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Faculty of Arts and Science

Aaron Wheeler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Microfluidics

Office: 416-946-3864
Website
Email: aaron.wheeler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Adam Cohen

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Jewish studies
  • Medieval art (illuminated manuscripts)

Office: 416-451-8912
Languages: German
Website
Email: as.cohen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Adam Green

Associate Professor

Adam Green

Areas of Expertise

  • HIV/AIDS
  • LGBTQ
  • Medical sociology
  • Political underpinnings of Gay/Bisexual/MSM HIV prevention
  • Same sex marriage
  • Sexuality

Office: 416-978-8261
Website
Email: adamisaiah.green@utoronto.ca
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Adonis Yatchew

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Econometrics
  • Energy and regulatory economics
  • Energy Economics

Office: 416-978-7128
Website
Email: yatchew@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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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Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • agents for science
  • AI for science
  • Artificial intelligence
  • chemical and materials discovery
  • Computer science
  • quantum chemistry
  • Self-driving labs

Office: N/A
Website

Alan Moses

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular biology
  • Molecular evolution
  • Proteomics
  • Systems Biology

Office: +1 (416) 946-3980
Website
Email: alan.moses@utoronto.ca
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Alana Johns

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Inuktitut
  • language maintenance
  • Lexical semantics
  • Linguistic theory
  • Morphology
  • syntax

Office: 416-978-4029
Website
Email: alana.johns@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Alex Mariakakis

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital health
  • Health sensing
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Mobile computing
  • Wearables

Office: N/A
Mobile: 4168789405
Website
Email: alex.mariakakis@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Alison Chasteen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aging process
  • Impression formation
  • Prejudice and discrimination
  • Social cognition
  • Social psychology
  • Social stigmas
  • Stereotyping
  • Stereotyping.

Office: 416-978-3398
Website
Email: alison.chasteen@utoronto.ca
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Alison Keith

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Greek female authors
  • Ancient Roman female authors
  • Ancient Rome in popular culture
  • Latin literature
  • Roman history and culture
  • Vergil and Ovid
  • Women in ancient Greece
  • Women in ancient Rome
  • Women in Greek tragedy

Office: 416-978-6085
Home: 416-462-9215
Website
Email: alison.keith@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Alistair Dias

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Metals/minerals and their biological impact on human disease/function
  • Natural compounds, structure and activity relationships
  • Teaching Innovation
  • Teaching lab development
  • The Mind and Stress Management
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality in Teaching

Office: 416 946-5393
Mobile: 416-520-0059
Website
Email: alistair.dias@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ana Perez-Leroux

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bilingualism
  • Child language acquisition
  • Cognitive science
  • L2 syntax
  • Linguistics
  • Romance languages
  • Spanish syntax

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,English,French,Portuguese
Website
Email: at.perez.leroux@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andre Schmid

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century international East Asian history
  • 20th century Korean history
  • History of WWII in the Pacific
  • Japanese empire
  • North/South Korea

Office: 416-946-5114
Home: 416-536-3074
Website
Email: andre.schmid@utoronto.ca
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Andrea Cortinois

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change, environmental degradation and displacement
  • Global migration and health
  • Global public health
  • Health and health equity in highly multicultural societies
  • Social costs of migration in countries of origin

Office: (416) 978-6051
Languages: Spanish; Castilian,Italian
Website
Email: a.cortinois@utoronto.ca
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Andrea Most

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century and contemporary American literature
  • American popular culture and drama
  • Ecocriticism and environmental literature
  • Environmental issues and nature writing
  • Food literature and food issues
  • Jewish literature and culture
  • Local food systems

Office: 416-946-0828
Website
Email: andrea.most@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Andres Kasekamp

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Baltic Sea Region
  • Baltic states
  • Europe
  • European politics
  • European Union
  • Fascism
  • International relations
  • NATO
  • Populism
  • Populist radical right
  • Relations with Russia
  • State Politics and Law

Office: +1 (416) 946-8931
Mobile: +1 (416) 949-4284
Website
Email: andres.kasekamp@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Angelica Fenner

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Berlin School Films
  • Buddhism and film
  • Cultural production by/about Afro-Germans
  • European cinemas
  • First person and autobiographical documentary
  • German film history
  • Posthumanism and Animal Studies
  • Race and ethnicity in German visual media
  • Women's film authorship

Office: 416-978-7382
Languages: German
Website
Email: angelica.fenner@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Angelo Melino

Professor

Angelo Melino

Areas of Expertise

  • Bank of Canada
  • Monetary policy

Office: 416-978-6541
Website
Email: angelo.melino@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Anna Shternshis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Holocaust in the Soviet Union
  • Post-Soviet Jewish diaspora
  • Refugee Studies
  • Soviet Jewish History and Culture
  • Yiddish culture, literature music, and theatre.
  • Yiddish Music during the Holocaust

Office: (416) 978-8131
Languages: Yiddish, Russian, some Hebrew
Website
Email: anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Anne McGuire

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Autism
  • Disability and childhood
  • Disability and education
  • Disability and media representation
  • Disability rights and justice
  • Mental health
  • Neurodiversity

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

Anne-Marie Brousseau

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Creole languages (Haitian and St. Lucian)
  • Derivational morphology and compounding, theoretical aspects, questions of interface, measure of productivity, devising of inventories.
  • Fongbe: tonal phonology, lexical semantics, morphology.
  • French morphology and semantics
  • French: lexicon, semantics, derivational morphology.
  • Gbe languages (West Africa)
  • Languages in contact
  • Quebec French
  • St-Lucian: morphology, lexicon, description of the language, phonological variation, development of technical vocabularies.

Office: 416-978-7274
Mobile: 416-406-3598
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: french.chair@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Antoinette Handley

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • African Politics, esp. Southern Africa
  • Business as a political actor
  • Business-government relations
  • Business-government relations in Africa
  • Comparative Development
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Political Economy of Epidemics, HIV/AIDS
  • Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries
  • Southern Africa
  • The political economy of development

Office: 416-978-8491
Website
Email: a.handley@utoronto.ca

Bart Testa

Associate Professor,Teaching Stream - Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Censorship and sexual issues in media
  • Chinese and Hong Kong and Taiwan films
  • Cinema
  • Film and television, issues touching on
  • Film-industry matters
  • Religious
  • Science fiction films

Office: 416-978-8574
Mobile: 416-537-0789
Website
Email: bart.testa@utoronto.ca

Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corruption
  • Police
  • Policing
  • Political-legal ethnography
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • State violence
  • Veterans

Office: 416-978-6438
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Beth A. Fischer

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Cold War
  • International security
  • US foreign policy
  • US politics
  • US-Russian relations

Office: 416-978-5649
Home: 416-698-9415
Website
Email: beth.fischer@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Beth Savan

Senior Lecturer Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
  • Institutional policy on sustainability
  • Sustainability

Office: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bonnie Erickson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Inequality
  • Social capital and networks

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ericson@chass.utoronto.ca

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Brendan Frey

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brendan Frey

Areas of Expertise

  • Autoimmune diseases
  • Bayesian networks
  • Breast cancer
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Computational biology
  • Computational medicine
  • deep learning
  • Exome
  • Genetics of autism spectrum disorder
  • Genetics of cancer
  • Genome
  • Genomics
  • Machine learning
  • Neural networks
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Parkinson's
  • spinal muscular atrophy
  • Whole genome sequence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: frey@psi.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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