Faculty & staff
Office
Office contact: Emma Stuart, director of administration, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Business and Economics Building (BEC) Room 456 (Social Sciences reception)
Faculty
CSPT director
Sara Ramshaw, Law
Critical legal studies in improvisation; family law; human rights; law and the humanities
Katelin Albert, Sociology
Medical sociology; sociology of health and mental health; sexual health and sexual experiences; qualitative methods; social theory; science and technology
Kelly Aguirre, Political Science
Indigenous politics; decolonial and critical theory; storytelling and narrative; methodological ethics; rhetoric and poetics; neurodiversity and disability in decolonial discourse
Allan Antliff, History in Art
Modernism in the United States and Europe; anarchist studies; contemporary art; critical art; critical theory; the history of anarchism
Michael Asch, Anthropology
Issues concerning representation of Indigenous peoples in anthropological theory, alternative ways to construct relations between Self and Other in Western political thought and on treaty relations
Sara Beam, History
History of human rights; torture; sex crimes; religious freedom; satire and political expression; censorship of the press and entertainment; Europe between 1500 and 1750
Nina Belmonte, Philosophy
History of philosophy; philosophy and literature; 19th century continental philosophy; philosophy and film
Marina Bettaglio, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Twentieth-century Spanish and Italian literature; women's studies; gender studies; critical theory; translation theory
Neilesh Bose, History
Social theory; modern South Asia; historiography; post-colonialism; biography; performance studies; collective memory; nationalisms; political theology; religion; world systems; cultural studies; aesthetics; power
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Anthropology
Visual culture; sound; creative practices; digital media; infrastructure; Cuba; Canada
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, English
Early Middle English; religion and literature; Christian-Jewish polemics; writing about women (particularly holy women and Marian texts)
Gillian Calder, Law
Legal process; constitutional law; family law; civil liberties and the charter; advanced family law; sexual orientation and the law
William K. Carroll, Sociology
Political economy; social movement theory; Marxist theory
Hélène Cazes, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Renaissance literature (French, Italian, Latin); humanism and humanities; republic of letters; friendship; history of medicine; history of the book; history of childhood; editorial mediations
Rachel Cleves, History
Early American history, 1750-1850, with a focus on the histories of gender, sexuality and violence
Evelyn Cobley, Emeritus, English
Russian formalism; modernism; postmodernism; narratology; twentieth-century English and comparative literature
Patricia Cochrane, Law
Constitutional law; legal methodologies; feminist legal theories; statutory interpretation; equality and human rights law; evidence law
Aaron Devor, Sociology
Gender; human sexuality; transgender themes
Mylène Dorcé, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
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
Avigail Eisenberg, Political Science
Democratic theory; political pluralism; group authority and dissent
Moustafa Fall, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Second language acquisition and language theory; Francophone literary theory
Emile Fromet de Rosnay, Linguistics and Cultures (SLLC)
French and Francophone culture; literature, cinema; aesthetics; intermediality/hypermediality; critical theory; experimental theory
Steve Garlick, Sociology
Critical social theory; new materialisms; masculinity studies; sexuality and bodies; science and technology studies
Simon Glezos, Political Science
Continental thinkers of the 19th and 20th century, including Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Antonio Negri, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Joseph Schumpeter, Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Immanuel Kant
Chris Goto-Jones, Philosophy
Comparative philosophy; Asian philosophy; political philosophy; ethics; embodiment; philosophy of mind; philosophical practice; digital and visual philosophy
Lois Harder, Political Science
Citizenship law; social policy; regulation of intimate life
Sara Harvey, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
My main current research is spread over a variety of projects, all of which are linked by the desire to understand what shapes our worldview and our academic and cultural behaviour when filtered through the history of France's in early modern period
Thom Heyd, Centre for Global Studies, Philosophy and Environmental Studies
Aesthetics; ethics; history of philosophy with special interests in environmental aesthetics and ethics
Sean Hier, Sociology
Surveillance; moral regulation and moral panic; risk sociology; race and racism; media; intellectual exclusion
Thiti Jamkajornkeiat, Pacific and Asian Studies
Comparative southeast Asian intellectual history; modern Indonesia and Thailand; peripheral Marxism; anti-/post-/decolonial theories
Rebecca Johnson, Law
Judicial dissent; sexuality; law-and-film; affect and emotion; legal theory; legal process; Indigenous legal methodologies
Arthur Kroker, Emeritus, Political Science
Technology; culture and theory; contemporary French and German political theory; Canadian political and social thought; ethics and biotechnology
Gary Kuchar, English
English Renaissance literature; religious poetry and prose; intellectual history; Shakespeare; literary/critical theory
Pierre-Luc Landry, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Quebecois and French literature and culture; Indigenous literature; creative writing; research-creation; Queer theories
Justin Leifso, Political Science
Canadian politics; Canadian public policy; neoliberalism
John Lutz, History
Canadian. History of Indigenous settler relations and more broadly the history of the creation and interaction of different racial groups in the Pacific Northwest. I am also interested in the use of digital tools to research, teach and display history.
Mara Marin, Political Science
Feminist theory; social theory; history of political thought; structural injustice; oppression; domination; legal theory; authority; political obligation
Lynne Marks, History
Canadian history; women's and gender history; the social history of religion/irreligion and atheism
Darcy Mathews, Environmental Studies
Northwest coast archaeology; ethnoecology,;historical ecology; community-based participatory research; heritage conservation of sacred sites and places
Martha McMahon, Sociology
Qualitative methods; feminist theory; ecological feminism; women organic farmers
Allan Mitchell, English
A Medievalist whose work crosses disciplines and subjects (e.g., rhetoric, ethics, ecologies) with a focus on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Midori Ogasawara, Sociology
Surveillance; technology; identification; biometrics; colonialism; data justice
Ana Maria Peredo, Environmental Studies
Sustainable development; anthropology and management; alternative economies
Elena Pnevmonidou, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
The intersection between romantic aesthetic theory and romantic conceptualizations of the other, be it the other gender or the cultural other, such as the Orient
Reuben Rose-Redwood, Geography
Critical urban theory; cultural landscape studies; governmentality, space and calculation; memory, culture and the politics of place-making; geographies of performativity; history of geographical thought
Stephen Ross, English
Modern British literature; critical theory, especially Marxism; psychoanalysis; feminism and deconstruction; spectrality studies; youth culture
James Rowe, Environmental Studies
Political ecology; political theory; international political economy
Daromir Rudnyckyj, Anthropology
Social theory; anthropology of knowledge; liberalism and neoliberalism; finance; socio-technics of money; globalization; the state; colonialism and counter-coloniality; religion; development; Islam
Bradley B. Ryan, Law
First Nation fiscal relations; taxation; corporate law; Indigenous economic and legal orders; postcolonialism and legal theory
Jentery Sayers, English
Comparative media studies; science and technology studies; labour studies; speculative fiction; experimental prototyping; computational culture
Charlotte Schallié, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Post-1945 diasporic and transcultural writing/filmmaking; memory studies; Jewish identity in contemporary cultural discourse; teaching and learning about the Holocaust
Karena Shaw, Environmental Studies
Environmental, feminist and Indigenous politics; contemporary political theory; the changing character of local, global and marginal political action
Lincoln Shlensky, English
Postcolonialism; Caribbean literature; Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies; diasporas
Nicole Shukin, Emeritus, English
Biopolitics across species lines; decolonial and diasporic literatures and cultures (in Canada); cultural studies; environmental and energy humanities
Heidi Stark, Political Science
Indigenous comparative politics; Native diplomacy; treaty and Aboriginal rights
Megan Swift, Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Russian modernism and post-modernism; Soviet and post-Soviet cultural history; children’s literature and book art; Russian Formalism; Bakhtin
James Tully, Emeritus, Political Science
Political philosophy; history of political philosophy; Canadian political theory; constitutional theory
Peyman Vahabzadeh, Sociology
Classical and contemporary social theory; phenomenology; deconstruction; social movements; exile; violence and nonviolence; Iranian studies; poetry
Elizabeth Vibert, Emeritus, History
Modern history; colonial identities; colonial gender and race relations; colonial travel literatures
R.B.J. (Rob) Walker, Political Science
Sovereignty and subjectivity; theories of modernity; exceptionalism; ideology and culture; international political theory; concepts of space and time in political thought
Andrew Wender, Political Science
Politics, society and religion in the Middle East and worldwide; political theory, religion and philosophy, including comparative political theory and comparative religion
Sarah Marie Wiebe, Public Administration
Environmental justice; political ecology; community development; community engaged research
Audrey Yap, Philosophy
Feminist philosophy; logic; philosophy of mathematics; history of mathematics and logic (esp. 19th and 20th century)