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Centre for the Study of the United States

Alan Ackerman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American drama
  • American literature
  • Cold war culture
  • Literature and the environment
  • Modern drama
  • New York intellectuals
  • Privacy and free-speech debates

Office: 416-946-3455
Website
Email: alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca
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Bonnie McElhinny

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critiques of Settler-Colonialism
  • Great Lakes
  • Language politics
  • Water and environmental justice

Office: +1 (416) 978-3297
Languages: English
Website
Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
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Dana Seitler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aesthetics
  • Cultural studies of science
  • Feminist theory
  • LGBTQ
  • Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature and culture
  • Queer theory and sexuality studies
  • visual culture

Office: 416-946-3496
Website
Email: d.seitler@utoronto.ca
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Jason Hackworth

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American cities
  • Detroit
  • Urban decline

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
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Jooyoung Lee

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Crime victims
  • Gangs
  • Gun Violence
  • Guns
  • Hip Hop
  • Mixed martial arts
  • Murder
  • Police reform
  • Racism
  • RCMP’s treatment of Indigenous people
  • Serial killers

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca
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Louis Kaplan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th and 21st century art and visual culture
  • Contemporary Jewish art and visual culture
  • Deconstruction
  • Film and media culture
  • Humour studies
  • New media art practices (especially augmented reality)
  • Photography studies

Office: 905-828-5411
Mobile: 905-569-4646
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: louis.kaplan@utoronto.ca
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Marga Vicedo

Professor

Marga Vicedo

Areas of Expertise

  • History of autism
  • History of evolution and genetics
  • History of instincts
  • Science and society
  • Science of mother love and maternal care

Office: 416-978-1500
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: marga.vicedo@utoronto.ca
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Mark Solovey

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cold War America
  • Psychology and society
  • Research funding
  • Science and values
  • Social science and society
  • Veganism
  • Vegetarianism

Office: 416-978-6280
Website
Email: mark.solovey@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Farish

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental history
  • Militarism and geopolitics
  • The Cold War
  • Urban culture

Office: 416-978-6671
Website
Email: matt.farish@utoronto.ca
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Nicholas Sammond

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American studies
  • Animation
  • Children and movies
  • Early animation
  • Ethnicity and media
  • Gender and sexuality in vernacular media
  • Media and social/cultural practice
  • Media effects
  • Race

Office: 416-978-7271
Website
Email: nic.sammond@utoronto.ca
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Pamela Klassen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th & 21st century Christianity, missionary/Indigenous relations
  • Canada’s treaty responsibilities in relation to religion/spirituality
  • Religion
  • Religion and medicine
  • Religion in the public sphere
  • Religion; colonialism in Canada
  • ritual and healing
  • Women and religion

Office: 416-585-4573
Website
Email: p.klassen@utoronto.ca
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Peter Loewen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
  • Future of democratic societies
  • Policy; elections and representation
  • Political polarization

Office: 416-978-5120
Languages: English
Website
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic History
  • Health economics

Office: (416) 946-8825
Languages: English
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
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Shyon Baumann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aesthetic evaluation
  • Cultural classification
  • Cultural consumption
  • Food studies
  • Media studies
  • Symbolic boundaries

Office: N/A
Website
Email: shyon.baumann@utoronto.ca
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