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Anthropology

• Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

  Associate Professor and Graduate Student Adviser 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, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, paleopathology, aging & osteoarthritis, taphonomy, zooarchaeology & faunal analysis

• 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

• Melissa Gauthier

  Associate Teaching Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Economic anthropology, border studies, informal & illicit economies, cross-border trade, Mexico-U.S. Borderlands, Mexico, Yucatán

• Robert L.A. Hancock

  Assistant Professor and IACE Associate Director Academic 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

  Areas of expertise: Nuu chah nulth ways of knowing land, language, knowledge and Identity

• Ammie Kalan

  Assistant Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Helen Kurki

  Department Chair Anthropology Social Sciences

• Dr. Helen Kurki

  Associate Professor and Chair Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Yin Lam

  Associate Professor and Undergraduate Adviser Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Archaeology, zooarchaeology, palaeoanthropology

• Quentin Mackie

  Associate Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Archaeology, Haida Gwaii, Salish Sea, stone tools, Northwest Coast

• Erin Halstad McGuire

  Associate Teaching Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Iain McKechnie

  Associate Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Coastal Archaeology, Historical Ecology, Northwest Coast, Zooarchaeology

• Alison Murray

  Assistant Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• 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

• Daromir Rudnyckyj

  Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Globalization; ethnography; religion; money; cryptocurrency; development; economy; social studies of finance; the state; liberalism & neoliberalism; Southeast Asia; North America; Europe

• Ann B. Stahl

  Professor and Distinguished Lansdowne Fellow Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Archaeology, comparative colonialism, materiality, digital heritage initiatives, Africa; Ghana

• Brian Thom

  Associate Professor and Provost’s Engaged Scholar and Honours Student Adviser Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Andrea N. Walsh

  Associate Professor and 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

• 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 & Associate Dean 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 Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

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

• Erin Campbell

  Acting 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 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

• Astri Wright

  Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Southeast Asian art (including textiles, ephemeral arts), modern and contemporary arts

Biochemistry and Microbiology

• Juan Ausio

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

  Areas of expertise: Biophysical and biochemical studies, DNA-protein interactions, chromatin assembly, gene expression.

• Alisdair Boraston

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

  Areas of expertise: Protein-carbohydrate recognition.

• Martin Boulanger

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

  Areas of expertise: Host-pathogen and vector-pathogen interactions, design of small molecule therapeutics and vaccines.

• Douglas Briant

  Associate Teaching Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

  Areas of expertise: Cell biology, human health, biochemistry, molecular microbiology, microbial pathogenesis.

• 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 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 and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies 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.

• Perry Howard

  Associate Professor and Chair of the Department 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

  Associate 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

  Assistant 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 Biology Science

• Bob Chow

  Professor Biology Science

• C. Peter Constabel

  Professor and Chair 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

• Kim Juniper

  Professor Biology Science

• Ben Koop

  Professor Biology Science

• Terri Lacourse

  Associate Professor Biology Science

• Mark Lewis

  Professor Biology Science

• Raad Nashmi

  Associate 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

  Associate Professor Biology Science

• Nicole Templeman

  Assistant Professor Biology Science

• Diana Varela

  Professor Biology Science

• Patrick von Aderkas

  Professor Biology Science

Biomedical Engineering

• Mohsen Akbari

  Assistant 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

• Alexandra Branzan Albu

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Daniela Constantinescu

  Associate 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 (Program Director) 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 and Canada Research Chair in Ultra-wideband Communications 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

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• 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.

• 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

Business

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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 computing, quantum chemistry, quantum information, quantum algorithms, strongly correlated quantum matter, condensed matter theory, density functional theory, entanglement renormalization methods, 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

  Adjunct Assistant Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Neil Burford

  Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Chemistry of phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth, new synthetic and spectroscopic studies

• Kyle Duncan

  Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Kyle joined the Faculty at the Vancouver Island University in the fall of 2020. Prior, he completed a PhD at the University of Victoria based in the Applied Environmental Research labs at VIU. He then spent four and a half years in Sweden as a postdoctoral fellow and senior researcher at Uppsala University before making the move back to the west coast of BC. Kyle’s research interests primarily revolve around bioanalytical mass spectrometry, including metabolomics and lipidomics. More specifically, he uses novel approaches to spatially map small molecules in tissue and investigate metabolite and lipid changes in biological samples that are indicative of health and disease. Kyle currently teaches first year chemistry (CHEM 142) and is excited to be involved in upper-level analytical chemistry courses at VIU. Kyle is currently looking for UVic grad students.

• 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

• David Harrington

  Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Microfluidic and surface electro-chemistry, fuel cell catalysis, impedance spectroscopy

• Robin Hicks

  Acting AVP Academic Planning, Professor 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

  Assistant 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

• David Leitch

  Assistant 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

• Ian Manners

  Professor, Canada 150 Research Chair in Materials Science Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Main group chemistry, molecular, polymer, materials synthesis and functional materials

• 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: Heather joined the faculty of chemistry at Vancouver Island University in the fall of 2020. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh, studying quantum phase changes in hydrogen under extreme high pressure. Heather’s area of expertise lies in computational chemistry and modelling, with a focus on the response of complex systems to applied pressure. She is particularly interested in studying the effect of pressure on biological systems such as proteins and lipid membranes, and how these systems have adapted to high pressure in deep-sea organisms. Heather currently teaches first year chemistry (CHEM 141/142) and Physical Chemistry (CHEM 241).

• Jeremy Wulff

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

Child and Youth Care

• 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

• Sandrina Carere

  Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

• Kristen Cheney

  Director / Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: orphans/orphanhood, intercountry adoption, child institutionalization, youth with lived experience of care; humanitarianism, international child protection regimes, political economy of childhood and international development; adolescent/youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, children and assisted reproductive technologies; decolonizing and participatory research methods

• Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton

  Assistant Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

• Samantha Corrington

  Assistant Teaching Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

• Alison Gerlach

  Assistant Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

• Shemine Gulamhusein

  Assistant Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Exploring Muslim migration stories of belonging and identity; lived experiences of marginalized and minoritized people and communities; therapeutic recreational practices in community spaces; outdoor and solution-focused therapies; global perspectives of child, youth, family, and community research and practices; (auto)ethnographic methods; narrative inquiry; and community-arts-based methodologies.

• Doris Kakuru

  Associate Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

• Farah Mawani

  Assistant Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Lived experience, community-led, community-embedded, trauma-informed, and decolonizing research approaches; knowledge synthesis; interdisciplinary quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; implementation science; social and mental health inequities; macro-, community-, and family-level social determinants of mental health and well-being; systemic racism and discrimination as trauma; community responses to systemic racism and discrimination; migration and mental health; work environments and mental health; green space/blue space and mental health; walking peer support groups; intergenerational programs.

• Shanne McCaffrey

  Teaching Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Interests include: Land and Water based learning, teaching, and interconnectedness, Child Welfare, colonialism as a shared experience, environmental nurturing, preservation and activism, and sharing the land with non-human relatives.

• Mandeep Kaur Mucina

  Acting Director Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Family violence, gender-based violence, understanding the role of trauma in migration, and exploring second-generation immigrant youth’s stories of resistance, identity, and encounters with racism in the diaspora, all from a feminist anti-racist, anti-colonial lens

• Bryan Silverman

  Assistant Teaching Professor, Graduate Advisor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Social context of education; multiculturalism; identity;

• Jennifer H. White

  Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Youth suicide prevention; ethics; discourses of professionalism; constructionist methodologies; collaborative research; narrative practices; professional development; praxis-oriented pedagogy

• Jin-Sun Yoon

  Teaching Professor Child and Youth Care Human & Social Development

  Areas of expertise: Intersectional diversity training, cultural identity development, racialized settler/Indigenous relations

Civil Engineering

• David Bristow

  Associate Professor 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 Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Advanced materials for structures, structural health monitoring of reinforced concrete structures, plastic shrinkage of concrete, innovative construction technologies

• 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 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, Director of Industrial Ecology Program 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

  Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Mechanical behaviour of wood, bamboo and composite structures, development of lightweight composite building materials, bio-inspired design of multifunctional composites using additive manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing

• Madeleine McPherson

  Assistant 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

  Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Structural engineering, timber structures

Computer Science

• Celina Berg

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

• Bill Bird

  Assistant Teaching Professor, Experiential Learning Coordinator and Combined Program Advisor for MATH/CSC Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• 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 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 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

  Assistant 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

  Assistant Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Studies Program Coordinator 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.

• Nishant Mehta

  Assistant 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, Graduate Advisor, ombined 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 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

  Assistant 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

  Assistant 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)

• Venkatesh Srinivasan

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Theory of computation, computational complexity theory

• 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

  Professor, Combined Program Advisor-Health Information Science/CSC Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• 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, Incoming Dean of the Faculty of Education (July 1, 2023) Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Leslee Francis-Pelton

  Associate Professor, Mathematics Education 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

  Assistant 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

• James Nahachewsky

  Associate Professor, Language & Literacy, Curriculum Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Sylvia Pantaleo

  Professor, Language & Literacies Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Michael Paskevicius

  Assistant 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 Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Alison Shields

  Assistant 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

  Associate Professor, Mathematics Education & Curriculum Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Ruthanne Tobin

  Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Michelle Wiebe

  Assistant Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

Earth and Ocean Sciences

• 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, paleoceanography and global change, stable isotope geochemistry and 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 Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

  Areas of expertise: Biological and fisheries oceanography, zooplankton ecology, effects of biophysical coupling on the structure, 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: Micropaleontology, paleoceanography, paleobiology, Earth history, macroevolution, sedimentation, stratigraphy

• Kathy Gillis

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

  Areas of expertise: Geological oceanography, fluid-rock interaction in oceanic hydrothermal systems, formation of the oceanic crust, impacts of low-temperature oceanic weathering on the Earth system

• Colin Goldblatt

  Associate Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

  Areas of expertise: Earth System Evolution

• Roberta Hamme

  Professor 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

  Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Jody Klymak

  Professor 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 Professor 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

• Hansi Singh

  Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

  Areas of expertise: Atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions, coupled climate dynamics, climate variability and change, polar climates, climate sensitivity, radiative feedbacks

• Diana Varela

  Professor 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

Economics

• M. Christopher Auld

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Health economics, microeconometrics

• Paola Beneras P.

  Assistant Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Applied Microeconometrics

• Pascal Courty

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Industrial organization, personnel economics, behavioural economics

• Marco Cozzi

  Assistant 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

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous economics, applied microeconometrics, and economic history

• Vasco Gabriel

  Professor and Chair Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, applied macroeconomics, empirical finance

• Rob Gillezeau

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Economic history, labour economics

• Elisabeth Gugl

  Associate Professor and Associate Chair Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Public economics, family economics, applied microeconomic theory

• 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 microeconomics

• Peter W. Kennedy

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Microeconomic theory

• Alok Kumar

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Monetary economics, macroeconomics, development economics

• Felix Pretis

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, climate change, and environmental economics

• Daniel Rondeau

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Environmental and resource economics, microeconomics, experimental 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/ Acting Undergraduate Advisor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, macroeconomics

• G. Cornelis van Kooten

  Professor and Canada Research Chair Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Agricultural and resource economics

• Graham M. Voss

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Macroeconomics, international economics, monetary economics

• 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

• Ke Xu

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Financial market microstructure theory and empirics, applied time series analysis, and macroeconomics

• Lijun Zhang

  Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Pedagogical research, research on international trade & multinational firms

Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies

• Tim Black

  Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

  Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

• Lucinda (Cindy) Brown

  Assistant Teaching Professor and Graduate Advisor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology

• Fred Chou

  Assistant Professor 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 and Graduate Advisor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

  Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

• Tatiana Gounko

  Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

  Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

• Allyson Hadwin

  Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

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

• Gina Harrison

  Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

• Doug Magnuson

  Professor 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)

• Donna McGhie-Richmond

  Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

• Catherine McGregor

  Associate Professor and Acting Dean of Education 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

• Jillian Roberts

  Associate 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)

• John C. Walsh

  Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies Education

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

• 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

  Assistant 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 and Electrical Engineering Program Director Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Jens Bornemann

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics

• Alexandra Branzan Albu

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Lin Cai

  Professor 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

• Thomas E. Darcie

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking; electromagnetics and photonics

• 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 and Graduate Advisor 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

  Limited Term 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 & Chair 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

  Professor 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: Contemporary American Fiction; multiculturalism; postmodernism

• Erin Ellerbeck

  Associate Professor & Undergraduate Adviser 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 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

  Assistant Teaching Professor 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 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 drama and theatre criticism

• Stephen Ross

  Professor & Graduate Adviser English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Modernism; theory; the novel; digital literary studies

• Jentery Sayers

  Associate Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Media studies; American literature; critical theory; interactive fiction; prototyping; praxis and pedagogy

• Lincoln Shlensky

  Associate Professor English Humanities

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

• Nicole Shukin

  Associate Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Theories of biopower; politics of nature and animals; cultures of globalization

• 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

• Nancy Wright

  Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Shakespearean drama; seventeenth-century English poetry; literature and legal history; literature, religion and film.

Environmental Studies

• Natalie Ban

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Deborah Curran

  Professor 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 novelty; Philosophy, Policy and Practice of Ecological Restoration; Mountains; Historical Ecology, including cultural and ecological change in mountainous regions; Repeat Photography; Nature and Technology.

• Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa

  Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Political Ecology Environmental Studies Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous political ecologies, Indigenous methodologies and methods, coastal ontologies and epistemologies, legal geographies of settler colonialism, Indigenous gender and sexuality, unsettling and decolonizing relations.

• Trevor Lantz

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Landscape Ecology, Plant Ecology, Global Change Ecology, Permafrost Science, Remote Sensing, Community-based Monitoring.

• Darcy Mathews

  Assistant 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.

• Ana Maria Peredo

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• James Rowe

  Associate Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Sybil Seitzinger

  Professor, American Geophysical Union Fellow Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• Nancy Shackelford

  RNS Director & Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Karena Shaw

  Associate Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

  Director & Ian McTaggart Cowan Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• John Volpe

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Ecogastronomy, Food Identity, Geographic Indicators, Regenerative Agriculture, Sustainable Food and Wine, Wine Studies

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

• Nevin Harper

  Professor 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; Physical Education Teacher Education programs leader 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; Graduate advisor 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; Recreation and Health Education Program Leader 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; Acting Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research (July 2021-June 2022) 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

  Assistant Teaching Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Emile Fromet de Rosnay

  Assistant 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: Early modern period, history of literary critic and history of press, theatre, cultural history, digital humanities.

• Pierre-Luc Landry

  Assistant Professor, Graduate Adviser French and Francophone Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Cultural studies; Québécois and French literature and culture; Indigenous literature and culture; Creative writing; Research-creation; Queer theories; Children’s literature; Contemporary Cultural, Social and Political Thought

• Marc Lapprand

  Professor, Transfer Credit Adviser, Acting Chair French and Francophone Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Literary theory, aesthetics, modernism and avant-garde movements in French literature.

• Catherine Léger

  Associate Professor, Undergraduate and Honours Adviser French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Sada Niang

  Professor, Arts and Co-op Adviser French and Francophone Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Linguistics, semantics, African and Caribbean literatures

Gender Studies

• Sikata Banerjee

  Acting Chair, Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Indian politics, nationalism, masculinities

• Thea Cacchioni

  Associate Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Medicalization, health, heterosexuality

• Chase Joynt

  Assistant Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Cinema and Media, Art and Aesthetics, Practice-Based Research, Transgender Studies

• Simi Kang

  Assistant Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Asian North American studies; critical refugee and diaspora studies; political ecology & environmental justice; feminist research methods; disaster studies & coastal resilience; comparative ethnic studies

• Annalee Lepp

  Associate Professor, Dean of Humanities Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Canadian Gender Family and Legal History, Trafficking in Persons and Human Rights, Transnational Migration

• Laura Parisi

  Associate Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Gender, human rights and /global international development, globalization and international/global political economy, global governance and gender mainstreaming, critical research methods, and policy analysis.

• Georgia Sitara

  Assistant Teaching Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Race/racism, anti-racism, ethnicity colonialism and decolonization, sexuality, children, youth, age, animal rights, social justice

• waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy

  Associate Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Anishinaabe land-based economic sovereignty and gender; anishinaabewakiwiziwin (Anishinaabe relationships with our territories) through gender, history, critical, and embodied lenses; Anishinaabe knowledges, epistemology, and ontology in research; Indigenous/Anishinaabe feminist theorizing and methods; poetry and creative writing; Indigenous community-based research; Indigenous womxn, power, and anti-violence.

• Heather Tapley

  Associate Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Queer Theory/Queer Materialism, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies, Monster Theory

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

  Assistant 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

  Raincoast Research Chair in Applied Conservation Science, Professor 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 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

  Assistant 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 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

• Jennifer Mateer

  Assistant Professor, Limited Term Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Political ecology; environmental justice; socio-cultural geographies; critical geographies

• Sophie Norris

  Assistant Professor Geography Social Sciences

• Ian O'Connell

  Teaching Professor Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Geomatics

• Cameron Owens

  Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, 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

• 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

• 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

Germanic and Slavic Studies

• Peter Gölz

  Associate Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Germanic Studies, German Literature, Technology-enhanced Language Learning, Vampire 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

  Chair of the Department, 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 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 Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• Justin Dwyer

  Sessional Instructor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Greek and Roman comedy; ancient theatre and material culture; Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome; Greek and Latin pedagogy

• Ingrid E. Holmberg

  Associate Professor and Chair 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.

• Darrel Janzen

  Sessional Instructor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Early imperial Latin literature & Roman history; spatial approaches to Latin literature and Roman culture; conceptions of identity and difference in society; ecocriticism; historiography, early modern Latin literature

• 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 Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• 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 and Undergraduate Adviser Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Research focus: social, economic and cultural history of Roman Spain and the western provinces. Most notably, published research in Iberian numismatics and epigraphy, demography, household archaeology, cultural change and identity formation, pre-Roman languages and archaeological method and theory.

• Trevor Van Damme

  Limited Term Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Greek art and archaeology, household archaeology, ceramics and society, socio-economic inequality in ancient economies, collapse and resilience, and the archaeology of religion

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

  Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor 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 Services Research; Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

• Claudia Lai

  Assistant Professor Health Information Science Human & Social Development

• Simon Minshall

  Assistant Teaching Professor, Health Terminology 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 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

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

  Areas of expertise: Twentieth-Century Spanish and Italian Literature, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Theory, Translation Theory.

• Carolynn Broeke

  Assistant to the Chair, Admin. Asst. Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

• Silvia Colás Cardona

  Teaching Professor, Chair, Undergrad 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.

• Estelle Kurier

  Continuing Sessional Lecturer Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

• Gabriela McBee

  Assistant Teaching Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

• Pablo Restrepo Gautier

  Associate Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Spanish Theatre and Fiction (Tirso de Molina, entremeses, the picaresque novel), Post-Franco Spanish Fiction, Contemporary Colombian Fiction, Gender Studies, Humour Studies.

• Dan Russek

  Professor, Graduate Advisor 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

• 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 and Graduate Director 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: Socioeconomic history of late imperial China, sociopolitical history of Republican China, urban history of China, local history of the Lower Yangzi Region, global history of the Chinese diaspora, and Chinese environmental history during the Little Ice Age (1400-1900).

• 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, 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

  Associate 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

• Matthew Koch

  Lecturer History Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Early Modern European History, Colonial and Modern Latin American History (Not available to supervise)

• 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, Marine Conservation

• 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 History Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Sport History, Modern Indigenous Sport, History of the Olympics, Indigenous Land Rights

• Tom Saunders

  Associate Professor History Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Modern European History, German History, Cinema and Society

• 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

• 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

• 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 (on Administrative Leave) 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

• Hōkūlani Aikau

  Professor Indigenous Governance Human & Social Development

• Devi Dee Mucina

  Program Director Indigenous Governance Human & Social Development

• Dawn Smith

  Assistant Professor Indigenous Governance Human & Social Development

• Gina Starblanket

  Associate Professor Indigenous Governance Human & Social Development

• Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

  Associate Professor Indigenous Governance Human & Social Development

Indigenous Studies

• Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel

  Professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous political movements, community resurgence, and sustainable self-determination

• Lisa Kahaleole 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.

• Christine O’Bonsawin

  Associate professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous sport history, Olympic history, Indigenous rights

• Mick Scow

  Assistant teaching professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

• Minoway Sinclair

  Sessional Instructor Indigenous Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous conceptions of strength, wellness and care.

• 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

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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, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law 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

• Jamie Cassels, QC

  Professor, Former President of the University of Victoria Law Law

  Areas of expertise: Remedies, legal theory, contracts, torts

• 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, political and legal theory, law of evidence, human rights, social welfare law

• 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

• Ireh Iyioha

  Assistant Professor Law Law

  Areas of expertise: Healthcare law, women's health and the law, international human rights law, jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, torts.

• 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: Immigration and refugee law, domestic and international criminal law, evidence, postcolonial theory, legal pluralism, and comparative law.

• 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

  Associate Professor Law Law

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

• Sarah Morales

  Associate Professor 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.

• Stephen Perks

  Director of the Law Centre Clinical Program Law Law

  Areas of expertise: Clinical and public legal education.

• 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.

• Supriya Routh

  Associate Professor Law Law

  Areas of expertise: Work and labour law, international labour law, atypical and informal workers in the global south, human rights.

• Calvin Sandborn, QC

  Assistant Teaching Professor Legal Director of the Environmental Law Centre Law Law

  Areas of expertise: Environmental law, mining law and reform, plastics legislation.

• Chris Tollefson

  Professor Law Law

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

• Jeremy Webber

  Professor Law Law

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous legal rights, cultural diversity, constitutional theory.

Libraries

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Linguistics

• John Archibald

  Professor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Second language phonology

• Sonya Bird

  Associate 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, Undergraduate Advisor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Applied linguistics

• Hua Lin

  Associate Professor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Second language phonetics and phonology

• Martha McGinnis

  Associate Professor, Chair Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Syntax, morphology

• Hossein Nassaji

  Professor, Graduate Advisor 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

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  Mathematics & Statistics Science

Mechanical Engineering

• Keivan Ahmadi

  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

• 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.

• Nedjib Djilali

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Fluid dynamics, transport phenomena, fuel cell technology

• 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

  Assistant 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

• Ben Nadler

  Associate 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

  Acting Graduate Program Director, 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

  Associate 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

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Music

• Maria Virginia Acuña

  Assistant Teaching Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology

• Phil Albert

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Kyron Basu

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Paul Beauchesne

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Low Brass

• Anna Betuzzi

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Anita Bonkowski

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Theory, Film Music, Jazz Studies

• David Bourque

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Patrick Boyle

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Taylor Brook

  Postdoctoral Fellow Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Composition

• Benjamin Butterfield

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Voice, Opera, Head of Voice, Co-head of Performance

• Christopher Butterfield

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Composition, Theory

• 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

  Associate 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

• Alexander Dunn

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Guitar

• Colleen Eccleston

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Songwriting, Popular Music

• Wolf Edwards

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Ann Elliott-Goldschmid

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Anne Grimm

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Voice

• Jordan Hanson

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: African Hand Drumming

• 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

• Harald Krebs

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Theory, Head of Theory Program

• 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

• 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

• Jelena Milojević

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Accordion

• Alex Olson

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Bass

• Giuseppe Pietraroia

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Orchestra, Opera (Conductor)

• Arthur Rowe

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Piano

• Katrina Russell

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Bassoon

• Joseph Salem

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology, Theory

• W. Andrew Schloss

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Electronic & Computer Music, Acoustics, Ethnomusicology

• 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

• Sharon Stanis

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Violin, String Chamber Music

• Anthony Tan

  Assistant Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Composition

• Kinza Tyrrell

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Bruce Vogt

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Piano, History of Keyboard Music, 19th-Century Performance Practices

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Pacific and Asian Studies

• Martin Adam

  Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: History of Buddhism; Indian Philosophy and Religions; Philosophy of Religion; Socially Engaged Buddhism; Ethics

• Angie Chau

  Assistant 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

  Assistant 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 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

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

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

Philosophy

• Nina Belmonte

  Assistant 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.

• Thomas Heyd

  Lecturer Philosophy Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Environmental philosophy, aesthetics, history of philosophy, climate change, the Anthropocene, and prehistoric art

• Eric Hochstein

  Associate Professor 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

  Assistant 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; Department Chair Philosophy Humanities

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

• Geordie McComb

  Lecturer Philosophy Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of science

• Michael Raven

  Professor 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 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; Minor in Applied Ethics Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

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

• Scott Woodcock

  Associate Professor Philosophy Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Normative ethics, philosophy of biology

• Audrey Yap

  Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor Philosophy Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Feminist philosophy, logic, philosophy of mathematics, history of mathematics and logic (esp. 19th and 20th century)

• 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 computing, quantum matter, condensed matter theory, density functional theory, tensor networks, 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

  Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Theoretical condensed matter physics, magnetism, spintronics, quantum computing

• 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

• Robert E. Bedeski

  Emeritus Professor Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Human security and peace

• Colin Bennett

  Professor Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Comparative politics, public policy, politics of information

• Arthur Kroker

  Adjunct and Professor Emeritus Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Contemporary French and German political theory, technology

• Warren Magnusson

  Professor Emeritus Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Contemporary social and political thought, governmentality and politics

• Reeta Tremblay

  Adjunct and Professor Emerita Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Comparative federalism, public policy, identity politics, Global South (South Asia)

• James Tully

  Professor Emeritus Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Political philosophy, Canadian political theory, constitutional theory

• R.B.J. (Rob) Walker

  Adjunct and Professor Emeritus Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Contemporary social and political thought, international political theory

• Michael C. Webb

  Adjunct and Associate Professor Emeritus Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: International political economy, globalization, Canadian foreign policy

• Jeremy Wilson

  Professor Emeritus Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: BC provincial politics and public policy

Psychology

• Tarek Amer

  Assistant Professor Psychology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and Brain Sciences