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Ann Lopez

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Anti-black racism in education
  • Anti-racism education
  • Black history curriculum
  • Decolonizing education

Office: 4169788922
Website
Email: ann.lopez@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Anna Katyn Chmielewski

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Neighbourhood inequality
  • Policies around school and program choice
  • School segregation
  • Socio-economic disparities in academic achievement
  • Streaming and tracking

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ak.chmielewski@utoronto.ca

Beyhan Farhadi

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical policy sociology
  • Social and cultural geography
  • Surveillance studies

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: beyhan.farhadi@utoronto.ca

Claudia Milena Diaz Rios

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Accountability
  • Curriculum reforms
  • Decentralization
  • Education policy responses to crisis (migration & COVID)
  • Politics of education
  • Privatization

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Email: claudia.diazrios@utoronto.ca

Creso Sa

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Evolving role of universities in supporting innovation
  • Organization of science
  • Science & technology policy

Office: (416) 978-1515
Website
Email: c.sa@utoronto.ca

Dan Lang

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Dan Lang

Areas of Expertise

  • Accountability and performance indicators
  • Comparative analysis
  • Economics of education
  • Educational management and finance
  • Funding formulas
  • Quality assurance

Office: 416-978-1246
Mobile: 416-230-2684
Email: dlang@oise.utoronto.ca
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Daniel Corral

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • College choice and enrollment in postsecondary education
  • Institutional finance and student aid
  • Student transitions into and out of higher education

Office: N/A
Website
Email: daniel.corral@utoronto.ca

Elizabeth Buckner

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Internationalization
  • Private higher education
  • Sustainable Development

Office: N/A
Website
Email: elizabeth.buckner@utoronto.ca

Eric Lavigne

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Administrators’ recruitment, careers, and performance
  • Higher education administration and leadership
  • Organizational leadership, decision-making, and change

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: eric.lavigne@utoronto.ca

Francine Menashy

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • education for refugees and in emergencies
  • education partnerships
  • Global education governance and policy, international aid to education
  • power asymmetries, racism, and coloniality in global education

Office: N/A
Email: francine.menashy@utoronto.ca

Glen Jones

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian higher education policy (federal and provincial)
  • Comparative/International higher education
  • Politics of higher education
  • University decision-making/governance
  • University faculty and academic work

Office: 416-978-8292
Home: 416-463-5615
Mobile: 416-463-5615
Languages: English
Website
Email: glen.jones@utoronto.ca
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Hye-Su Kuk

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult Education
  • Citizenship Learning
  • Organizational dynamics of social movement
  • Participatory democracy
  • Social change

Office: N/A
Languages: Korean,English
Website
Email: hyesu.kuk@utoronto.ca

Jean-Paul Restoule

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aboriginal worldview and identity development
  • Indigenous children

Office: 416-978-0806
Email: jeanpaul.restoule@utoronto.ca
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Jennifer Sumner

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Food
  • Globalization
  • Organic agriculture
  • Rural communities
  • Sustainability

Office: 416-978-0784
Email: jennifer.sumner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jennifer Wemigwans

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Decolonization & Indigeneity
  • Indigenous cultural expression
  • Indigenous Knowledge teachings
  • Philosophy & Ethics
  • Policy & Politics
  • Race, Gender & Class
  • Technology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jennifer.wemigwans@utoronto.ca

Karen Mundy

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Education in the developing world

Office: N/A
Email: karen.mundy@utoronto.ca

Katherine Entigar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Nonprofit education with.of.by.for adult immigrants

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish; Castilian
Website
Email: k.entigar@utoronto.ca

Kiran Mirchandani

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • criminalization and welfare policy
  • critical perspectives on organizational development and learning
  • gendered and racialized processes in the workplace
  • globalization and economic restructuring

Office: (416) 978-0884
Website
Email: kiran.mirchandani@utoronto.ca

Leesa Wheelahan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical Realism
  • Social Realism
  • Sociology of Curriculum
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • Tertiary Education Policy

Office: (416) 978-1217
Website
Email: leesa.wheelahan@utoronto.ca

Marcelo Vieta

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Class-struggle approaches
  • Continental philosophy
  • Critical development studies
  • Critical theory
  • Economic democracy
  • Labour-process theory
  • Latin American social and political thought
  • New cooperativism
  • Organization studies, with a focus on participatory and democratic organizations
  • Philosophy of technology.
  • Political economy
  • Social and solidarity economy initiatives and conceptualizations of the social economy
  • Social movement learning
  • Sociology of work
  • Work-integration social enterprises and social cooperatives
  • Worker- and community-recuperated enterprises (formerly capitalist firms or public-sector interests that are converted to workers' or community self-management)
  • Workers' self-management/autogestión
  • Workplace and organizational learning and social change
  • Worldwide cooperative movement, with a focus on worker cooperatives

Office: (416) 978-0515
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American,Italian
Website
Email: marcelo.vieta@utoronto.ca

Marvin Zuker

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Education law
  • Equity
  • Justice

Office: (416) 978-1181
Website
Email: marvin.zuker@utoronto.ca

Shahrzad Mojab

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult education and public policy
  • Anti-racism pedagogy
  • Diaspora
  • Immigrant and refugee women
  • Marxism and Feminism
  • War and violence
  • Women in the Middle East

Office: 416-978-0829
Home: 416-929-4089
Mobile: 416-929-4089
Languages: Persian,Kurdish,English
Website
Email: shahrzad.mojab@utoronto.ca
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