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Associate Dean Research Barbara Crow
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Telephone: (416) 736-2100 x 40549 (Voicemail)
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Email: bacrow@yorku.ca
Dr. Barbara Crow commenced as Associate Dean Research on July 1, 2009, when the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies came into being. Her portfolio as Associate Dean includes supporting and expanding research in the new Faculty, developing and responding to research policies that affect the Faculty, and disseminating information about the Faculty's research activities both within and outside the university.
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Dr. Barbara Crow commenced as Associate Dean Research on July 1, 2009, when the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies came into being. Her portfolio as Associate Dean includes supporting and expanding research in the new Faculty and disseminating information about the Faculty's research activities both within and outside the university. Dr. Crow also holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Communications. From 2007 to 2009 she served as Director of the Joint York/Ryerson Graduate Program in Communication & Culture.
Dr. Crow's current research interests relate to the social, cultural, political and economic implications of digital technologies. Her most recent project, which she is undertaking in collaboration with Professor Kim Sawchuk of Concordia University and is funded with a SSHRC Standard Research Grant, focuses on senior citizens and mobile technologies. She has also edited collections on mobile technologies, including: The Wireless Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Communication (UTP, forthcoming), co-edited with Michael Longford and Kim Sawchuk; a special issue in 2008 of the Canadian Journal of Communication entitled "Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices," co-edited with Kim Sawchuk and Richard Smith; and a special issue in 2008 of Atlantis entitled "Digital Feminisms," co-edited with Sheila Petty.
In addition, Dr. Crow has worked on a number of large-scale interdisciplinary grants with engineers, designers, artists and communication scholars to produce technical and cultural content for mobile experiences, the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), 2004-2007 and the Canadian Wireless Infrastructure Research Project, (CWIRP), 2006-2008. Dr. Crow is also one of the co-founders of the Mobile Media Lab, co-located at York University in Toronto, and in Hexagram, at Concordia University in Montreal. The lab is made up of an interdisciplinary research team exploring wireless communications, mobile technologies and locative media practices. The lab also houses the journal wi: journal of mobile media, for which she is a co-founding editor.
Dr. Crow has a longstanding commitment to feminist research. In this field, she has edited several book collections, including Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader (NYUP, 2000) and three editions of Open Boundaries: A Canadian Women's Studies Reader (2000, 2004 and 2008) with Lise Gotell. In 2005, she and Dr. Leslie Regan Shade were awarded a best paper for their report on "Getting Gender into the ICT Agenda: Canadian Experiences" and presented in Tunis at the World Summit on the Information Society. From 2002-2004, she served as president of the Canadian Women's Studies Association (CWSA/ACEF). In this position, she increased the membership, established undergraduate and graduate essay prizes, a book award, and facilitated its web presence. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Atlantis and the Canadian Journal of Communication.
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- Janet Friskney
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- Kay Li
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- Nadya Martin
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- Anthropology
- Geography
- Political Science
- Social Science
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- Women's Studies
Faculty Research Adminstrators
- Deznah (Pat) Ellis
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- Administrative Studies
- Anthropology
- Economics
- English
- Equity Studies
- French Studies
- Human Resources Management
- Information Technology
- Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
- Public Policy & Administration
- Social Work
- Ursula Wolfe
Acting Research Administrator
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Email: wolf490@yorku.caDesignated Units
- Communication Studies
- Geography
- History
- Humanities
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Social Science
- Sociology
- Women's Studies
- Writing Department
