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Academic and Technical Writing

  • Jason Collins

    ENGR communication course coordinator, Assistant Teaching Professor Academic and Technical Writing Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Rhetoric, Indigenous Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Technical and Professional Communication

  • Loren Gaudet

    ATWP 135 course coordinator, Assistant Teaching Professor Academic and Technical Writing Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Health Humanities, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Rhetoric, First-year Academic Writing

  • Sara Humphreys

    ATWP 250 course coordinator, Associate Teaching Professor Academic and Technical Writing Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Popular video games as cultural expression, Online forms of communication, Multiliteracies with a focus on genres of communication, Workplace communication, Canadian writing and composition and its role in supporting marginalized student populations.

Anthropology

  • April Nowell

    Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Neanderthal, Paleolithic art and archaeology, Hominin life histories, cognitive archaeology, archaeology of children, Levant and Europe

  • Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

    Associate professor, acting chair Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Visual anthropology, sound studies, creative practices, digital media, infrastructure, Cuba, Canada

  • D. Burnett

    Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, anthropology of race, anthropology of religion

  • Stephanie Calce

    Senior lab instructor, adjunct assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Biological anthropology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology

  • Tatiana Degai

    Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous research methodologies, ethics, and community-engaged research, ethnographies of the North-Pacific/Arctic, language revitalization

  • Mélissa Gauthier

    Associate teaching professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Economic anthropology, border studies, informal & illicit economies, cross-border trade, Mexico-US borderlands, Mexico, Yucatán

  • Erin Halstad McGuire

    Associate teaching professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Archaeology, material culture, funerary rituals, Medieval North Atlantic, cemetery archaeology, teaching and learning in undergraduate education

  • Robert L.A. Hancock

    Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous–state relations, Metis studies, Indigenous anthropology, history of anthropology, Indigenous education, Indigenous studies

  • Tommy Happynook

    Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences
  • Ammie Kalan

    Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Biological anthropology, primate behavioural ecology, animal communication, animal cultures, tool use, wildlife conservation, bioacoustics, camera trapping

  • Helen Kurki

    Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Biological anthropology, skeletal biology, hominin functional anatomy

  • Yin Lam

    Associate professor, undergraduate advisor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Archaeology, zooarchaeology, palaeoanthropology

  • Iain McKechnie

    Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Coastal archaeology, historical ecology, Northwest coast, zooarchaeology

  • Alison Murray

    Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Biological anthropology, functional anatomy, skeletal biology, life history

  • Daromir Rudnyckyj

    Professor, graduate advisor Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Money, capitalism, the state, ethnography. religion, finance, development, economy, globalization, social studies of finance, cryptocurrency, liberalism & neoliberalism, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe

  • Brian Thom

    Associate professor, Provost’s engaged scholar Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cultural anthropology, Indigenous legal orders and land rights, ethnographic mapping, space and place, Coast Salish

  • Andrea Walsh

    Associate professor, Smyth chair in arts & engagement Anthropology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Visual anthropology, visual culture & theory, contemporary First Nations visual culture

Art History and Visual Studies

  • Sm Łoodm 'Nüüsm (Mique'l Dangeli)

    Assistant Professor, Indigenous Arts Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Northwest Coast First Nations & Alaska Native Performing Arts, Northwest Coast First Nations & Alaska Native Visual Arts, Indigenous Language Revitalization, Dance Studies, Museum Studies

  • Allan Antliff

    Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Modern American and European art, Contemporary art, Anarchist studies

  • Evanthia Baboula

    Assistant Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Material & Visual Cultures of the Mediterranean

  • Melia Belli Bose

    Associate Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Visual cultures of early modern and contemporary South Asia

  • Carolyn Butler-Palmer

    Williams Legacy Chair, Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Modern and Contemporary arts of the Pacific Northwest

  • Erin Campbell

    Chair & Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern European art

  • Dennine Dudley

    Associate Teaching Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern England, Textile History, Collecting Practices, Pop Culture

  • Catherine Harding

    Associate Professor & Acting Associate Dean Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art

  • Lianne McLarty

    Associate Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Feminist film theory, critical theory, popular culture

  • Marcus Milwright

    Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Medieval Islamic art and archaeology

  • Carey Newman

    Impact Chair in Indigenous Art Practices Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Sculpture

  • Mitch Parry

    Associate Teaching Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Film studies

Biochemistry and Microbiology

  • Alisdair Boraston

    Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Protein-carbohydrate recognition.

  • John Burke

    Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Cancer and immunology, proteomics and metabolomics, host microbe interactions, structural biology, health and aging.

  • Caroline Cameron

    Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Infectious diseases, spirochete bacteria, host cell-pathogen molecular interactions.

  • Jennifer Cobb

    Professor and Interim Chair of the department Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Genome instability, nuclear organization, chromatin, and cancer initiation; Our current areas of investigation include DSB repair pathway choice during cellular aging using genetic, molecular biological, and biochemical approaches.

  • Lauren Davey

    Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Genetic analysis of the beneficial intestinal bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila; microbe-microbe interactions; factors influencing colonization and host health.

  • Stephen Evans

    Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Protein-carbohydrate recognition, x-ray crystallography, scientific visualization.

  • Mariya Goncheva

    Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Investigating viral-bacterial interactions during co-infection in the lungs; host-pathogen and pathogen-pathogen interactions; respiratory viruses; Gram positive pathogens.

  • David Goodlett

    Professor and Director of the UVIC Genome BC Proteomics Centre Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Host-pathogen interactions, structure activity relationship of lipid A, microbial diagnostics, mass spectrometry-based technology and software development, lipidomics, proteomics and systems biology.

  • Caren Helbing

    Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Thyroid hormone signaling, amphibian metamorphosis, environmental pollutant effects on hormone action, environmental DNA, antimicrobial peptides, host defense peptides.

  • Perry Howard

    Associate Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: RNA processing in stem cells, regulation of Pax6 by miRNA, rewiring of tyrosine pathway in cancer.

  • Julian Lum

    Professor (Limited Term) Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Immunometabolism, metabolic roles of autophagy in cancer and T cells, engineering T cells, immunotherapy, metabolomics.

  • Brad Nelson

    Professor (Limited Term) Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Immune response to cancer, immunotherapy, T cell biology, cytokines, signal transduction, cell cycle regulation.

  • Christopher Nelson

    Associate Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Transcription, RNA metabolism, DNA repair pathways

  • Lisa Reynolds

    Associate Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Microbiome, helminth (parasitic worm) infections, bacterial infections, mucosal immunology.

  • Stephen Tuffs

    Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

    Areas of expertise: Host-pathogen interactions; Staphylococcus aureus; inflammation; Bacterial toxins; Staphylococcal biology and microbial interactions.

Biology

  • Gautam Awatramani

    Associate Professor Biology Science

    Areas of expertise: Neuroscience

  • Amanda Bates

    Professor Biology Science
  • Julia Baum

    Professor Biology Science

    Areas of expertise: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Environmental Biology | Marine Science

  • Gregory Beaulieu

    Associate Teaching Professor Biology Science
  • Doug Briant

    Associate Teaching Professor and Chair Biology Science
  • Bob Chow

    Professor Biology Science
  • C. Peter Constabel

    Professor Biology Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical Research and Genomics | Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology | Forest Biology

  • Kerry Delaney

    Professor Biology Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical Research and Genomics | Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology | Neuroscience | Organismal Biology and Physiology

  • John Dower

    Professor Biology Science

    Areas of expertise: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Environmental Biology | Marine Science

  • Barbara Ehlting

    Associate Teaching Professor Biology Science
  • Jürgen Ehlting

    Associate Professor Biology Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical Research and Genomics | Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology | Forest Biology

  • Rana El-Sabaawi

    Associate Professor Biology Science
  • Ryan Gawryluk

    Assistant Professor Biology Science
  • Barbara Hawkins

    Professor Biology Science
  • Francis Juanes

    Professor Biology Science
  • Ben Koop

    Professor Biology Science
  • Terri Lacourse

    Professor and Curator of the Herbarium Biology Science
  • Mark Lewis

    Professor Biology Science
  • Raad Nashmi

    Professor Biology Science
  • Ben Neal

    Assistant Teaching Professor Biology Science
  • Gregory Owens

    Assistant Professor Biology Science
  • Steve Perlman

    Professor Biology Science
  • David Punzalan

    Assistant Teaching Professor Biology Science
  • Thomas Reimchen

    Assistant Teaching Professor and Adjunct Professor Biology Science
  • Réal Roy

    Assistant Professor Biology Science
  • John Taylor

    Professor Biology Science
  • Nicole Templeman

    Assistant Professor Biology Science
  • Diana Varela

    Professor Biology Science
  • Patrick von Aderkas

    Professor Biology Science

Biomedical Engineering

  • Mohsen Akbari

    Biomedical Engineering Program Director (acting), Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Bio-MEMS and energy, tissue engineering,Organs-on-chips, microfluidics, sustainable energy

  • Rustom Bhiladvala

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Nanoresonator research

  • Marianne Black

    Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Augmented reality for health and surgery, orthopedic biomechanics, musculoskeletal quantitative medical imaging (MRI and CT), medical device development and design.

  • Alexandra Branzan Albu

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnostic and therapy planning

  • Daniela Constantinescu

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Haptics

  • Nikolai Dechev

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electro-mechanical system design

  • Christopher Dennison

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical engineering, biomechanics, injury biomechanics, instrumentation, protection and armour

  • Nikitas Dimopoulos

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Neural networks in the modelling of the biological activity of chemical compounds

  • Zuomin Dong

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Portable diagnosis device

  • Xiaodai Dong

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

  • Fayez Gebali

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Design and programming of embedded devices in medical and healthcare applications

  • Josh Giles

    Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomechanical experimentation and simulation, development of systems to improve orthopedic clinician training, patient assessment, and treatment/surgical planning.

  • Reuven Gordon

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Development of optical biosensors for the early detection of cancers and for drug discovery

  • Rodney Herring

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Medical imaging, diagnosis and treatment device based on acoustic confocal holography.

  • Tao Lu

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics; Materials and devices; Software and networking

  • Peter Oshkai

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Fluid dynamics and design aspects of replacement heart valves

  • Karolina Papera Valente

    Assistant Teaching Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Her teaching interests include materials science, 3D printing, bioprinting, biosensors, and microfluidics.

  • Poman So

    Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computer simulation of bioelectromagnetic behaviors, and heterogeneous computing algorithms and software for electromagnetics/bioelectromagnetics applications

  • Afzal Suleman

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Fluid - structure interaction of heart valves and disease.

  • Sravya Tekumalla

    Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Metal additive manufacturing, materials design, light alloys and composites, microstructure and crystallographic texture control, multi-scale mechanical testing, materials characterization.

  • Caterina Valeo

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Environmental Informatics

  • Jens Weber

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical software systems, in particular clinical information systems

  • Peter Wild

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Stephanie Willerth

    Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Engineering tissues by combining biomaterial scaffolds with stem cells

  • Bosco Yu

    Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Architected cellular materials, hybrid materials, additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, mechanical properties, solid mechanics, mechanics of materials

Business

  • Jen Baggs

    Professor; Academic Director, Undergraduate Programs Business Business

    Areas of expertise: International economics, international trade

  • François Bastien

    Assistant Professor; Academic Director, MBA Advancing Reconciliation Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous peoples, Indigenous knowledges, Indigenous organizing, Indigenous management, decolonization, Indigenization, organizational identity, social memory

  • Anita Bhappu

    Professor; Dean Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Digital platforms, sharing economy, service delivery, diversity and teams, organizational behaviour

  • Kristin Brandl

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Developing countries, institutional environments, national and supranational policy, international service management, global value chains, innovation and intellectual property

  • Mark Bridge

    Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business
  • Graham Brown

    Professor; Tim Price Entrepreneurship Fellow; Associate Dean, Teaching & Learning Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Territoriality, psychological ownership, human resource management, leadership, negotiation, the impact of the built environment and design on human behaviour

  • Raveendra Chittoor

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Emerging markets, emerging market multinational companies, business groups (such as Samsung, Tata etc.), sustainability strategies

  • Mark Colgate

    Professor; Academic Director, Custom MBA program Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Customer service, sports coaching in the business context

  • Diego Coraiola

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Collective action, institutional change, historical injustices, Indigenous organizing, collective memory, qualitative research, historical methods

  • Vivien Corwin

    Associate Teaching Professor; Associate Dean, People & Culture; Academic Director, Master in Management Program Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Leadership, change management, organizational culture, human resources, service excellence

  • Rick Cotton

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Career success, developmental networks and mentoring, cross-cultural management and leadership, talent management, human resource management, team thriving and resilience, workforce analytics

  • Wade Danis

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Global strategy, international business, international entrepreneurship, international strategic alliances, emerging markets

  • Qianqian Du

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Entrepreneurial finance, financial analysts, corporate governance

  • Sara Elias

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Arts entrepreneurship, aesthetics in organizations and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship as practice, entrepreneurial imagining, creative entrepreneurial processes, qualitative methodologies

  • Takahiro Endo

    Associate Professor; CAPI Jarislowsky Chair Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Organizational analysis, field theory, professions, Japan

  • Stacey Fitzsimmons

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Bicultural and multicultural individuals in the workplace, international management, immigrant employees, diversity and inclusion

  • Ricardo Flores

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Management education, organization theory and development, international business and global strategy, international management, intercultural competence development, DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging) training and development, leadership development, sustainable corporate strategy, sustainability and organizations, values-driven leadership, responsible leadership, organizational and corporate purpose

  • Maria Carmen Galang

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Cross cultural management, human resource management

  • Dale Ganley

    Assistant Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Information technology and global economics, global social information networks and network mechanisms, diffusion of computing in the global context, trade and policy mechanisms on computing in developing environments

  • Huachao Gao

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Consumer identity, luxury and status consumption, consumer responses to price increases, consumer food waste

  • Adel Guitouni

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Multi-criteria decision aid and management sciences and risk management, supply chain design and distributed resources management, business analytics and decision support systems, defence and security and safety, governance and transition economies and democratic transitions (Middle East and North Africa)

  • Kerstin Heilgenberg

    Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Intercultural communication, international education

  • Aloysius Marcus Kahindi

    Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair in International Sustainable Development Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Global strategy of MNEs, international business, political risk, legitimacy and stakeholder relation, sub-Saharan Africa (east and central Africa) and sustainable management issues

  • Kimball Ketsa

    Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Cultures of curriculum development (vocational, constructivist and self awareness theories), financial/managerial accounting, change management, risk management, strategic planning, entrepreneurship

  • Jan Kietzmann

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Innovation management, emerging technologies

  • Michael King

    Associate Professor; Lansdowne Chair in Finance Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Banking and capital markets, FinTech, international financial markets, corporate finance, climate finance

  • Saul Klein

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Trust, global business, strategic alliances, marketing strategy, emerging markets, competition policy

  • Brian Leacock

    Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Organizational behaviour, cross-cultural management, organizational diversity and inclusion, cultural intelligence, cultural competency assessment and training

  • Andie Lee

    Assistant Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Social networks, intra-team conflicts, emotions and affects

  • Brent Mainprize

    Teaching Professor; Faculty Champion (Business) for National Consortium for Indigenous Economic Development Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Entrepreneurial business models, social entrepreneurship, community engaged scholarship, Indigenous economic prosperity, UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Basma Majerbi

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: International finance, sustainable finance, impact investing, climate finance

  • Mia Maki

    Associate Teaching Professor; Associate Dean, External & Outreach Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, risk assessment and risk management, strategic planning, governance, negotiation

  • Cheryl Mitchell

    Assistant Teaching Professor; Academic Director, MBA in Sustainable Innovation Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Design thinking and collaborative processes for solution-building in organizations, Group process in complex social systems specifically healthcare, negative group dynamics in organizations (blame, fundamental attribution error, projection)

  • Matt Murphy

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Cross-sector collaboration, stakeholder relationships, business and human rights, social and community-based entrepreneurship

  • Sudhir Nair

    Associate Professor; Director, PhD program Business Business

    Areas of expertise: International strategy, international business, international entrepreneurship, internationalization processes, professional service firms, newcomer (migrant/immigrant) socialization processes

  • Sang Nam

    Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Cross-cultural management, consulting, organizational behaviour, human resource management

  • Ignace Ng

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Managing across cultures, networking

  • Andrew Park

    Assistant Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Information systems, biotechnology management, personalized medicine, bioinformatics, software engineering

  • Alison Parker

    Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Accounting, international finance accounting standards

  • Simon Pek

    Associate Professor; Associate Director, Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Organizational democracy, employee ownership, organizational culture, corporate sustainability, deliberative democracy, sustainable business

  • Heather Ranson

    Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable business, social entrepreneurship, sustainable management education, business communications, sustainability

  • Jennifer Reed

    Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business
  • Sorin Rizeanu

    Assistant Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Firm and market mechanisms that maximize stakeholder value, ownership structure, concentration, identity, blockholders, firm’s debt and its structure, cash flow and managerial risk, international institutions, exchange rates

  • Yan Shen

    Associate Professor; Academic Director, MGB Program Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Expatriates and international assignments, mentoring and developmental relationships/networks, leadership and careers across cultures

  • Linda Hui Shi

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Marketing strategy/global marketing strategy, marketing in Asia pacific region, China marketing, luxury product consumption and counterfeit research, business-to-business customer relationship management

  • Natalie Slawinski

    Professor; Director, Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation (CSSI) Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Strategy, sustainability, social enterprise

  • Claudia Smith

    Assistant Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial identity, entrepreneurial networks, social capital, psychological ownership, marketing communications, communications management, public relations, marketing, strategic planning

  • J. Brock Smith

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Marketing strategy, new venture marketing, entrepreneurship, market research, tourism

  • Stuart Snaith

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Exchange rates and international finance

  • Douglas Stuart

    Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Sustainability reporting, accounting, finance, taxation

  • Roy Suddaby

    Professor; Associate Dean, Research & Innovation; Francis G. Winspear Chair Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Organizational and institutional change, professions and professional firms, family firms, technology and work, social evaluations

  • Kenneth Wm. Thornicroft

    Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Arbitration and dispute resolution, constitutional and administrative law, employment contracts, labour and employment law, labour relations, organizational restructuring (employment and labour law issues)

  • Christian Van Buskirk

    Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Customer experience management, services marketing, customer relationship management, customer loyalty, destination marketing, observational marketing research, regenerative tourism, sustainability certification, sustainability coaching/consulting

  • Liana Victorino

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Service design, service quality

  • Jie Zhang

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Healthy aging, home support, care continuity, hospitality, professional services, health and social care services, franchising, service network and system

  • Sarah Zheng

    Associate Professor Business Business

    Areas of expertise: Service operations, data-driven healthcare operations, healthcare policy, econometric analysis, business analytics, machine learning

Chemistry

  • Thomas Baker

    Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Quantum Computing for Modeling of Molecules and Materials Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Quantum information, quantum computing, entanglement renormalization, quantum algorithms, quantum error-correction

  • David Berg

    Associate Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: F-elements, organometallic and coordination chemistry, synthesis, medical and catalytic applications

  • Cornelia Bohne

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Supramolecular dynamics, kinetics, host-guest, gels, photophysics, photochromism, asphaltene, soft materials

  • Alexandre Brolo

    Professor, Department Chair Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Surface spectroscopy, Raman, photovoltaics, bioanalytical, cancer research, single-molecule detection

  • Heather Buckley

    Associate Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Green chemistry, molecular sensors for water contaminants, safer prevention of fouling

  • Kyle Duncan

    Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Bioanalytical chemistry, ambient ionization, mass spectrometry, metabolomics, custom instrumentation

  • Katherine Elvira

    Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Microfluidics for Drug Discovery and Health Care Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Microfluidics, artificial cells, droplets, drug discovery, patient analytics, healthcare, simulation

  • Chris Gill

    Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Environmental and analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry

  • Robin Hicks

    Professor and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Coordination chemistry, redox-active ligands, stable radicals, functional dyes

  • Fraser Hof

    Professor, Associate Vice-President Research Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Medicinal chemistry, molecular recognition, synthesis, epigenetic therapies and chemical biology

  • Dennis Hore

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Biophysical chemistry, spectroscopy, instrument design and modelling

  • Violeta Iosub

    Associate Teaching Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: General, organic and bio-organic chemistry

  • Erik Krogh

    Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Environmental organic chemistry, photochemistry, water quality

  • Nelson Lam

    Assistant Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Organic synthesis, selective catalysis, radicals, photoredox, total synthesis

  • David Leitch

    Associate Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Organic synthesis, catalysis, high-throughput experimentation, process chemistry, mechanism

  • Peter Loock

    Dean of Science, Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Spectroscopic instrument design, fiber optics, chemical sensors, cavity-enhanced optics, micro-optical resonators

  • Scott McIndoe

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Catalyst discovery and mechanisms, organometallic chemistry and mass spectrometry

  • Matthew Moffitt

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Self-assembly, polymer materials, nanoparticles, quantum dots, drug delivery, and microfluidics

  • Irina Paci

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Self-assembly on solid surfaces, Monte Carlo and multi-scale methods, materials in external fields

  • Lisa Rosenberg

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Homogeneous catalysis in main group chemistry, mechanistic organometallic and coordination chemistry

  • Makhsud Saidaminov

    Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Advanced Functional Materials Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Functional materials, solid-state chemistry, self-assembly, clean energy, perovskites, optoelectronics, solar cells, light emission, photon sensing

  • Peter Wan

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Organic photochemical reactions, compounds of pharmaceutical interest

  • Heather Wiebe

    Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Computational chemistry, molecular dynamics methods, chemistry and physics under extreme conditions

  • Jeremy Wulff

    Professor Chemistry Science

    Areas of expertise: Organic synthesis, chemical biology, materials science

Child and Youth Care

  • James Anglin

    Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Assessment of education and training needs in human services, parent education and parent support, qualitative research approaches, grounded theory, international child and youth care, residential child and youth care, quality assurance in child and family services, child advocacy and youth in care

  • Sibylle Artz

    Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Collaborative community-based focused on the prevention of violence in peer-relationships, families, schools and communities and online; gender and violence; violence resilience.

  • Jessica Ball

    Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Cultural ecologies of child development, Indigenous children and families, early childhood care and development, father involvement, community-based research partnerships

  • Marie Hoskins

    Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Adolescent girls' development/eating disorders, family counselling, identity issues

  • Alan Pence

    Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Early childhood education, care and development (ECD); International development and ECD; Graduate level ECD leadership development; ECD in sub-Saharan Africa; ECD and Indigenous communities

Civil Engineering

  • David Bristow

    Associate Professor, Director of the Master of Engineering in Industrial Ecology program Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Resilient infrastructure, building and city systems, sustainable cities, integration of mitigation and adaptation, sustainability science

  • Heather Buckley

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Green chemistry, molecular sensors for water contaminants, safer prevention of fouling

  • Caetano Dorea

    Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Water and wastewater treatment, biological treatment processes, humanitarian emergency water supply and sanitation technologies, treatment technologies

  • Kristian Dubrawski

    Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Small water systems, water quality for ecosystem health, rural and Indigenous water, low-income water science, nature-based solutions, bioelectrochemical systems, community-led innovation, environmental justice

  • Ralph Evins

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Building energy use simulation, energy system optimization, energy hubs

  • Thomas Froese

    Department Chair, Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Project and construction management information and computing technologies assessing sustainability for building and infrastructure projects and operations engineering education

  • Tom Gleeson

    Professor, President’s Chair Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Groundwater footprints and sustainability, mega-scale groundwater systems, groundwater recharge and discharge, fluid flow and geologic structures

  • Rishi Gupta

    Professor and Director of CAMTEC Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Advanced materials for structures, sustainable construction technologies, structural health monitoring of structures, plastic shrinkage of concrete, innovative construction technologies, non-destructive evaluation of infrastructure

  • Kevin Hall

    UVic President, Vice Chancellor, Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Water, environment, health, humanitarian engineering, ocean and coastal engineering

  • Christina E. Hoicka

    Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Community energy, diffusion of innovations, renewable energy transformations, Indigenous renewable energy infrastructure, energy geography

  • Chris Kennedy

    Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biophysical economics, deep decarbonisation, sustainable cities, industrial ecology

  • Cheng Lin

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Soil Erosion and scour, non-self-supporting materials, sustainable reuse of waste and contaminated soil, pile foundations, storm surge wall and bulkhead, slope stability, paved and unpaved roads

  • Sardar Malek

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Composite structures, bio-inspired structures, multi-scale mechanics of natural materials, sustainable building materials for structural applications, viscoelasticity, mass timber

  • Madeleine McPherson

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Variable renewable energy integration, energy systems integration, systems modelling and design

  • Laura Minet

    Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Air quality, population exposure to air pollution, population health, transportation engineering, vehicle emissions, dispersion modeling

  • Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya

    Professor, Director of Graduate Program Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Energy efficient buildings, high performance thermal insulations, hygrothermal response of building envelopes, bio-based construction materials, retrofit technologies

  • Min Sun

    Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Program Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Structural engineering, steel structures

  • Tara Troy

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable water resources, water use and infrastructure impacts on hydrologic processes, hydrologic impacts of climate change, flood processes

  • Lina Zhou

    Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Structural engineering, timber structures

Computer Science

  • Amir Baharloo

    Assistant Teaching Professor - Limited Term Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science
  • Celina Berg

    Associate Teaching Professor, Outreach, Recruitment and Retention Coordinator Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science
  • Bill Bird

    Associate Teaching Professor, Experiential Learning Coordinator Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Data compression, computer science education, linear algebra, optimization.

  • Roberto Bittencourt

    Assistant Teaching Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: computer science education, software engineering education

  • Jaya Prakash Champati

    Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Edge artificial intelligence, online learning, age of information, approximation algorithms

  • Sean Chester

    Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Data management, parallel computing, algorithm engineering

  • Yvonne Coady

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Aspect-oriented software development, scalable system infrastructures, distributed virtualization

  • Daniela Damian

    Professor, ECS-CAPI Chair in Inclusive Science, Technology and Engineering Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, requirements engineering, computer-supported collaborative work, human-computer interaction, global software development

  • Neil Ernst

    Associate Professor, Combined Program Advisor for Geography/CSC and Director, Matrix Institute for Applied Data Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, software architecture, requirements engineering, autonomous systems, information systems modernization, empirical methods

  • Anthony Estey

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Acting Experiential Learning Coordinator Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science
  • Sudhakar Ganti

    Associate Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Cloud computing resource management, software defined networking, traffic management and quality-of-service, traffic engineering, performance evaluation and queueing theory of computer networks

  • Daniel German

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, software evolution, open source software development, and intellectual property

  • Brandon Haworth

    Associate Professor, Honours Advisor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Graphics, agent-based modelling, crowd simulation, multi-agent reinforcement learning, deep learning, digital games, human computer interaction, human-centred design, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence

  • LillAnne Jackson

    Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Memory consistency for multiprocessor architecture, computational geometry, teaching concurrency, computer science education

  • Bruce Kapron

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Logic in computer science, cryptography, foundations of security, verification, computational complexity

  • Valerie King

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Graph algorithms and data structures, randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis, fault tolerant distributed computing

  • Sajin Koroth

    Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Theoretical computer science, complexity theory, communication complexity, circuit complexity.

  • Rich Little

    Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Chair, Undergraduate and Combined Program Advisor for MATH/CSC Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science
  • Yun Lu

    Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Differential privacy variants and applications, differential privacy estimators, secure multiparty computation and collusion-preserving computation, rational cryptography, blockchain security under rational attackers

  • Regan Mandryk

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Human-computer interaction, digital games, e-sports, affective computing, social computing and digital collaboration.

  • Ashery Mbilinyi

    Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Medical image analysis, machine learning for healthcare, information retrieval, computer vision.

  • Nishant Mehta

    Associate Professor and Combined Program Advisor for Statistics/CSC Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Machine learning theory

  • Hausi Müller

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, software evolution, autonomic computing, adoption-centric software engineering, software architecture, software reverse engineering, software reengineering, program understanding, visualization, and software engineering tool evaluation

  • Miguel Nacenta

    Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate, and Combined Program Advisor-Psychology/CSC Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Human-computer interaction, information visualization, design, user experience, typography, perception, cognition

  • Ibrahim Numanagić

    Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, Computational Biology and Data Science and and Combined Program Advisor for HINF/CSC Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computational biology, bioinformatics, algorithms, data science, programming languages

  • Jianping Pan

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Protocols for advanced networking, performance analysis of networked systems, applied network security

  • Charles Perin

    Associate Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Information visualization, personal visualization, human-computer interaction, interaction design, interactive technologies, data empowerment, collaborative interaction, sports visualization

  • Teseo Schneider

    Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Geometry processing, computer graphics, and numerical simulations

  • Sowmya Somanath

    Associate Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Human-computer interaction, interaction design, user experience, tangible and physical computing, tools for ‘making’, digital fabrication, accessibility, qualitative research, HCI for Development (HCI4D)

  • Kevin Stanley

    Chair and Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Data analytics, sensors, geomatics.

  • Ulrike Stege

    Associate Professor, Director of Master of Engineering in Applied Data Science (MADS) Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computational biology, parameterized complexity, design of heuristics, graph theory, and cognitive psychology

  • Margaret-Anne Storey

    Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier I, Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, human-computer interaction, information visualization, social informatics, knowledge management and computer-supported collaborative work

  • Alex Thomo

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Database and knowledge-base systems (especially new data-models for the web and query processing for such models), graph theory, formal languages and their application to databases

  • George Tzanetakis

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computer audition, audio signal processing, machine learning, music information retrieval, human computer interaction, computer assisted music education, music robotics and sensors

  • Jens Weber

    Associate Dean, Professional Programs & Development, Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, data and knowledge engineering, health informatics, graph transformation systems, reengineering, safety and security engineering.

  • Kui Wu

    Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computer networks, wireless and mobile networking, mobile computing, network security

  • Michael Zastre

    Associate Teaching Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

Curriculum and Instruction

  • Tim Anderson

    Associate Professor, Additional Language Learning Curriculum and Instruction Education

    Areas of expertise: TESOL/Applied linguistics, Language socialization, English for academic purposes, Second-language writing, Internationalization of higher education, Chinese as an additional language, Case study as a research method

  • Vanessa Andreotti

    Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Leslee Francis-Pelton

    Associate Professor, Mathematics Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Erika Germanos

    Assistant Professor, Science Education, Environmental Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Lyndze Harvey

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Social Studies and Philosophical Foundations Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Wanda Hurren

    Professor, Social Studies & Curriculum Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Valerie Irvine

    Assistant Professor, Educational Technology Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Natalie LeBlanc

    Associate Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Graham McDonough

    Professor, Philosophical Foundations, and Associate Fellow, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Todd Milford

    Associate Professor in Science Education and Research Methodologies, Department Chair Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Michael Paskevicius

    Associate Professor, Educational Technology Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Tim Pelton

    Associate Professor, Mathematics Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Monica Prendergast

    Professor, Drama Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Anita Prest

    Associate Professor, Music Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Jason Price

    Associate Professor, Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Helen Raptis

    Associate Professor, Historical Foundations Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Natasha Reid

    Assistant Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

    Areas of expertise: Community art education, Visual inquiry as research, Studio art practices, K-12 art education, Canadian or Indigenous art

  • Ted Riecken

    Professor, Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Kathy Sanford

    Professor, Language & Literacy, Teacher Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Alison Shields

    Associate Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Ralf St. Clair

    Professor Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Jodi Streelasky

    Associate Professor, Language & Literacy, Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Jennifer S. Thom

    Professor, Mathematics Education & Curriculum Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Ruthanne Tobin

    Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Curriculum and Instruction Education
  • Hector Vazquez-Cordoba

    Assistant Teaching Professor Curriculum and Instruction Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous ways of knowing and being, music education, decolonizing and Indigenizing music education, Indigenous methodologies and methods, educational policy, epistemologies of the South

  • Michelle Wiebe

    Assistant Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

Earth and Ocean Sciences

  • Anne-Sofie Ahm

    Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Isotope geochemistry; seawater chemistry; carbonate diagenesis; long-term carbon cycle; geobiology

  • Dante Canil

    Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Experimental and igneous petrology; mantle and crustal evolution; geothermobarometry; deep earth geochemical cycles

  • Laurence Coogan

    Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: The role of the oceanic lithosphere in the Earth system; controls on ocean chemistry; the long-term carbon cycle; hydrothermal fluxes; petrology/geochemistry

  • Jay Cullen

    Director & Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Chemical oceanography; marine biogeochemistry of trace metals; bio-inorganic chemistry; palaeoceanography and global change; stable isotope geochemistry; development of novel techniques for trace metals

  • Stan Dosso

    Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Ocean acoustics and geoacoustics; marine-mammal acoustics; earthquake seismology; geophysical inverse theory

  • John Dower

    Professor & Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Biological and fisheries oceanography; zooplankton ecology; effects of biophysical coupling on the structure and productivity of pelagic marine ecosystems

  • Blake Dyer

    Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Earth history; sedimentology and stratigraphy; isotope geochemistry of carbonates; sea level change

  • Andy Fraass

    Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Micropalaeontology; palaeoceanography; palaeobiology; Earth history; macroevolution; sedimentation; stratigraphy

  • Colin Goldblatt

    Associate Professor & Climate Science Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: An Earth System view on atmospheres: evolution of Earth’s atmospheric composition; climate physics (deep palaeoclimate, dynamical climatology, radiative transfer, climate modelling); terrestrial planet evolution (solar system and exoplanets)

  • Roberta Hamme

    Professor & Graduate Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Chemical oceanography; dissolved gases; ocean carbon cycle and sequestration; air-sea interaction and water mass formation; marine productivity rates; denitrification; BGC-Argo floats; mass spectrometric gas measurements

  • Jon Husson

    Associate Professor & Undergraduate Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Earth history; stratigraphy; sedimentary carbonates; stable isotope geochemistry; U-Pb geochronology

  • Ruohong Jiao

    Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology; orogenic processes; landscape evolution modelling

  • Jody Klymak

    Professor & Ocean Science Mentor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Physical oceanography: waves, turbulence, fronts, eddies; processes that dissipate energy from the mean ocean circulation and mediate the mixing of momentum, heat, salt, and passive tracers

  • Lucinda Leonard

    Assistant Teaching Professor & Honours Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Current tectonics, especially of western North America; seismic and tsunami hazard assessment

  • Adam Monahan

    Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Theoretical climate dynamics; boundary-layer meteorology; stochastic processes in ocean/atmosphere science; modelling biogeochemical dynamics; climate statistics

  • Edwin Nissen

    Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Earthquakes; active tectonics; imaging geodesy; earthquake seismology; tectonic geomorphology

  • Diana Varela

    Professor & Associate Dean, Academic Advising Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Biological oceanography; biogeochemical cycles; phytoplankton physiology and ecology; variations in marine primary productivity and export production; phytoplankton utilization of nitrogen, silicon, and carbon; silicon isotopic fractionation by diatoms

  • Andrew Weaver

    Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

    Areas of expertise: Climate change policy, research, solutions, and communications; formerly focused on the role of the oceans in climate change/variability; ocean/climate modelling; palaeoclimate; physical oceanography; geophysical fluid dynamics

Economics

  • Christopher Auld

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Health Economics, Microeconometrics

  • Paola Beneras P.

    Assistant Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Applied Microeconomics

  • Pascal Courty

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Economics of Competition, Cultural Economics, Sports Economics

  • Marco Cozzi

    Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Macroeconomics, Empirical Microeconomics, Computational Economics

  • Martin Farnham

    Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Public Finance, Labour Economics, Urban Economics

  • Donn Feir

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous Economics, Applied Microeconometrics and Economic History

  • Vasco Gabriel

    Professor; Chair Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics, Empirical Finance

  • Rob Gillezeau

    Former Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Economic History, Labour Economics

  • Elisabeth Gugl

    Associate Professor; Associate Chair Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Public Economics, Family Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory

  • Jason Hicks

    Limited Term Faculty Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Regulation, Labour Economics, Public Policy

  • Stephen E. Hume

    Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Economics Writing

  • Emma Hutchinson

    Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Applied Economics

  • Peter W. Kennedy

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Economic Theory

  • Alok Kumar

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics

  • Felix Pretis

    Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Climate Change, Environmental Economics

  • Daniel Rondeau

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Environmental and Resource Economics, Microeconomics, Experiential Methods

  • Nilanjana Roy

    Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Development Economics

  • Colette Salemi

    Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Development Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

  • Herbert Schuetze

    Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Labour Economics

  • Paul Schure

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Financial Economics, Financial Intermediation Theory, Industrial Organization

  • David Scoones

    Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Applied Microeconomics, Microeconomic Policy, Conflict Economics

  • Kenneth G. Stewart

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Macroeconomics

  • G. Cornelis van Kooten

    Professor Emeritus Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Climate Economics

  • Graham M. Voss

    Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Applied macroeconomics with a focus on monetary policy, fiscal policy, and exchange rates.

  • Tao Wang

    Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Nonparametric Statistics, Machine Learning

  • Linda A. Welling

    Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Economics of the Family, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization

  • Chris Willmore

    Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Engineering Economics, Economics of Health Care, Economics History, Industrial Organization, Labour Economics

  • Justin Wiltshire

    Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Labour Economics, Urban/Regional Economics, Applied Microeconomics

  • Ke Xu

    Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Financial Market Microstructure Theory and Empirics, Applied Time Series Analysis, Macroeconomics

  • Lijun Zhang

    Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Pedagogical Research, Research on International Trade & Multinational Firms

Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies

  • Lucinda (Cindy) Brown

    Assistant Teaching Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology

  • Fred Chou

    Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor (Counselling Psychology) Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

  • Darlene Clover

    Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

  • Claudia Diaz-Diaz

    Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

  • Tatiana Gounko

    Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

  • Gina Harrison

    Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

  • Breanna Lawrence

    Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology, Counselling Psychology

  • Doug Magnuson

    Professor and Graduate Advisor (Educational Psychology, Leadership Studies) Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology

  • Joan M. Martin

    Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Learning, Development, and Instructional Sciences)

  • Catherine McGregor

    Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate Programs and Research Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

  • Mariel Miller

    Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Learning, Development and Instructional Sciences)

  • Sarah Nutter

    Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

  • Julia O'Loughlin

    Assistant Teaching Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

  • Jillian Roberts

    Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

  • Rose Vukovic

    Professor and Chair of EPLS Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

  • Jon Woodend

    Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

    Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Michael D. Adams

    Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software, signal processing, geometry processing, education, computers, and security

  • Panajotis Agathoklis

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

  • Riham AlTawy

    Associate Professor and MTIS Program Director Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Security of constrained systems, Design and analysis of lightweight cryptographic primitives, Privacy and consensus mechanisms for P2P networks (Blockchains), IoT security

  • Amirali Baniasadi

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

  • Alexandra Branzan Albu

    Professor and Electrical Engineering Program Director Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control; computers, software and networking

  • Lin Cai

    Professor and Graduate Advisor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control; computers, software and networking

  • David Capson

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Elizabeth Croft

    Professor and Vice-President Academic and Provost Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Human Robot Interaction, Trajectory generation, Motion planning, Social robotics

  • Nikitas J. Dimopoulos

    Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

  • Xiaodai Dong

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

  • Peter F. Driessen

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

  • Fayez Gebali

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

  • Reuven Gordon

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics; Materials and devices

  • T. Aaron Gulliver

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

  • T. Ilamparithi

    Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Condition monitoring electric machines, Modern Smart/Micro grids, Engineering pedagogy

  • Kin Fun Li

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

  • Tao Lu

    Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics; Materials and devices; Software and networking

  • Michael L. McGuire

    Associate Professor and Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

  • Stephen W. Neville

    Professor and Software Engineering Program Director Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Software engineering, Cyber-security and privacy, Data analysis, Machine learning and artificial intelligence, High-tech entrepreneurship

  • Chris Papadopoulos

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electronics and energy; materials and devices

  • Navneet K. Popli

    Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Distributive Computing in large scale software, Intelligent systems, Cyber defence and protection mechanisms, Communication and Networking

  • Daler N. Rakhmatov

    Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

  • Makhsud Saidaminov

    Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Advanced Functional Materials Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Solar cells, X-ray detectors, high-throughput synthesis, solution-processed semiconductors, functional materials

  • Sana Shuja

    Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Mihai Sima

    Associate Professor and Computer Engineering Program Director Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking; Electronics and energy

  • Levi Smith

    Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics; Terahertz Engineering; Optical sensing

  • Poman P. M. So

    Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics

  • Issa Traoré

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

  • Hong-Chuan Yang

    Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

English

  • Corinne Bancroft

    Assistant Professor English Humanities
  • G. Kim Blank

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: English Romantic poetry; cultural studies; theories of influence; university writing

  • Shamma Boyarin

    Assistant Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; the Bible and literature

  • Nicholas Bradley

    Associate Professor & Honours Program Adviser English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Canadian literature, American literature, literatures of the West Coast

  • Luke Carson

    Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern and contemporary American poetry; aesthetic theory

  • Lisa Chalykoff

    Associate Teaching Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Canadian literature

  • Alison Chapman, FRSC

    Professor & Graduate Adviser English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Nineteenth-century literature and culture, Victorian poetry, women's writing, Anglo-Italian studies, Digital Humanities.

  • Misao Dean

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Canadian writing on animals and the natural world; the Canadian novel; representation; contemporary critical theory; feminisms

  • James Dopp

    Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Canadian literature; hockey

  • Christopher Douglas

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Literature and Religion; Bible as Literature; Contemporary American Fiction

  • Erin Ellerbeck

    Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Renaissance literature; Shakespeare

  • Rebecca Gagan

    Associate Teaching Professor & Student Liaison English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Romanticism; Pedagogy; Academic Writing; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Community-Engaged Learning

  • Joseph Grossi

    Professor & Acting Undergraduate Adviser English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Old and Middle English literature

  • Rebecca Halliday

    Assistant Teaching Professor & Professional Communication Adviser English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: communication studies; fashion studies; media studies; performance studies; digital media and mediatization; social media; influencers; AI; fashion and streetwear; affect theory; material culture; immaterial labour; popular culture; corporate communication; crisis communication

  • Iain Higgins

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Medieval English and Scottish literature; poetry; travel writing; utopian and dystopian fiction

  • Janelle Jenstad

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; London studies; bibliographical and print culture; digital humanities

  • Magdalena Kay

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century British poetry; Irish poetry; Polish poetry; comparative literature; poetics

  • Erin Kelly

    Associate Professor & ATWP Director English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Rhetoric; Renaissance; Shakespeare; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama

  • Gary Kuchar

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Renaissance Literature; Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose; Intellectual History; Reformation Culture and Thought; Shakespeare; Literary/Critical Theory; Philosophy of Religion

  • Suzan Last

    Associate Teaching Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Academic and technical writing; curriculum development

  • Mary Elizabeth Leighton

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Victorian Literature

  • Kim McLean-Fiander

    Associate Teaching Professor & AWR Adviser English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Academic writing, early modern literature, book history, women writers, digital humanities

  • Eric Miller

    Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Poetry; the lyric essay; Friedrich Hoelderlin; Ann Radcliffe; Elizabeth Simcoe

  • Allan Mitchell

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Medieval Literature

  • Andrew Murray

    Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities
  • Michael Nowlin

    Professor & Acting Chair English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: 19th - and 20th-Century American literature

  • Richard Pickard

    Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Environmental humanities; composition; 18th C. poetry; BC writing; professional and technical writing

  • Sheila Rabillard

    Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern & contemporary drama, women's writing, literature & ecology.

  • Stephen Ross

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modernism; theory; the novel; literature and theory of climate change

  • Jentery Sayers

    Director of Media Studies, Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Media studies; game studies; American literature; critical theory

  • Lincoln Z. Shlensky

    Associate Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Cultural studies; Film and media studies; Postcolonialism; Caribbean literature; Jewish and Hebrew studies

  • Raymond Siemens

    Distinguished Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Renaissance literature; textual culture; editorial theory; Humanities Computing

  • Monika Smith

    Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Academic and Technical Writing

  • Lisa Surridge

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Victorian fiction and culture; illustrated Victorian serial fiction; legal writing

  • Richard van Oort

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Shakespeare; literary theory; generative anthropology; literature and anthropology

  • Adrienne Williams Boyarin

    Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Medieval literature

  • Samuel Wong

    Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early modern literature, history of ideas, genre theory.

Environmental Studies

  • Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa

    Associate professor & Canada Research Chair, Indigenous political ecology Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous feminisms, legal geographies, Indigenous geographies, Indigenous justice and law, coastal peoples, decolonial methodologies, community-based research.

  • Natalie Ban

    Professor & President's Chair Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Marine conservation, marine protected areas, marine spatial planning, marine ethnoecology, fisheries, community-engaged research.

  • Deborah Curran

    Professor & director School of Environmental Studies Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Environmental governance, watershed management, Indigenous rights, water governance, political ecology, natural resources law.

  • Eric Higgs

    Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Ecological restoration; ecological novelty; historical ecology; repeat photography; nature and technology

  • Ryan Hilperts

    Assistant teaching professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: My research and teaching lies at the intersections of environment, community engagement and education.

  • James K. Rowe

    Associate professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Political ecology, embodied social change, climate finance and politics, social movement politics

  • Trevor Lantz

    Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Landscape ecology, plant ecology, global change ecology, permafrost science, remote sensing, community-based monitoring.

  • Michael M'Gonigle

    Professor Emeritus Environmental Studies Social Sciences
  • Darcy Mathews

    Associate professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Northwest Coast archaeology, ethnoecology, historical ecology, community-based participatory research, heritage conservation of sacred sites and places.

  • Ian Mauro

    Professor & executive director Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Climate communications, climate adaptation, risk assessment, knowledge mobilization, community-based participatory research, Indigenous and local knowledges.

  • Loren McClenachan

    Associate professor & Canada Research Chair, ocean history and sustainability Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Ocean history, historical marine ecology, marine conservation.

  • Ben Neal

    Assistant teaching professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences
  • Valentin Schaefer

    Director Emeritus, Restoration of Natural Systems Environmental Studies Social Sciences
  • Sybil Seitzinger

    Professor Emerita & American Geophysical Union Fellow Environmental Studies Social Sciences
  • Nancy Shackelford

    Assistant professor & director Restoration of Natural Systems Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Community ecology, ecosystem restoration, plant systems

  • Karena (Kara) Shaw

    Professor & academic director Transformative Climate Action Certificate Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Political Ecology; Energy Transitions; Environmental Politics; Global/Local Relations; Climate Action; Resistance

  • Gerald Singh

    Assistant professor & Ocean Nexus Chair of Global Change and Sustainable Development Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable development, global change, coastal management, environmental impact assessment, risk, quantitative methods.

  • Brian Starzomski

    Ian McTaggart Cowan Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Biodiversity, conservation biology, community ecology, ecological legacies, protected areas, community science, restoration ecology.

  • Duncan Taylor

    Assistant professor Emeritus Environmental Studies Social Sciences
  • Nancy Turner

    Professor Emerita Environmental Studies Social Sciences
  • John Volpe

    Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: The Ecogastronomy Research Group uses data intensive approaches to uncover linkages between ecological, economic and social sustainability and the primacy of place in sustainable food and wine production systems.

  • Wendy Wickwire

    Associate professor Emerita Environmental Studies Social Sciences

Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed

  • Jean Buckler

    Assistant Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Gender inclusive physical activity, recreational physical activity, health promotion

  • Catherine Gaul

    Emeritus Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Exercise physiology; pediatric sport performance; women and exercise; health benefits of exercise in cancer patients; occupational physiology; fitness and testing

  • Sandra Gibbons

    Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Girl-friendly physical education; team building in physical education; authentic assessment in physical educations

  • Jennifer Gruno

    Assistant Teaching Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Physical and Health Education, nature-based physical activity.

  • Nevin Harper

    Professor; Recreation and Health Education Program Leader Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Outdoor recreation, Adventure education, Experiential group facilitation, Eco-health & wellness initiatives, Leadership, Outdoor risky play

  • Tim Hopper

    Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: School integrated teaching education; teacher games for understanding and electronic portfolios; action research and qualitative research genres; social constructivism and complexity theories

  • Sandra Hundza

    Associate professor; Director Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Neural control of human movement and motor rehabilitation with aging and after injury and disease (e.g., stroke or Parkinson’s disease); neural control of balance during walking and coordination of limbs and trunk during rhythmic movement; assistive devices and technologies related to mobility and mobility measurement

  • David Kennedy

    Assistant Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Neurophysiology; perception and how it affects movement and function; sensory feedback in neurological conditions (in particular stroke and multiple sclerosis) and in healthy populations; pain perception and its physiological and behavioural drivers.

  • Marc Klimstra

    Associate professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Biomechanics and motor control of human movement in sport; exercise and rehabilitation

  • Olav Krigolson

    Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Neuroeconomics, learning, decision-making, motor learning and control

  • Kirstin Lane

    Assistant Teaching Professor; Kinesiology program leader Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Effects of exercise on health and disease outcomes in cancer patients; exercise assessment and prescription; clinical exercise physiology

  • Lara Lauzon

    Associate professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Teacher wellness; college and university student health and wellness; worklife balance; leadership

  • Sam Liu

    Associate Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Chronic disease prevention and management; eHealth/mHealth; big data and health surveillance; physical activity; health promotion

  • John Meldrum

    Assistant professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Management, marketing, and service quality; understanding human relationships and the attachment to people, places and activities in a health, leisure, sport or community context

  • Patti-Jean (PJ) Naylor

    Emeritus Professor and Scientist Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Socio-ecological and setting-based approaches to health promotion; obesity and chronic disease prevention; dissemination, knowledge translation/exchange; implementation and organizational capacity

  • Ryan Rhodes

    Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Psychology of physical activity and sedentary behaviour; health promotion during life transitions (e.g., early-stage family development, retirement); application of technology to health behaviour change; bridging the intention-behaviour gap; the role of affect in health behaviour; self-regulation of behaviour; physical activity habit and identity formation.

  • Kurt Smith

    Associate Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Exercise and environmental mechanisms that influence cerebral and cardiovascular health.

  • Lynneth Stuart-Hill

    Associate Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Exercise hematology and immunology; occupational physiology; development of pre-employment physical abilities tests; children and exercise; exercise prescription

  • Viviene Temple

    Professor; Graduate Advisor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Physical activity among individuals with special needs and young children; motor skills

  • Paul Whitinui

    Professor, Special Advisor to the Vice-President Indigenous (July 1st, 2024 - June 30th, 2026) Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous community health and development with a focus on the social and cultural determinants associated with resilience, sport, leisure, education, wellbeing and healing.

  • E. Paul Zehr

    Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Education

    Areas of expertise: Neural control of rhythmic human movement; co-ordination of the arms and legs during locomotion; neuromuscular plasticity and motor recovery after stroke

French and Francophone Studies

  • Catherine Caws

    Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: French applied linguistics, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), lexicology

  • Hélène Cazes

    Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Literatures and cultures (France), Editorial Mediations, Comics, Humanism, Gender and Medicine.

  • Mylène Dorcé

    Assistant Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Insular Francophone Literatures (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean); Francophone African Literatures (Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa); Québécois Migrant Literature; First Person Narratives; Postcolonial, decolonial and transnational theories; Feminist Theories and Praxis; Women Writers

  • Moustapha Fall

    Associate Teaching Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Second Language Acquisition and Language Theory, Francophone Literary Theory

  • Emile Fromet de Rosnay

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: 19th to 20th Century French and comparative literature, Romanticism, modernist poetics; post-Enlightenment and posthumanist philosophy; research-creation.

  • Sara Harvey

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Media Archaeology [theatre and press] (17th and 18th centuries), Dramatic criticism in the press (17th and 18th centuries), History, repertoire and theatrical life at the Comédie-Française (18th century), Auctoriality (17th-18th centuries), Theatrical archives, historiography and new technologies, Critical digital humanities, Ecodramaturgy of early modern performances (16th-18th centuries).

  • Pierre-Luc Landry

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Cultural Studies; Critical Québec Studies; Contemporary Literatures and Cultures (France, Canada and the Francophone World); Indigenous Literature and Culture; Settler Colonial Studies; Creative Writing; Research-Creation; Queer Theories and LGBTQIA2S+ Cultures; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Contemporary Cultural, Social and Political Thought; Media Studies; Film Studies

  • Catherine Léger

    Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Syntax, semantics, contact linguistics, French in North America.

Gender Studies

  • Sikata Banerjee

    Professor Gender Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Indian politics, nationalism, masculinities

Geography

  • David Atkinson

    Professor, Department Chair Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Climate; weather and human and natural systems; data analysis; modelling; the Arctic

  • Chris Bone

    Associate Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Geospatial technologies; spatial simulation modelling; human-environment interactions

  • Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe

    Assistant Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: I am interested to better understand ecosystem functioning to solve applied environmental management and conservation issues. My research is interdisciplinary and thrive to create space for a multiplicity of knowledges (Indigenous, local, scientific) in a perspective of ecological and social justice. Spatial modeling is my tool of predilection which I use to synthesize complex information at the landscape to regional scale.

  • Sophia Carodenuto

    Associate Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Natural resources governance, Global food systems, sustainability, Africa studies

  • Denise Cloutier

    Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Older adults, health services research; quality of life; long-term care; social isolation; homelessness; mixed methods research; Indigenous methodologies

  • Maycira Costa

    Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Remote sensing; coastal oceanography; wetlands; biogeophysical processes

  • Chris Darimont

    Professor, Raincoast Research Chair in Applied Conservation Science Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Conservation science; resource management; wildlife; marine-terrestrial interactions

  • Teresa Dawson

    Teaching Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Geography pedagogy; feminist geographies; learning in community

  • Kristian Dubrawski

    Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Water Sustainability for Indigenous and Rural Communities Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Water; community; nature-based solutions; techno-ecological synergy

  • Dave Duffus

    Associate Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Whale research

  • Shannon Fargey

    Associate Teaching Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Climate; mountain meteorology; hydrology; spatial analysis

  • Mark Flaherty

    Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Aquaculture

  • Jutta Gutberlet

    Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: International community-based development

  • Christina Hoicka

    Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Urban Planning for Climate Change Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Energy geography; sustainability transitions; diffusion of innovations; renewable energy transformations

  • Eva Kwoll

    Assistant Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Geomorphology; sediment transport; flow-vegetation interaction; bedrock canyons

  • Sophie Norris

    Assistant Professor Geography Social Sciences
  • Ian O'Connell

    Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Geomatics

  • Cameron Owens

    Teaching Professor, Honours Advisor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Historical geographies; environmental assessment and sustainability; experiential learning

  • CindyAnn Rose-Redwood

    Associate Teaching Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social geography; global migration; Caribbean studies; international student experiences; social justice; anti-racism

  • Reuben Rose-Redwood

    Professor, Associate Dean, Academic Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social and cultural geography; critical urban studies

  • Randall Scharien

    Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Remote sensing; cryosphere with specialization in Arctic sea ice

  • Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles

    Assistant Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Critical Indigenous geographies; human-environmental interaction; political ecology; tribal cultural resource preservation

  • Crystal Tremblay

    Assistant Professor Geography Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Environmental governance; participatory community-based research; social justice

  • Xuebin Zhang

    Director, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) Geography Social Sciences

Germanic and Slavic Studies

  • Elena Pnevmonidou

    Associate Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Germanic Studies, Gender Studies, Romantic Aesthetic Theory

  • Matthew Pollard

    Associate Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Germanic Studies, Language Teaching, Film, Visual Arts

  • Olga Pressitch

    Assistant Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Slavic Studies, Ukrainian Literature, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Film

  • Julia Rochtchina

    Associate Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Slavic Studies, Russian Culture, Language Teaching

  • Charlotte Schallié

    Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Holocaust Studies, Germanic Studies, Memory Studies, Film, Graphic Novels, Visual Arts

  • Ulf Schuetze

    Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Germanic Studies, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Technology-enhanced Language Learning, Intercultural Communication

  • Megan Swift

    Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Slavic Studies, Russian Literature, Visual Arts

  • Helga Thorson

    Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Holocaust Studies, Germanic Studies, Memory Studies, Archive Management, Modernist German Literature, Austrian Literature, Scandinavian Studies, Gender Studies, History of Medicine, Foreign Language Pedagogy

  • Serhy Yekelchyk

    Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Slavic Studies, Russian History, Stalinism, Ukrainian Culture, Film

Greek and Roman Studies

  • Laurel M. Bowman

    Associate Professor and Undergraduate Adviser Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Greek literature (tragedy, Hellenistic literature, especially epigram); literature and gender; classical myth; reception studies; myth in popular culture.

  • Brendan Burke

    Professor and Department Chair Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Greek archaeology; Aegean Prehistory; Anatolian archaeology; currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at ASCSA

  • Graham Butler

    Sessional instructor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: PhD research compares slavery in ancient Greece and Rome with that in colonial North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. My focus is these slaveries’ intersection with race and ethnicity.

  • Ingrid E. Holmberg

    Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Greek poetry: Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and archaic lyric; particular interest in narrative and gender theory.

  • J. Geoffrey Kron

    Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Greek and Roman social, economic, and political history, most notably democracy and oligarchy; economic development, particularly agriculture, living standards, nutrition, housing, and trade; social inequality, social welfare, slavery and labour exploitation; and ideologies of social inequality, most notably capitalism, racism, and colonialism

  • Cedric A.J. Littlewood

    Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Silver Latin poetry, especially Senecan tragedy and Roman satire.

  • Mark Nugent

    Associate Teaching Professor and Graduate Advisor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Greek and Latin language pedagogy; Imperial Greek literature; Greek and Latin novels, esp. Achilles Tatius and Petronius; gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture; reception studies, esp. historical fiction and film

  • Lana Radloff

    Sessional instructor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities
  • Gregory D. Rowe

    Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Interests: Roman History:Greek and Latin epigraphy, Roman public and private law, Jewish and early Christian history.

  • Alejandro G. Sinner

    Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Research focus: the study of ancient colonialism and the social, economic and cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age and the Roman era. Most notably, mobility and demography, religion, daily practices, cultural change and identity formation, pre-Roman languages, archaeometry, and archaeological method and theory.

Health Information Science

  • Elizabeth Borycki

    Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Human Factors (Safety, Workflow and Usability); Design (User Interfaces, Heuristics and Guideline Development); Implementation Science (Technology Strategy, Implementation and Evaluation); Knowledge Management (Information Needs; Information Seeking; Decision Support Systems); Virtual Care (Mobile Health, Sensors, Medical Devices, Smart Homes, Telehealth); Data Science (Analytics, Dashboard Visualizations and AI); Clinical Informatics (ePrescribing, eMedRec, eMedication Administration Systems, Electronic Health Records); Nursing Informatics; Health Informatics (Professional Competency Development, Curriculum Design)

  • Dillon Chrimes

    Assistant Teaching Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Dr. Dillon Chrimes is currently not available to supervise graduate students.

  • Alex Kuo

    Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Data interoperability; Health database & data warehousing; AI & Data Mining application in healthcare, and e-health.

  • Andre Kushniruk

    Director, Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Usability of Health Information Systems; Human Factors in Healthcare; Clinical Informatics; Consumer informatics; Decision Support Systems; Healthcare Decision Making; Cognitive Informatics; AI in Healthcare; Evaluation methods; Healthcare System Design; Data Analytics and Visualization

  • Karen L. Courtney

    Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Areas of interest: Telehealth; m-Health; Information Technology Ethics; Community-based Informatics; Gerontechnology; Nursing Informatics; Health Terminologies and Standards Modernization

  • Claudia Lai

    Assistant Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Digital Innovations that Promote Healthy Aging at home, Shared Decision Making, and Public Health; Community-Based Participatory Research; Digital Health Equity; Integrated Care; Learning Health Systems, Patient Portals

  • Dennis Lee

    Assistant Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development
  • Simon Minshall

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards Certificate Coordinator Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Simon Minshall is currently not available to supervise graduate students.

  • Helen Monkman

    Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Human Factors; User Experience; Usability; Consumer Health Informatics; eHealth Literacy or Digital Health Literacy; Information Visualization.

  • Abdul Roudsari

    Professor, Graduate Advisor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Modelling and Simulation in healthcare; modelling methodology for health resource management; clinical decision support, machine learning and artificial intelligence – development and evaluation of decision support systems; evaluation methodologies with particular application in telemedicine. More recently my interests have developed into : Telemedicine technology, temporal representation and reasoning; utilisation of business intelligence in healthcare; shared decision-making, personalised health records and environmental sensing for health. Application area Chronic diseases.

Hispanic and Italian Studies

  • Marina (Maria) Bettaglio

    Professor, Undergraduate Advisor (Italian) Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Contemporary Spanish and Italian Cultural Studies, Literature, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Theory

  • Silvia Colás Cardona

    Teaching Professor, Chair SLLC, Undergraduate Advisor (Spanish) Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities
  • Christine Forster

    Continuing Sessional Lecturer Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities
  • Joseph Grossi

    Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Medieval Italian, English and Latin literatures; Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations; cultural geography.

  • Gabriela McBee

    Assistant Teaching Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities
  • Pablo Restrepo Gautier

    Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Spanish literature and culture, the Spanish in the North Pacific during the 18th-century.

  • Dan Russek

    Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature (Mexico, Argentina), Literature and visual arts and media, Literature and Philosophy Aesthetics.

  • Rosa Stewart

    Teaching Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities
  • Alicia Ulysses

    Continuing Sessional Lecturer Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

History

  • Adebisi Alade

    Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: African History, Environmental History, History of Health and Medicine, Climate Change

  • Sara Beam

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern European History, Social and Cultural History, Criminal Justice, Gender History

  • Perry Biddiscombe

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern European History, Political, Social, and Military History

  • Neilesh Bose

    Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern South Asia History, Global History, Cultural and Intellectual History

  • Paul Bramadat

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Canadian History, Religion, Secularism and Radicalization

  • Penny Bryden

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Canadian History, Political and Constitutional History, Scandal

  • Martin Bunton

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Middle Eastern History, World History, Colonial Land Policies

  • Zhongping Chen (陳忠平)

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: History of Late Imperial and Republican China, Chinese Diaspora, Environmental History of China, Climate Change

  • Rachel Cleves

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: American History, History of Sexuality and LGBTQ2S+ History, Food History

  • Jason Colby

    Professor and Department Chair History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Environmental History, Pacific Coast History, Humans and Climate Change, Modern American History, US International Relations

  • Peter Cook

    Associate Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Canadian History, Settler-Indigenous Relations, Immigration and Identity

  • Beatriz de Alba-Koch

    Associate Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Colonial and Early National Latin American history, Intellectual History, Global Cultural History

  • Simon Devereaux

    Professor and Undergraduate Advisor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern British History, Criminal Justice, Political and Constitutional History

  • David Dolff

    Lecturer History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern European History, History of Soviet Union (Not available to supervise)

  • Norm Fennema

    Lecturer History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Canadian History, American History, North American Religion (Not available to supervise)

  • Mariel Grant

    Associate Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern British History, Social and Cultural History, Mass Media, Propaganda, Tourism

  • Tim Haskett

    Assistant Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Medieval European History, Legal and Social History, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Created Medieval History, Manuscript Studies

  • John Lutz

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: British Columbia History, Pacific Northwest History, History of Indigenous-Settler Relations

  • Lynne Marks

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Canadian History, Women’s and Gender History, North American Religion

  • Loren McClenachan

    Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Environmental History, Historical Marine Ecology, Fisheries and Marine Conservation, Climate Change

  • Andrea McKenzie

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern Britain, Crime and Legal History, Conspiratorial Politics, Manuscript Culture

  • Cynthia Milton

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Latin American History, Human Rights and Memory, Truth-Telling and Transitional Justice

  • Christine O'Bonsawin

    Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous History, Colonialism, Decolonization, Sport and Olympic History

  • Oliver Schmidtke

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern European History, Germany History, Migration and Identity

  • Kristin Semmens

    Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern European History, German History, the Holocaust, Public History, History of Tourism

  • Georgia Sitara

    Assistant Teaching Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Canadian History, Racism and Antiracism, History of Sexuality, Identity and Social Justice

  • Jordan Stanger-Ross

    Professor, Provost’s Engaged Scholar, 2020-2025 History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Canadian and American History, Urban History, Immigration and Dispossession

  • Elizabeth Vibert

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: African History, World History, Race and Gender, Sustainable Economies and Food Systems, Community Responses to Climate Change

  • Jill Walshaw

    Associate Professor and Honours Adviser History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern European History, French History, Political Culture, Crime and Counterfeiting

  • Andrew M. Wender

    Associate Teaching Professor and Director, Religion, Culture and Society Program History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Middle Eastern History, World History, Religion and Law

  • Serhy Yekelchyk

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern European History, History of Ukraine, History of Russia and the Soviet Union

  • David Zimmerman

    Professor History Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Canadian and European History, War and Technology, Immigration and Academic Refugees

Indigenous Education

  • Edōsdi (Judy Thompson)

    Associate Professor Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous language revitalization; Indigenous languages and health and wellbeing; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous based curriculum and pedagogy; decolonizing and Indigenizing teacher education.

  • Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

    Professor Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: language reclamation, digital dictionary construction, expanding community-based research methodology in language reclamation

  • Belinda Daniels

    Assistant Professor Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous education, Indigenous worldviews, online learning, Indigenous research, teacher education, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous pedagogy, Indigenous student success

  • Lauren Jerke

    Assistant Professor Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous education; Indigenous feminism; Indigenous pedagogy; drama education; applied theatre; arts-based research; Indigenous research; drama to address social justice

  • Onowa McIvor

    Professor Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: The NEȾOLṈEW̱: ‘one mind, one people’ project aims to deepen the understanding of best practices of adult Indigenous language learning (AILL), how adult Indigenous learners contribute to passing on their language to others in their communities and families, in addition to how language is linked to health and well-being.

  • Jean-Paul Restoule

    Professor and Chair Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous education, Indigenous worldviews, online learning, Indigenous research, teacher education, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous pedagogy, Indigenous student success

  • Maria del Carmen Rodriguez de France

    Associate Professor Indigenous Education Education

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous education, Diversity a social justice, Second language acquisition, Indigenous early childhood education, Teacher education, Arts-based and place-based education, Formal and non-formal education, Community-engaged scholarship.

Indigenous Governance

Indigenous Studies

  • Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel

    Professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous internationalism, community resurgence, climate change and community well-being

  • Rachel George

    Assistant professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous coastal governance, Indigenous relationality, Indigenous resurgence and Indigenous storytelling

  • Lisa Kealohapaʻaokahaleole Hall

    Program director Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Intersections of race, colonialism, and indigeneity with gender and sexuality.

  • Clinton Kuzio

    Sessional instructor Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: justice, identity, anti-racism

  • Megan Lukaniec

    Assistant professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous language reclamation and revitalization, language documentation, lexicography, language contact, and language change. Her teaching interests include various topics related to Indigenous languages and their reclamation.

  • Mick Scow

    Assistant teaching professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Revitalizing Indigenous fatherhood and family-based resurgence

  • Tracy Underwood

    Assistant Teaching Professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Land-based learning, history, storytelling, ethics and care for children, families and communities

Latin American Studies

Law

  • Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey

    Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: torts, remedies, insurance, race ethnicity and the law, feminist analysis of law, critical theory

  • John Borrows

    Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous law, environmental law, constitutional law.

  • Bradley Bryan

    Assistant Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Taxation law, First Nations taxation

  • Gillian Calder

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Family law and social issues, constitutional law, gender equality

  • Kathryn Chan

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Nonprofit sector law, law and religion, administrative law and regulation, trusts, the law of gift

  • Patricia Cochrane

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Constitutional law, legal and political theory, law of the humanities

  • Deborah Curran

    Associate Professor, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Environmental law, water law, municipal law, growth management and land use law, agricultural land and food systems, real estate and shared-decision making

  • Maneesha Deckha

    Professor, Landsdowne Chair in Law Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Animal legal studies, feminist animal care theory and feminist analysis of law, critical animal studies, postcolonial theory, reproductive and end-of-life law and ethics, administrative law.

  • Mark Gillen

    Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Securities, trusts, business associations, tax and competition law

  • Alan Hanna

    Assistant Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Aboriginal law, Indigenous lands, rights and governance

  • Robert Howell

    Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Intellectual property, technology, telecommunications, private international law

  • Rebecca Johnson

    Professor; Associate Director, Indigenous Law Research Unit; Director, Graduate Program Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Criminal law, legal process, business associations.

  • Asad Kiyani

    Assistant Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Race and criminal law, Police powers, International Criminal Law, Third World Approaches to International Law, Legal Pluralism, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Citizenship.

  • Freya Kodar

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Pension (public and private), consumer law and policy, debt and credit regulation, income security, care work, disability and the law.

  • Robert Lapper, QC

    David & Dorothy Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy, Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Access to justice, justice innovation, public policy, professional regulation and ethics, Aboriginal law.

  • Michelle Lawrence

    Associate Professor and Director, Access to Justice Centre of Excellence Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Access to justice, justice innovation, criminal law, evidence, sentencing, substance abuse and mental disorder, relationship violence, police accountability.

  • Darcy Lindberg

    Assistant Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous law, ecological governance through Indigenous legal orders, gender and Indigenous ceremonies, Indigenous treaty making.

  • Tracey Lindberg

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Traditional Indigenous governments, Cree laws, translation between Canadian and Indigenous laws, Indigenous women, legal advocacy and activism.

  • Geoffrey Loomer

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: International and comparative taxation law and corporate taxation.

  • Colin Macleod

    Professor, Chair of the Department of Philosophy Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Philosophy, liberal equality.

  • David Milward

    Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Criminal law, Indigenous justice, and evidence.

  • Sarah Morales

    JD/JID Director Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Aboriginal law, Indigenous legal traditions and international human rights.

  • Val Napoleon

    Director of JD/JID program, Professor, Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous legal traditions, Indigenous feminist legal studies, governance, restorative justice, Indigenous property law, Aboriginal legal issues.

  • Andrew Newcombe

    Professor, Associate Dean, Academic and Student Relations Law Law

    Areas of expertise: International investment law and arbitration, international trade law and contracts.

  • Pooja Parmar

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Legal pluralism, legal ethics, int’l human rights law, legal history, law and colonialism.

  • Janna Promislow

    Associate Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Aboriginal administrative law, treaty relationships and interpretation.

  • Victor V. Ramraj

    Professor, Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Comparative constitutional and administrative law (SE Asia), transnational regulation, law and globalization, emergency powers in Asia.

  • Sarah Ramshaw

    Professor, Director of Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT) Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Family law, human rights, contracts, arts-based approaches to law, law and the humanities, improvisation and the law, legal theory/jurisprudence.

  • Tim Richards

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Director of the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Human rights law, poverty and social policy, legal skills education.

  • Chris Tollefson

    Professor Law Law

    Areas of expertise: Environmental law and litigation, sustainability, environmental governance, forestry, Aboriginal law, access to justice.

Libraries

Linguistics

  • John Archibald

    Linguistics Professor, SLLC Graduate Advisor Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Second language phonology

  • Sonya Bird

    Professor Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Phonetics, language revitalization

  • Alexandra D'Arcy

    Professor, Associate Dean Research, Humanities Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Variationist sociolinguistics

  • Li-Shih Huang

    Professor, Learning & Teaching Scholar-in-Residence, Academic Advisor - Intercultural Studies and Practice Program Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Applied linguistics

  • Hua Lin

    Associate Professor Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Second language phonetics and phonology, Chinese linguistics

  • Martha McGinnis

    Associate Professor Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Syntax, morphology

  • Hossein Nassaji

    Professor Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Applied linguistics

  • Suzanne Urbanczyk

    Associate Professor, Advisor - Certificate in Indigenous Language Revitalization Linguistics Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Phonology, morphology, language revitalization

Mathematics & Statistics

Mechanical Engineering

  • Keivan Ahmadi

    Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Structural dynamics, Mechanical vibrations, Modal analysis, Dynamics and vibrations of machine tools, modelling of machining processes for Virtual Machining Systems, Process optimization for high performance machining

  • Mohsen Akbari

    Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Applications of micro- and nanotechnologies for biomedical engineering (Bio-MEMS) and energy, tissue engineering, organs-on-chip, microfluidics and sustainable energy

  • Rustom B. Bhiladvala

    Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Nanoscale materials, mechanics and transport, nanoscale synthesis and fabrication techniques, fluid and biomedical sensor development, energy and sustainable development

  • Marianne Black

    Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Augmented reality for health and surgery, orthopedic biomechanics, musculoskeletal quantitative medical imaging (MRI and CT), medical device development and design.

  • Colin Bradley

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Manufacturing automation, design, sensor systems

  • Brad Buckham

    Chair, Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Underwater vehicle, dynamics and control, finite element methods.

  • Daniela Constantinescu

    Undergraduate Program Director, Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Haptics, mechatronics, robotics, dynamics and control

  • Curran A. Crawford

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Multidisciplinary design optimization, wind turbine analysis and design, variable fidelity aerodynamic and structural modelling, sustainable energy systems

  • Elizabeth Croft

    Vice-President Academic and Provost, Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Human Robot Interaction, Trajectory generation, Motion planning, Social robotics

  • Nikolai Dechev

    Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical systems design, MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), mechatronics, robotics and automation

  • Christopher Dennison

    Associate Professor (Program Director Biomedical Engineering) Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomechanics and biomedical instrumentation and focuses on understanding mechanisms of traumatic injury in contexts spanning civilian life, sports and defense.

  • Zuomin Dong

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Integrated multiphysics modelling, simulation and global optimization, next generation hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell systems, optimal 5-axis CNC tool path generation, smart grid, green ship, and intelligent systems

  • Flavio Firmani

    Associate Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Samira Gharehkhani

    Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Advanced functional nanomaterials, Energy materials, Biomass, Heat transfer, Engineering pedagogy

  • Josh W. Giles

    Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Orthopaedic biomechanics: in-vitro experimentation and in-silico modelling, orthopaedic device design, integration of biomechanical models and mechatronic systems, patient-specific biomechanically-informed surgical planning

  • Rodney Herring

    Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Crystal growth, electron microscopy, confocal holography

  • Mina Hoorfar

    Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Theoretical and experimental advancement of surface science and microfluidic technologies

  • Jason Keonhag Lee

    Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Electrochemical energy conversion technology, Hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers, operando imaging, multi-phase transport, porous medium, advanced interface manufacturing.

  • Ben Nadler

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, multi-scale modelling, anisotropic solids and fluids, inelastic solids, Cosserat media.

  • Homayoun Najjaran

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Autonomous vehicles and robots, Control systems, Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, expert systems, MEMS and wearables in intelligent transportation and advanced manufacturing systems.

  • Peter Oshkai

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Unsteady flows, flow-acoustic coupling, fluid-structure interactions

  • Andrew Rowe

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Thermodynamics, energy systems, cryogenics, heat transfer

  • Yang Shi

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Systems and control, networked and distributed control systems, MPC and distributed MPC, mechatronics, navigation and control of autonomous vehicles, optimization and control of energy systems

  • Henning Struchtrup

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, microscale transport, aerosol coagulation

  • Afzal Suleman

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Multidisciplinary design optimization, computational and experimental mechanics with application to aerospace structures and systems

  • Sravya Tekumalla

    Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Metal additive manufacturing, materials design, light alloys and composites, microstructure and crystallographic texture control, multi-scale mechanical testing, materials characterization.

  • Karolina Valente

    Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Her teaching interests include materials science, 3D printing, bioprinting, biosensors, and microfluidics.

  • Caterina Valeo

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Disturbance modelling in forested regions, sustainable urban development of water resources, climate change impacts and analysis using artificial neural networks, pollutant dispersion modelling in rivers and nearshore regions

  • Peter Wild

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Mechatronics, Mechanical Design, Sensors and Instrumentation

  • Stephanie Willerth

    Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical engineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials scaffolds for controlling stem cell differentiation. 3D bioprinting human tissue models, drug delivery, and biomaterials, design and entrepreneurship.

  • Bosco Yu

    Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Architected cellular materials, hybrid materials, additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, mechanical properties, solid mechanics, mechanics of materials

Medical Sciences

  • Craig Brown

    Professor Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Synaptic plasticity, stroke, diabetes, in vivo imaging

  • Hector Caruncho

    Professor Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Neurobiology of schizophrenia and depression, biomarkers and discovery of novel drug targets in mood and psychotic disorders

  • Brian Christie

    Professor Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Hippocampus, learning and memory, developmental disorders, aging, sex differences, electrophysiology

  • Lisa Kalynchuk

    Vice-President Research & Innovation Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Neurobiology of depression, the psychiatric complications of epilepsy, and the effect of chronic stress on the brain and behavior.

  • Patrick Nahirney

    Professor Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Synapse ultrastructure, myogenesis & muscle cell fusion, live-cell imaging & electron microscopy

  • Leigh Anne Swayne

    Professor Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cell biology of neuronal and cardiomyocyte structural and functional plasticity as it pertains to neurodevelopment, neurological disease, and aging. Relevance to neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodegenerative disease, brain inflammation associated with infection, brain injury, stroke, cardiac arrhythmias, and structural heart disease. Key expertise in microscopy and protein biochemistry techniques.

  • Marie-Ève Tremblay

    Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) of Neurobiology of Aging and Cognition Medical Sciences Medical Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Aging, cognition, microglia-synapse interactions, non-invasive brain imaging

Medieval Studies

Music

  • Maria Virginia Acuña

    Assistant Teaching Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology

  • Malcolm Armstrong

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Double bass

  • Kyron Basu

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Voice

  • Anita Bonkowski

    Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Theory, Film Music, Jazz Studies

  • David Bourque

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Clarinet

  • Patrick Boyle

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Studies, Theory, Musicology, Business of Music

  • Taylor Brook

    Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Composition

  • Benjamin Butterfield

    Professor, Head of Voice Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Voice, Opera

  • Steven Capaldo

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music Education, Wind Symphony (Conductor)

  • Wendell Clanton

    Assistant Teaching Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Saxophone, Vocal Jazz

  • Adam Con

    Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music Education, Chorus

  • Ajtony Csaba

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Orchestra, Conducting

  • Michael Dias

    Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music theory, Musicianship

  • Ann Elliott-Goldschmid

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Violin, String Chamber Music, Strings Mentoring

  • Simon Farintosh

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Guitar

  • Michelle Feng

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Oboe

  • Anne Grimm

    Assistant Teaching Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Voice

  • Pamela Highbaugh Aloni

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Cello, String Chamber Music, Strings Mentoring

  • Pamela Highbaugh Aloni

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Cello, String Chamber Music, Strings Mentoring

  • Joanna Hood

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Viola, String Chamber Music, Baroque Collegium

  • Brent Jarvis

    Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Jazz Theory and Composition

  • Merrie Klazek

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Trumpet, Brass Chamber Music, Musicianship

  • May Ling Kwok

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Piano

  • William Linwood

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Percussion, Percussion Ensemble

  • Alexis Luko

    Director; Full Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology

  • Scott MacInnes

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Trombone

  • Elizabeth MacIsaac

    Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music Education

  • Michelle Mares

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Piano

  • Aaron Mattock

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts
  • Lauren McCall

    Assistant Research Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Composition, Music Technology

  • Mark McDonald

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Organ

  • Kirk McNally

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Recording Techniques, Music Technology, Sound Recording

  • Sam McNally

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Horn

  • Jelena Milojević

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Accordion

  • Marion Newman

    Assistant Professor Music Fine Arts
  • Giuseppe Pietraroia

    Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Orchestra, Opera (Conductor)

  • Arthur Rowe

    Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Piano and Collaborative Piano

  • Katrina Russell

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Bassoon

  • Joseph Salem

    Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology, Theory

  • Suzanne Snizek

    Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Flute, Woodwind Chamber Music, Music History

  • Eva Solar-Kinderman

    Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Piano

  • Anthony Tan

    Assistant Professor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Composition

  • Kinza Tyrrell

    Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: UVic Chorus, Lyric Diction, Vocal Coach, Pianist

  • Jeff Weaver

    Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Music Education

Nursing

  • Katherine Bertoni

    Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Primary care delivery models, nurse practitioners, practice leadership, health promotion, diabetes care and management, palliative approach to care

  • Rebecca Bingley

    Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Cardiac nursing; nurse practitioner; global health; vulnerable populations; refugees

  • Lisa Bourque Bearskin

    Associate Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous health nursing knowledge, Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous health rights, Indigenous-specific racism, cultural safety, cultural security, and cultural humility

  • Vera Caine

    Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: HIV, Refugees, Indigenous, narrative inquiry, community-based research, participatory action

  • Christina Chakanyuka

    Lecturer Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous health nursing research, nurse education, community health, human rights, intergenerational mentorship, anti-racism, cultural safety and security, cultural humility

  • Nancy Clark

    Associate Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Community-engaged, immigrant & refugee mental health; intersectionality, social justice, equity, ethnography, arts-based methods

  • Damien Contandriopoulos

    Professor and Associate Director Graduate Education & Graduate Advisor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Primary care, Nurse practitioners, Health policy, Home Care, Nursing, Physician compensation, Social Network Analysis, Realist evaluation, Knowledge Exchange

  • Kim Daly

    Assistant Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Associate Director Nursing Human & Social Development
  • Dzifa Dordunoo

    Associate Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Metal hypersensitivity, Evidence-synthesis, Heart failure, sickle cell and critical care, JBI systematic reviews, racism

  • Karen Evers-Fahey

    Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Jungian psychology, mental health issues in acute and chronic medical illness, adaptation, life stage development, relational nursing, post-adolescent brain development and teaching implications

  • Marilou Gagnon

    Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, supervised consumption sites, drug policy, social justice, human rights, whistle-blowing in health care (nursing), advocacy and activism

  • Ingrid Handlovsky

    Assistant Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Health equity, social environments/circumstances and health practices, experiences and outcomes, gender and sexual identity, individuals, groups and populations subject to disadvantage due to structural circumstances (with a focus on discrimination) and nursing practice thereof, mental health, substance use, harm reduction, critical theory, grounded theory

  • Leanne Kelly

    Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous community health, public health, community engaged learning, Indigenous methodologies, equity and social justice

  • Jae-Yung Kwon

    Assistant Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Person-centred care; Patient-oriented research; Patient-reported outcomes; Social determinants of health; Mixed methods approach; Latent class analysis; Personas; Knowledge translation

  • Anastasia Mallidou

    Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Health services research, organizational context, knowledge translation, leadership, health informatics, health policy, healthy aging

  • Lenora Marcellus

    Professor and Director Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Neonatal nursing; transition of the high risk newborn to the community; creating supportive environments for neonatal development; perinatal substance use; women’s health; leadership; quality improvement

  • Kelly McInerney

    Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Mental health, addictions, youth

  • Brenda Mishak

    Associate Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: community, public health, intersectionality, housing security, nursing research

  • Wendy Neander

    Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Bicultural interactions in Nursing Education and Practice; HIV/AIDS in vulnerable populations; Interdisciplinary Education; healthy aging; global health; health promotion and social justice; Indigenous knowledge and Nursing knowledge, similarities and differences. nursing work force issues, retention; applied nursing science, for clinical practice with vulnerable populations.

  • Lorelei Newton

    Assistant Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Nursing ethics; professional practice/leadership; rural nursing; advanced practice nursing; nursing education; geriatric oncology; palliative care; knowledge translation; nursing pedagogy; ageism; aging

  • Christine Ou

    Assistant Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Sleep; children; perinatal/maternal mental health; parenting; policy; knowledge translation; mixed methods; relational autonomy

  • Bernadette (Bernie) Pauly

    Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Substance use; harm reduction (Needle and syringe distribution, supervised consumption sites, managed alcohol programs, drug checking, Naloxone distribution, peer to peer support); safer supply, overdose responses, health equity; social determinants of health; vulnerable populations; public health systems and services, nursing ethics; public health ethics; access to health care; homelessness, housing, community engaged research, qualitative research; mixed methods

  • Olga Petrovskaya

    Associate Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Technology in health care; eHealth; Electronic Health Records; online patient portals; care practices; Continental philosophy; post-structuralism; socio-material theory; actor-network theory; nursing theory; health services research; qualitative research methods; ethnography; systematic literature reviews; scoping & umbrella reviews

  • Sarah Pirani

    Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Curriculum Design, Teaching & Learning Strategies, Simulation, Nurse Practitioner Education, Primary Care, Mental Health & Psychiatry

  • Maureen Ryan

    Teaching Professor (tenured), Associate Dean Academic - Faculty of Human & Social Development Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Nursing Education Scholarship; Indigenous Health and Well-being; Community Health; Participatory Action Research; Critical Social theory

  • Mariko Sakamoto

    Assistant Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Aging, Dementia, Gerontological Nursing, Community Health Nursing, Health Care Transitions, Participatory Action Research, Qualitative Methods, Integrated Knowledge Translation

  • Allie Slemon

    Assistant Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Social justice; health equity; mental health; stigma and discrimination; nursing philosophy; critical theory; qualitative methodologies; social media

  • Kelli Stajduhar

    Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Palliative and end-of-life care; family caregiving; home care; HIV/AIDS; oncology; vulnerable and marginalized populations; gerontology; health services research; qualitative and quantitative research methods; mixed method study design; collaborative, participatory research

  • Coby Tschanz

    Associate Teaching Professor, Practice Education Lead Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Hospice palliative nursing practice, human living experiences, nursing theory-guided practice and research, nursing education: rituals in nursing education, inter-professional and interdisciplinary teamwork

  • Don Versluis

    Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Inter-professional care teams, health care quality improvement, education, and leadership, internal medicine

  • Christina West

    Associate Professor Nursing Human & Social Development

Pacific and Asian Studies

  • Martin Adam

    Associate Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Buddhist Philosophy; Indian Religions; Philosophy of Religion; Mysticism; Meditation Theory; Buddhist Ethics; Gandhi; Engaged Buddhism and Civil Disobedience

  • Angie Chau

    Associate Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern and contemporary Chinese-language literature, film, pop culture, visual culture, translation

  • Richard Fox

    Professor & Chair Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Asian cultural, media and film studies; Religion and public culture in Indonesia; Classical and contemporary theories of culture and society; Critical issues in language, text and translation; Hindu and Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia; Islam and popular culture in Southeast Asia; Religion, gender and power.

  • Mamoru Hatakeyama

    Associate Teaching Professor; Japanese Language Coordinator Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Japanese Language

  • Tim Iles

    Associate Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Cinema: Asian and Japanese, live-action and animated; Japanese literature, modern and pre-modern; Humanism and Identity Issues in Japan; Japanese religions and philosophy; Technology and its implications; science fiction cinema; Horror as a response to social and urban change; Popular culture: traditional, modern, postmodern

  • Thiti Jamkajornkeiat

    Assistant Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities
  • Mika Kimura

    Associate Teaching Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Teaching Japanese as a second language; second language acquisition; Computer-assisted language learning

  • Sujin Lee

    Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Advisor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Modern Japanese history; Japanese imperialism and colonialism; gender and sexuality in East Asia; history of science, technology, and medicine.

  • Ann-Elise Lewallen

    Associate Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Transcultural Japan/Asia; Critical Indigenous Studies; Environmental Justice; Gender Studies

  • Tsung-Cheng Lin

    Associate Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities
  • Andrew Marton

    Professor; Graduate Program Advisor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Urbanization & regional development in China & Asia; Contemporary Chinese society; Culture and creativity in China; Chinese Education

  • Tri Phuong

    Assistant Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities
  • Jun Tian

    Associate Teaching Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Second language acquisition; Classroom-based research; Second language writing; Teaching English as a second language; Teaching Chinese as a second language; Chinese linguistics

  • Ben Pin-Yun Wang

    Associate Teaching Professor; Chinese Language Coordinator Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Teaching Chinese as an additional language; Chinese linguistics

Philosophy

  • Nina Belmonte

    Associate Teaching Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: History of philosophy, philosophy and literature, 19th & 20th-century continental philosophy, philosophy and film

  • Karen Brown

    Lecturer Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology, linguistic semantics

  • Peter Dietsch

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Economic ethics, tax justice, normative dimensions of monetary policy, income inequalities

  • Chris Goto-Jones

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Asian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy & psychology, philosophy of mind/body, phenomenology, eco-philosophy, magic and religion, ethics and politics, philosophical therapy & practice.

  • Eric Hochstein

    Associate Professor; Grad Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: History and philosophy of science, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, social epistemology, and metaphysics

  • Cindy Holder

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Philosophy of law, human rights, social and political philosophy, transitional justice, international law, history of political thought

  • Carrie Klatt

    Associate Teaching Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Philosophy of science (physics, mathematics), spacetime and quantum theory, philosophy of education

  • Eike-Henner Kluge, FRSC

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Biomedical and information ethics, topics in the history of philosophy

  • Thomas Land

    Associate Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Kant, German idealism, early modern philosophy, analytic Kantianism, epistemology, philosophy of mind, action theory

  • Colin Macleod

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Contemporary political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of law

  • Michael Raven

    Professor; Graduate Advisor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Metaphysics, philosophy of language/mind, epistemology

  • Clifford Roberts

    Assistant Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Ancient philosophy

  • Patrick Rysiew

    Professor; Chair Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Epistemology, Early Modern philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, cognitive science

  • David Scott

    Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Early Modern philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of religion

  • Katie Stockdale

    Associate Professor; Grad Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Moral psychology, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy

  • Scott Woodcock

    Professor; Minor in Applied Ethics Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Normative ethics, philosophy of biology

  • Audrey Yap

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Feminist and social philosophy, feminist epistemology, prison justice, logic and argumentation, philosophy of mathematics

  • James O. Young, FRSC

    Professor Philosophy Humanities

    Areas of expertise: Philosophy of language, philosophy of art (esp. philosophy of music)

Physics & Astronomy

  • Justin Albert

    Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Experimental particle and astroparticle physics

  • Arif Babul

    UVic Distinguished Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Cosmology, theoretical and computational astrophysics, formation and evolution of galaxies, groups and clusters, AGN feedback

  • Thomas E. Baker

    Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computing for Modeling of Molecules and Materials Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Quantum information, quantum computing, entanglement renormalization, quantum algorithms, quantum error-correction

  • Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

    Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Medical physics

  • Arthur Blackburn

    Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Advanced electron microscopy

  • Devika Chithrani

    Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Medical physics, synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles

  • Byoung-Chul Choi

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in nanoscale magnets, magneto-electronics, micromagnetic finite element modelling

  • Rogério de Sousa

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Theoretical condensed matter physics: Physics of materials and devices, with applications to hardware and software based on photonics and superconductivity, for quantum computing, sensing, and communication.

  • Ruobing Dong

    Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Astrophysics, exoplanet

  • Sara L. Ellison

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Observational extragalactic astronomy, galaxy mergers and evolution, galactic chemistry and AGN

  • Falk Herwig

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Astrophysics, origin of the elements, stellar hydrodynamics

  • Kristan Jensen

    Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Theoretical physics

  • Tobias Junginger

    Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Accelerator physics, radio frequency superconductivity, applications of particle accelerators, radio frequency linear accelerators

  • Dean Karlen

    R.M. Pearce Professor of Physics Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Electroweak physics, neutrino physics, detector development, accelerator development

  • Jody Klymak

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Ocean mixing, internal waves, turbulence, eddies, flow over topography, internal tides

  • Pavel Kovtun

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Theoretical physics

  • Robert V. Kowalewski

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Experimental particle physics, weak interactions and new particle searches, trigger development

  • Mark Laidlaw

    Associate Teaching Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Physics education, curriculum design, string theory

  • Michel Lefebvre

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Experimental particle physics, energy frontier exploration, electroweak physics, particle detectors

  • Travis Martin

    Assistant Teaching Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Physics education, curriculum design

  • Julio Navarro

    Professor, Lansdowne Professor of Science Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Galaxy formation, dark matter, computational cosmology

  • J. Michael Roney

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Experimental particle physics, detector instrumentation development, flavour and precision electroweak phenomena

  • Geoffrey M. Steeves

    Associate Teaching Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Experimental condensed matter physics

  • Kim Venn

    Professor, Director (ARC, NTCO) Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Stellar spectroscopy and nucleosynthesis, astronomical instrumentation, galactic chemical evolution and the early universe

  • Jon Willis

    Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

    Areas of expertise: Astronomy, cosmology

Political Science

  • Kelly Aguirre

    Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous politics, decolonial and critical theory

  • Michelle Bonner

    Professor; Director, Latin American Studies Program Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Comparative politics, democracy, human rights, global south (Latin America)

  • Colin Chia

    Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: International relations, political economy, technology governance

  • Marlea Clarke

    Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Comparative politics, political economy of development, Global South (Africa), workers’ rights in commodity chains

  • Claire Cutler

    Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: International relations theory, international law and organization

  • Rita Dhamoon

    Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Feminist and gender theory, critical race politics, anti-colonial and decolonial theory, Canadian politics

  • Avigail Eisenberg

    Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Democratic theory, normative political theory, history of ideas (19th-20thC), pluralism, identity politics

  • Simon Glezos

    Associate Professor, Graduate Director Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Political theory, international relations theory, theories of the state

  • Will Greaves

    Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director and Honours Adviser Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Global security, international relations, Arctic politics, Canadian foreign policy, environmental politics

  • Lois Harder

    Professor & Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Citizenship law, social policy, regulation of intimate life

  • Matt James

    Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Reparations, social memory, social movements, transitional justice

  • Jamie Lawson

    Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Canadian politics, political economy, environmental politics

  • Justin Leifso

    Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Canadian politics, Canadian public policy, neoliberalism

  • Mara Marin

    Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Political theory, feminist theory, critical race theory, critiques of capitalism

  • Oliver Schmidtke

    Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Citizenship and immigration, European integration

  • Amy Verdun

    Professor, FRSC Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Comparative politics, European integration, political economy

  • Scott Watson

    Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: International relations theory, securitization, migration

  • Andrew Wender

    Associate Teaching Professor; Undergraduate Advisor; Director, Religion, Culture and Society Program Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Political theory, politics and religion, politics of the Middle East

  • Feng Xu

    Professor and Chair Political Science Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Comparative politics, gender, migration and citizenship, Global South (East Asia)

Psychology

  • Paweena Sukhawathanakul

    Assistant professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Lifespan health and development

  • Tarek Amer

    Assistant professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Megan Ames

    Assistant professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Daniel Bub

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Louise Chim

    Associate teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Teaching and learning, cultural psychology

  • Catherine Costigan

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Mauricio Garcia-Barrera

    Professor & Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Jodie Gawryluk

    Associate professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Frederick Grouzet

    Associate professor and Graduate adviser Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social psychology

  • Allyson Hadwin

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Self-regulated learning, metacognitive and cognitive strategies, student success, motivation, collaborative learning, student engagement, transitions to post-secondary, instructional psychology

  • Emily Haigh

    Associate professor and Chief Mungo Martin Research Chair in Indigenous Mental Health Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Kelci Harris

    Assistant professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social psychology

  • Maria Iankilevitch

    Assistant teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social psychology

  • Adam Krawitz

    Assistant teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • D. Stephen Lindsay

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Stuart MacDonald

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Sarah Macoun

    Associate professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Nigel Mantou Lou

    Assistant professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social psychology

  • David A. Medler

    Associate chair and associate teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Ulrich Mueller

    Professor & Department chair Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Jhotisha Mugon

    Assistant teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences, social psychology

  • Theone Paterson

    Associate professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Andrea Piccinin

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Lifespan development

  • Jill Robinson

    Assistant teaching professor & Clinic director Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Jessica Rourke

    Assistant teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social psychology

  • Jonathan Rush

    Assistant professor & Statistical consultant Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Lifespan health and development

  • Colette M. Smart

    Associate professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Danu Anthony Stinson

    Professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Social psychology

  • Jim Tanaka

    Professor and Honours adviser Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

  • Brianna Turner

    Associate professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Natasha Wawrykow

    Assistant teaching professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Erica Woodin

    Professor and Director of Clinical Training Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

  • Jordana Wynn

    Assistant professor Psychology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

Public Administration

  • Astrid Brousselle

    Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Evaluation approaches and methods, planetary health, theory-based evaluation, ecological transition, public health, health system analysis, collaborative/participative/community-based approaches, qualitative methods

  • Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (he/his)

    Professor & Jean Monnet Chair Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Border studies: border disputes, border security, border management, management of cross border regions; European Union: regional and urban policies, immigration and border security policies; Canada - United States border policies

  • David Castle

    Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Science, technology and innovation policy, open science and research data

  • Heather Castleden

    Professor, Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Transformative governance; Planetary health; Decolonizing energy; Decolonizing the academy; Climate change; Climate justice; Climate displacement; Renewable energy; Water; Social justice; Environmental racism; Health equity; Indigenous-Settler Relations; Research ethics; Relationality; Accountability; Indigenous Rights; Critical methods; Anti-colonial; Anti-racist; Participatory methods; Qualitative inquiry; Community-based participatory research

  • Jill Anne Chouinard

    Director & Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • J. Barton (Bart) Cunningham

    Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Human resource issues, leadership, organizational behaviour and change, insight problem solving, stress and mental health, action learning and research

  • Helga Hallgrímsdóttir

    Deputy Provost and Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • Tamara Krawchenko

    Associate Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Comparative public policy, regional development, sustainability transitions

  • Robert Lapper, KC

    Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy & Graduate Advisor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Justice system policy and reform, access to justice, Indigenous law and legal issues, technology and design in law and policy

  • Walter Lepore

    Assistant professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Organizational analysis and design, organizational performance assessment, program and policy monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, transparency, accountability, corruption and conflict of interests in the public sector, public sector reforms, mixed methods research, experimental research designs, community-based participatory research, capacity development in participatory research, community-university research partnerships, community development

  • Evert Lindquist

    Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Public sector and public service reform, Designing and implementing policy interventions, Digital and collaborative governance, Horizontal governance and administration to support policy interventions, Organizing for policy and administrative innovation, Role and influence of think tanks in policy networks, Competing values in public sector leadership and reform

  • Richard Marcy

    Associate professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • Astrid V. Pérez Piñán

    Associate Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • Katya Rhodes

    Associate Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Multi-attribute climate policy analysis, political economy of climate policy, pro-environmental behaviour, survey-based methods, energy-economy modelling, comparative climate policy

  • Lynne Siemens

    Associate Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • Kim Speers

    Associate teaching professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • Susanne Thiessen

    Associate Director & Assistant Professor Public Administration Human & Social Development
  • Sarah Wiebe

    Assistant Professor and Academic Program Lead (MACD and PhD Programs) Public Administration Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Environmental justice, public engagement, critical policy studies, climate emergencies and displacement, states of emergency, interpretive research and arts-based methods, community development, Indigenous community engagement and governance

Public Health & Social Policy

  • Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira

    Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: harm reduction, opioid policy, substance use, community drug checking, safe consumption, overdose prevention, health equity, social justice, health policy, women’s health, community-based research, international policy

  • Monique Auger

    Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development
  • Robert Beringer

    Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Gerontology; technology and aging; Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (2SLGBTQ+) aging; global 2SLGBTQ+ health; health equity; community-based research; virtual community building and social connectivity; health promotion.

  • Natalie Frandsen

    Associate Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Advisor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Community health; scholarship of teaching and learning; cultural safety; program evaluation; relational practice; health promotion; mental health, health education

  • Trevor Hancock

    Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Public health systems and services research; health promotion; healthy cities and communities; health and nature; healthy public policy; community development and health

  • Michael Hayes

    Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Health inequities, disability, public policy, obesity, health literacy, population health promotion

  • Nathan Lachowsky

    Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Sexual and reproductive health; Two-Spirit and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2S/LGBTQ) people; HIV prevention and care; health equity; interdisciplinary approaches; Indigenous health; mixed methods; community-based research; public health surveillance; infectious diseases; population health

  • Matthew Little

    Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Scholarship of teaching and learning; Nutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases; nutritional and environmental epidemiology; food security; food environments; global health; Indigenous health; mixed methods research; social and cultural determinants of nutrition and health

  • Nigel Livingston

    Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Disability, assistive technology, policy and practices with respect to individuals with disabilities and their families; disability supports and services

  • Charlotte Loppie

    Professor Emerita Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous health; Sexual and reproductive health across the lifespan; sexual diversity; sex trade work; HIV/AIDS; the construction of female sexuality and the cultural determinants of health

  • Jeff Masuda

    Professor and Social Dimensions of Health Advisor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Environmental health equity, ecological sustainability, social and environmental justice, critical health promotion, healthy living environments, housing rights, participatory action research, public health history, health geography

  • Farah Mawani

    Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Anti-racist implementation science, social and psychiatric epidemiology, global health; community-health system-university partnerships; lived experience, community-led, community-embedded, trauma-informed, and decolonizing research approaches; interdisciplinary quantitative, qualitative, policy, and mixed methods research and evaluation; migration and mental health inequities; work environments and mental health inequities; non-communicable disease prevention; urban health solutions.

  • Renée Monchalin

    Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Culturally safe health and social service access; Métis Peoples health; reproductive justice; abortion access; qualitative methods; decolonizing research methodologies; public health feminisms.

  • Tim Naimi

    Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Substance-use epidemiology; alcohol consumption, binge drinking, youth drinking, drinking and health; substance-use policies; public health policies; population-level health; alcohol policies, cannabis policies, opioid policies

  • Jeff Reading

    Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Aboriginal health; health promotion; health policy; cardiovascular physiology; research administration; population and public health; health services; chronic disease; surveys; global Indigenous health

  • Karen Urbanoski

    Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research (Acting), Faculty of Human and Social Development Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Development and course of substance use problems and addiction, and the role played by the treatment system in recovery.

  • Catherine Worthington

    Professor and Director Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Health services research; program evaluation; access to health care; recipient views of services; social-structural drivers of health; HIV/AIDS; homelessness; adolescent health; community-based participatory research; survey methods; qualitative methods; research ethics

  • Sarah Wright Cardinal

    Associate Professor Public Health & Social Policy Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Spirit and land-based dimensions of Indigenous health, Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonizing praxis, Indigenous Child Welfare (historical and current), Intersectionality & identity development, Storied and community engaged research.

Religion, Culture & Society

Social Work

  • Billie Allan

    Associate Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous health and well-being

  • Cheryl Aro

    Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous health and well-being

  • Jeannine Carriere

    Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous child and family practice and policy

  • Gwendolyn Gosek

    Assistant Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous child welfare services

  • Jacquie Green

    Executive Director of IACE / Associate Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous child welfare policy and practice

  • Rhonda Hackett

    Associate Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: African Caribbean immigration, family building, and healing

  • Cindy Holmes

    Associate Professor Social Work Human & Social Development
  • Donna Jeffery

    Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Critical social work practice and pedagogy

  • Zaheera Jinnah

    Assistant Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Islamophobia, Migration, and Southern African studies

  • Amanda LaVallee

    Assistant Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Métis identity, culture, health and wellbeing, Indigenous Research Methods and Ethics, Indigenous Specific Racism

  • Tracey Lavoie

    Associate Teaching Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Critical, anti-oppressive and decolonizing practice and pedagogy; SOTL- scholarship of teaching and learning; expressive arts and social justice; mindfulness and contemplative practice and pedagogy; social work field education; arts-related qualitative research; and critical hermeneutic phenomenology.

  • Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha

    Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Citizenship rights of children and marginalized communities

  • Jenny Morgan

    Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Anti-Indigenous racism, Indigenous Health, and Evaluation

  • Jennifer Nutton

    Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Child welfare practice and policy

  • Gayle Ployer

    Director / Associate Teaching Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Social work education, field education and participatory research

  • Susan Ramsundarsingh

    Assistant Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Social policy, community development

  • Gaben Sanchez

    Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Human & Social Development
  • Robina Thomas

    Vice President, Indigenous / Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Residential schools; social work education and storytelling

  • Bruce Wallace

    MSW Faculty Advisor / Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

    Areas of expertise: Poverty, health and equity

  • Jaehee Yi

    Professor Social Work Human & Social Development

Sociology

  • Katelin Albert

    Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Health and medicine, vaccines, health technology, science and technology studies, genders and sexualities, sexual health, social theory and feminist theory, sociology of knowledge

  • William Carroll

    Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Corporate capitalism, climate crisis, social movements and social change

  • Aaron Devor

    Professor, Chair in Transgender Studies Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Sex, gender and transgender

  • Eugene Emeka Dim

    Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Criminology, Political Sociology, Gender, Quantitative Methods, Intimate Partner Violence, Gender and Political Participation, Criminality and Political Behaviour

  • Steve Garlick

    Associate Professor and Chair Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Gender and social theory

  • Garry Gray

    Associate Professor, Graduate Adviser Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Criminology, public health, ethics, institutions, socio-legal studies

  • Sean Hier

    Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Moral panics and social problems

  • Tamara Humphrey

    Associate Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Criminology, development and life-course theories of crime, criminal justice system, quantitative methods, domestic violence, bullying, gender and crime

  • Michael Ma

    Associate Teaching Professor Sociology Social Sciences
  • Athena Madan

    Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Global health, health equity, humanitarian intervention, therapeutic governance and reconciliation, decoloniality

  • Midori Ogasawara

    Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Surveillance, technology, identification, biometrics, colonialism, data justice

  • Bruce Ravelli

    Teaching Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Community-engaged learning, social inequality, instructional design

  • André Smith

    Associate Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Aging

  • Peyman Vahabzadeh

    Professor, Undergraduate Adviser Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Human action and social movements, social theory, phenomenology, postcolonial studies, violence and nonviolence

  • Anelyse Weiler

    Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: Labour movements, environmental justice, immigration, rural studies, food security, and health equity

  • Min Zhou

    Professor Sociology Social Sciences

    Areas of expertise: International sociology, global change, quantitative methods, East Asian societies

Software Engineering

  • Yvonne Coady

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Daniela Damian

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Neil Ernst

    Associate Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Daniel German

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Kin Fun Li

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Hausi Müller

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Stephen W. Neville

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Margaret-Anne Storey

    Professor and Canada Research Chair Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Alex Thomo

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Issa Traoré

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

    Areas of expertise: Network security, biometrics technology, intrusion detection systems, network forensics, software security, software quality engineering, formal methods, object-oriented design and programming, secure information systems, distributed systems, formal methods, requirements specifications

  • George Tzanetakis

    Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science
  • Jens Weber

    Associate Dean Professional Programs & Development, Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

Theatre

  • Carmen Alatorre

    Assistant Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Costume Design

  • Conrad Alexandrowicz

    Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Performance: acting, movement for actors, devised theatre

  • Patrick Du Wors

    Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Design: set and lighting design

  • Michael Elliott

    Assistant Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Performance: voice

  • Fran Gebhard

    Assistant Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Performance: acting, directing

  • Yasmine Kandil - Associate Chair

    Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Applied Theatre: celebratory theatre, applied theatre in post-revolution Egypt, forum theatre, ethics of practice, theatre for development, community-based theatre, theatre for social change, immigrant & refugee theatre, scenario training with police officers

  • Alexandra (Sasha) Kovacs

    Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Theatre History: theatre and performance history, historiography, Canadian theatre, theatre archives, devised performance, dramaturgy

  • Allana Lindgren

    Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Theatre History: dance history, theatre history, modernism, Canadian cultural history

  • Peter J. McGuire

    Assistant Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Performance: acting, directing, production and management, self-directed

  • Brian Richmond

    Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Performance: directing, dramaturgy, acting

  • Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta

    Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Applied Theatre: language revitalization and theatre, aesthetics of theatre, ethics of theatre, community projects, devising for performance

  • Tony Vickery - Chair

    Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Theatre History: especially commercial theatre finance and business administration in the United States and Canada, melodrama and British and North American theatre of the 19th and 20th centuries

Visual Arts

  • Cedric Bomford

    Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Photography and installation

  • Megan Dickie

    Chair, Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Sculpture, Video, Printmaking, Textiles, Performance

  • Laura Dutton

    Assistant Teaching Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Video and photography

  • Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

    Limited Term Asst. Prof., Audain Professorship in Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Indigenous theatre, land-based/site-specific performance art, collaborative practice, cultural resurgence and social/political activism through the arts, healing and decolonization

  • Daniel Laskarin

    Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Sculpture

  • Rick Leong

    Graduate Program Advisor, Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Drawing and painting

  • Heather lgloliorte

    Canada Excellence Research Chair, Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices

  • Carey Newman

    Impact Chair in Indigenous Art Practices Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Sculpture

  • Kelly Richardson

    Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: video installation, digital art, AR/digital sculpture, digital prints

  • Jennifer Stillwell

    Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Sculpture and video

  • Beth Stuart

    Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Painting, ceramic, performance, textiles, and sculptural installation

  • Paul Walde

    Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Painting, media practices

Writing

  • Shane Book

    Associate Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Poetry, filmmaking, screenwriting, fiction, nonfiction, film/literature/visual art/music/dance of the African diaspora, poetics, philosophy, hip hop culture, and more.

  • Maureen Bradley

    Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Film production, experimental film, drama, documentary, Canadian and queer media arts.

  • Deborah Campbell

    Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor, Lansdowne Chair in Fine Arts Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Creative nonfiction, literary journalism, memoir, biography, travel writing.

  • Wayde Compton

    Assistant Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Literary fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, the essay, libretto, sound poetry, the graphic novel, writing for young adults, Black British Columbian literature and history, poetics, anti-racist theory, literary theory.

  • Marita Dachsel

    Assistant Teaching Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Poetry, drama, installations, hybrid genres, fiction.

  • Diane Dakers

    Assistant Teaching Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Journalism, media studies, fiction for young adults, nonfiction for children.

  • Danielle Geller

    Assistant Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Creative nonfiction, memoir, speculative fiction, documentary studies, archives.

  • Lee Henderson

    Associate Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Fiction, creative nonfiction, the graphic novel.

  • Sean Holman

    Associate Professor, Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Environmental journalism, investigative journalism, solutions journalism, community building journalism, government and corporate secrecy, freedom of information, and more.

  • Kevin Kerr

    Chair, Associate Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Stage, screen, collaborative creation, site-specific theatre, multimedia performance.

  • David Leach

    Professor, Director of Professional Writing Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Creative nonfiction, literary journalism, the nonfiction novel, adventure travel, ecological literacy, magazine publishing, teaching with technology, sports writing, memory and creative writing, interactive narrative, video games, digital storytelling, extended reality (XR) technologies and generative AI. Note: I am interested in recruiting MFA or Interdisciplinary graduate students in the fields of interactive narratives and digital storytelling.

  • Kathryn Mockler

    Assistant Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Short film writing, feature film writing, TV writing, poetry, short fiction, experimental writing, hybrid genres, editing and publishing, climate/eco writing, small press publishing.

  • Gregory Scofield

    Professor Writing Fine Arts

    Areas of expertise: Poetry, memoir

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