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Faculty of Arts and Science

Simon Coleman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cathedrals
  • Pentecostalism
  • Pilgrimage
  • Religious Infrastructures
  • Ritual

Office: 416-978-4788
Languages: English,Swedish
Website
Email: simon.coleman@utoronto.ca
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Spencer C.H. Barrett

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biology of plant invasions
  • Ecological and evolutionary genetics
  • Plant evolutionary biology, plant reproduction
  • Plant reproductive biology
  • Plants and human affairs

Office: 416-978-4151
Website
Email: spencer.barrett@utoronto.ca
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Stephen Morris

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Emergence of regular patterns in nature
  • Icicles and ice formations
  • Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
  • Physics of complex self-organizing systems
  • Physics of everyday life

Office: 416-978-6810
Languages: English
Website
Email: smorris@physics.utoronto.ca
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Steve Engels

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Natural language processing
  • Open data
  • Technology education
  • Video game design

Office: (416) 946-5454
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: steve.engels@utoronto.ca
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Steve M Easterbrook

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate modelling and simulation
  • Computational modeling as a scientific research method
  • Investigation of software failures
  • Software engineering
  • Software verification and validation
  • Sustainable Cities and Urban Decision-Making
  • Systems Analysis and Systems Thinking

Office: 416-978-6526
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
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Suresh Sivanandam

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adaptive optics
  • Astronomical Instruments (spectrographs and spectroscopy)
  • Astronomy
  • Galaxies and galaxy clusters
  • Galaxy Formation and Evolution
  • Optical/IR instrumentation.
  • Telescopes and astronomical observatories

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-978-6550
Languages: English,Tamil
Website
Email: sivanandam@astro.utoronto.ca
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T. Bence Viola

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient DNA
  • Central and North Asia
  • Central and Northern Asia
  • Central Europe
  • Europe
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Human evolution
  • Modern Human Origins
  • Neanderthals
  • Palaeoanthropology

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,German,Hungarian
Website
Email: bence.viola@utoronto.ca

Taryn Grieder

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Psychology

Areas of Expertise

  • Addiction
  • Behaviour
  • Learning
  • Neuroscience
  • Stress

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-402-0630
Email: taryn.grieder@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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Teresa Kramarz

Assistant Professor

Teresa Kramarz

Areas of Expertise

  • Environment and politics
  • International Organizations (UN and World Bank especially)

Office: 416-946-8825
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American,English
Website
Email: teresa.kramarz@utoronto.ca
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Thomas Anderson

PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Director, Psychedelic Studies Research Centre (PSRP)

Areas of Expertise

  • Attention and mind-wandering
  • Meditation and mindfulness
  • Psychedelic microdosing
  • Psychedelics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: metathomas.anderson@mail.utoronto.ca
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Thomas Wilson

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Competition policy and regulatory policies
  • Fiscal policy
  • Taxation

Office: 416-978-4458
Home: 416-962-5018
Website
Email: twilson@chass.utoronto.ca
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Timothy Andrews Sayle

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Britain and Ireland
  • Canada
  • Canadian foreign and defence policy
  • Conflict, Violence and Genocide
  • Europe
  • Intelligence and national security
  • Intelligence history
  • International relations
  • Modern global security
  • NATO
  • Nuclear history
  • Post-1945 history of international relations and grand strategy
  • State, Politics, and Law
  • The Iraq War
  • U.S. foreign policy
  • United States

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tim.sayle@utoronto.ca
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Timothy Harrison

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biblical archeology
  • Near Eastern archeology

Office: 416-978-6600
Website
Email: tim.harrison@utoronto.ca
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Tina J. Park

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Responsibility to Protect Project

Junior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History

Areas of Expertise

  • Bilateral relationship between Canada and Korea
  • Canadian foreign policy
  • Canadian foreign policy post-COVID-19
  • Canadian-Korean relations
  • Feminism & diversity in the election race
  • Inter-Korean relations & ROK-US relations
  • NATO & Asia-Pacific security
  • NATO & Ukraine
  • North Korean nuclear programme & diplomacy & six party talks
  • Responsibility to Protect
  • South Korean politics & economy
  • Syria
  • UN

Office: 416-828-2361
Website
Email: park.tina@gmail.com
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Todd Lawson

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Islamic religion
  • Islamic thought (theology, philosophy, mysticism)
  • Mysticism
  • Philosophy
  • Qur'an commentary
  • Shi'i Islam
  • Sufism

Office: 514-885-6552
Website
Email: todd.lawson@utoronto.ca
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Tom Kemeny

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic development policy
  • Economic geography
  • Economics of innovation and technical change
  • Public policy
  • Regional analysis and development
  • Urban, rural and regional economics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tom.kemeny@utoronto.ca

Tyeshia Redden

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community Development and Housing
  • Humanistic Inquiry and Popular Culture
  • Inequalities and Spatial justice
  • Mega-project Development
  • Social Policy and Planning

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: ty.redden@utoronto.ca

Uzoma Esonwanne

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • African literature
  • Colonial discourse theory
  • Literary theory

Office: 416-946-3917
Home: 416-780-0479
Mobile: 416-780-0479
Languages: Igbo
Website
Email: uzoma.esonwanne@utoronto.ca
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Vicki Zhang

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Vicki Zhang

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical pedagogy in financial education
  • Ethics in life and annuity product design and marketing
  • History of US life insurance sector and market since 1960s
  • Internationalization of education (with a focus on China)
  • Narrative-based mathematics education
  • Risk management and life insurance
  • Teaching humanities and ethics as part of financial education
  • Technology and software in life and annuity design and valuation

Office: N/A
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: vickijing.zhang@utoronto.ca
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W Richard Peltier

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Earth Evolution and Climate

Office: 416-978-2938
Languages: English
Website
Email: peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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Walid Saleh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Islam
  • The Middle East

Office: 416-946-3241
Mobile: 647-710-0921
Languages: English,Arabic
Website
Email: walid.saleh@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
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Walter Callaghan

PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Medical cannabis
  • Military masculinity
  • Military sexual trauma
  • Moral injury
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Shared trauma of civilians
  • Veterans

Office: N/A
Email: w.callaghan@mail.utoronto.ca
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Wayne Sumner

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Wayne Sumner

Areas of Expertise

  • Freedom of expression (hate speech and pornography)
  • Medical assistance in dying
  • Reproductive issues (abortion)

Office: 416-565-6944
Website
Email: wayne.sumner@utoronto.ca
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Wendy Wong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital activism
  • Emerging technologies/Big Data/AI
  • Global civil society
  • Global governance
  • Human rights
  • Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
  • Politics of organization
  • Social movements
  • Tech companies

Office: 416-946-8703
Languages: English
Website
Email: wendyh.wong@utoronto.ca
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Willi Goetschel

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Critical theory
  • German Jewish culture
  • Modern German literature and thought

Office: 416-926-2320
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: w.goetschel@utoronto.ca
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William Magee

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Quality of Life/Subjective Wellbeing (sociological perspectives)
  • Sociology and Emotion
  • Sociology of Health & Illness

Office: N/A
Website
Email: william.magee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Print/Online

William Paris

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Black Political Thought
  • Philosophy of Race
  • Politics

Office: N/A
Languages: French,German
Website
Email: william.paris@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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William Scott Prudham

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental politics
  • Long term agrarian and political economic change in the wine sector, Languedoc (France)
  • Natural resource extraction and natural resource management/policy
  • Political economy and environment
  • Social dimensions of environmental change

Office: 416-978-4975
Website
Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca
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Wilson Prichard

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aid reform
  • Comparative politics
  • Foreign assistance
  • Government Revenues
  • International development politics
  • International political economy
  • Natural resources and developing countries
  • Political Foundations of Development
  • State Building and Accountability
  • Sub-Sahara Africa
  • Tax Havens and International Tax Reform
  • Taxation

Office: 416-978-0743
Languages: English,French,Italian
Website
Email: wilson.prichard@utoronto.ca
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Yashar Ganjali

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer networks
  • Internet

Office: 416-978-2952
Website
Email: yganjali@cs.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online