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Faculty of Arts and Science

Brian Baigrie

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural impacts of health care policy
  • Objectivity
  • Scientific evidence
  • Scientific expertise
  • Theory of evidence for biomedicine

Office: +1 6473826460
Website
Email: brian.baigrie@utoronto.ca
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Bryan Gaensler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Astronomy
  • Cosmic magnetism
  • Cosmology
  • Galaxies
  • Gender and diversity issues in astronomy
  • International astronomical mega-projects
  • Radio astronomy
  • Supernovae and cosmic explosions

Office: 416-978-6223
Languages: English
Website
Email: bryan.gaensler@utoronto.ca
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Camelia Karimianpour

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Algebraic structures in Cryptography
  • Math Education
  • Number Theory
  • Representation theory of p-adic groups

Office: N/A
Website
Email: camelia.karimian@utoronto.ca

Candace Kruttschnitt

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender and Crime
  • Penology

Office: 416-978-8487
Website
Email: c.kruttschnitt@utoronto.ca
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Carl Knappett

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Archaeological theory
  • Bronze Age Aegean
  • East Mediterranean Archaeology
  • Material culture
  • Network methods and concepts

Office: 416-978-5002
Website
Email: carl.knappett@utoronto.ca
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Charles Repp

Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy of literature

Office: 416-978-2457
Website
Email: charles.repp@utoronto.ca
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Charlie Keil

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Award cycle trends
  • Censorship and controversy
  • Classical Hollywood cinema and the star system
  • Contemporary Hollywood
  • Cultural trends
  • Directors and authorship
  • Documentary
  • Early cinema
  • Film and history

Office: 416-978-2510
Mobile: 647-236-0667
Website
Email: charlie.keil@utoronto.ca
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Christina C Christara

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applications of numerical methods to science, engineering and finance
  • High Performance Computing
  • High-performance and parallel computing
  • Mathematical software
  • Numerical finance
  • Numerical methods and computation
  • Numerical methods, analysis and computation
  • Numerical solution of partial differential equations
  • Numerical weather and climate prediction
  • Numerical weather prediction
  • Parallel computation
  • Scientific computing, computational mathematics
  • Solution of large sparse linear systems

Office: 416 978-7360
Languages: Greek, Modern (1453-),English,French,German
Website
Email: c.christara@utoronto.ca
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Dan Breznitz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative politics
  • Economic policy
  • Innovation policy
  • Notion of a fourth industrial revolution
  • Rethinking global production supply chains & manufacturing
  • Trade (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

Office: 416-946-0584
Website
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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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Dani Nedal Kaufmann

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • International Conflict, Security and Political Violence
  • International Relations in East Asia and Latin America
  • Nuclear Weapons and Strategy
  • United States Foreign Policy

Office: N/A
Languages: Portuguese
Website
Email: dani.nedal@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Daniel James

Professor

Daniel James

Areas of Expertise

  • Optics
  • Quantum physics

Office: 416-946-3736
Mobile: 416-732-5615
Languages: English
Website
Email: dfvj@physics.utoronto.ca
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Daniel Sellen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioral ecology
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Global health
  • Human ecology
  • Human evolution
  • Human nutrition
  • Infant and young child feeding practices

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: dan.sellen@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Tsai

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Business
  • Business ethics
  • Consumer Rights
  • Law
  • Retail
  • Social Media & Marketing
  • Technology

Office: N/A
Languages: English, French
Website
Email: d.tsai@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Wigdor

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gestural interfaces
  • Human interaction with technology
  • Mobile devices
  • User interface technologies
  • Wearable computing

Office: +1 (416) 978-7777
Website
Email: daniel@dgp.toronto.edu
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Danny Harvey

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climatic change
  • Energy efficiency
  • Energy efficient buildings
  • Global warming
  • Renewable energy

Office: 416-978-1588
Mobile: 416-778-0670
Website
Email: harvey@geog.utoronto.ca

Darius Ornston

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative politics
  • Innovation policy
  • Institutional development
  • Nordic Europe
  • Politics in industrialized economies
  • Western Europe economies

Office: 647-308-9423
Languages: English
Website
Email: darius.ornston@utoronto.ca
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David Bailey

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Physics Education Research

Office: 416-978-7105
Mobile: 416-534-0978
Languages: English
Website
Email: dbailey@physics.utoronto.ca

David Begun

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • Anatomy
  • Ape evolution
  • Comparative primate anatomy
  • Europe
  • Functional anatomy
  • Human and primate evolution
  • Human origins
  • Miocene apes
  • Paleoanthropology
  • Paleobiogeography
  • systematics
  • West Eurasia
  • Western Asia

Office: +1 (416) 978-8850
Mobile: +1 (647) 854-6597
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: begun@chass.utoronto.ca
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David Novak

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

David Novak

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethics (including biomedical ethics)
  • Jewish law, ethics, and political theory
  • Jewish-Christian relations
  • Political theory (with special emphasis on natural law theory)

Office: 416-946-3229
Languages: Hebrew,German,Yiddish,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE),Greek, Modern (1453-),Latin,French
Website
Email: david.novak@utoronto.ca
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David Roberts

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Cities and mega-events
  • Race and racialization
  • Refugee youth
  • Urban popular culture
  • Urban social movements

Office: 416-978-7790
Website
Email: d.roberts@utoronto.ca

David Wright

Kenneth and Patricia Taylor Distinguished Professor of Foreign Affairs, Victoria College, University of Toronto

Areas of Expertise

  • Europe
  • International relations
  • NATO
  • Peacekeeping
  • Security
  • U.S.
  • UN

Office: 416-585-4434
Email: d.wright@utoronto.ca
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Deborah McLennan

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Courtship behaviour
  • Evolution
  • Fish behaviour
  • Mate choice

Office: 416-978-8538
Website
Email: deborah.mclennan@utoronto.ca
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Diana Fu

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese politics
  • Contentious Politics and Social Movements
  • International development
  • Labour and Gender
  • Political Ethnography

Office: 416-978-3334
Languages: English
Website
Email: diana.fu@utoronto.ca
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Diane Massam

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Niuean grammar
  • Theoretical Linguistics

Office: (416) 978-4029
Languages: French
Website
Email: diane.massam@utoronto.ca
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Dimitry Anastakis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Automotive
  • Canada
  • Canadian business history
  • Commodities
  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • State, Politics, and Law
  • Technology
  • United States

Office: +1 (416) 910-8654
Website
Email: dimitry.anastakis@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Donald Dewees

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Energy conservation and Ontario electricity policy
  • global warming policies
  • Pollution control policy and economics

Office: 416-766-2712
Home: 416-766-2712
Website
Email: dewees@chass.utoronto.ca
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Donald Jackson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aquatic ecology
  • Community ecology
  • Fish
  • Restoration ecology
  • Statistical ecology
  • Urban ecology

Office: 416-978-0976
Website
Email: don.jackson@utoronto.ca
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Donald Kingsbury

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Energy Transitions and Decarbonization
  • Latin American Politics (Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador)
  • Resource Extraction and Development (current emphasis, Lithium. Previous research also included oil in Venezuela and Ecuador)
  • Social Movements and Political Change

Office: 416-946-8825
Website
Email: donald.kingsbury@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Donna Orwin

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Donna Orwin

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th century Russian culture
  • 19th century Russian literature
  • Dostoevsky
  • Literature and war
  • Tolstoy
  • Turgenev

Office: 416-971-2647
Home: 416-921-6708
Mobile: 416-627-6708
Languages: Russian
Website
Email: donna.orwin@utoronto.ca
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