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Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Marvin Zuker

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Education law
  • Equity
  • Justice

Office: (416) 978-1181
Website
Email: marvin.zuker@utoronto.ca

Mary Reid

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Curriculum and teaching in mathematics
  • Dismantling anti-Asian racism in schooling (AsianCrit, Bamboo Ceiling, Model Minority Myth, COVID-19)
  • Harmful effects of the model minority myth in STEM education

Office: 416-556-6416
Website
Email: mary.reid@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Megan Boler

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 2024 US election
  • Digital activism and social media
  • digital propaganda and emotions
  • Media representation of gender and women
  • online hate and disinformation targeting 2SLGBTQ communities
  • polarization and social media
  • Post-truth politics
  • racism and rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in U.S. and Canada
  • social justice education
  • weaponization of emotions in politics and digital media

Office: (416) 978-1231
Website
Email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michal Perlman

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Child care
  • Early childhood education and care
  • Sibling conflict

Office: 416-978-0596
Languages: Hebrew
Website
Email: michal.perlman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michele Peterson-Badali

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children's rights
  • Youth justice

Office: 416-978-0937
Home: 416-485-4684
Mobile: 416-485-4684
Languages: English
Website
Email: m.petersonbadali@utoronto.ca
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Monica Heller

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Monica Heller

Areas of Expertise

  • Bilingualism
  • Francophone Canada
  • Immigration
  • Language and education
  • Language and globalization
  • Language policy
  • Linguistic minorities
  • Nationalism

Office: 416-978-1987
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American
Email: monica.heller@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Roy Moodley

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture
  • Ethnicity
  • Multicultural counselling
  • Psychotherapy and counselling
  • Race

Office: 416-978-0721
Home: 416-481-9462
Website
Email: roy.moodley@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Arts in education
  • Cultural sociology
  • Cultural studies
  • Education
  • Latino-Canadian studies

Office: 4169780194
Home: 416-778-0439
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: r.gaztambide.fernandez@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shahrzad Mojab

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Adult education and public policy
  • Anti-racism pedagogy
  • Diaspora
  • Immigrant and refugee women
  • Marxism and Feminism
  • War and violence
  • Women in the Middle East

Office: 416-978-0829
Home: 416-929-4089
Mobile: 416-929-4089
Languages: Persian,Kurdish,English
Website
Email: shahrzad.mojab@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shakina Rajendram

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Higher education contexts through translanguaging
  • Multiliteracies pedagogies
  • Pre-service and in-service teacher education
  • Second language learning and curriculum development
  • Supporting multilingual learners in K-12

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Tamil,Malay
Website
Email: shakina.rajendram@utoronto.ca

Shelley Stagg Peterson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Children's literature
  • Early literacy
  • Reading
  • Rural education
  • Writing and writing assessment

Office: 416-978-0329
Website
Email: shelleystagg.peterson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shozab Raza

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Fields: critical theory, anthropology, post/decolonial studies
  • Regions: global South, South Asia, Pakistan
  • Themes: revolutionary politics and social movements, political economy, decolonization, Marxism

Office: N/A
Website
Email: shozab.raza@utoronto.ca

Tanya Titchkosky

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bureaucracy Studies
  • Critical disability studies
  • Cultural disability studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Disability studies
  • Disability studies in education
  • Interpretive methods
  • Interpretive sociology
  • Normalcy studies
  • Phenomenology
  • Sociological imagination
  • Sociology of disability
  • Sociology of the body

Office: (416) 978-0451
Website
Email: tanya.titchkosky@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Todd Cunningham

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Assistive technology
  • Learning disabilities
  • Literacy development
  • Mental health of youth and adolescents
  • Readjusting to in-person environment
  • Remote-learning option
  • School psychology
  • Students’ mental health
  • Support for students with disabilities

Office: (647) 542-3433
Email: todd.cunningham@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tony Lam

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Self-assessment
  • Survey instrument development
  • Training and program evaluation

Office: 416-978-0140
Home: 416-283-6311
Mobile: 416-283-6311
Languages: Cantonese
Website
Email: tcm.lam@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Vannina Sztainbok

Adjunct Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Blackness
  • Politics of representation
  • Race in Latin America
  • Racism
  • Whiteness

Office: 416-978-0017
Languages: Spanish
Website
Email: vannina.sztainbok@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Zachary Hawes

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • How can we better leverage research in numerical and spatial cognition to inform the teaching and learning of early years mathematics?
  • How can we create the most optimal teacher professional learning experiences?
  • How do attitudes towards mathematics (e.g., math anxiety) influence performance in mathematics? How can we foster positive attitudes towards mathematics?
  • What are the cognitive and neural underpinnings of mathematical thought?
  • What role does spatial visualization play in mathematics learning and performance?

Office: N/A
Website
Email: zack.hawes@utoronto.ca