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Academic and Technical Writing

• Jason Collins

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

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

• Loren Gaudet

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

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

• Sara Humphreys

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

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

Anthropology

• April Nowell

  Professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

  Associate professor, acting chair Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• D. Burnett

  Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Stephanie Calce

  Senior lab instructor, adjunct assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Tatiana Degai

  Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Mélissa Gauthier

  Associate teaching professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Erin Halstad McGuire

  Associate teaching professor, undergraduate advisor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Robert L.A. Hancock

  Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Tommy Happynook

  Assistant professor Anthropology Social Sciences

  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, animal communication, animal cultures, tool use, wildlife conservation, bioacoustics, camera trapping

• Helen Kurki

  Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Yin Lam

  Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Archaeology, zooarchaeology, palaeoanthropology

• Iain McKechnie

  Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Alison Murray

  Associate professor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Daromir Rudnyckyj

  Professor, graduate advisor Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Brian Thom

  Associate professor, Provost’s engaged scholar Anthropology Social Sciences

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

• Andrea Walsh

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

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

Art History and Visual Studies

• Sm Łoodm 'Nüüsm (Mique'l Dangeli)

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

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

• Allan Antliff

  Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

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

• Evanthia Baboula

  Assistant Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Material & Visual Cultures of the Mediterranean

• Melia Belli Bose

  Associate Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

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

• Carolyn Butler-Palmer

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

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

• Erin Campbell

  Chair & Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Early Modern European art

• Dennine Dudley

  Associate Teaching Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

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

• Catherine Harding

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

  Areas of expertise: Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art

• Lianne McLarty

  Associate Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

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

• Marcus Milwright

  Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Medieval Islamic art and archaeology

• Carey Newman

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

  Areas of expertise: Sculpture

• Mitch Parry

  Associate Teaching Professor Art History and Visual Studies Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Film studies

Biochemistry and Microbiology

• Alisdair Boraston

  Professor and Undergraduate Advisor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

  Areas of expertise: Protein-carbohydrate recognition.

• John Burke

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Caroline Cameron

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Jennifer Cobb

  Professor and Chair of the department Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Lauren Davey

  Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Stephen Evans

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Mariya Goncheva

  Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• David Goodlett

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

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

• Caren Helbing

  Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Perry Howard

  Associate Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Julian Lum

  Professor (Limited Term) Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Brad Nelson

  Professor (Limited Term) Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Christopher Nelson

  Associate Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Lisa Reynolds

  Associate Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

• Stephen Tuffs

  Assistant Professor Biochemistry and Microbiology Science

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

Biology

• Gautam Awatramani

  Associate Professor Biology Science

  Areas of expertise: Neuroscience

• Amanda Bates

  Professor Biology Science

• Julia Baum

  Professor Biology Science

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

• Gregory Beaulieu

  Associate Teaching Professor Biology Science

• Doug Briant

  Associate Teaching Professor and Chair Biology Science

• Bob Chow

  Professor Biology Science

• C. Peter Constabel

  Professor Biology Science

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

• Kerry Delaney

  Professor Biology Science

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

• John Dower

  Professor Biology Science

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

• Barbara Ehlting

  Associate Teaching Professor Biology Science

• Jürgen Ehlting

  Associate Professor Biology Science

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

• Rana El-Sabaawi

  Associate Professor Biology Science

• Ryan Gawryluk

  Assistant Professor Biology Science

• Barbara Hawkins

  Professor Biology Science

• Francis Juanes

  Professor Biology Science

• Ben Koop

  Professor Biology Science

• Terri Lacourse

  Professor and Curator of the Herbarium Biology Science

• Mark Lewis

  Professor Biology Science

• Raad Nashmi

  Professor Biology Science

• Ben Neal

  Assistant Teaching Professor Biology Science

• Gregory Owens

  Assistant Professor Biology Science

• Steve Perlman

  Professor Biology Science

• David Punzalan

  Assistant Teaching Professor Biology Science

• Thomas Reimchen

  Assistant Teaching Professor and Adjunct Professor Biology Science

• Réal Roy

  Assistant Professor Biology Science

• John Taylor

  Professor Biology Science

• Nicole Templeman

  Assistant Professor Biology Science

• Diana Varela

  Professor Biology Science

• Patrick von Aderkas

  Professor Biology Science

Biomedical Engineering

• Mohsen Akbari

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

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

• Rustom Bhiladvala

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Nanoresonator research

• Marianne Black

  Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Alexandra Branzan Albu

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Daniela Constantinescu

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Haptics

• Nikolai Dechev

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Electro-mechanical system design

• Christopher Dennison

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Nikitas Dimopoulos

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Zuomin Dong

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Portable diagnosis device

• Xiaodai Dong

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

• Fayez Gebali

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Josh Giles

  Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Reuven Gordon

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Rodney Herring

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Tao Lu

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Peter Oshkai

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Karolina Papera Valente

  Assistant Teaching Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Poman So

  Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Afzal Suleman

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Sravya Tekumalla

  Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Caterina Valeo

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Environmental Informatics

• Jens Weber

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Peter Wild

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Stephanie Willerth

  Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Bosco Yu

  Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

Business

• Jen Baggs

  Professor; Acting Dean Business Business

  Areas of expertise: International economics, international trade

• François Bastien

  Associate Professor; Academic Director, MBA Advancing Reconciliation Business Business

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

• Kristin Brandl

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Mark Bridge

  Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

• Graham Brown

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

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

• Raveendra Chittoor

  Professor Business Business

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

• Mark Colgate

  Professor; Academic Director, Custom MBA program Business Business

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

• Diego Coraiola

  Professor Business Business

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

• Vivien Corwin

  Associate Teaching Professor; Associate Dean, People & Culture Business Business

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

• Rick Cotton

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Wade Danis

  Professor Business Business

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

• Qianqian Du

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• A.R. Elangovan

  Professor; Associate Vice-President, Global Engagement Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Meaning in work, trust in organizations, authentic leadership, well-being in organizations, wisdom in organizations, managerial dispute intervention & negotiations, organizational analysis

• Sara Elias

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Takahiro Endo

  Associate Professor; CAPI Jarislowsky Chair Business Business

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

• Stacey Fitzsimmons

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Ricardo Flores

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Maria Carmen Galang

  Associate Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Cross cultural management, human resource management

• Huachao Gao

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Adel Guitouni

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Kerstin Heilgenberg

  Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Intercultural communication, international education

• Aloysius Marcus Kahindi

  Professor; Canada Research Chair in International Sustainable Development Business Business

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

• Kimball Ketsa

  Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

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

• Jan Kietzmann

  Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Innovation management, emerging technologies

• Michael King

  Associate Professor; Lansdowne Chair in Finance Business Business

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

• Saul Klein

  Professor Business Business

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

• Brian Leacock

  Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

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

• Andie Lee

  Assistant Professor Business Business

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

• Brent Mainprize

  Teaching Professor Business Business

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

• Basma Majerbi

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Mia Maki

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

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

• Cheryl Mitchell

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

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

• Matt Murphy

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Sudhir Nair

  Associate Professor; Director, PhD program Business Business

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

• Sang Nam

  Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

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

• Ignace Ng

  Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Managing across cultures, networking

• Andrew Park

  Assistant Professor Business Business

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

• Alison Parker

  Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Accounting, international finance accounting standards

• Simon Pek

  Associate Professor; Associate Director, Centre for Regenerative Futures (CRF) Business Business

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

• Jennifer Reed

  Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

• Sorin Rizeanu

  Assistant Professor Business Business

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

• Yan Shen

  Associate Professor; Academic Director, MGB program Business Business

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

• Linda Hui Shi

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Natalie Slawinski

  Professor; Director, Centre for Regenerative Futures (CRF) Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Strategy, sustainability, social enterprise

• Claudia Smith

  Assistant Professor Business Business

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

• J. Brock Smith

  Professor Business Business

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

• Stuart Snaith

  Associate Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Exchange rates and international finance

• Douglas Stuart

  Assistant Teaching Professor Business Business

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

• Roy Suddaby

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

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

• Kenneth Wm. Thornicroft

  Professor Business Business

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

• Christian Van Buskirk

  Associate Teaching Professor Business Business

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

• Liana Victorino

  Associate Professor Business Business

  Areas of expertise: Service design, service quality

• Jie Zhang

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

• Sarah Zheng

  Associate Professor Business Business

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

Chemistry

• Thomas Baker

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

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

• David Berg

  Associate Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Cornelia Bohne

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Alexandre Brolo

  Professor, Department Chair Chemistry Science

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

• Heather Buckley

  Associate Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Saurabh Chitnis

  Associate Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Inorganic chemistry, polymers, materials, synthesis, catalysis; crystallography

• Kyle Duncan

  Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Katherine Elvira

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

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

• Ryland Giebelhaus

  Assistant Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Analytical chemistry, metabolomics, multidimensional chromatography, mass spectrometry, chemometrics, and data science.

• Chris Gill

  Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Environmental and analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry

• Robin Hicks

  Professor and Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies Chemistry Science

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

• Fraser Hof

  Professor, Associate Vice-President Research Chemistry Science

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

• Dennis Hore

  Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: Nonlinear optics, vibrational spectroscopy of surfaces, community drug checking

• Violeta Iosub

  Associate Teaching Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Tasha Jarisz

  Assistant Teaching Professor Chemistry Science

  Areas of expertise: General, analytical, environmental chemistry, spectroscopy

• Erik Krogh

  Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Nelson Lam

  Assistant Professor Chemistry Science

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

• David Leitch

  Associate Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Peter Loock

  Professor, (Dean of Science, on leave) Chemistry Science

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

• Scott McIndoe

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Matthew Moffitt

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Irina Paci

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Lisa Rosenberg

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Makhsud Saidaminov

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

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

• Peter Wan

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Heather Wiebe

  Adjunct Professor Chemistry Science

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

• Jeremy Wulff

  Professor Chemistry Science

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

Child and Youth Care

• James Anglin

  Professor Child and Youth Care Education

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

• Sibylle Artz

  Professor Child and Youth Care Education

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

• Jessica Ball

  Professor Child and Youth Care Education

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

• Marie Hoskins

  Professor Child and Youth Care Education

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

• Alan Pence

  Professor Child and Youth Care Education

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

Civil Engineering

• David Bristow

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

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

• Heather Buckley

  Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Caetano Dorea

  Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Kristian Dubrawski

  Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Ralph Evins

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

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

• Thomas Froese

  Department Chair, Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Tom Gleeson

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

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

• Rishi Gupta

  Professor and Director of CAMTEC Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Kevin Hall

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

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

• Christina E. Hoicka

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

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

• Chris Kennedy

  Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Cheng Lin

  Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Sardar Malek

  Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computational mechanics, Composite materials, Viscoelasticity, Mass Timber Products, Bio-inspired structures, Codes and Standards

• Madeleine McPherson

  Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Laura Minet

  Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya

  Professor, Director of Master of Engineering in Building Envelopes and Structures program Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Min Sun

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

  Areas of expertise: Structural engineering, steel structures

• Tara Troy

  Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Lina Zhou

  Associate Professor Civil Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Structural engineering, timber structures

Computer Science

• Amir Baharloo

  Assistant Teaching Professor - Limited Term Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

• Celina Berg

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

• Bill Bird

  Associate Teaching Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Roberto Bittencourt

  Assistant Teaching Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: computer science education, software engineering education

• Jaya Prakash Champati

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Sean Chester

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Yvonne Coady

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Daniela Damian

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

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

• Neil Ernst

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

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

• Anthony Estey

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

• Sudhakar Ganti

  Associate Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Daniel German

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Brandon Haworth

  Associate Professor, Honours Advisor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• LillAnne Jackson

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

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

• Bruce Kapron

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Valerie King

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Sajin Koroth

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Rich Little

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

• Yun Lu

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Zhenjian Lu

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computational complexity theory

• Regan Mandryk

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Ashery Mbilinyi

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Nishant Mehta

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

  Areas of expertise: Machine learning theory

• Hausi Müller

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Miguel Nacenta

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

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

• Ibrahim Numanagić

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

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

• Jianping Pan

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Charles Perin

  Associate Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Teseo Schneider

  Assistant Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Sowmya Somanath

  Associate Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Kevin Stanley

  Chair and Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Data analytics, sensors, geomatics.

• Ulrike Stege

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

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

• Margaret-Anne Storey

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

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

• Alex Thomo

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• George Tzanetakis

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Jens Weber

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

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

• Kui Wu

  Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Yu Yan

  Assistant Teaching Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

• Michael Zastre

  Associate Teaching Professor Computer Science Engineering and Computer Science

Curriculum and Instruction

• Tim Anderson

  Associate Professor, Additional Language Learning Curriculum and Instruction Education

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

• Vanessa Andreotti

  Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Education (on leave) Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Leslee Francis-Pelton

  Associate Professor, Mathematics Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Erika Germanos

  Assistant Professor, Science Education, Environmental Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Lyndze Harvey

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

• Valerie Irvine

  Assistant Professor, Educational Technology Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Natalie LeBlanc

  Associate Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Graham McDonough

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

• Todd Milford

  Associate Professor in Science Education and Research Methodologies, Acting Dean Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Michael Paskevicius

  Associate Professor, Educational Technology Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Tim Pelton

  Associate Professor, Mathematics Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Monica Prendergast

  Professor, Drama Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Anita Prest

  Associate Professor, Music Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Jason Price

  Associate Professor, Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Helen Raptis

  Associate Professor, Historical Foundations Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Natasha Reid

  Assistant Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

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

• Ted Riecken

  Professor, Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Kathy Sanford

  Professor, Language & Literacy, Teacher Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Alison Shields

  Associate Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Ralf St. Clair

  Professor and Acting Chair Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Jodi Streelasky

  Associate Professor, Language & Literacy, Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Jennifer S. Thom

  Professor, Mathematics Education & Curriculum Studies Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Ruthanne Tobin

  Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Curriculum and Instruction Education

• Hector Vazquez-Cordoba

  Assistant Teaching Professor Curriculum and Instruction Education

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

• Michelle Wiebe

  Assistant Professor, Art Education Curriculum and Instruction Education

Earth and Ocean Sciences

• Anne-Sofie Ahm

  Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Casey Brant

  Associate Teaching Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

  Areas of expertise: Marine geology; geochemistry

• Dante Canil

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Laurence Coogan

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Jay Cullen

  Director & Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Stan Dosso

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• John Dower

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

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

• Blake Dyer

  Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Andy Fraass

  Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Colin Goldblatt

  Associate Professor & Climate Science Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Roberta Hamme

  Professor & Graduate Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Jon Husson

  Associate Professor & Undergraduate Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Ruohong Jiao

  Assistant Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Jody Klymak

  Professor & Ocean Science Mentor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Lucinda Leonard

  Associate Teaching Professor & Honours Advisor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Adam Monahan

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Edwin Nissen

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

• Diana Varela

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

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

• Andrew Weaver

  Professor Earth and Ocean Sciences Science

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

Economics

• Christopher Auld

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Health Economics, Microeconometrics

• Paola Beneras P.

  Assistant Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Applied Microeconomics

• Pascal Courty

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Marco Cozzi

  Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Macroeconomics, Empirical Microeconomics, Computational Economics

• Martin Farnham

  Associate Professor; Graduate Advisor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Donn Feir

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Vasco Gabriel

  Professor; Chair Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics, Empirical Finance

• Rob Gillezeau

  Former Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Economic History, Labour Economics

• Elisabeth Gugl

  Associate Professor; Associate Chair Economics Social Sciences

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

• Jason Hicks

  Limited Term Faculty Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Regulation, Labour Economics, Public Policy

• Stephen E. Hume

  Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Economics Writing

• Emma Hutchinson

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Peter W. Kennedy

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Economic Theory

• Alok Kumar

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics

• Felix Pretis

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Climate Change, Environmental Economics

• Daniel Rondeau

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Nilanjana Roy

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Development Economics

• Colette Salemi

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Herbert Schuetze

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Labour Economics

• Paul Schure

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• David Scoones

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Kenneth G. Stewart

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Macroeconomics

• G. Cornelis van Kooten

  Professor Emeritus Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Climate Economics

• Graham M. Voss

  Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Tao Wang

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Econometrics, Nonparametric Statistics, Machine Learning

• Linda A. Welling

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Chris Willmore

  Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Justin Wiltshire

  Assistant Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Ke Xu

  Associate Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

• Lijun Zhang

  Associate Teaching Professor Economics Social Sciences

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

Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies

• Lucinda (Cindy) Brown

  Assistant Teaching Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology

• Fred Chou

  Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor (Counselling Psychology) Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

• Darlene Clover

  Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

• Claudia Diaz-Diaz

  Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

• Tatiana Gounko

  Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

• Gina Harrison

  Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

• Breanna Lawrence

  Associate Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology, Counselling Psychology

• Doug Magnuson

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

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology

• Joan M. Martin

  Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

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

• Catherine McGregor

  Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate Programs and Research Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Leadership Studies

• Mariel Miller

  Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

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

• Sarah Nutter

  Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

• Julia O'Loughlin

  Assistant Teaching Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

• Jillian Roberts

  Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

• Rose Vukovic

  Professor and Chair of EPLS Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Educational Psychology (Special Education)

• Jon Woodend

  Assistant Professor Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies [Health, Education]

  Areas of expertise: Counselling Psychology

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Michael D. Adams

  Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Panajotis Agathoklis

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

• Riham AlTawy

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

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

• Amirali Baniasadi

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Alexandra Branzan Albu

  Professor, Electrical Engineering Program Director, and Academic Women Caucus Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Lin Cai

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

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

• David Capson

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Elizabeth Croft

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

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

• Nikitas J. Dimopoulos

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

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Xiaodai Dong

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

• Peter F. Driessen

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

• Fayez Gebali

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Reuven Gordon

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics; Materials and devices

• T. Aaron Gulliver

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

• T. Ilamparithi

  Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Kin Fun Li

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Tao Lu

  Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Michael L. McGuire

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

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

• Stephen W. Neville

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

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

• Chris Papadopoulos

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Electronics and energy; materials and devices

• Navneet K. Popli

  Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Daler N. Rakhmatov

  Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Makhsud Saidaminov

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

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

• Sana Shuja

  Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Mihai Sima

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

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

• Levi Smith

  Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Poman P. M. So

  Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Electromagnetics and photonics

• Issa Traoré

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Computers, software and networking

• Hong-Chuan Yang

  Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Communication, signal processing and control

English

• Corinne Bancroft

  Assistant Professor English Humanities

• G. Kim Blank

  Professor English Humanities

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

• Shamma Boyarin

  Assistant Professor English Humanities

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

• Nicholas Bradley

  Associate Professor & Honours Program Adviser English Humanities

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

• Luke Carson

  Associate Professor English Humanities

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

• Lisa Chalykoff

  Associate Teaching Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Canadian literature

• Alison Chapman, FRSC

  Professor & Graduate Adviser English Humanities

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

• Misao Dean

  Professor English Humanities

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

• James Dopp

  Associate Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Canadian literature; hockey

• Christopher Douglas

  Professor English Humanities

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

• Erin Ellerbeck

  Associate Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Renaissance literature; Shakespeare

• Rebecca Gagan

  Associate Teaching Professor, Student Liaison, & Acting Undergraduate Adviser 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

  Associate Teaching Professor & AWR Adviser English Humanities

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

• Eric Miller

  Associate Professor English Humanities

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

• Allan Mitchell

  Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Medieval Literature

• Andrew Murray

  Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

• Michael Nowlin

  Professor & Acting Chair English Humanities

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

• Richard Pickard

  Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

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

• Sheila Rabillard

  Associate Professor English Humanities

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

• Stephen Ross

  Professor English Humanities

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

• Jentery Sayers

  Director of Media Studies, Associate Professor English Humanities

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

• Lincoln Z. Shlensky

  Associate Professor English Humanities

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

• Raymond Siemens

  Distinguished Professor English Humanities

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

• Monika Smith

  Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Academic and Technical Writing

• Lisa Surridge

  Professor English Humanities

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

• Richard van Oort

  Professor English Humanities

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

• Adrienne Williams Boyarin

  Professor English Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Medieval literature

• Samuel Wong

  Assistant Teaching Professor English Humanities

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

Environmental Studies

• Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa

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

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

• Natalie Ban

  Professor & President's Chair Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Deborah Curran

  Professor & director School of Environmental Studies Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Eric Higgs

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Ryan Hilperts

  Assistant teaching professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• James K. Rowe

  Associate professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Trevor Lantz

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Michael M'Gonigle

  Professor Emeritus Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• Darcy Mathews

  Associate professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Ian Mauro

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

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

• Loren McClenachan

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

  Areas of expertise: Environmental history, historical marine ecology, fisheries and marine conservation, climate change.

• Ben Neal

  Assistant teaching professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• Valentin Schaefer

  Director Emeritus, Restoration of Natural Systems Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• Sybil Seitzinger

  Professor Emerita & American Geophysical Union Fellow Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• Nancy Shackelford

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

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

• Karena (Kara) Shaw

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

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

• Gerald Singh

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

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

• Brian Starzomski

  Ian McTaggart Cowan Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Duncan Taylor

  Assistant professor Emeritus Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• Nancy Turner

  Professor Emerita Environmental Studies Social Sciences

• John Volpe

  Professor Environmental Studies Social Sciences

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

• Wendy Wickwire

  Associate professor Emerita Environmental Studies Social Sciences

Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed

• Jean Buckler

  Assistant Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

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

• Catherine Gaul

  Emeritus Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

  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 Health

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

• Jennifer Gruno

  Assistant Teaching Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

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

• Nevin Harper

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

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

• Tim Hopper

  Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

  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 Health

  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 Health

  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 Health

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

• Olav Krigolson

  Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

  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 Health

  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 Health

  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 Health

  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 Health

  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 Health

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

• Ryan Rhodes

  Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

  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 Health

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

• Lynneth Stuart-Hill

  Associate Professor Exercise Science, Physical and Health Ed Health

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

• Viviene Temple

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

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

• Paul Whitinui

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

  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 Health

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

French and Francophone Studies

• Catherine Caws

  Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Hélène Cazes

  Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Mylène Dorcé

  Assistant Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Moustapha Fall

  Associate Teaching Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Emile Fromet de Rosnay

  Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Sara Harvey

  Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Pierre-Luc Landry

  Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

• Catherine Léger

  Associate Professor French and Francophone Studies Humanities

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

Gender Studies

• Sikata Banerjee

  Professor Gender Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Indian politics, nationalism, masculinities

Geography

• David Atkinson

  Professor, department chair Geography Social Sciences

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

• Chris Bone

  Associate professor Geography Social Sciences

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

• Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe

  Assistant professor Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Socio-ecological systems, spatial modelling, plurality of knowledge, tundra

• Sophia Carodenuto

  Associate professor Geography Social Sciences

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

• Denise Cloutier

  Professor Geography Social Sciences

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

• Maycira Costa

  Professor, BC Leadership Chair in Environmental Remote Sensing Geography Social Sciences

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

• Chris Darimont

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

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

• Teresa Dawson

  Professor Geography Social Sciences

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

• Kristian Dubrawski

  Assistant professor, Canada Research Chair in Water Sustainability for Indigenous & Rural Communities Geography Social Sciences

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

• Dave Duffus

  Associate professor Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Whale research

• Mark Flaherty

  Professor Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Aquaculture

• Jutta Gutberlet

  Professor Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: International community-based development, Waste governance and climate justice

• Christina Hoicka

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

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

• Eva Kwoll

  Assistant professor Geography Social Sciences

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

• Sophie Norris

  Assistant professor Geography Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Quaternary geomorphology, geochronology, ice sheet dynamics, glacial erosion, glacial lake outburst floods

• 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 adviser Geography Social Sciences

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

• Crystal Tremblay

  Assistant professor Geography Social Sciences

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

Germanic and Slavic Studies

• Elena Pnevmonidou

  Associate Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Matthew Pollard

  Associate Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Olga Pressitch

  Assistant Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Julia Rochtchina

  Associate Teaching Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Charlotte Schallié

  Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Ulf Schuetze

  Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Megan Swift

  Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Helga Thorson

  Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

• Serhy Yekelchyk

  Professor Germanic and Slavic Studies Humanities

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

Greek and Roman Studies

• Laurel M. Bowman

  Associate Professor and Undergraduate Adviser Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• Brendan Burke

  Professor and Department Chair Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Greek archaeology; Aegean Prehistory; Anatolian archaeology

• Graham Butler

  Sessional instructor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• J. Geoffrey Kron

  Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• Cedric A.J. Littlewood

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

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

• Mark Nugent

  Associate Teaching Professor and Graduate Advisor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• Gregory D. Rowe

  Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

• Alejandro G. Sinner

  Associate Professor Greek and Roman Studies Humanities

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

Health Information Science

• Elizabeth Borycki

  Professor Health Information Science Health

  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 Health

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

• Alex Kuo

  Professor Health Information Science Health

  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 Health

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

• Karen L. Courtney

  Professor Health Information Science Health

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

• Claudia Lai

  Assistant Professor Health Information Science Health

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

• Dennis Lee

  Assistant Professor Health Information Science Health

• Simon Minshall

  Assistant Teaching Professor, Health Terminology and Interoperability Standards Certificate Coordinator Health Information Science Health

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

• Helen Monkman

  Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Health Information Science Health

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

• Abdul Roudsari

  Professor, Graduate Advisor Health Information Science Health

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

Hispanic and Italian Studies

• Marina (Maria) Bettaglio

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

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

• Silvia Colás Cardona

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

• Christine Forster

  Continuing Sessional Lecturer Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

• Joseph Grossi

  Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

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

• Gabriela McBee

  Assistant Teaching Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

• Pablo Restrepo Gautier

  Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

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

• Dan Russek

  Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

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

• Rosa Stewart

  Teaching Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

• Alicia Ulysses

  Continuing Sessional Lecturer Hispanic and Italian Studies Humanities

History

• Adebisi Alade

  Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor History Humanities

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

• Sara Beam

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Perry Biddiscombe

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Neilesh Bose

  Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair History Humanities

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

• Paul Bramadat

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Penny Bryden

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Martin Bunton

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Zhongping Chen (陳忠平)

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Rachel Cleves

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Jason Colby

  Professor and Department Chair History Humanities

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

• Peter Cook

  Associate Professor History Humanities

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

• Beatriz de Alba-Koch

  Associate Professor History Humanities

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

• Simon Devereaux

  Professor and Undergraduate Advisor History Humanities

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

• David Dolff

  Lecturer History Humanities

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

• Norm Fennema

  Lecturer History Humanities

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

• Mariel Grant

  Associate Professor History Humanities

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

• Tim Haskett

  Assistant Professor History Humanities

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

• John Lutz

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Lynne Marks

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Loren McClenachan

  Professor and Canada Research Chair History Humanities

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

• Andrea McKenzie

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Cynthia Milton

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Christine O'Bonsawin

  Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor History Humanities

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

• Oliver Schmidtke

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Kristin Semmens

  Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator History Humanities

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

• Georgia Sitara

  Assistant Teaching Professor History Humanities

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

• Jordan Stanger-Ross

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

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

• Elizabeth Vibert

  Professor History Humanities

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

• Jaipreet Virdi

  Associate Professor History Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Disability History, History of Science, Technology, Medicine, Public History, Material Culture, American History, British History, Canadian History

• Jill Walshaw

  Associate Professor and Honours Adviser History Humanities

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

• Andrew M. Wender

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

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

• Serhy Yekelchyk

  Professor History Humanities

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

• David Zimmerman

  Professor History Humanities

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

Indigenous Education

• Edōsdi (Judy Thompson)

  Associate Professor Indigenous Education Education

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

• Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins

  Professor Indigenous Education Education

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

• Belinda Daniels

  Assistant Professor Indigenous Education Education

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

• Lauren Jerke

  Assistant Professor Indigenous Education Education

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

• Onowa McIvor

  Professor Indigenous Education Education

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

• Jean-Paul Restoule

  Professor and Chair Indigenous Education Education

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

• Maria del Carmen Rodriguez de France

  Associate Professor Indigenous Education Education

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

Indigenous Governance

• Hōkūlani Aikau

  Director Indigenous Governance Social Sciences

• Devi Dee Mucina

  Associate Professor Indigenous Governance Social Sciences

• Gina Starblanket

  Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Indigenous Governance Social Sciences

• Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

  Associate Professor Indigenous Governance Social Sciences

Indigenous Studies

• Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel

  Professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

• Rachel George

  Assistant professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

• Lisa Kealohapaʻaokahaleole Hall

  Program director Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

• Megan Lukaniec

  Assistant professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

• Mick Scow

  Assistant teaching professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

• Tracy Underwood

  Assistant Teaching Professor Indigenous Studies Humanities

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

Latin American Studies

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Law

Libraries

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Linguistics

• John Archibald

  Linguistics Professor, SLLC Graduate Advisor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Second language phonology

• Sonya Bird

  Professor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Phonetics, language revitalization

• Alexandra D'Arcy

  Professor, Associate Dean Research, Humanities Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Variationist sociolinguistics

• Li-Shih Huang

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

  Areas of expertise: Applied linguistics

• Hua Lin

  Associate Professor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, Chinese linguistics

• Martha McGinnis

  Associate Professor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Syntax, morphology

• Hossein Nassaji

  Professor Linguistics Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Applied linguistics

• Suzanne Urbanczyk

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

  Areas of expertise: Phonology, morphology, language revitalization

Mathematics & Statistics

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Mechanical Engineering

• Keivan Ahmadi

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

  Areas of expertise: Structural dynamics, mechanical vibrations, Modular analysis, dynamics and vibrations of machine tools, modeling of machining processes for virtual machining systems, and process optimization for high-performance machining.

• Mohsen Akbari

  Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Rustom B. Bhiladvala

  Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Marianne Black

  Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Colin Bradley

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

  Areas of expertise: Manufacturing automation, design, sensor systems

• Brad Buckham

  Chair, Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Daniela Constantinescu

  Undergraduate Program Director, Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Curran A. Crawford

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Elizabeth Croft

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

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

• Nikolai Dechev

  Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Christopher Dennison

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

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

• Zuomin Dong

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Flavio Firmani

  Associate Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Samira Gharehkhani

  Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Josh W. Giles

  Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Rodney Herring

  Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Mina Hoorfar

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

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

• Jason Keonhag Lee

  Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Ben Nadler

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Homayoun Najjaran

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Peter Oshkai

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Andrew Rowe

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Yang Shi

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Henning Struchtrup

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Afzal Suleman

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Sravya Tekumalla

  Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Karolina Valente

  Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Caterina Valeo

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Peter Wild

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Stephanie Willerth

  Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• Bosco Yu

  Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

Medical Sciences

• Craig Brown

  Professor Medical Sciences Health

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

• Hector Caruncho

  Professor Medical Sciences Health

  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 Health

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

• Lisa Kalynchuk

  Vice-President Research & Innovation Medical Sciences Health

  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 Health

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

• Tim Naimi

  Director, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research Medical Sciences Health

• Leigh Anne Swayne

  Professor Medical Sciences Health

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

• Marie-Ève Tremblay

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

  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

• Malcolm Armstrong

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Double bass

• Kyron Basu

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Voice

• Anita Bonkowski

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Theory, Film Music, Jazz Studies

• David Bourque

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Clarinet

• Patrick Boyle

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Taylor Brook

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Composition

• Benjamin Butterfield

  Professor, Head of Voice Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Voice, Opera

• Steven Capaldo

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Wendell Clanton

  Assistant Teaching Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Saxophone, Vocal Jazz

• Adam Con

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music Education, Chorus

• Ajtony Csaba

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Orchestra, Conducting

• Michael Dias

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music theory, Musicianship

• Ann Elliott-Goldschmid

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Simon Farintosh

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Guitar

• Michelle Feng

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Oboe

• Anne Grimm

  Assistant Teaching Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Voice

• Pamela Highbaugh Aloni

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Pamela Highbaugh Aloni

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Joanna Hood

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Sean Kiley

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Computer music

• Merrie Klazek

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Trumpet, Brass Chamber Music, Musicianship

• May Ling Kwok

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Piano

• William Linwood

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Percussion, Percussion Ensemble

• Alexis Luko

  Director; Full Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology

• Scott MacInnes

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Trombone

• Elizabeth MacIsaac

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music Education

• Michelle Mares

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Piano

• Aaron Mattock

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

• Lauren McCall

  Assistant Research Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Composition, Music Technology

• Mark McDonald

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Organ

• Kirk McNally

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Sam McNally

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Horn

• Jelena Milojević

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Accordion

• Marion Newman

  Assistant Professor Music Fine Arts

• Giuseppe Pietraroia

  Sessional Lecturer Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Orchestra, Opera (Conductor)

• Arthur Rowe

  Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Piano and Collaborative Piano

• Katrina Russell

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Bassoon

• Joseph Salem

  Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music History, Musicology, Theory

• Suzanne Snizek

  Associate Professor Music Fine Arts

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

• Eva Solar-Kinderman

  Music Performance Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Piano

• Anthony Tan

  Assistant Professor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Composition

• Kinza Tyrrell

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

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

• Jeff Weaver

  Sessional Instructor Music Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Music Education

Nursing

• Katherine Bertoni

  Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Rebecca Bingley

  Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Lisa Bourque Bearskin

  Associate Professor Nursing Health

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

• Vera Caine

  Professor Nursing Health

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

• Christina Chakanyuka

  Lecturer Nursing Health

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

• Nancy Clark

  Associate Professor Nursing Health

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

• Damien Contandriopoulos

  Professor and Associate Director Graduate Education & Graduate Advisor Nursing Health

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

• Kim Daly

  Assistant Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Associate Director Nursing Health

• Dzifa Dordunoo

  Associate Professor Nursing Health

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

• Karen Evers-Fahey

  Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Marilou Gagnon

  Professor Nursing Health

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

• Ingrid Handlovsky

  Assistant Professor Nursing Health

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

• Leanne Kelly

  Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Jae-Yung Kwon

  Assistant Professor Nursing Health

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

• Anastasia Mallidou

  Professor Nursing Health

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

• Lenora Marcellus

  Professor and Director Nursing Health

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

• Kelly McInerney

  Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Health

  Areas of expertise: Mental health, addictions, youth

• Brenda Mishak

  Associate Professor Nursing Health

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

• Wendy Neander

  Associate Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Lorelei Newton

  Assistant Professor Nursing Health

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

• Christine Ou

  Assistant Professor Nursing Health

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

• Bernadette (Bernie) Pauly

  Professor Nursing Health

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

• Olga Petrovskaya

  Associate Professor Nursing Health

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

• Sarah Pirani

  Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Maureen Ryan

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

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

• Mariko Sakamoto

  Assistant Professor Nursing Health

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

• Allie Slemon

  Assistant Professor Nursing Health

  Areas of expertise: Social justice; health equity; mental health; 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities; stigma and discrimination; nursing philosophy; critical theory; qualitative methodologies; social media.

• Kelli Stajduhar

  Professor Nursing Health

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

• Coby Tschanz

  Associate Teaching Professor, Practice Education Lead Nursing Health

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

• Don Versluis

  Assistant Teaching Professor Nursing Health

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

• Christina West

  Associate Professor Nursing Health

Pacific and Asian Studies

• Martin Adam

  Associate Professor; on Study Leave till July 2025 Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Angie Chau

  Associate Professor; on Study Leave till July 2025 Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Richard Fox

  Professor & Chair Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Mamoru Hatakeyama

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

  Areas of expertise: Japanese Language

• Tim Iles

  Associate Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Thiti Jamkajornkeiat

  Assistant Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

• Mika Kimura

  Associate Teaching Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Sujin Lee

  Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Ann-Elise Lewallen

  Associate Professor; Graduate Program Advisor 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; Study Leave till July 2025 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; on Study Leave till July 2025 Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

• Jun Tian

  Associate Teaching Professor Pacific and Asian Studies Humanities

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

• Ben Pin-Yun Wang

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

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

Philosophy

• Nina Belmonte

  Associate Teaching Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Karen Brown

  Lecturer Philosophy Humanities

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

• Peter Dietsch

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Chris Goto-Jones

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Eric Hochstein

  Associate Professor; Grad Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

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

• Cindy Holder

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Carrie Klatt

  Associate Teaching Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Eike-Henner Kluge, FRSC

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Thomas Land

  Associate Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Colin Macleod

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Michael Raven

  Professor; Graduate Advisor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Clifford Roberts

  Assistant Professor Philosophy Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Ancient philosophy

• Patrick Rysiew

  Professor; Chair Philosophy Humanities

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

• David Scott

  Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor Philosophy Humanities

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

• Katie Stockdale

  Associate Professor; Grad Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

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

• Scott Woodcock

  Professor; Minor in Applied Ethics Coordinator Philosophy Humanities

  Areas of expertise: Normative ethics, philosophy of biology

• Audrey Yap

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

• James O. Young, FRSC

  Professor Philosophy Humanities

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

Physics & Astronomy

• Justin Albert

  Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Experimental particle and astroparticle physics

• Arif Babul

  UVic Distinguished Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Thomas E. Baker

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

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

• Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

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

  Areas of expertise: Medical physics

• Arthur Blackburn

  Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Advanced electron microscopy

• Devika Chithrani

  Associate Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Byoung-Chul Choi

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Rogério de Sousa

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Ruobing Dong

  Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Astrophysics, exoplanet

• Sara L. Ellison

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Falk Herwig

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Kristan Jensen

  Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Theoretical physics

• Tobias Junginger

  Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Dean Karlen

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

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

• Jody Klymak

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Pavel Kovtun

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Theoretical physics

• Robert V. Kowalewski

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Mark Laidlaw

  Associate Teaching Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Michel Lefebvre

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Travis Martin

  Assistant Teaching Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Physics education, curriculum design

• Julio Navarro

  Professor, Lansdowne Professor of Science Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• J. Michael Roney

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

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

• Geoffrey M. Steeves

  Associate Teaching Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Experimental condensed matter physics

• Kim Venn

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

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

• Jon Willis

  Professor Physics & Astronomy Science

  Areas of expertise: Astronomy, cosmology

Political Science

• Kelly Aguirre

  Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous politics, decolonial and critical theory

• Michelle Bonner

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

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

• Colin Chia

  Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Marlea Clarke

  Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Claire Cutler

  Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Rita Dhamoon

  Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Avigail Eisenberg

  Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Simon Glezos

  Associate Professor, Graduate Director Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Will Greaves

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

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

• Lois Harder

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

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

• Matt James

  Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Jamie Lawson

  Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Justin Leifso

  Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Mara Marin

  Assistant Professor Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Oliver Schmidtke

  Professor Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Citizenship and immigration, European integration

• Amy Verdun

  Professor, FRSC Political Science Social Sciences

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

• Scott Watson

  Associate Professor Political Science Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: International relations theory, securitization, migration

• Andrew Wender

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

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

• Feng Xu

  Professor and Chair Political Science Social Sciences

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

Psychology

• Paweena Sukhawathanakul

  Assistant professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Lifespan health and development

• Tarek Amer

  Assistant professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Megan Ames

  Associate professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Daniel Bub

  Professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Louise Chim

  Associate teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Teaching and learning, cultural psychology

• Catherine Costigan

  Professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Mauricio Garcia-Barrera

  Professor & Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Jodie Gawryluk

  Associate professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Frederick Grouzet

  Associate professor and Graduate adviser Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Social psychology

• Allyson Hadwin

  Professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

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

• Emily Haigh

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

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Kelci Harris

  Assistant professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Social psychology

• Maria Iankilevitch

  Assistant teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Social psychology

• Adam Krawitz

  Associate teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• D. Stephen Lindsay

  Professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Stuart MacDonald

  Professor and mohr chair Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Sarah Macoun

  Associate professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Nigel Mantou Lou

  Assistant professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Social psychology

• David A. Medler

  Associate chair and associate teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Ulrich Mueller

  Professor & Department chair Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Jhotisha Mugon

  Assistant teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences, social psychology

• Theone Paterson

  Associate professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Andrea Piccinin

  Professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Lifespan development

• Jill Robinson

  Assistant teaching professor & Clinic director Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Jessica Rourke

  Assistant teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Social psychology

• Jonathan Rush

  Assistant professor & Statistical consultant Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Lifespan health and development

• Colette M. Smart

  Associate professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Danu Anthony Stinson

  Professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Social psychology

• Jim Tanaka

  Professor and Honours adviser Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

• Brianna Turner

  Associate professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Natasha Wawrykow

  Assistant teaching professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Erica Woodin

  Professor and Director of Clinical Training Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Clinical psychology

• Jordana Wynn

  Assistant professor Psychology [Health, Social Sciences]

  Areas of expertise: Cognition and brain sciences

Public Administration

• Astrid Brousselle

  Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (he/his)

  Professor & Jean Monnet Chair Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• David Castle

  Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Heather Castleden

  Professor, Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Jill Anne Chouinard

  Director & Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• J. Barton (Bart) Cunningham

  Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Helga Hallgrímsdóttir

  Deputy Provost and Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• Tamara Krawchenko

  Associate Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Robert Lapper, KC

  MPA Program Lead, Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Walter Lepore

  Assistant professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Evert Lindquist

  Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Richard Marcy

  Associate professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• Astrid V. Pérez Piñán

  Associate Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• Katya Rhodes

  Associate Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

• Lynne Siemens

  Associate Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• Kim Speers

  Associate teaching professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• Susanne Thiessen

  Assistant Professor Public Administration Social Sciences

• Sarah Wiebe

  Assistant Professor & Graduate Advisor Public Administration Social Sciences

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

Public Health & Social Policy

• Jaime Arredondo Sanchez Lira

  Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Monique Auger

  Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

• Robert Beringer

  Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Natalie Frandsen

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

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

• Trevor Hancock

  Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Michael Hayes

  Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Nathan Lachowsky

  Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Matthew Little

  Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Nigel Livingston

  Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Charlotte Loppie

  Professor Emerita Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Jeff Masuda

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

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

• Farah Mawani

  Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Renée Monchalin

  Assistant Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Tim Naimi

  Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Jeff Reading

  Professor Emeritus Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Karen Urbanoski

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

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

• Catherine Worthington

  Professor and Director Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

• Sarah Wright Cardinal

  Associate Professor Public Health & Social Policy Health

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

Religion, Culture & Society

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Social Work

• Billie Allan

  Associate Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous health and well-being

• Cheryl Aro

  Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous health and well-being

• Gwendolyn Gosek

  Assistant Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous child welfare services

• Jacquie Green

  Executive Director of IACE / Associate Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Indigenous child welfare policy and practice

• Rhonda Hackett

  Associate Professor Social Work Health

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

• Cindy Holmes

  Associate Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2SLGBTQ+) wellbeing; intersectionality; anti-racist practice; decolonization; violence; food studies; spirituality; intergenerational storytelling; participatory action research and arts-based research

• Zaheera Jinnah

  Assistant Professor Social Work Health

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

• Amanda LaVallee

  Assistant Professor Social Work Health

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

• Tracey Lavoie

  Associate Teaching Professor Social Work Health

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

• Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha

  Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Citizenship rights of children and marginalized communities

• Jenny Morgan

  Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Health

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

• Jennifer Nutton

  Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Child welfare practice and policy

• Gayle Ployer

  Director / Associate Teaching Professor Social Work Health

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

• Susan Ramsundarsingh

  Assistant Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Social policy, community development

• Gaben Sanchez

  Assistant Teaching Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Poststructural practice and narrative practice, 2SLGBTQ+, Immigration, Impact of structural oppression, Transnational Social Work, Anti-racism and anti-racist Social Work education

• Robina Thomas

  Vice President, Indigenous / Professor Social Work Health

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

• Bruce Wallace

  MSW Faculty Advisor / Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Poverty, health and equity

• Jaehee Yi

  Professor Social Work Health

  Areas of expertise: Epistemology, visual images and narratives, LGBTQ+, immigration, emerging adults, Participatory Action Research, cancer survivorship, vicarious traumas, grief/loss, disabilities, posttraumatic growth

Sociology

• Katelin Albert

  Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• William Carroll

  Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Aaron Devor

  Professor, Chair in Transgender Studies Sociology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Sex, gender and transgender

• Eugene Emeka Dim

  Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Steve Garlick

  Associate Professor and Chair Sociology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Gender and social theory

• Garry Gray

  Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Sean Hier

  Professor Sociology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Moral panics and social problems

• Tamara Humphrey

  Associate Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Michael Ma

  Associate Teaching Professor Sociology Social Sciences

• Athena Madan

  Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Midori Ogasawara

  Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Bruce Ravelli

  Teaching Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• André Smith

  Associate Professor Sociology Social Sciences

  Areas of expertise: Aging

• Peyman Vahabzadeh

  Professor, Undergraduate Advisor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Anelyse Weiler

  Assistant Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

• Min Zhou

  Professor Sociology Social Sciences

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

Software Engineering

• Yvonne Coady

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Daniela Damian

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Neil Ernst

  Associate Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Daniel German

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Kin Fun Li

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Hausi Müller

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Stephen W. Neville

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Navneet K. Popli

  Assistant Teaching Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Margaret-Anne Storey

  Professor and Canada Research Chair Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Alex Thomo

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Issa Traoré

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

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

• George Tzanetakis

  Professor Software Engineering Engineering and Computer Science

• Jens Weber

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

Theatre

• Carmen Alatorre

  Assistant Professor Theatre Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Costume Design

• Conrad Alexandrowicz

  Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

• Patrick Du Wors

  Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Design: set and lighting design

• Michael Elliott

  Assistant Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Performance: voice

• Fran Gebhard

  Assistant Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Performance: acting, directing

• Yasmine Kandil - Chair

  Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

• Alexandra (Sasha) Kovacs

  Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

• Allana Lindgren

  Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

• Peter J. McGuire

  Assistant Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

• Brian Richmond

  Professor Theatre Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Performance: directing, dramaturgy, acting

• Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta

  Associate Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

• Tony Vickery

  Teaching Professor Theatre Fine Arts

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

Visual Arts

• Cedric Bomford

  Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Photography and installation

• Megan Dickie

  Chair, Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

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

• Laura Dutton

  Assistant Teaching Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Video and photography

• Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

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

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

• Daniel Laskarin

  Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Sculpture

• Rick Leong

  Graduate Program Advisor, Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Drawing and painting

• Heather lgloliorte

  Canada Excellence Research Chair, Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices

• Carey Newman

  Impact Chair in Indigenous Art Practices Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Sculpture

• Kelly Richardson

  Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

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

• Jennifer Stillwell

  Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Sculpture and video

• Beth Stuart

  Associate Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

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

• Paul Walde

  Professor Visual Arts Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Painting, media practices

Writing

• Shane Book

  Associate Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Mo Bradley

  Professor Writing Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Film production, screenwriting, Canadian and queer media arts/film/TV.

• Deborah Campbell

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

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

• Wayde Compton

  Assistant Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Marita Dachsel

  Assistant Teaching Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Diane Dakers

  Assistant Teaching Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Danielle Geller

  Assistant Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Lee Henderson

  Associate Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Sean Holman

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

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

• Kevin Kerr

  Chair, Associate Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• David Leach

  Professor, Director of Professional Writing Writing Fine Arts

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

• Kathryn Mockler

  Assistant Professor Writing Fine Arts

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

• Gregory Scofield

  Professor Writing Fine Arts

  Areas of expertise: Poetry, memoir