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Faculty of Arts and Science

Matthew Light

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Belgorod Oblast
  • Civil liberties in Russia
  • Corruption and crime in Russia
  • Criminal Behaviour
  • Criminal justice
  • International response to Russia
  • Law and Legal Processes
  • Migration
  • Migration and ethnic relations in Russia
  • North caucuses
  • Policing
  • Regional government and federal-regional relations in Russia
  • Russian law enforcement/policing
  • Specific regions of Russia, Moscow
  • Ukraine & Georgia tensions

Office: 416-978-7124 Ext. 227
Languages: English
Website
Email: matthew.light@utoronto.ca
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Matti Siemiatycki

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community and regional planning
  • Congestion management
  • Cycling
  • Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
  • Infrastructure finance and delivery
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Transit and commuting
  • Transportation policy and planning
  • Urban planning
  • Urban transit

Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: matti.siemiatycki@utoronto.ca
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Maxim Tarnawsky

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • language and culture
  • Ukrainian literature

Office: 416-978-8972
Home: 416-769-0670
Mobile: 416-769-0670
Website
Email: tarn@chass.utoronto.ca
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Mel Cappe

Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

  • Electoral reform – what are the issues
  • Former High Commissioner to the UK
  • Governance
  • Government
  • Institutions
  • People
  • United Kingdom

Office: 416-978-2875
Mobile: 647-981-7666
Languages: French
Email: mel.cappe@utoronto.ca
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Michael Chazan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • African archeology
  • Archaeology
  • Europe
  • France
  • History of archaeology
  • Human evolution
  • Lithic analysis,
  • Middle East
  • Middle Eastern archeology
  • Near East
  • Paleoarchaeology
  • Prehistory
  • South Africa

Office: +1 (416) 585-4423
Mobile: +1 (416) 968-2868
Languages: English,French,Hebrew
Website
Email: mchazan@chass.utoronto.ca
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Michael Classens

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Commitments to social and environmental justice, particularly within the context of the food system
  • Critical sustainability pedagogy
  • Local food systems transformation

Office: N/A
Website
Email: michael.classens@utoronto.ca

Michael Cobb

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American literature
  • Aspects of Theory
  • Gay rights and racial equality comparison
  • lesbian
  • LGBTQ
  • Queer rights/politics
  • Queer Theory and Literature
  • transgendered
  • two-spirited

Office: 416-978-8114
Website
Email: michael.cobb@utoronto.ca
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Michael Donnelly

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian views on immigration and refugees
  • Ethnic Politics
  • European politics
  • Immigration
  • Public opinion
  • Social policy

Office: 1 416-978-0344
Languages: English
Website
Email: mj.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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Michael Reid

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Communicating astronomy to non-experts
  • The development of an evolutionary sequence for high-mass pre-protostellar objects.
  • The origins of the stellar initial mass function.
  • The search for and classification of young, high-mass protostellar and pre-protostellar objects.

Office: (416) 978-0307
Languages: English
Website
Email: mike.reid@utoronto.ca
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Michael Stepner

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of COVID-19
  • Health economics
  • Insurance and income supports
  • Labour economics
  • Taxation and redistribution

Office: (416) 946-5794
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: michael.stepner@utoronto.ca
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Michael Widener

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Food deserts
  • Food environments
  • Food insecurity
  • Health and transportation
  • Healthy food accessibility
  • Housing and health
  • How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
  • Urban planning and health

Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
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Mike Miller

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • High-energy physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Particle physics
  • Philosophy of physics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Science and society
  • Societal implications of modern physics

Office: 414-439-1857
Website
Email: mike.miller@utoronto.ca
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Miriam Diamond

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Air and water pollution
  • Chemicals Management
  • Environmental and human impacts of digital technologies
  • Human and ecosystem exposure to chemical contaminants and microplastics
  • Indoor environmental quality
  • Sources and fate of chemical contaminants and microplastics
  • Toxic Chemicals

Office: N/A
Mobile: +1 (416) 573-2977
Website
Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca
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Misha Teramura

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Early modern drama
  • Early modern English literature
  • History of the book
  • Lost plays
  • Manuscript Studies
  • Shakespeare

Office: N/A
Website
Email: m.teramura@utoronto.ca

Monica Boyd

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Immigrant offspring
  • Immigration
  • Parental-young adult co-residency
  • Population

Office: (416) 946-5906
Website
Email: monica.boyd@utoronto.ca
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Morgan Barense

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Memory and brain
  • Memory disorders
  • Perception

Office: 416-978-5429
Website
Email: barense@psych.utoronto.ca
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Mounir AbouHaidar

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Development of recombinant vaccines produced in plants
  • Development of vaccines (e.g. HCV)
  • Development of “transgenic” plants resistant to viruses, mechanisms of resistance
  • Genome organization, self-splicing (Ribozyme) and replication strategies of some viruses and their satellite RNAs
  • Molecular biology of plant and human viruses
  • Molecular mechanisms involved in the translation in Pro- and Eukaryotes, alternative modes of initiation of translation
  • Plant antiviral proteins for gene therapy of AIDS
  • Plant biotechnology
  • Virology

Office: +1 (416) 978-5615
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: mounir.abouhaidar@utoronto.ca
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Nancy Bertoldi

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Civil disobedience
  • Global Civil Disobedience
  • Global Inequality
  • Global Justice
  • Global order
  • Global Pluralism
  • Global Poverty
  • Human rights
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Sovereignty

Office: 416-946-0181
Languages: English
Website
Email: nancy.bertoldi@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nancy Reid

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Data science
  • Design of studies
  • Foundations of Inference
  • Health and environment statistics
  • Likelihood Inference
  • P-values
  • Polling methods
  • Statistical Theory
  • Statistics and Policy

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-986-8321
Website
Email: nancym.reid@utoronto.ca
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Naomi Nagy

Professor

Naomi Nagy

Areas of Expertise

  • Faetar (a Franco-Provençal dialect)
  • Heritage Languages
  • Language Contact
  • New England English
  • Phonetics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Variation and change in heritage languages in Toronto

Office: 416-978-1767
Languages: English,French,Italian,Spanish; Castilian,Portuguese
Website
Email: naomi.nagy@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nate Wessel

Planning PhD Student in Geography & Planning at the Faculty of Art & Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Real-time transit data
  • Travel and schedule planning

Office: 704-337-6510
Email: nate.wessel@mail.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Neda Maghbouleh

Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Areas of Expertise

  • Immigration
  • Iran
  • Islamophobia
  • Racism
  • Syrian refugees in Canada and the U.S.
  • The Middle East

Office: N/A
Email: neda.maghbouleh@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: Radio, Print/Online

Nelson Wiseman

Professor Emeritus

Nelson Wiseman

Areas of Expertise

  • Canada in the world
  • Canada’s political parties and leaders
  • Canadian politics and policy
  • Elections and Voting
  • Provincial politics

Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
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Nicholas Everett

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • Ancient and Medieval History
  • Britain and Ireland
  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Early medieval Europe
  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • Europe
  • Food
  • History of Italy
  • History of medicine
  • History of pharmacy
  • International relations
  • Italian churches
  • Medicine
  • Medieval
  • Medieval manuscripts and Latin philology
  • Mediterranean and Middle East
  • Ojibwe and Native North American Medicine
  • Religion and Society
  • Saints' lives
  • Social
  • State, Politics, and Law

Office: +1 (647) 988-8370
Languages: English,Italian,Latin,Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Website
Email: n.everett@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Provart

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatic analyses of plants
  • Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
  • Comparative genomics of higher plants and fungi
  • Data mining of biological datasets
  • Data visualization
  • Gene expression profiling of plants
  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Molecular biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Structural Biology
  • Systems Biology

Office: +1 (416) 978-3500
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: nicholas.provart@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Sammond

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American studies
  • Animation
  • Children and movies
  • Early animation
  • Ethnicity and media
  • Gender and sexuality in vernacular media
  • Media and social/cultural practice
  • Media effects
  • Race

Office: 416-978-7271
Website
Email: nic.sammond@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nick Mount

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian literature
  • vandalism

Office: 416-946-3144
Website
Email: nick.mount@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nidhi Subramanyam

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change adaptation,
  • Environmental justice,
  • Ethnographic,
  • Flood risk management,
  • Participatory and qualitative research methods,
  • Planning in the Global South
  • Sustainable development,
  • Urban governance,
  • Urbanization and rural-urban transitions in South Asia
  • Water-sanitation infrastructures,

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Hindi,Marathi,Tamil
Website
Email: nidhi.subramanyam@utoronto.ca

Nikolai Krementsov

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Russian/Soviet biomedical sciences
  • international relations in science
  • Science and fiction
  • Science and the Cold War

Office: 416-978-5020
Languages: English,Russian
Website
Email: n.krementsov@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nisarg Shah

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Algorithmic fairness and ethics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Fair division of resources
  • Fairness, transparency, and explainability in machine learning
  • Game theory
  • Incentives in machine learning
  • Participatory budgeting
  • Voting methods

Office: N/A
Website
Email: nisarg@cs.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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