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Faculty of Arts and Science

Donna Rose Addis

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied behavioural neurology and neuropsychiatry
  • Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory
  • Cognitive sciences
  • Memory (including episodic and semantic memory, and working memory)
  • Neuropsychology
  • Psychology and cognitive sciences

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: draddis@research.baycrest.org

Dorothea Kullmann

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Heroic epic
  • Late medieval Books of Hours
  • Medieval French and Occitan literature
  • Medieval romance languages and literature

Office: 416-926-1300 Ext. 3349
Mobile: 416-978-7456
Languages: English,French,German,Italian
Website
Email: dorothea.kullmann@utoronto.ca
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Douglas Currie

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aquatic insects
  • Biting insects (black flies)
  • Entomology
  • Evolution
  • Taxonomy

Office: 416-586-5532
Website
Email: dc.currie@utoronto.ca
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Douglas Stephan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • FLP chemistry across the periodic table
  • Frustrated Lewis pairs
  • Hydrogen Storage
  • hydrogenation
  • Main group chemistry
  • The application of FLP chemistry to organic synthesis
  • The reactivity of “sterically frustrated” Lewis acid-base pairs

Office: 416-946-3294
Home: 416-619-5901
Website
Email: douglas.stephan@utoronto.ca
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Dylan Clark

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental issues
  • Foodways
  • Gender studies
  • Gifts and commodities
  • Indonesia
  • Popular culture
  • Reciprocity
  • Urban studies
  • Youth studies

Office: 416-946-8975
Home: 416-778-9057
Mobile: 647-774-4184
Website
Email: dylan.clark@utoronto.ca
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Edward Banning

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Achaeological survey
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Built environments
  • Chalcolithic Early Bronze
  • Jordan
  • Levant
  • Microarchaeology
  • Microrefuse
  • Middle East
  • Neolithic
  • Networks
  • Prehistory
  • Radiocarbon
  • Southwest Asia

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ted.banning@utoronto.ca

Elisa Brilli

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Augustine’s reception in Late Medieval Culture
  • Dante Studies
  • Exemplary Literature
  • Gender studies
  • Historiography
  • Late Medieval Chronicles
  • Manuscript Studies
  • Medieval Italian Literature
  • Text/Image Studies

Office: N/A
Languages: Italian,French,English,Latin
Website
Email: elisa.brilli@utoronto.ca

Elizabeth M. Legge

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century art
  • Contemporary Canadian and British art
  • Dada
  • Surrealism

Office: 416-978-7891
Home: 416-617-1964
Website
Email: eliz.legge@utoronto.ca
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Elizabeth McCallion

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian government
  • Canadian politics
  • Federalism
  • Gender & Politics

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

Emanuel Adler

Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Andrea & Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

  • International relations theory
  • International security
  • International sociology
  • Israel

Office: 972-547843662
Languages: Hebrew, Spanish
Website
Email: emanuel.adler@utoronto.ca
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Emily Gilbert

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Borders
  • Canada-US relations
  • Citizenship
  • Immigration and mobility
  • Militaries and militarization
  • Money and currency
  • Security

Office: (416) 978 0751
Website
Email: emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca
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Eric Cazdyn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and politics
  • Japanese film
  • Media studies
  • Surveillance
  • The culture of disaster and crisis

Office: 416-585-4443
Mobile: 416-703-2450
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca
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Eric Merkley

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian politics
  • Elections
  • Fake news & misinformation
  • News media & politics
  • Polarization
  • Public opinion
  • Social media toxicity
  • U.S. politics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Eva-Lynn Jagoe

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 21st century Latin American culture
  • Affect and queer theory
  • Creative non-fiction and experimental critical writing
  • Creative writing
  • Critical and cultural studies
  • Critical Restoration Agriculture
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Latin American film
  • Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Literatures and Cultures

Office: +1 (416) 585-4475
Website
Email: e.jagoe@utoronto.ca
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Ewan Dunbar

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cognitive science
  • Computational linguistics
  • Decoding Neural Network Representations
  • Linguistics
  • Modelling Speech Perception
  • Sound Inventories
  • Speech Synthesis
  • Speech technology
  • Zero and Low Resource Speech Technology

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: ewan.dunbar@utoronto.ca
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Eyal de Lara

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cloud computing
  • Edge computing
  • Location-based services
  • Mobile computing
  • Sensing for health applications
  • Ubiquitous Sensing
  • Wearable computing

Office: 416-946-8656
Mobile: 416-735-4938
Languages: English
Website
Email: delara@cs.toronto.edu
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Felix Cheung

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • A Satisfying Life
  • Global Affairs and Happiness
  • Happiness
  • Income inequality, income redistribution, and income mobility
  • Lifespan development.
  • Measurement of subjective well-being
  • Multilevel modeling
  • Open science.
  • Population determinants of a satisfying
  • Public Policy and Happiness
  • Purposeful, and engaging life
  • Replication
  • Social unrest, terrorism, and civil war
  • Subjective well-being
  • Well-being

Office: N/A
Languages: Cantonese
Website
Email: f.cheung@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Frances Garrett

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Tibetan Buddhism

Office: N/A
Website
Email: frances.garrett@utoronto.ca
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Franco Taverna

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Community engaged learning
  • Neuroscience
  • Online teaching and learning

Office: 416 946-5048
Website
Email: franco.taverna@utoronto.ca
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Gary Walters

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Child abuse
  • Child development
  • Parenting

Office: 416-978-7814
Home: 416-445-0292
Website
Email: walters@psych.utoronto.ca
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Geoff MacDonald

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Interpersonal relationships
  • Singlehood

Office: 416-978-3840
Website
Email: gmacdonald@psych.utoronto.ca
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George Elliott Clarke

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • African-Canadian
  • African-Canadian history/literature
  • African/American/Canadian Poetry
  • Anti-racism initiatives
  • Canadian (poetry)
  • Canadian literature
  • Creative Writing (MA)
  • New World African
  • Postcolonial

Office: 416-946-3143
Website
Email: georgeelliott.clarke@utoronto.ca
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Gerald Penn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Acoustic Modelling
  • Archaeological decipherment
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Automatic text processing
  • Automatic translation of languages
  • Finite State Methods
  • Linguistic Information Visualization
  • Logic Programming
  • Mathematical Linguistics
  • Natural language processing
  • Parsing in Freer-Word-Order Languages
  • Privacy-preserving technology
  • Speech/Voice processing
  • Spoken Language Processing
  • Writing systems

Office: +1 (416) 978-7390
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: gpenn@cs.toronto.edu
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Gillian Einstein

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • BRCA mutation (breast and ovarian cancer) prophylaxis effects on cognition
  • Cognitive effects of oophorectomy
  • Effects of culture and experience on the nervous system
  • Effects of steroid hormones on mental health
  • Effects of the menstrual cycle on mood and sleep
  • Estrogen and the brain
  • Female genital circumcision/mutilation/cutting
  • Gender and health
  • Interactions between sex and gender
  • Sex differences
  • Women's health

Office: 416-978-0896
Website
Email: gillian.einstein@utoronto.ca
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Gregory Distelhorst

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • China
  • Chinese politics and public policy
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Global Supply Chains
  • Industrial relations
  • Labor and International Business
  • Multinational management
  • Political economy
  • Worker Rights

Office: N/A
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin),English
Website
Email: g.distelhorst@utoronto.ca

Hakob Barseghyan

Assistant Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital humanities
  • History of Science
  • Knowledge Visualization
  • Philosophy of science
  • Scientonomy

Office: 416-978-7432
Languages: Russian, Armenian
Email: hakob.barseghyan@utoronto.ca
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Hanna Morris

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Authoritarianism and the climate crisis
  • Climate art and visual culture
  • Climate change communication
  • Climate discourse and power
  • Climate journalism
  • Environmental media and culture
  • Transnational climate movements

Office: N/A
Website
Email: hanna.morris@utoronto.ca

Harald Bathelt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic geography
  • Economic globalization and international trade fairs
  • Economic, technology and innovation policy
  • German political economy
  • Industrial clusters and regional economic development
  • Inter-regional inequality and connectivity
  • Knowledge creation and innovation over distance
  • Regional and national innovation and technological change
  • Regional impacts of foreign direct investments
  • Socioeconomic impacts of regional industrial and institutional change

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-890-1705
Languages: German,English
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
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Harvey Nicholson Jr

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health disparities
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Social determinants of health
  • Substance use behaviors

Office: N/A
Website
Email: harvey.nicholsonjr@utoronto.ca

Heidi White

Astrophysicist;

Educational Content Developer

Areas of Expertise

  • Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Galaxies
  • Space missions
  • Space science

Office: N/A
Languages: French
Email: heidi.white@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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