Faculty of Arts and Science

Harvey L. Nicholson Jr.

Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Black/African Americans/Black Americans
• Health and Society
• Interracial Relations
• Opioids
• Racism/Discrimination

Office: N/A
Website
Email: harvey.nicholsonjr@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Harvey Nicholson Jr

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Henry van Driel

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics

Areas of Expertise

• Laser physics
• Photonics

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Dutch; Flemish,German,French
Website
Email: vandriel@physics.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Hilary Cunningham

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Anthropology

Areas of Expertise

• Animal studies
• Animals
• Environmental Studies
• Multispecies Research
• Posthumanism

Office: +1 (416) 978-0472
Website
Email: hilary.cunningham@utoronto.ca

Hy Van Luong

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Anthropology

Areas of Expertise

• East and Mainland South East Asia
• Family and gender
• ideology and political economy, gender and social structure
• Language
• Migration
• Political economy
• Sociocultural Anthropology
• South and Southeast Asia
• Vietnam

Office: 416-946-8985
Home: 416-481-5185
Mobile: 416-481-5185
Website
Email: vanluong@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ian Lancashire

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Creativity
• Digital humanities
• English lexicography 1475-1755 (leme.library.utoronto.ca)
• Text analysis and Alzheimer's Disease in authors

Office: (416) 938-7829
Home: 416 231-2659
Website
Email: ian.lancashire@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ikuko Komuro-Lee

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • East Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Comparative studies between Japanese and Chinese vocabulary
• Discourse
• Kanji vocabulary education for Chinese learners

Office: N/A
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: ikuko.komuro.lee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Isabelle Cochelin

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for Medieval Studies
  • Centre for the Study of Religion

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural and Intellectual
• Europe
• History of medieval childhood
• History of monasticism
• History of Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100-1800)
• History of Poverty (1000-1500)
• History of servants and service (1000-1700)
• Medieval history
• Medieval social history
• Old age in the medieval period
• Religion and Society
• Youth in the medieval period

Office: +1 (416) 978-7414
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: isabelle.cochelin@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ito Peng

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Canada’s approach to long-term care
• Child care policy
• East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
• East-west comparisons
• Elder care policy
• Family and gender policies
• Fertility
• Japan
• Marriage and aging society
• Social policy
• South Korea
• System issues in long-term care
• Systemic issues at LTC facilities
• Taiwan
• Women and migration

Office: 416-946-5902
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jack Chambers

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Linguistics

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian English
• Dialects
• Jazz
• Social and legal uses of language
• Sociolinguistics

Office: 416-978-1764
Website
Email: jack.chambers@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

James Reilly

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Areas of Expertise

• History of Syria and Lebanon

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

James Robert Brown

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Philosophy
• Centres
  • Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Areas of Expertise

• Commercialization of medical research
• Foundations of math and physics
• Science and religion
• Science and society
• Thought experiments

Office: 519-439-2889
Mobile: 519-854-0131
Website
Email: jr.brown@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Janet Poole

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • East Asian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Decolonization and mid-century modernism in the Koreas
• History of literature, art and photography in the Japanese empire
• Theory and creative practice of literary translation

Office: 416-946-5105
Languages: English
Website
Email: janet.poole@utoronto.ca

Janice Robertson

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
• Centres
  • Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Dieases

Areas of Expertise

• ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)
• Causes and cures of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Office: 416-946-0435
Email: jan.robertson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Janice Stein

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Conflict management and resolution
• Global Politics
• Great Power Competition
• Technology and Public Policy

Office: 416-946-8908
Languages: French
Website
Email: j.stein@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jason Hackworth

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Geography and Planning
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

• American cities
• Detroit
• Urban decline

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

Jeffrey Reitz

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Human rights
• Immigrant employment
• Immigration
• Immigration policy
• Management of diversity issues
• Multiculturalism in western countries
• Race and ethnic relations
• Racism in Canada & improving efforts to combat it
• U.S. race relations
• Workplace issues

Office: N/A
Home: 416-465-5596
Mobile: 416-465-5596
Website
Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jeffrey Rosenthal

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Statistical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Margins of error & biases
• Polls
• Probabilities

Office: 416-978-4594
Website
Email: j.rosenthal@math.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jennifer Jenkins

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • History
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Commerce and Trade
• Conflict, Violence and Genocide
• Cultural and Intellectual
• Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
• Europe
• German domestic politics and foreign policy
• German global politics
• German nationalism
• Germany and the Middle East
• Germany in the World
• Informal Empire Germany and the Middle East/Central Asia Transnational and Global History
• Mediterranean and Middle East
• Modern Germany
• National identity
• Politics and culture

Office: +1 (416) 946-8944
Home: 416-767-2064
Mobile: +1 (416) 522-2371
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: jl.jenkins@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jennifer Mori

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • History

Areas of Expertise

• "New" diplomatic history
• 18th century British history
• 18th century European history
• Britain and Ireland
• Gender and ethnicity
• Political culture
• Social and cultural history

Office: +1 (647) 781-1057
Website
Email: jennifer.mori@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jeremy Quastel

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Mathematics

Areas of Expertise

• Jeremy Quastel specializes in probability theory
• Partial differential equations
• Stochastic processes

Office: (416) 946 7193
Website
Email: quastel@math.utoronto.ca

Jessica Green

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Carbon tax
• Climate change politics
• Climate governance
• Environmental activism
• Global environmental politics
• Making public policy

Office: 416.978.6758
Languages: English
Website
Email: jf.green@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jillian Sunderland

Ph.D. Student

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Ethnicity
• Far-Right Movements
• Gender Violence
• Immigration
• Masculinity
• Media coverage of crime
• Race
• Racial inequality

Office: N/A
Website
Email: Jillian.sunderland@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Jing Chen

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Geography and Planning

Areas of Expertise

• Carbon Cycle
• Carbon neutrality
• Climate change
• Disturbance and forest management effects
• Ecosystem Modelling
• Forest carbon cycle
• Hydrology
• Physical Geography
• Remote sensing and applications to environment
• Vegetation Remote Sensing

Office: (416) 978-7085
Mobile: 905-755-9381
Website
Email: chenj@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Joan Grusec

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Psychology

Areas of Expertise

• Moral development
• Parent-child relationships
• Parenting

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

Joanna Pepin

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Culture, Policy, Methods
• Inequality, Family, Gender,
• Work, Health & Well-being,

Office: N/A
Website
Email: j.pepin@utoronto.ca

John Baird

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • English

Areas of Expertise

• Charles Dickens
• English literature of the eighteenth century
• Restoration
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century.
• Richard Watson (1737-1816); tea and literature; politics and poetry, 1660-1720.
• William McGonagall

Office: 416-531-1853
Home: 416-531-1853
Website
Email: john.baird@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

John Kirton

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• BRICS
• Canadian foreign policy
• Environment
• G20
• G8
• Global governance,
• Global health governance
• Trade

Office: (416) 946-8953
Languages: English
Website
Email: john.kirton@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

John Kloppenborg

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for Jewish Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Ancient Mediterranean Religions
• Associations and elective cults in the Graeco-Roman World
• Early Christianity and New Testament
• Historical Jesus
• Papyrology, epigraphy, and interpretation of early Christian texts
• Social history of the late Hellenistic period and early Christianity
• Synoptic Problem and Q

Office: 416-978-6493
Home: 416-604-2597
Mobile: 416-604-2597
Languages: French,German,Hebrew,Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Latin,Coptic
Email: john.kloppenborg@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online