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Faculty of Arts and Science

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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Roberta Buiani

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • AI Ethics
  • Art and science collaboration
  • Biopolitics and biopower
  • Material Cultures
  • Visual Cultures

Office: N/A
Languages: French,Italian,German
Email: roberta.buiani@utoronto.ca

Roberto Abraham

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Astronomy
  • Galaxies
  • Galaxy evolution
  • Telescopes

Office: 416-946-7289
Mobile: 647-388-4345
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American,French
Website
Email: abraham@astro.utoronto.ca

Rodney Haddow

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian social
  • Economic development policy in a comparative context
  • Labour market

Office: 416-978-8710
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: r.haddow@utoronto.ca
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Rodrigo Correa Rangel

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Archaeological Geophysics
  • Cryosphere Geophysics
  • Environmental Geophysics
  • Hydrogeophysics

Office: N/A
Languages: Portuguese,English
Website
Email: rodrigo.rangel@utoronto.ca

Roger Greenwald

Senior Fellow, Innis College

Areas of Expertise

  • Modern and contemporary poetry
  • Scandinavian poetry
  • Translation of literature

Office: 416-523-7737
Languages: Norwegian
Email: roger@chass.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Romila Verma

Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate Change Impacts on Water
  • Desalination
  • Environmental Education in middle schools and post secondary institutes
  • Hydrology
  • Water Management

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-930-8659
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu
Website
Email: romila.verma@utoronto.ca
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Romin Tafarodi

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural psychology
  • Media psychology
  • Philosophy of psychology
  • Self and identity

Office: 416-946-3024
Website
Email: romin.tafarodi@utoronto.ca
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Ron Deibert

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Exercise of Power in Cyberspace
  • Internet Censorship and Surveillance

Office: 416-946-8916
Languages: English
Website
Email: r.deibert@utoronto.ca
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Ron Levi

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Claims to law and justice
  • Crime and violence
  • International law
  • Law and Society

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Hebrew,French
Website
Email: ron.levi@utoronto.ca
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Ronald de Sousa

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Ronald de Sousa

Areas of Expertise

  • Atheism
  • Evolutionary theory
  • Philosophy of biology
  • Philosophy of sexuality
  • Philosophy of the emotions (rationality and education)

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: ronald.de.sousa@utoronto.ca
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Ronald Kluger

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Chemical weapons
  • Organic chemistry
  • Pharmaceutical patents

Office: 416-978-3582
Website
Email: r.kluger@utoronto.ca
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Ronit Dinovitzer

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Diversity and inequality in the legal profession
  • Ethics of lawyers
  • Legal profession

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ronit.dinovitzer@utoronto.ca
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Russell Pysklywec

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Active continental mountain building and volcanism in New Zealand
  • Earthquakes
  • Lithospheric delamination beneath Eastern Anatolia
  • Mantle-crust interactions on Io
  • Mountain building
  • Plate tectonics
  • Sedimentary basins
  • Slab retreat and overlying orogenesis of the Apennines belt in Northern Italy
  • Tectonics of Canada’s high arctic
  • Volcanism

Office: +1 (416) 978 4852
Website
Email: russ@es.utoronto.ca
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Ruth Marshall

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Citizenship, state politics and violence in Nigeria & Cote d’Ivoire
  • Continental philosophy of religion
  • Continental political philosophy
  • Pentecostalism, radical reformist Islam and religious revival in the Global South
  • Post-colonial theory, African Studies
  • Religion, politics and public life
  • Religious conflict and violence
  • Secularism and democratic theory
  • United States Politics - the Religious Right since the 1970s, the rise of the alt-right, the MAGA movement, QAnon, the Trump years and party politics
  • United States Religion - evangelicals and race, White Christian nationalism, theocracy, dominionism, reconstructionism, Christian cults, QAnon and its Christian roots and networks

Office: 416-978-0241
Mobile: 416-839-9295
Website
Email: ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca
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Ryan Hurl

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • American political development
  • American political thought
  • Comparative constitutional law
  • History of Political Thought
  • Judicial politics

Office: 416-978-3334
Website
Email: ryan.hurl@utoronto.ca
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Sarah Mayes-Tang

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Commutative algebra and infinite collections of polynomials

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: smt@math.toronto.edu

Sarah Wakefield

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community development
  • Culture & History
  • Environment & Climate
  • Environmental justice/just sustainability
  • Food access and security
  • Food policy and food systems
  • Policy & Planning
  • Rural
  • Social & Political Geography
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Urban
  • Urban health inequalities

Office: 416-978-3653
Website
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
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Scot Wortley

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community corrections
  • Crime statistics
  • Criminal justice issues
  • Immigration and crime,
  • Media coverage of crime
  • Penology (prisons)
  • Police use of force
  • Racial profiling
  • Racism in the criminal justice system
  • Youth crime and delinquency
  • Youth gangs

Office: 416-946-7428
Website
Email: scot.wortley@utoronto.ca
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Scott Rayter

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian and American literature
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Queer cultures & representation
  • Sexuality studies

Office: 416-978-7200
Website
Email: scott.rayter@utoronto.ca
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Scott Schieman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health/Mental Health
  • Mental health and emotions
  • Religion
  • Social psychology
  • Sociology of work
  • Stratification and Inequality
  • Stress and health
  • Work and stress

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-830-1441
Website
Email: scott.schieman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Sean Hawkins

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
  • African intellectual history
  • Anglo-American perceptions of African subjectivity in historical perspective
  • Animal studies
  • Conflict, Violence and Genocide
  • Cultural history of sub-Saharan Africa
  • Ethics of conservation and animal protection
  • History of freedom
  • History of rights
  • Intersection of animal and human rights
  • Modern social history
  • Social

Office: +1 (416) 978-7418
Home: 416-925-6006
Website
Email: sean.hawkins@utoronto.ca
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Sebastian Sobecki

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Authorship and Literary History
  • Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
  • Law and Politics
  • Palaeography, Archives, and Manuscripts
  • Travel Writing and Global Medieval Literature

Office: N/A
Languages: German,Polish,Dutch; Flemish
Website
Email: sebastian.sobecki@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Semra Sevi

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Elections
  • Experiments
  • Gender & Politics
  • Political Science
  • Representation
  • Voting

Office: N/A
Website
Email: semra.sevi@utoronto.ca

Seva Gunitsky

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Democratization
  • Russia and Eastern Europe
  • U.S. foreign policy

Office: 416-946-8959
Languages: English,Russian
Website
Email: s.gunitsky@utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic History
  • Health economics

Office: (416) 946-8825
Languages: English
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
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Shawn Lehman

Professor

Shawn Lehman

Areas of Expertise

  • Primate conservation

Office: +1 (416) 978-4003
Languages: English
Website
Email: shawn.lehman@utoronto.ca
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Sheena Josselyn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Neuroscience

Office: 416-813-7654 Ext. 301824
Website
Email: sheena.josselyn@sickkids.ca
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Shiri M. Breznitz

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship in general and students’ entrepreneurship in particular
  • Higher education
  • Incubators/accelerators
  • Innovation and technology
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Regional economic development

Office: 416-946-5225
Website
Email: shiri.breznitz@utoronto.ca
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Shyon Baumann

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aesthetic evaluation
  • Cultural classification
  • Cultural consumption
  • Food studies
  • Media studies
  • Symbolic boundaries

Office: N/A
Website
Email: shyon.baumann@utoronto.ca
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