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Faculty of Arts and Science

John Peever

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal Biology
  • Brain disorders
  • Brain Research
  • Dreaming sleep
  • Molecular biology
  • Narcolepsy
  • Neurobiology
  • Neurobiology of sleep
  • Pathology
  • Physiology
  • REM sleep behaviour disorder
  • Sleep
  • Sleep disorders
  • Systems Biology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: john.peever@utoronto.ca

John Robinson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • community engagement and futures studies
  • philosophy of sustainability
  • sustainability transitions and transformations
  • Sustainable Buildings and Cities

Office: 416.918.7977
Languages: English
Website
Email: johnb.robinson@utoronto.ca

John Stinchcombe

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Adaptation to climate change

Office: 416-946-5986
Website
Email: john.stinchcombe@utoronto.ca
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John Yeomans

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioural neuroscience
  • Countess of Pembroke
  • Mary Sidney
  • Roles in Plays and Poems of "William Shakespeare"

Office: 416-978-7618
Mobile: 416-789-5517
Website
Email: yeomans@psych.utoronto.ca
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John Zilcosky

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Sports
  • Literary and cultural theory
  • Modern European literature and thought
  • Psychoanalysis and culture
  • Travel writing

Office: 416-926-2324
Languages: German,French,English
Email: john.zilcosky@utoronto.ca
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Jooyoung Lee

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Crime victims
  • Gangs
  • Gun Violence
  • Guns
  • Hip Hop
  • Mixed martial arts
  • Murder
  • Police reform
  • Racism
  • RCMP’s treatment of Indigenous people
  • Serial killers

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca
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Jordan Foster

PhD Candidate and Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Celebrity
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Social media
  • Wealth

Office: 647-561-7287
Email: jordann.foster@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Joseph Bryant

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy of science
  • Sociology of culture
  • The Mediterranean worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, with a specific focus on the rise of Christianity

Office: 416 946 5901
Website
Email: joseph.bryant@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Desloges

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change
  • Geomorphology
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Paleohydrology
  • River processes and flooding
  • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
  • Teaching Field Methods

Office: +1 (416) 978-3709
Website
Email: joseph.desloges@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Heath

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Consumerism
  • Counterculture
  • Distributive justice
  • Multiculturalism
  • Welfare state

Office: 416-978-8094
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: joseph.heath@utoronto.ca
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Joseph L. Clarke

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th and 20th century architecture
  • History of architectural acoustics (music and sonic media)
  • History of Canadian architecture
  • History of office/workplace design
  • Modern sacred architecture

Office: N/A
Website
Email: joseph.clarke@utoronto.ca
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Joseph McQuade

RCL Postdoctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise

  • Colonialism/Decolonization
  • India
  • International affairs
  • Myanmar/Burma
  • Terrorism and security

Office: N/A
Email: joseph.mcquade@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Steinberg

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • International economics
  • Macroeconomics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: joseph.steinberg@utoronto.ca

Joseph Thywissen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Fermi gases near unitarity
  • Non-equilibrium phenomena
  • Novel laser cooling techniques
  • Quantum information.
  • Quantum simulation

Office: 416 978-2941
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: jht@physics.utoronto.ca

Joseph Wong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Asia
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Comparative Public Policy
  • Comparative Public Policy, with a Regional Focus on East Asia
  • Democratization
  • Global development
  • Innovation policy
  • Poverty and inequality

Office: 416-946-7955
Languages: English
Website
Email: joe.wong@utoronto.ca
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Joshua Speagle

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Astrostatistics
  • Data science
  • Dust and the Interstellar Medium
  • Galactic Structure and Dynamics
  • Galaxy Formation and Evolution
  • Machine learning
  • Stars and Stellar Populations
  • Statistical inference

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: j.speagle@utoronto.ca

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Applied linguistics
  • Community-Engaged Learning (CEL)
  • Digital Pedagogy
  • Experiential Learning
  • Foreign Language Pedagogy
  • Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Literature
  • Mexican History, Culture & Society
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • Professional Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants
  • Spanish to Chinese Speakers
  • Teaching & Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language in Canada & the United States

Office: +1 (416) 585-4439
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,English,French,Italian,Portuguese
Website
Email: juancarlos.rochaosornio@utoronto.ca

Judith Taylor

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and Popular Culture as relates to other expertise
  • Feminism and Feminist Perspective
  • Gender Relations
  • Social Movements and Activism
  • Social policy
  • Sociological framings of social problems

Office: 416-946-5720
Website
Email: judith.taylor@utoronto.ca
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Kanta Murali

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative Political Economy of Development
  • Ethnicity and Economic Development
  • Indian politics
  • Inequality
  • Labour policy
  • Politics of development and economic policy in India
  • State Capacity
  • State-Business Relations

Office: 416-978-8492
Mobile: 647-964-1870
Website
Email: kanta.murali@utoronto.ca
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Karan Singh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artistic rendering and fabrication
  • Augmented Reality (AR)
  • Character animation
  • Computer animation
  • Computer graphics
  • Facial animation
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Interactive graphics
  • Mobile interfaces
  • Shape modelling
  • Shape perception
  • Sketch interfaces
  • Virtual Reality (VR)

Office: (416) 978-7201
Languages: English,French,Hindi,Japanese,Panjabi; Punjabi
Website
Email: karan@cs.toronto.edu
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Karen Chapple

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Governance and cities
  • Housing affordability
  • Job creation
  • Residential and commercial gentrification
  • Transit-oriented displacement

Office: 416-946-7084
Website
Email: karen.chapple@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Karina Vold

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Philosophy of science
  • Philosophy of technology
  • The ethics of Artificial intelligence (AI)

Office: 416-946-8788
Website
Email: karina.vold@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Katherine Bullock

Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Muslims in Canada
  • Islamic perspectives on poverty alleviation (charity and basic income)
  • Media representation of Islam/Muslims
  • Muslim organisations and civic engagement in Canada
  • Muslim women and the veil

Office: N/A
Email: katherine.bullock@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Kay Armatage

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Film festivals
  • Nell Shipman and women filmmakers of the silent era
  • Women filmmakers
  • Women's film festivals

Office: 416-978-8572
Website
Email: kay.armatage@utoronto.ca

Keiko Yoshioka

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Molecular biology
  • Pathology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant immunity
  • Plant molecular biology
  • Plant stress responses
  • Plant-microbe interaction
  • Structural Biology
  • Systems Biology

Office: +1 (416) 978-3545
Website
Email: keiko.yoshioka@utoronto.ca
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Keith Vanderlinde

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Astronomy
  • Computers in astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Galaxies
  • Large scale structure in the universe
  • Long wavelength (radio, microwave) instrumentation and cosmology
  • Particularly large scale structure
  • Radio astronomy
  • Radio telescopes
  • South Pole radio astronomy
  • The expansion history of the universe.

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-946-5436
Languages: English
Website
Email: vanderlinde@astro.utoronto.ca
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Keren Rice

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Indigenous languages
  • Language revitalization
  • Morphology (word formation)
  • Phonology
  • Phonology (sound systems)

Office: +1 (416) 978-1763
Languages: English,Chipewyan; Dene Suline
Website
Email: rice@chass.utoronto.ca
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Kerry Bowman

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial intelligence
  • consumption of wild animals & diseases
  • Environmental/climate change ethics
  • Ethical implications of vaccine mandates
  • Ethics of organ donation law
  • Ethics of quarantine
  • Forest loss
  • Gene editing/gene drive
  • Genomic/genetic ethics
  • Geoengineering
  • Medical assistance in dying
  • Physician assisted in dying/end of life
  • Reproductive ethics
  • Zoonosis

Office: 416-586-4800 Ext. 2163
Home: 416-532-4594
Website
Email: kerry.bowman@utoronto.ca
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Kimberly Strong

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Air quality and pollution
  • Arctic atmospheric science
  • Arctic Atmospheric Science, PEARL, CANDAC, PAHA, and MOACC
  • Atmospheric composition and chemistry
  • Atmospheric measurements
  • Atmospheric physics
  • Climate change
  • Concept study for OH Measurements from Space (OHMS)
  • Ground-based ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy to measure the concentrations of stratospheric gases
  • Ground-Based UV-Visible Remote Sounding of the Stratosphere
  • Intracavity laser spectroscopy using a Fourier transform spectrometer in step-scan mode for temporal resolution
  • Laboratory spectroscopy
  • Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MANTRA)
  • Modelling the retrieval of vertical profiles of tropospheric gases using a ranging spectrometer
  • Near-infrared laboratory spectroscopy of methane in support of the Galileo mission to Jupiter
  • Ozone depletion
  • Planetary atmospheres
  • Remote sounding of the atmosphere (from the ground, balloons, and satellites)
  • SCISAT-1 and the ACE-FTS and MAESTRO Satellite Instruments
  • Stratospheric Science with the Odin Satellite
  • Studies of Planetary Atmospheres
  • The University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (TAO)
  • Wildfires

Office: 416-978-5205
Website
Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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Konrad Eisenbichler

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Early modern confraternities
  • Early modern women
  • Giuliano-Dalmata history, culture, and literature
  • History of medieval and Renaissance Italy
  • Italian immigration in Canada
  • Italian-Canadian history
  • Medieval
  • Renaissance
  • Renaissance history
  • Renaissance literature, theatre, history, and culture
  • Sex and gender
  • Sex and gender in the Renaissance (1300-1600)
  • Tuscany

Office: 416-585-4486
Website
Email: konrad.eisenbichler@utoronto.ca
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