  • Voting and elections

Office: (416) 208-2651
Home: 416-848-1871
Website
Email: renan.levine@utoronto.ca
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Rimma Teper

PhD candidate

Areas of Expertise

  • Meditation
  • Mindfulness
  • Moral behavior
  • Moral decision-making
  • Self-knowledge

Office: 416-208-4868
Mobile: 416-648-3843
Email: rimma.teper@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Robert Binnick

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Manchu language
  • Mongolian language
  • Tense and verbal aspect

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

Robert Gillezeau

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic History
  • Labour economics and public policy

Office: N/A
Website
Email: rob.gillezeau@utoronto.ca