| YORK FACULTY APPOINTED TO CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES |
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Marcia H. Rioux
(Professor; PhD, California, Berkeley)
Extension: 22112 Email: mrioux@yorku.ca Address: Room 410, HNES Building Website: click here
International human rights and monitoring, the social and legal construction of inequality, theory of critical disability, education for all, globalization, social welfare and social justice, health equity, social policy and diversity.
A C.V. is downloadable from here
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Geoffrey Reaume
(Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 22058 Email: greaume@yorku.ca Address: Room 416, HNES Building Website: click here
Mad people's history; history of people with disabilities; medical history; psychiatric patients' labour history; archiving psychiatric survivor and disability histories; labels, terminology, activism and self-identity among psychiatric survivors/consumers; connecting the past with contemporary social justice struggles.
A C.V. is downloadable from here
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Nancy Halifax
(Assistant Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 22653 Email: nhalifax@yorku.ca Address: Room 408, HNES Building Website: click here
The body and representation; feminist theory; gender; knowledge translation; social determinants of health; social justice; qualitative and arts-informed research.
A C.V. is downloadable from here
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Rachel Gorman
(Assistant Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 30523 Email: gorman@yorku.ca Address: Room 407, HNES Building
Political economies of disability; Disability Arts and Culture movements; postcolonial and dialectical materialist approaches to understanding the social organization of disability; disability in the context of nationalisms, transnational imperialism, and national liberation; internationalist and anti-capitalist approaches to global healthcare provision.
A C.V. is downloadable from here
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YORK FACULTY CROSS-APPOINTED TO CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES |
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Naomi Adelson
(Associate Professor; PhD, Montreal)
Extension: 55367 Email: nadelson@yorku.ca Address: Room 135, Founders College Website: click here
Anthropology of the body; Concepts of Health; Indigenous health; social suffering; health disparities; gender and stress. Visualizing biotechnologies and the body.
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Gary Bunch
(Professor Emeritus; EdD, British Columbia)
Extension: 22810 Email: gbunch@edu.yorku.ca Address: Room 265, Winters College
Education of persons with disabilities in inclusive settings, child development, learning styles, representation of persons with disability in the media, and the community of researchers’ model and action research and collaboration with community groups.
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Tamara Daly
(Assistant Professor; PhD, Health Administration; Toronto)
Extension: 30522 Email: dalyt@yorku.ca Address: Room 411, HNES Building Website: click here
Gender and health; health care work; comparative health policy, and the role of heath care non-profits.
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Mary Fox
(Assistant Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 23088 Email: maryfox@yorku.ca Address: Room 343, HNES Buildiing
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Stephen Gaetz
(Associate Professor; PhD, York University, Toronto)
Extension: 23088 Email: sgaetz@edu.yorku.ca Address: Room 631, York Research Tower
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Joan Gilmour
(Associate Professor; ScD, Law, Stanford)
Extension: 55561 Email: jgilmour@osgoode.yorku.ca Address: Room 323, Osgoode Hall Law School
Website: click here
Bioethics, disability and the law, health law, legal governance of health care, privatization and health care reform, legal regulation of alternative health care, professional regulation of health care practitioners, torts, civil procedure, equality rights and discrimination, feminist legal analysis.
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Gerald Gold
(Professor; PhD, Minnesota)
Extension: 77781 Email: gerry@yorku.ca Address: Room 322, Calumet College Website: click here
Virtual support communities for disability wheelchair users - bodies and persons autoimmune disabilities (arthritis, Crohn's, Lupus, fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis).
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Neita Israelite
(Associate Professor; PhD, Pittsburgh)
Extension: 20913 Email: nisrael@edu.yorku.ca Address: Room 259, Winters College Website: click here
Identity construction of hard of hearing adolescents; transition and adjustment issues for postsecondary students with disabilities.
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Isabel Killoran
(Associate Professor; PhD, Alabama at Birmingham)
Extension: 33898 Email: ikilloran@edu.yorku.ca Address: Room 414, HNES Building Website: click here
Inclusive education, preschool inclusion, Teacher candidates' attitudes towards inclusion and how faculties of education can help shape them, curriculum analysis, parent advocacy in the education system, siblings of children with disabilities.
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Thomas Klassen
(Associate Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 88828 Email: tklassen@yorku.ca Address: Room S636, Ross Building Website: click here
The politics of aging, age discrimination in the workplace, disabilities in the workplace and labour market, perceptions of people who stutter, treatment of stuttering, gambling policy.
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Joel Lexchin
(Professor; MD, Toronto)
Extension: 22119 Email: jlexchin@yorku.ca Address: Room 420, HNES Building Website: click here
Health policy, physician prescribing behaviour, pharmaceutical promotion and the drug approval process, globalization.
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David Lumsden
(Associate Professor; PhD, Cambridge)
Extension: 66498 Email: lumsden@yorku.ca Address: Room 2054, Vari Hall Website: click here
Medical anthropology, cross-cultural mental health issues, collective violence & resilience, stress & coping, culture and disability issues, refugee health issues, qualitative health research, advocacy.
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Connie Mayer
(Associate Professor; EdD, Toronto)
Extension: 30738 Email: cmayer@edu.yorku.ca Address: Room 215, Winters College
Website: click here
Language and literacy development in learners at risk (e.g., deaf and hard of hearing); emergent literacy; early intervention; bilingualism; the role of signed language in educating D/HH learners; sociocultural theory and its applications to educational practice and research; classroom discourse; teacher education |
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Roxanne Mykitiuk
(Associate Professor; LLM, Columbia)
Extension: 55204 Email: mykitiuk@osgoode.yorku.ca Address: Room 326, Osgoode Hall Law School
Website: click here
Reproductive and genetic technologies; feminist bioethics; cultural and social implications of biotechnology; family law; children and the law; disability studies; feminist theory; epistemology; health and globalization; construction of the body and legal regulation.
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Beryl Pilkington
(Associate Professor; PhD, Loyola University Chicago)
Extension: 30697 Email: bpilking@yorku.ca Address: Room 345, HNES Buildiing
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Norene Pupo
(Associate Professor; PhD, McMaster)
Extension: 30205 or 55612 Email: npupo@yorku.ca
Address: Room 276, York Lanes Website: click here
Sociology of work and labor; Canadian society; political sociology; technological change; formal organization; women's studies; social policy; globalization and power.
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John Radford
(Professor; PhD, Clark)
Extension: 55107 Email: johnrad@yorku.ca Address: Room N406C, Ross Building
Spatial and environmental aspects of disability with emphasis on the cultural and social geography of disability and integration issues: especially planning issues and residential satisfaction of people with a disability.
A C.V. is downloadable from here
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Dennis Raphael (on sabbatical July 1st, 2011 to June 3-th, 2012)
(Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 22134 Email: draphael@yorku.ca Address: Room 418, HNES Building Website: click here
Human development, social determinants of health, the quality of life of communities and individuals, and the impact of government decisions on Canadians' health and well-being.
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Kimberley White
(Associate Professor; PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto)
Extension: 30697 Email: kjwhite@yorku.ca Address: Room 734, Ross Building (South Tower)
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Mary Wiktorowicz
(Associate Professor; PhD, Toronto)
Extension: 22124 Email: mwiktor@yorku.ca Address: Room 425, HNES Building Website: click here
Comparative health policy including mental health sector restructuring, the regulation of pharmaceuticals and the role of interest groups in shaping health policy.
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ADJUNCT FACULTY |
There are a number of internationally renowned scholars associated as adjunct faculty to the program. These scholars have gained their reputation as fundamental contributors to critical studies in disability and serve to enhance the faculty complement. They are:
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Adrienne Asch
(Professor, Yeshiva University, United States)
Tel: (212) 960-0834 Email: asch@yu.edu Address: click here
Ethics and Reproductive Issues.
Click here for her C.V.
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Colin Barnes
(Professor, Leeds University, England)
Tel: 0113-343-4414 Email: c.barnes@leeds.ac.uk Address: click here
Theories of disability; Social policy and disabled people; Disability politics and culture; Inclusive education; Disability and the majority world; Emacipatory/participatory research methodologies and practice; Cultural studies; Popular culture; Sociology of deviance.
Click here for his C.V.
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Len Barton
(Emeritus Professor, University of London, England)
Tel: 44 (0)20 7612 6750 Email: l.barton@ioe.ac.uk
Disability Studies; Sociology of Education; Inclusive Education; Cross-cultural issues relating to policy and practice in terms of disability and inclusive education.
Click here for his C.V.
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Lee Ann Basser
(Associate Professor, La Trobe University, Australia)
Tel: (03)9479 2171 Email: l.basser@latrobe.edu.au Address: click here
Children’s rights; Disability law; Family law; Health law.
Click here for her C.V.
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Catherine Frazee
(Co-Director, Ryerson RBC Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education; Disability Rights Scholar, Consultant and Researcher, Canada)
Tel: (416) 979-5000 ext. 4591 Email: cfrazee@ryerson.ca Address: click here
Disability rights; Identity; Culture and the disability experience.
Click here for her C.V.
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Nora Groce
(Professor; Chair of Leonard Cheshire and Director of the Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University
College London, England)
Tel: (203) 785-2866 Email: nora.groce@ucl.ac.uk Address: click here
Issues of disability in international health and development; Violence as a global public health problem; Equity in access to health care in ethnic and minority communities.
Click here for her C.V.
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Beth Haller
(Professor, Towson University, United States)
Tel: (410) 704-2442 Email: bhaller@towson.edu Address: click here
Media Images of Disability and Disability Issues.
Click here for her C.V. |
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Ljiljana Igric
(Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Tel: (385) 98 410 528 Email: ljiljana.igric@zg.htnet.hr Address: click here
Mental Illness; Special education; Rehabilitation.
Click here for her contact information and C.V.
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Robyn Munford
(Professor, Massey University, New Zealand)
Tel: 64 6 356 9099 ext. 2825 Email: r.munford@massey.ac.nz Address: click here
Family Support Services; Disability Policy and Service Provision; Community Development; Social Service Organisations; Feminist Frameworks and Social/Community Work Practice; Research Methods; Social/Community Work Service and Practice.
Click here for her C.V.
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Carla Rice
(Associate Professor, Trent University, Canada)
Tel: 519-824-4120 ext. 53921 Email: carlar@uoguelph.ca Address: click here
Narratives of body, identity, and difference in the passage to womanhood; Arts-based inquiry into everyday experiences of women with disabilities and physical differences in social and health care encounters; Qualitative research into girls’ accounts of body image as an equity issue within educational settings.
Click here for her C.V. |
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Margrit Shildrick
(Visiting Scholar, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University, Belfast, England)
Tel: (44) 028 9097 ext. 3958 Email: M.Shildrick@qub.ac.uk Address: click here
Feminist theory and gender relations; critical cultural theory - esp. concerning identity and difference; postmodernist bioethics; theories of the body (including: postconventional theories of disability; disability and sexuality; the concept of the monstrous); and any combination of the above.
Click here for her C.V.
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Carol Thomas
(Professor,
Centre for Disability Research (CeDR), Lancaster University, England)
Tel: +44 (0)1524 594092 Email: c.thomas@lancaster.ac.uk Address: click here
Feminist theory and gender relations; critical cultural theory - esp. concerning identity and difference; postmodernist bioethics; theories of the body (including: postconventional theories of disability; disability and sexuality; the concept of the monstrous); and any combination of the above.
Click here for her C.V. |
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Gregor Wolbring
(Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Canada)
Tel: (403) 220-5448 Email: gwolbrin@ucalgary.ca Address: click here
Social, ethical, legal, economic, cultural and governance issues of new, emerging and converging sciences and technologies (S&T) such as nanoscale S&T molecular manufacturing, aging, longevity and immortality research, cognitive sciences, neuromorphic engineering, genetics, synthetic biology, bodily enhancement S&T, in vitro meat, artificial intelligence and robotics; Impact of S&T on: marginalized populations especially disabled people; human security, human right, personhood, sentient rights; concept of disability impairment, ableism and transhumanism; models and determinants of health; global health, health- (technology assessment, law, care and policies); medical anthropology; foresight studies, bioethics issues.
Click here for his C.V.
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