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Faculty of Arts and Science

Henry van Driel

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Laser physics
  • Photonics

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Dutch; Flemish,German,French
Website
Email: vandriel@physics.utoronto.ca
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Hilary Cunningham

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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

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
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Ian Lancashire

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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
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Ikuko Komuro-Lee

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

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
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Isabelle Cochelin

Associate Professor

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
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Ishtiaque Ahmed

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Migrants population and technology
  • Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
  • Technology and ethics
  • Technology in Global South

Office: 647-220-3482
Languages: Arabic,Hindi,Bengali
Website
Email: ishtiaque.ahmed@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Ito Peng

Professor

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
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Jack Chambers

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

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

Office: 416-978-1764
Website
Email: jack.chambers@utoronto.ca
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James Reilly

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Syria and Lebanon

Office: N/A
Website
Email: james.reilly@utoronto.ca
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James Robert Brown

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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
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Janet Poole

Professor

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

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
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Janice Stein

Professor

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
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Jason Hackworth

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American cities
  • Detroit
  • Urban decline

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
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Jeff Allen

Senior Research Associate

Areas of Expertise

  • Cartography
  • Data analytics
  • Data visuaization
  • Urban geography
  • Urban planning
  • Urban transportation

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jeff.allen@utoronto.ca

Jeffrey Reitz

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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
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Jeffrey Rosenthal

Professor

Jeffrey Rosenthal

Areas of Expertise

  • Margins of error & biases
  • Polls
  • Probabilities

Office: 416-978-4594
Website
Email: j.rosenthal@math.toronto.edu
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Jennifer Jenkins

Associate Professor

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
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Jennifer Mori

Professor

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
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Jeremy Quastel

Professor

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

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
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Jillian Sunderland

Ph.D. Student

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

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
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Joanna Pepin

Assistant Professor

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

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
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John Kirton

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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
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John Kloppenborg

Professor

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
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John Marshall

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Apocalyptic literature
  • Colonialism and religion in the ancient world
  • Early Jewish-Christian relations
  • Historical Jesus
  • The role of Paul in the construction of Christianity
  • “Magic”

Office: 416-978-6667
Website
Email: john.marshall@utoronto.ca
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John Noyes

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 18th century culture
  • German literature and culture
  • German romanticism and colonialism

Office: 416-926-2344
Languages: German
Website
Email: john.noyes@utoronto.ca
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