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Faculty of Arts and Science

Pamela Klassen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th & 21st century Christianity, missionary/Indigenous relations
  • Canada’s treaty responsibilities in relation to religion/spirituality
  • Religion
  • Religion and medicine
  • Religion in the public sphere
  • Religion; colonialism in Canada
  • ritual and healing
  • Women and religion

Office: 416-585-4573
Website
Email: p.klassen@utoronto.ca
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Paolo Granata

Professor in Book and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

Areas of Expertise

  • Digital literacy
  • Italian politics
  • Marshall McLuhan
  • Media ecology
  • Media Ethics
  • Philosophy of technology
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Toronto Creative City

Office: 416-926-2288
Mobile: 647 550 6513
Languages: Italian
Website
Email: paolo.granata@utoronto.ca
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Patrick G. Watson

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Police misconduct
  • Police oversight
  • Police racism
  • Policing
  • Use-of-force

Office: 416-978-5202
Website
Email: patrick.watson@utoronto.ca

Paul Cohen

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Atlantic World
  • Conflict, Violence and Genocide
  • Cultural and Intellectual
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Europe
  • Food
  • France
  • France national identity and language politics
  • Higher education policy in France
  • Linguistic nationalism
  • Religion and Society
  • Social
  • Social history of languages

Office: N/A
Website
Email: p.cohen@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Paul Downes

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Deconstructive literary theory
  • Herman Melville
  • Marxist and post-Marxist theories of sovereignty and democracy
  • Political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
  • Politically-inflected theological texts,
  • Seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature

Office: 416-978-5044
Home: 416-322-6908
Mobile: 416-938-7759
Website
Email: paul.downes@utoronto.ca
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Paul Gries

Professor, Teaching Stream

Paul Gries

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer science education

Office: 416-978-6322
Mobile: 416-627-2264
Languages: English
Website
Email: pgries@cs.toronto.edu
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Pekka Sinervo

Professor

Pekka Sinervo

Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced research
  • High-energy physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Nuclear proliferation
  • Nuclear waste and radiation safety
  • Particle physics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics
  • Research funding

Office: 416-978-5270
Languages: English,Finnish,French
Website
Email: pekka.sinervo@utoronto.ca
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Peter Loewen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
  • Future of democratic societies
  • Policy; elections and representation
  • Political polarization

Office: 416-978-5120
Languages: English
Website
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
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Prentiss Dantzler

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community development
  • Housing policy
  • Neighbourhood change
  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Urban Poverty

Office: 416-978-8487
Website
Email: p.dantzler@utoronto.ca

Rafael Gomez

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Demographic issues related to the workplace and cross-country growth
  • Impact on Communities
  • Labour market analysis
  • Local employment and economic development
  • Managing staffing and supply shortages
  • The wage and pay structure impacts of unions on CEO and executive pay
  • Union and non-union voices at work

Office: 416-939-9216
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American,English
Website
Email: ralph.gomez@utoronto.ca
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Randall Hansen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizenship
  • European politics
  • Forced migration
  • Immigration
  • Refugees

Office: N/A
Home: 416-978-4160
Languages: English
Website
Email: r.hansen@utoronto.ca
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Raquel Urtasun

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence / machine learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine learning
  • Remote sensing and robotics
  • Self-driving cars

Office: N/A
Email: urtasun@cs.toronto.edu
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Ravin Balakrishnan

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer supported collaborative tools
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Interactive computer graphics
  • Interactive technology
  • User interfaces

Office: +1 (416) 835-1600
Website
Email: ravin@cs.toronto.edu
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Raymond Carlberg

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • CNOC (Galaxy Clusters evolution and dark matter)
  • CNOC2 (Field galaxy clustering and evolution)
  • Cosmology
  • Dark energy
  • Dark matter
  • Extremely large telescopes
  • High Arctic Astronomy
  • SNLS (Supernova Legacy Survey)
  • VLOT/Thirty Meter Telescope (1998-2016)

Office: 416-978-3150
Website
Email: carlberg@astro.utoronto.ca
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Reid Locklin

Associate Professor

Reid Locklin

Areas of Expertise

  • Advaita Vedānta
  • Catholic Church
  • Christian Theologies of Pluralism and Dialogue
  • Comparative Method
  • Interreligious dialogue

Office: 416-926-2318
Home: 416-929-7192
Mobile: 416-929-7192
Website
Email: reid.locklin@utoronto.ca
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Renée Hložek

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Astrostatistics
  • Cosmic microwave background
  • Observational cosmology
  • Reionisation
  • Supernovae
  • Theoretical cosmology

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-573-6445
Languages: English
Website
Email: hlozek@astro.utoronto.ca
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Rich Zemel

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Computational neuroscience
  • Machine learning

Office: 416-978-7497
Website
Email: zemel@cs.toronto.edu
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Richard Sandbrook

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Counter-Hegemonic Globalization
  • Development Strategies of the Left in the Global South
  • Evolution and Politics of the Neoliberal Development Paradigm

Office: 416-978-8264
Home: 416-967-1265
Mobile: 647-622-9539
Languages: English
Website
Email: richard.sandbrook@utoronto.ca
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Richard Teuscher

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • ATLAS experiment
  • CERN
  • Experimental high energy physics
  • Higgs Boson
  • Particle physics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: richard.teuscher@utoronto.ca
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Rick Halpern

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Capitalism
  • History of Photography and Visual Culture
  • Labor History
  • Social History

Office: (416) 208-4754
Languages: Italian,French
Website
Email: rick.halpern@utoronto.ca

Rijuta Mehta

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Feminist theory
  • Film and Media Studies
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Race and ethnic studies

Office: 416-978-6501
Email: rijuta.mehta@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Rimma Teper

PhD candidate

Areas of Expertise

  • Meditation
  • Mindfulness
  • Moral behavior
  • Moral decision-making
  • Self-knowledge

Office: 416-208-4868
Mobile: 416-648-3843
Email: rimma.teper@gmail.com
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Rinaldo Walcott

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Black diaspora cultural studies
  • Gender
  • Sexuality

Office: N/A
Website
Email: rinaldo.walcott@utoronto.ca

Robert Austin

Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Democratization and Populism in Central Europe and the Balkans
  • State and Nation Building in the 19th and 20th Century Balkans
  • Transitional Justice in the Balkans and Georgia

Office: 416-946-8942
Mobile: 416-486-1246
Languages: English
Website
Email: robert.austin@utoronto.ca
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Robert Bothwell

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Atomic history
  • Canada-US relations
  • Canadian foreign relations
  • Canadian politics and political history

Office: 416-946-8948 Ext. 68948
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
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Robert Davidson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Catalonia
  • Food studies
  • Hospitality
  • Modern and Contemporary Hispanic Literatures and Cultures
  • Modern Spanish & Catalan Literature and Culture
  • Spain
  • Spanish Cinema
  • Urban theory

Office: N/A
Home: 416-556-6955
Website
Email: robert.davidson@utoronto.ca
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Robert Holmstedt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Israel
  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible
  • Semitic languages

Office: N/A
Languages: Hebrew,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE),Ugaritic,Geez,English,French,German
Website
Email: robert.holmstedt@utoronto.ca
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Robert Logan

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Biocomplexity
  • Canadian politics
  • Industrial design
  • Information theory
  • Knowledge management and change management in corporations
  • Linguistics: the origin and evolution of language
  • Marshall McLuhan
  • New media and art
  • Science Education
  • Social impact and history of media
  • The Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD, Design and Emergence
  • Use of computers in education

Office: 416-978-8632
Mobile: 416-361-5928
Languages: English,French,Spanish; Castilian,Dutch; Flemish,Italian,German,Latvian
Website
Email: logan@physics.utoronto.ca
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Robert McCann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Analysis
  • Decision-making and economic matching problems
  • Differential equations
  • Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • Optimal transportation and its applications within and outside mathematics
  • Optimization

Office: 416-978-4658
Languages: English
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Robert Morris

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Catalysts
  • Chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Metals in biology and medicine
  • Uses of hydrogen

Office: 416-978-6962
Home: 416-465-7815
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: robert.morris@utoronto.ca
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