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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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shadi Dalili

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    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