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Faculty Members and Their Research Interests


FACULTY   RESEARCH INTERESTS

Naomi Adelson
BA(McG.), MA (McM.), Phd (McG.)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
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Medical anthropology; Canadian aboriginal health; the body and technological representations.

Steve Alsop
BSc, Bed (Lond.), PhD (Sur.) 
Professor
Faculty of Education
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Science and technology education; the profit motive and science; science, technology, sustainability and globalization; critical place based education.

Katharine Anderson 
BA (McG.), MA (Mass.), PhD (Northw.) 
Associate Professor
Division of Humanities
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History of 19thc sciences; environmental sciences; science and public life.

Pat Armstrong
BA (Tor.), MA, PhD (Car.)
Professor
Department of Sociology
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Sociology of health and illness; Canadian health care; women and health.

Steven Bailey
AB (Bard), MA (Iowa St.), MA (Bowling Green), PhD (Ill)
Associate Professor
Division of Humanities
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Technology and philosophy; identity in the digital age; technology and popular culture.

Kean Birch
MA, MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Oxford Brookes)
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Science

Business & Society Program
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  Political economy of technoscience; neoliberal technoscience; biofuels, biotechnology and the emerging bioeconomy; research policy; innovation studies; open science; knowledge economy

 

 

Tina Young Choi (on sabbatical 2011-12)
AB (Harv.), MA, PhD (Cal.)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
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  19th-century British science; history of medicine; history of the body and sexuality.

Kathryn Denning
BA, MA (McM.), PhD (Sheffield)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
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The archaeology of the zoo; cultural evolution; extraterrestrial life.

Darrin Durant

Associate Member

BA (Wollongong), MA, PhD (Toronto)
Assistant Professor
Division of Natural Science

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  Nuclear power & waste disposal; energy policy; expertise & lay publics in technical controversies.

Leesa Fawcett
BSc (Guelph), MES, PhD (York)
Associate Professor
Faculty of Environmental Studies
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Science and environmental studies; human and animal relations; eco-feminism.

Joan Gilmour
BA, LLB (Tor.), JSM, JSD (Stan.), of The Bars of Ontario and British Columbia
Associate Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Medicine and the law; women’s health; alternative medicine.

Christopher Green
BA (Bishop’s), MA (S. Fraser), PhD (psychology, Tor.), PhD (philosophy, Tor.)
Professor
Department of Psychology
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History of psychology, especially U.S. 1870-1930; influences of evolutionary theory and statistics on psychology; electronic scholarship.

Ernst Hamm (on sabbatical 2011-12)
BA (Br.Col.), MA, PhD (Tor.) 
Associate Professor
Division of Natural Science
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Enlightenment and Romantic Science; history of earth and environmental sciences; Goethe's science; and the relationship of the natural and the human sciences.

Jagdish Hattiangadi
BA (Bom.), MA (Lond.), PhD (Prin.)
Professor
Department of Philosophy
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Philosophy of science; induction and scientific method; the mind as scientific object.

Richard Jarrell
AB (Ind.), MA, PhD (Tor.)
Professor
Division of Natural Science
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History of astronomy; scientific and technical education in Canada, UK, and Ireland; science and the state.

Edward Jones-Imhotep
BA (York), PhD (Harvard)
Assistant Professor
Division of Natural Science
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Modern technology; modern physics; science, technology and identity; 20th c. Canadian science.

Bonnie Kettel
BA (Tor.), PhD (Ill.) 
Associate Professor
Faculty of Environmental Studies 
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Women, health, and environmental studies.

Leslie Korrick
BA (Car.), MA, MPhil, PhD (Tor.)
Associate Professor 
Fine Arts Cultural Studies
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Science and Renaissance music; the cabinet of curiosities and collecting.

Kenton Kroker
BA (Victoria), MA, PhD (Tor.)
Associate Professor 
Division of Natural Science
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20th century medicine; sleep research; epidemics; history of psychology.

Bernard Lightman (On Sabbatical 2013 - 2014)
BA, MA (York), PhD (Brandeis) 
Professor 
Division of Humanities
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19th c British science; science and popular culture; science and religion.

Aryn Martin (on leave 2011-13)
BscH (Queens), MES (York), MA, PhD (Cornell)
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
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Social studies of biomedicine; genetics and identity; feminist theory; biopolitics; classification and individuation; everyday conduct of pregnancy.

Dan McArthur
BA, MA (Carleton University), PhD University of Ottawa
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
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Philosophy of Science, especially topics in the
Philosophy of Physics relating to the Realism Question; applied ethics topics relating to scientific practice, new technologies and technology policy, especially topics relating to the application of the Precautionary Principle.

Michelle Murphy
Adjunct Member
BA (Tor.), PhD (Harvard)
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Toronto

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Biopolitics; feminist and postcolonial technoscience studies; histories of value, sex, race, and environment.

Natasha Myers
BSc (McG.), MES (York), PhD (MIT)
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology 
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Anthropology of science; feminist science studies; scientific visualization; modes of embodiment in technoscience.

Eric Mykhalovskiy
BA (W.Ont.), BA, MA, PhD (York)
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
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Biomedical knowledge; HIV/AIDS; evidence-based medicine; public health.

Roxanne Mykitiuk
BA (Alta.), LL.B. (Tor.), LLM (Col.), of the Bar of Alberta
Associate Professor
Osgoode Hall Law School
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Genetic and reproductive technologies; legal regulation; feminist and critical disability perspectives.

Michael Pettit
BA (King’s and Dal.), Phd (Tor.)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology                                           
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History of the human sciences; biopolitics; gender, race, and sexuality in science.

Myles Ruggles
MA, PhD (Simon Fraser)
Associate Professor
Division of Social Science
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Political economy of knowledge and information; information technology policy; indigenous knowledge and environmental risk; critical philosophy of technology.

Alexandra Rutherford
BSc (Tor.), MA, PhD (York)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
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20th c. American psychology; women and feminism in psychology; behavioral technologies; behaviorism and American culture.

 

Jan Sapp
BSc (Hons.) Dalhousie, MSc, Phd Montreal
Professor
Department of Biology

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History of the biological sciences

 

Marlene Shore
BA (Tor.), MA (Br.Col.), PhD (Tor)
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Modern cultural history; modern North American psychology; history of the human sciences.

Ann B. Shteir
Member Emerita
BA (Douglass), PhD (Rutgers)
Professor Emerita
Department of Humanities

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Gender and science; science and cultural history; women, botany, natural history; 18th-19th-century British botany.

Joan Steigerwald
BA, BA (Manit.), PhD (K.C. Lond.) 
Associate Professor
Division of Humanities
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History of the life sciences: 18th century science; German idealism and Romanticism; figural representations of nature; epistemology of experiment and technology.

Nell Tenhaaf
BFA, MFA (C’dia), DipEd (McG.) 
Associate Professor
Department of Visual Arts
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Art and biotechnology; women, art, and technology.

Thomas Teo
Mag. Rer. Nat., PhD (Vienna)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
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Philosophy and science; science and race; human sciences.

Peter Vandergeest
BSc (Wat.), MS, PhD (C’nell)
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
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History of scientific forestry in Southeast Asia; environmental certification; alternative
agriculture.

Ana Viseu (on leave 2011-12)
MA (Barcelona), PhD (Tor)
Assistant Professor
Division of Social Science
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Emerging technologies; Feminist technoscience; ethnography; biology, identity and technology; agency.

Byron Wall 

Member Emeritus
BA (Drew), MA, PhD (Tor.)
Senior Lecturer
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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History of mathematics; 19th c. logic and probability.

Lorna Weir  
BA (McG.), MA, PhD (York)
Professor
Department of Sociology
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Health and social theory; securitizing of the life sciences; biopolitics; global public health surveillance.

 

 

   

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