Faculty Research Interests
Agnew, Vijay - Feminist theory with particular emphasis on racism; history of Asian, African, and Caribbean women in Canada; South Asian women; violence against immigrant women, and NGO's of immigrant women.
Alston, Vermonja - Caribbean literature (in English, French, and Spanish), Indigenous North American literature, literary and cultural theory, environmental justice literature, and legal theory.
Bannerji, Himani - Women and development; colonial and post-colonial social and political formations; feminist theory and its relations to race and class; immigrant women in Canada; culture and politics.
Cameron, Barbara - Intergovernmental agreements and democratic accountability; federalism and social rights.
Colaguori, Claudio - Sociology of conflict, competition and violence; human rights issues surrounding wrongful convictions with the criminal justice system, and the popularity of television crime programs and their relation to authoritarian attitude formation.
Das Gupta, Tania - Race, gender and class concerns for the workplace; labour market; families; multiculturalism; South Asian diaspora; immigrant women's activism; labour movement
Dereyah, Minoo - Gender and religion; modernity and tradition; religion and social justice; multicultural and multiracial education
Dua, Enakshi - Race and gender; migration; women and development; gender and community.
Foster, Lorne - social justice and human rights, social inequality and social stratification, anti-racism and anti-discrimination, and the marginalization of racialized urban communities.
Goodman, Mark J. - Slavery and enslaved communities in the Americas; African-American family structure and culture; racism and colonial practices; state authority and the retrenchment of the equality agenda in the United States since the 1960s
Haque, Eve - linguistic rights; race, language policy and nationalism; immigrant language training programs and 'integration'; language, multiculturalism and nationalism; multilingualism and language shift; language death and revitalization.
Jacobs, Merle - Employment equity for racial minorities and aboriginal people: including social justice, setup and backlash, nursing and collegiality. Vicarious trauma when working in helping professions; race as a category. Burmese refugees in Toronto: trauma in ethnic women, social justice and human rights, relocation, and ties with Burma/related activist groups in Canada.
Lawrence, Bonita - Regulation of Native identify; gender and colonization; Indigenous justice, sovereignty and literature; traditional Native singing.
Laxer, Jim - Political economy, global and economic power, U.S. politics.
McKeen, Wendy - Canadian social policy; the welfare state and social citizenship; social change and the politics of social policy in Canada; gender, social policy and social justice.
McNab, David - Aboriginal Land and Treaty Rights issues in Canada; British imperial history; Canadian history; Ontario history.
Moghissi, Haideh - Middle East politics and culture; Islam and gender; human rights; diversity, ethnicity and immigration; race relations and policies
Oikawa, Mona - Race and anti-racism studies; gender and culture studies; internment of Japanese Canadians
O'Riley, Patricia - Indigenizing research methodology, Indigenous self-empowerment, technology discourses in education, environmental justice, cultural studies, post structural theory
Perchal, Walter - terrorism, pandemic, international security issues
Rahnema, Saeed - Middle Eastern politics and economy, global political economy, comparative public policy and administration and Muslim diasporas.
