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Ruby Sullan

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Atomic force microscopy
  • Bacterial adhesion
  • Bacterial biofilms
  • Nanomaterial-based antimicrobials
  • Supported lipid bilayers
  • Surface chemistry

Office: (416) 287-7359
Website
Email: ruby.sullan@utoronto.ca
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Rutsuko Ito

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal models of addiction, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia
  • Neurobiology of Learning, Motivation and Decision making

Office: N/A
Website
Email: rutsuko.ito@utoronto.ca

Sam Maglio

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioural economics
  • Behavioural finance
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Decision making
  • Emotion and Cognition
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Social psychology
  • Thinking about the future

Office: 416-978-4253
Website
Email: sam.maglio@utoronto.ca
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Sandra Bamford

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural anthropology
  • Embodiment
  • Europe
  • Foster care
  • Gender
  • Kinship
  • Kinship studies
  • North America
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Science and technology
  • Sex and gender
  • The anthropology of science
  • The Pacific

Office: (416) 287-7301
Languages: Tok Pisin
Website
Email: sandra.bamford@utoronto.ca
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Sandra Daga

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Communication & Leadership
  • Corporate governance
  • Financial accounting issues
  • Financial literacy & personal finance
  • Professional accounting education

Office: (416) 287-5633
Website
Email: sandra.daga@utoronto.ca
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Shadi Dalili

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Higher education
  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Organic chemistry

Office: 416-287-7215
Languages: English,Persian
Website
Email: sh.dalili@utoronto.ca

Sheldon Ungar

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change communication
  • Ignorance
  • Moral panics
  • Risk society

Office: 416-978-8097
Website
Email: sheldon.ungar@utoronto.ca
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Sherri Helwig

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Arts education
  • Arts Leadership
  • Arts Management
  • Comparative Cultural Policy (Canada/US)
  • Copyright
  • Discipline-specific Pedagogy (including Experiential Education)
  • Labour and Human Resources Issues in the Arts, Legal Issues in the Arts

Office: (416) 287-7160
Website
Email: sherri.helwig@utoronto.ca
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Shreyas Sekar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Algorithms
  • combinatorial optimization
  • Data-Driven Analytics
  • Decision Making under Uncertainty
  • Digital Marketplaces and Market & Mechanism Design
  • E-Commerce
  • Game theory
  • Information Architecture Design
  • Information Economics
  • Machine learning
  • Online Learning
  • Online Marketplaces
  • Online reviews
  • Revenue Management and Pricing
  • Subscription programs

Office: N/A
Website
Email: shreyas.sekar@utoronto.ca

Stefan Renckens

Associate Professor

Stefan Renckens

Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Eco-certification
  • Ecolabels
  • European environmental policy
  • Private environmental rule-making (related to fisheries, fair trade, organic agriculture, biofuels)

Office: 416-287-7300
Languages: English,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: stefan.renckens@utoronto.ca
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Stephen Rockel

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • African history
  • African Studies
  • Central Africa
  • Colonial and Postcolonial Conflicts
  • Eastern Africa
  • History and Film
  • History of Slavery
  • Indian Ocean
  • Labour History
  • Social History
  • South Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Urban History
  • War and Society

Office: (416) 287-7145
Website
Email: stephen.rockel@utoronto.ca
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Steve Joordens

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Anxiety
  • Attention
  • Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Connecting psychology to world events
  • Consciousness
  • Educational Psychology
  • Family and interpersonal relationships
  • How epidemics affect those with anxiety
  • How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
  • Memory
  • Mental well-being
  • Perception
  • Skill Development and Measurement
  • Social pressure, Managing boundaries
  • Trauma

Office: (416) 287-7469
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Steven Farber

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Accessibility
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Geographic Information Science
  • Public transportation
  • Spatial analysis
  • Transport geography

Office: (416) 208-5120
Website
Email: steven.farber@utoronto.ca
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Steven Riddiough

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Central banks
  • Currency markets
  • Exchange rates
  • International finance
  • Monetary policy

Office: (416) 978-3228
Website
Email: steven.riddiough@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Print/Online

Susannah Bunce

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Affordable housing
  • Community-based engagement and development in cities
  • Environmental gentrification
  • Geography and planning of urban neighbourhoods
  • Urban commons
  • Urban community land trusts, Urban ecovillages
  • Waterfronts and waterways in cities

Office: 416-287-7296
Website
Email: susannah.bunce@utoronto.ca
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Suzanne Sicchia

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Community Health & Primary Care
  • Comparative Global Health Policy
  • Critical Pedagogy for Public Health
  • Gender and health
  • Health In/equity
  • Public health education
  • Qualitative Health Research
  • Social determinants of health
  • Social Medicine
  • Social Theory & Health
  • Violence & Health
  • Violence and Health

Office: (416) 208-2700
Website
Email: suzanne.sicchia@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Vannina Sztainbok

Adjunct Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Blackness
  • Politics of representation
  • Race in Latin America
  • Racism
  • Whiteness

Office: 416-978-0017
Languages: Spanish
Website
Email: vannina.sztainbok@utoronto.ca
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Will Kwan

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Art and globalization
  • Art and multiculturalism
  • Art and politics
  • Art in public space
  • Chinese and Asian contemporary art
  • International exhibitions
  • Portraiture

Office: 416-287-7657
Languages: Chinese (Cantonese)
Website
Email: will.kwan@utoronto.ca
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William Gough

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change
  • Climate modelling
  • Global warming
  • Hudson Bay
  • Polar bears
  • Weather
  • Weather patterns

Office: (416) 287-7027
Website
Email: william.gough@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online