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Harris Ali (Environmental Studies)
- Prof. Ali is a co-investigator, with Prof. Roger Keil, on “SARS and the Global City: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Toronto," a project that explores the direct connection between global city formation and the way in which SARS has affected the city of Toronto. Issues arising in this inquiry will include how the global city network facilitates worldwide microbial traffic, and the implications for institutional governance and regulation concerning urban vulnerability and public health security.
- University Professor, former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School (1972-77) and President of York University (1985-92), Harry Arthurs has also been an academic visitor at Oxford, Cambridge and University College, London. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Arthurs has been an arbitrator and mediator in labour disputes, and has conducted inquiries and reviews at Canadian and American universities. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Decent Work Research Prize 2008 from the International Labour Organization (ILO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a co-investigator on CRIMT (Centre de Recherches Interuniversitaires de mondalisation de travail), a $2.3 million international collaborative project on globalization and work funded by SSHRC (MRCI). He is also a member of other international research networks and teams including INTELL (an international network of labour and employment law scholars), CRN8 (international labour law network) and the Labour Law Group Trust (a US-based collective).
- Professor Bakker’s research includes feminist perspectives of international public policy. She is an expert on gender-sensitive budgeting and has worked with the United Nations, UNIFEM, UNDP, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the OECD on these questions. She has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the University of Helsinki (Finland) and at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA).
- Margaret Beare’s research interests are transnationalization of crime and law enforcement; public and private policing; organized crime; women and the criminal justice system; money laundering; public policing strategies and corrections. Her edited book, Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption, was published in 2003 by University of Toronto Press.
- Deborah Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Education, was one of three recipients of the 2007 Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator’s Award of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE). Known internationally by researchers and educators in a variety of fields, she is the recipient of previous awards including the James and Helen Meritt Distinguished Service Award to the Philosophy of Education from Northern Illinois University (2003). Her scholarly publications include six books and 80 scholarly articles, on a range of subjects, from teacher education, to the work of Sigmund and Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, to the role of psychoanalysis in education, to the study of “difficult knowledge.”
- Sue Coffey is coordinator of York’s Post-RN BScN program for internationally-educated nurses. Students in the new program have immigrated to Canada from many countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Philippines, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran and China.
- Professor Rosemary J. Coombe holds the Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture at York University. Her research focuses on the cultural, political and social implications of intellectual property laws, the proliferation of cultural rights, and the politics of cultural heritage and cultural property laws in global contexts. Coombe teaches annually in the International Summer Institute on Law, Language and Culture held at Osnabrück University, Germany, where she was an inaugural member of the faculty and continues to shape curriculum. She has been awarded recent visiting fellowships at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa; the Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Victoria Wellington University, New Zealand; and University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is engaged in research collaborations with international networks of scholars in projects based at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland; Birkbek College, University of London; Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen University, Germany; and, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
- Professor Derayeh’s research interests are related to gender and religion, modernity and
tradition, and religion and social justice. She is presently collaborating on a research project sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, entitled "Theism and Atheism in Muslim Schools."
- Professor Dhir teaches in the field of business law and his current research interests include corporate law theory and the intersection of transnational business activity with international human rights norms. In 2007, he participated as an invited expert in corporate accountability-related consultations held by the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. Internationally, he has experience with the treaty formulation process, having participated as a non-governmental organization delegate to United Nations working group meetings on both the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the proposed Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Professor Dhir completed his graduate studies at New York University School of Law, where he was a Graduate Editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.
- David Doorey's research explores labour practices within the global supply chain of apparel companies and the role of transparency, regulation and informal governance mechanisms in the pursuit of improved global labour practices. He has researched companies such as Nike and Levi-Strauss, as well as leaders of international trade unions and human rights NGOs. His teaching interests include labour and employment law, industrial relations, and labour and globalization.
- Vice-President Academic and Provost Sheila Embleton has been very active internationally, and in 2005 she received an award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) for leadership in internationalization. Her particular academic areas of research are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical linguistics, onomastics, and women and language. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. In 2007, while visiting India as part of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s delegation, Dr. Embleton signed an MOU with the University of Pune for a new Ontario-Maharashtra-Goa student exchange agreement. Dr. Embleton is President-elect of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
- Prof. Etkin has participated in three international hazard projects and was one of only two non-Americans to assist with their 2nd national assessment of natural hazards. He has been principal investigator for a NATO short-term project on natural hazards and disasters and the Canadian Assessment of Natural Hazards Project that resulted in the book, An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada, which he edited. The summary report he wrote of this latter project has been widely distributed within Canada and was used by PSEPC and Foreign Affairs as the official Canadian contribution to the ISDR Kobe disaster conference held this past year.
- Professor Flusty teaches World Geography and Postcolonial Geographies as well as Geopolitics and Cosmopolitics. His research interests include globalization, world city systems, and everyday life.
- Stephen Gaetz’s commitment is to a research agenda that foregrounds social justice and attempts to make research relevant to policy and program development. His research on homelessness has focused on their economic strategies, health, education and legal and justice issues, as well as solutions to homelessness from both a Canadian and international perspective. Professor Gaetz is the director of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network and the Homeless Hub (http://www.homelesshub.ca), projects dedicated to mobilizing homelessness research so that it has a greater impact on policy, planning and service provision, thereby contributing to solutions to end homelessness in Canada.
- Wenona Giles teaches and publishes in the areas of gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project, “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” at York University. Author: Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration and Nationalism (2002).
- Stephen Gill, a specialist in international relations and global political economy, has been a visiting professor at a number of universities including the University of Warwick; the University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara: New York University; the University of Tokyo and the Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama. He has also held the following fellowships and honours: Hallsworth Senior Research Fellow in Political Economy, University of Manchester; Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association, two Fulbright Fellowships, and the La Trobe Senior Fellow in Global Governance, Melbourne.
- Dr. Greenberg is one of the primary developers of emotion focused therapy (EFT) for individuals and for couples. He is co-author of most of the field's major texts, including: Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986) with Jeremy Safran; Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988) with Susan Johnson; Facilitating Emotional Change with Laura Rice and Robert Elliott; and Working with Emotions in Psychotherapy (1997) with Sandra Paivio. He has conducted invited workshops throughout the United States and Canada, and in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Research Career award of the International Society of Psychotherapy Research.
- Esther Greenglass was the guest of honour at the stress and anxiety research society's annual conference in Crete, Greece, July 2006 where she received the society's lifetime career award for her research in the areas of stress, coping, emotions and health. The Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR) is a multidisciplinary, international organization of researchers who share an interest in problems associated with stress, coping and anxiety. Its members, from more than 35 countries, meet annually to exchange research findings and clinical applications on a wide range of stress and anxiety related phenomena. Greenglass' international work has also resulted in her appointment as the first Canadian president of the division of health psychology of the international association of applied psychology, a position she held from 2006-2010. In addition since 2003, Greenglass has been and continues to be the Canadian representative on the board of the stress and anxiety research society. Professor Greenglass serves on the editorial board of Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, an international psychological journal that publishes papers on health psychology. She also serves as editorial consultant on the Journal of Applied Psychology: an international review and she has served on the international scientific committee of the Star Conferences since 2005.
- Professor Greyson has taught film production and theory in the United States, Cuba and South Africa. His films have won accolades at festivals throughout the world.
- Professor Grinspun’s research interests are the social, labour and environmental aspects of international trade and economic development; and North American and Latin American integration. He is the initiator and coordinator of the University Consortium on the Global South at York, as well as organizer (with Peter Vandergeest) of the Colloquium on the Global South, a seminar which meets every Wednesday during the academic year. He is co-editor (with Y. Shamsie) of Canada, Free Trade, and “Deep Integration” in North America (2006).
- In 2004 Prof. Harris was appointed by the German Minister for Education and Resesarch as a member of the Perspectives Commission of the Juelich Research Centre. He and his colleagues are one of the most experienced groups in the world in the application of mid and near infra red tunable diode lasers (TDL) for atmospheric research. They are part of the Canadian contribution to the International Collaboration on Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transportation (ICARTT). Since the movement of air knows no boundaries, their work often includes international collaborations with government, industry, other universities and agencies. They have a close collaborative relationship with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany and a range of spectroscopic techniques are in use or under development at the laboratories there and at York. A new high precision, fast response diode laser spectrometer at York can be deployed aboard Canadian and US research aircraft operated by the Atmospheric Environment Service and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, respectively
- Professor Hogarth’s research interests are documentary, global culture, public service broadcasting and reality television. Author: Global Directions in Documentary (University of Texas Press, 2005).
- Shelley Hornstein is Professor of Architectural History & Visual Culture at York University. Her work looks at the intersection of memory and place in architectural and urban sites. She is currently working on projects that explore demolition, Google Earth and museums in virtual space, Starlets and Starchitecture, Jewish topographies, and architectural tourism. During her tenure as Walter L. Gordon Fellow, she completed her newest book, Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place (Ashgate, 2011). Her other books include: Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art (McGill-University Press, 2000); Image and Remembrance: Representation and The Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2002), and Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2003 ).
- Professor Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, focuses his research on international business strategy and management. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as a member of the advisory board of the International Management Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. As dean of the Schulich School of Business, he has overseen the development of international degree programs at the master’s and bachelor’s levels, and the establishment of Schulich executive education centres in China and India.
- Dr. Jarvie’s research interests are philosophy of the natural and the social sciences; aesthetics; and sociology of the mass media (especially film). Professor Jarvie has been managing editor of the quarterly journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences since its foundation in 1971.
- Professor Kapoor’s research interests are development studies and Third World politics, participatory development and democracy/democratic theory, postcolonial theory and cultural studies, social/environmental movements in the North and South and 'New' critiques of development (ecological, postdevelopment, postmarxist, feminist, anti-racist, non-western, postcolonial). He is the author of The Postcolonial Politics of Development (Routledge, 2008).
- Prof. Latham, director of the York Centre for International and Security Studies, has research interests in global security, transnational relations, environmental politics and knowledge, human security, global governance and sovereignty, North-South conflict, and democracy and security.
- Professor Li’s research interests are global political economy, long waves and stages of capitalist development, the political economy of China, and comparative economic systems. He has written several articles focusing on China.
- Professor Loeppky’s research interests are the political economy of biomedical innovation and advanced industrial development strategies, advanced industrial social policies and US domestic and foreign policies. He is the author of Encoding Capital: A Political Economy of the Human Genome Project (Routledge Press, 2005).
- Lillie Lum has received funding from SSHRC for a research project titled “Bridging Education for Internationally-Educated Health Professionals.” Its focus is a critical analysis of Canadian post-secondary institutions’ ability to provide quality bridging education for IEHPs seeking access to the health labour market.
- Professor Macdonald, as former president of York University and director of York International, has many international connections. Currently he is Chair of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth of Learning, an intergovernmental organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
- Professor Marchessault holds a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization. One key area that Dr. Marchessault examines is the role of artists in the growth of large-scale centres that combine new media technologies in the areas of art, science and education, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Hexagram in Montreal and the European Media Lab in Dublin. In addition to her previous research on the digital cultures of North America and Europe, Dr. Marchessault extends her work to study the digital arts in a variety of urban centres such as Mexico City, Senegal and Tokyo to understand new spatial transformations and cultural environments created by global networks. Prof. Marchessault is also a co-investigator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to study the Culture of Cities in Toronto, Berlin, Montreal and Dublin.
- Professor Mayer’s research interests include the bilingual models of literacy education, and literacy in deaf students. Her article in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, entitled “Can the linguistic interdependence theory support a bilingual-bicultural model of literacy for deaf student?” was selected by Oxford University Press as one of its seminal papers that the company has published in the last century. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the American Annals of the Deaf.
- Dr. McKenna works with Dr. Julia Richardson in the area of internationally mobile skilled workers and self-initiated expatriates. He is also involved in a project on HRM and ethics and the global managerial and professional worker. He also has wider interests in cross-cultural management and international human resources management. He has contacts throughout Europe, Asia and South America as well as the Middle-East.
- Professor McMillan, a professor of policy and international business, studies the impact of globalization on decision making in a corporate environment. He has taught in France and Poland, has represented Canada as a policy advisor to the Prime Minister, and has been a member of G-7 Summits. Professor McMillan authored the 2006 casebook, The Strategy Challenge: From Serfdom to Surfing in the Global Village (Toronto: Captus Press, 2006).
- Professor McNally’s research interests are globalization and global justice movements, concepts of freedom and democracy in political thought, radical theories of language and culture, Marxism, feminism and anti-racism and radical political economy. He is the author of Another World is Possible: Globalization & Anti-Capitalism (AK Press, 2nd ed., 2006). His most recent books are Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (PM Press, 2011) and Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (Brill, 2011).
- Among Prof. Mgbeoji’s teaching and research interests are international law on the use of force and international environmental law. He is the author of two books – Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order; and Patents and Indigenous Peoples – and he is the co-author of Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues.
- Prof. Mortimer-Sandilands holds a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability in Culture. Her research involves building an international network of scholars in environmental cultural studies and creating a centre that engages scholars across disciplines in writing and cataloguing environmental histories and cultures of nature that are unique to local communities. She has also held a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship at the University of Oregon (2000).
- Few people know the details of organizing international sports teams better than Patricia Murray. She has represented Canada at more than twenty-five major competitions outside the country, including five Olympic Games and two world university games. Vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Committee, a seasoned administrator and successful coach, Murray was also named Chef de Mission for the Canadian team heading to the 23rd world university games in 2005 in Turkey.
- Deputy Director of the York Centre for International and Security Studies, David Mutimer recently returned to York following a two-year leave of absence at the Small Arms Survey in Geneva and the University of Bradford in the UK. His research interests are critical security studies, non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament, and theory and practice in contemporary international security. More recently he has turned his attention to the politics of the global war on terror, and of the regional wars around the world presently being fought by Canada and its allies. He has written The Weapon State: Proliferation and the Framing of Security (Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2000).
- Professor o’ Neil’s interests are textual theory, psychoanalytic approach, theories of desire: hegel to lacan; theories of social justice: liberal-communitarianism; human capital and social capital-generalized in debates of globalism, cognitivism and reschooling. His recent works include: The domestic economy of the soul: Freud’s five case histories, the poverty of post modernism and the missing child in liberal theory. He is also the co-editor of the journals Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Journal of Classical Sociology.
- Professor Ondaatje specializes in recent Canadian and American literature and contemporary world literature. Co-winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for his novel In the Skin of a Lion, Prof. Ondaatje is also the author of Anil’s Ghost: A Novel, set in Sri Lanka.
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- Prof. Panitch holds a Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy. He conducts theoretical and empirical research to examine the role that the American state and corporations have played and are playing in global capitalism. He edited (with Colin Leyes) Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 (Monthly Review Press), which discusses contemporary political debate influenced by global institutions such as the World Bank.
- Professor Puri’s areas of research include corporate law and governance, as well as white-collar crime. She was commissioned by the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank due to her expertise in the legal aspects of white-collar crime. She has co-edited many books including Corporate Governance and Securities Regulation in the 21st Century (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004).
- Prof. Razack is Associate Dean Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. She is chair and co-investigator for a Task Force on International Exchanges and Research of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, with research being conducted with Schools of Social Work in the five regions under IASSW. Prof. Razack is also a team member of the Social Work in Nigeria Project (SWIN), particularly the aspect concerned with strengthening the capacity of the University of Benin to train social workers with a sustainable, indigenously relevant model of social work. She is also a member of the North American and Caribbean Association Schools of Social Work and collaborates with faculty members at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Cave Hill and St. Augustine campuses.
- Professor Roberge’s research interests are Canadian public policy, international political economy, financial services sector reform and integration and money laundering and terrorist financing policies. Author: Middle-Sized Powers in Global Finance: Internationalization and Domestic Policymaking and Policy Studies (2005)
- Professor Shubert is a specialist on Spain, and his research interests include a broad range of topics in modern Spanish history and Spain in the New World. He is a Comendador de la Orden de Mérito Civil (awarded by King Juan Carlos of Spain). His publications include A las Cinco de la Tarde: Historia de la Corrida de Toros (Turner, 2002). As York’s first Associate Vice-President International, he was instrumental in furthering York’s internationalization strategy, which included developing new linkages with institutions all over the world.
- Professor Shugarman’s research interests run towards the history of political thought and theory, in Canada and internationally. He is the principal investigator of the Ethics of International Intervention (EII) Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This project has two components: 1) a comparative study of cases of international military intervention and non-intervention in situations of widespread disruption, including Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo and North Korea, and 2) an overarching analysis of the ethical issues involved in decisions to intervene on “humanitarian” grounds. The EII team members are coordinating their research with empirical studies being undertaken by members of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance located at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
- Professor Taylor, the York University Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics, is searching for new particles, such as magnetic monopoles, at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. The ATLAS experiment is an international collaboration of 3,000 physicists from more than 174 universities and laboratories in 38 countries,
and has a large nation-wide Canadian effort. Formerly, she studied the properties of b-quarks at the Tevatron Collider at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
- Robert Wai teaches Contracts, Ethical Lawyering in a Global Community, International Business Transactions and International Trade Regulation. He completed graduate work in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and his doctorate in international law as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School. He was appointed as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy over the 2004-05 academic year. Professor Wai’s current research focuses on governance through public and private law in areas such as international business transactions and transnational litigation.
- Professor Weiss focuses his research on examining international negotiation, and cultural and political business environments. His current research examines the automobile industry, and the international collaborations within this group.
- Professor Whitworth’s research is focused on international gender relations, feminist critiques, and the United Nations and peacekeeping. She is author of Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004), and co-editor of The International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), working with Scottish and Indian co-editors.
- Professor Williams teaches in the Public International Law and International Criminal Law areas. Among the books she has authored or co-authored are The International and National Protection of Movable Cultural Property: A Comparative Analysis, Canadian Criminal Law: International and Transnational Aspects, An Introduction to International Law (2nd ed.), The International Legal System, International Criminal Law She served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague from 1991 to 1997. From September 2001 until October 2003 she acted as a Judge ad litem in The Prosecutor v. Simic et al at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
- At the board meeting of the Fifth ISAAC Congress held on July 26, 2005 at the University of Catania in Italy, Professor Wong was elected President of ISAAC for 2005-07. ISAAC is the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation. He is also one of the directors of a special interest group in Pseudo-Differential Operators set up under ISAAC, which includes directors and advisers from the University of Wales at Swansea (UK), Università di Torino (Italy), Universität Potsdam (Germany), Osaka Kyoiku University (Japan), State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), Indian Statistical Institute at Bangalore (India) and Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden).
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- Professor Agnew’s research interests are feminist theory with particular emphasis on racism, history of Asian, African, and Caribbean women in Canada, South Asian women, violence against immigrant women, and NGOs of immigrant women. Author: Diaspora, Memory and Identity: A Search for Home (2005) and Where I Come From (2003). Professor Agnew is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
- Professor Barutciski directed the diplomacy program at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He also was a member of Oxford University's department of international development. Professor Barutciski has carried out research in conflict zones and refugee camps in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also worked for the United Nations, as well as authored reports for the British government and the South African parliament.
- Professor Bhanich Supapol has focused his research to study international corporations and technology transfer, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. He has worked as a research consultant for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), a United Nations organization. Prof. Supapol has taught at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, and SASIN, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and has been a visiting professor at Nankai University, Tienjin, People's Republic of China. He has written various articles on the subject of business in Thailand.
- Prof. Boon was a Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities in 2011-12. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002) and In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010). He is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Empty Theory: On the Unfinished Projects of Buddhism and Modernity and writing a book on the concept of practice in contemporary culture and society. He also writes about music and sound for The Wire.
- Professor Campbell has research interests in the field of international marketing, and is a judge for the Queen’s University/Center for Canada-Asia Business Relations MBA Paper Competition. She has written a paper on "Using Value Creating Networks to Increase Innovation Speed: An Exploratory Study of Thai Textile Exporters," to be published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
- Christopher Chan teaches and researches in the human resource management (HRM) area. He earned his PhD in management from Murdoch University (Australia). He has published in the areas of organizational learning, hospital management, and cross cultural management. In addition to his eclectic interests in HRM, his current research interests include ethical businesses, ethical leadership, and the intersect between religious philosophies and HRM. Chris continues to collaborate with his ex-colleagues from Curtin University (in Australia) and the Australian National University. He has taught various HRM courses in Australia and Singapore when he was working at Murdoch University and the Australian National University. While in Perth, he also set up and ran a marketing and management consultancy that provided services to government departments and private businesses from 1999 to 2003. He was an honorary research fellow at the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2003. He is currently an honorary research fellow at the Australian Catholic University.
- Professor Das, whose research interests include development studies and political economy, has published several studies focusing on India, including “Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India” (Journal of Peasant Studies, 2007).
- Prof. Das Gupta’s research interests are in South Asian diaspora, race and racism, anti-racism, immigration and refugee issues, state policies, and women, work and families.
- Professor Drezner has a diverse range of interests in biogeography, which include desert environments, plant-climate interactions, disturbance, succession, tropical ecosystems and island biogeography theory, and urban ecosystems. She is currently working on a large project in the Tongan island group in the tropical Pacific, with well over 900 plant species.
- Professor Drummond’s research interests are urban geography, the social life of non-Western cities, gender and geography, urban society in Vietnam, the geography of urban Southeast Asia, Asian popular culture, and gender in developing societies. Editor (with Helle Rydstrom): Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam (Singapore University Press, 2004). Co-editor with Van Nguyen-Marshall and Danièle Bélanger, The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam (Springer, 2011). Prof. Drummond is currently working on a book about public space in Hanoi from the French colonial period to the present; a SSHRC-funded project on Socialist Cities in the 21st Century with Douglas Young (Urban Studies, York) comparing Hanoi, Berlin and Stockholm)
- Professor Dunlop studies diasporas and post-colonial literature, as well as human rights. She was the co-editor of the 2004 Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets, and has also written the drama The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby, describing a women’s journey from India to Canada. She has given keynotes and lectures at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki; University of New Mexico; and Stanford and Arizona State University in the USA.
- Professor Gururani has conducted extensive ethnographic and archival research in the land of Chipko, in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, and critically explored the cultural production and representation of nature, environmentalism, place, gender, and identity. Professor Gururani is launching a new project on Third World cities which will investigate the changing environmental and territorial politics in urban metropolis in the era of globalization. Her previous research was on the conflict among Hindus and Muslims in India and reflects her abiding interest in the South Asian politics of religion and identity.
- Professor Henders’ research interests are the international and domestic politics of ethnic and religious identities, multinational states, and special status regions; the politics of international human rights; post-Westphalian politics, including the cross-border roles of non-state actors and non-central / federal governments. Her geographic specialties are Eastern Asia and Western Europe. She has written Diversity and (A)symmetry: The Politics of Special Status Regions (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and is editor of and contributor to Democratization and Identity: Constituting Regimes and Ethnicity in East and South-East Asia (Lexington Books, 2004).
- Professor Holzinger’s research interests include leadership/ followership dynamics in international contexts. In collaboration with Randall B. Dunham from the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and student Thomas Medcalf, he published the 2006 article, “Leader and Follower Prototypes in an International Context: An Exploratory Study of Asia and South America,” in the Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. The paper won the Best Paper Award in the International Business Division.
- Prof. Johnson has held visiting appointments at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and at Aix-Marseilles III (France). As a consultant to multilateral development agencies and various governments he has advised on financial sector reform, land tenure reform, institutional strengthening and the rule of law, predominantly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Central Asia. A recent assignment took him to Afghanistan where he worked on the “Afghanistan Rule of Law Project”.
- Professor Kal teaches art and cultural history of Asia. Her research interests cover the roles of visual spectacles in forming and transforming cultures of colonialism, nationalism and neo-liberal globalism in 20th-century East Asia. She is working on a book titled “Aesthetic Constructions of Nationalism: Cultural Politics of Spectacle in Twentieth-Century Korea.”
- A volume of Prof. Keeney’s Selected Poems (Oberon Press) was published in 1996 with an introduction by the distinguished Russia poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her poetry has been translated into French (winning the Prix Jean Paris in 2003), Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese and Hindi. One of three Canadian writers sent to Mexico in 1995 on a cultural exchange program under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), she has also produced a series of conversations and poems on national and personal culture, entitled You Bring Me Wings, with the Mexican poet Ethel Krauze. Professor Keeney served as a consulting editor (1990-2000) on The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, published by Routledge.
- Among Professor Kelly’s research interests are Filipino migration and transnationalism; international, regional, rural-rural and rural-urban migration in/from Southeast Asia; and labour, industrialization and urbanization in Southeast Asia; as well as the politics of globalization and other representations of economic space. He is the author of Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000).
- Professor Kim’s research interests include modern Korean and East Asian history. She has just published To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Stanford, 2008). Linking economic and social historical research methods with special reference to the evolution of the industrial labour force, this book offers an account of the popular expansion of gender, labour, and political consciousnesses among working women in colonial Korea.
- The focus of Professor Landa’s research interest for over two decades has been the law-and-economic analysis of extralegal institutions for achieving social order, such as social norms embedded in ethnic trading networks and gift exchange. She has published extensively on trust, ethnicity, and identity of Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia, a topic which formed the central focus of her work on the economics of identity. She is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bioeconomics, an international scholarly journal that integrates economics with biology.
- As Coordinator of York’s Certificate Program in the Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language (Cert D-TEIL), Professor Martin has organized international teaching practicum experiences in Cuba, in cooperation with Enrique José Varona University of Higher Pedagogical Sciences in Havana. His own areas of specialization include the teaching and learning of English as a world language. As Coordinator of Glendon's Linguistics and Language Studies Program, he oversees Glendon's International B.A. in Linguistics. His interests in intercultural communication, language ecology, intercultural aspects of language learning, and language teacher development are currently being put to use in the SSHRC-funded project "Canada-Brazil Transnational Literacies", Canada's support network for Brazil's National Project for English, Globalization, and New Literacies.
- Dr. McKenna works with Dr. Julia Richardson in the area of internationally mobile skilled workers and self-initiated expatriates. He is also involved in a project on HRM and ethics and the global managerial and professional worker. He also has wider interests in cross-cultural management and international human resources management. He has contacts throughout Europe, Asia and South America as well as the Middle-East.
- Arun Mukherjee did her graduate work in English at the University of Saugar, India and came to Canada as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1971 to do a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. Her current teaching interests are South Asian and Minority Canadian literatures. She has edited and written the Introduction of Sharing Our Experience (Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women: 1993), an anthology of autobiographical writings by aboriginal women and women of colour. She is a member of York Stories Editorial Collective which edited York Stories: Women in Higher Education (TSAR: 2000). Her translation of Dalit writer Omprakash Valmiki's autobiography Joothan: A Dalit's Life (Samya: Kolkata & Columbia U Press: 2003) won the New India Foundation Prize for "the finest book published in India during 2002-2003." Her translation of Dalit writer Sharan Kumar Limbale's novel Hindu was published in 2010 (Samya Publications: Kolkata). She is currently working on a book on Dalit literature.
- Ananya Mukherjee-Reed is Professor of Political Science and Development Studies, with a specialization in South Asia. She is the Founding-Director of the International Secretariat of Human Development (ISHD) at York University. Under her leadership, ISHD has collaborated with leading international institutions such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva; United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Rome; United Nations Development Program (UNDP); and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. Ananya’s latest book, Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia is published by Routledge (London and New York, 2008). Her previous publications include Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities (Palgrave-Macmillan, UK 2003); Perspectives on India’s Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, (Macmillan, UK 2001); and a number of articles in international journals. She has received numerous research awards from organizations such as the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (including its Millennium Development Research Grant 2011), amongst others. One of her current research projects focuses on the development of democratic, sustainable forms of enterprise amongst marginalized women in India. In 2009, she was Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.
- Shobna Nijhawan teaches Hindi. Her research interests include Hindi and Urdu language as well as literature, the development of the Hindi public sphere (19th and early 20th centuries), Hindi and Urdu women’s journals; educational policies in contemporary South Asia; and theories of gender and nationalism. Her current research focuses on changing perceptions of disease and illness in Hindi fiction and Hindi medical periodicals.
- Hyun Ok Park has attended post-secondary institutions all around the world, including Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley. She was an Assistant Professor at New York University and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her most recent publication is a book entitled Two Dreams in
One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria
(Duke University Press, 2005). In her current research, she examines how the transnational
labour migration of Koreans across China, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia since the 1990s constitutes a privileged venue of the Korean nation and a democratic capitalist order in post-cold war East Asia and specifically an immanent link between them. Her new book project concerns the meaning of democracy, violence, humanism, and sovereignty in the neoliberal capitalist order.
- Dr. Fahim Quadir is Director of the graduate program in Development Studies. His current research focuses on aid effectiveness, emerging donors, migration and development, corporatization of the voluntary sector, civil society, governance, human development, micro-finance, and NGOs. He has published on these topics in several journals and books. He has also co-edited three books: Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: globalization, democracy, and civil society in Asia (2004); Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: democratic transitions and social movements in Asia (2004), and Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa (2001).
- Professor Rahn’s research interests are English- and French-language traditional song of Canada, analytic studies of Rumanian, sub-Saharan African, South Asian, and Chinese music; theoretical formulations of musical form, texture, scales, rhythm, metre, and medieval-Renaissance modality; history of music theory including Marchetto of Padua's Lucidarium (14th century) and John Curwen's tonic sol-fa method (19th century).
- Prof. Reisenleitner has taught in Austria, Finland, the United States and Hong Kong. His publications include an introduction to Cultural Studies, monographs and edited volumes on European culture with an emphasis on cross-cultural constructions of Central Europe and North America, and an edited volume on Urban Imaginaries in the Asia-Pacific. He is currently the vice-president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, a member of the editorial collective of the web journal spacesofidentity.net (housed at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies), and a research associate of Hong Kong's Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme. His recent research has focused on urban culture and theories of space and the environment.
- Robin Roth teaches world regional geography, and focuses on Southeast Asia in her research, which includes such topics as political ecology, environmental conservation, social-ecological landscapes, sustainable livelihoods, and gender and environment. She has written several articles focusing on Thailand.
- Ian Smith specializes in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. His current work focuses on contact-induced language change. His areas of language specialization include South Asian languages, Australian languages, English, and Romance languages.
- Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Tanguay-Renaud was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he taught jurisprudence. He has worked with the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and the Asian Network for Free Elections in Thailand, as well as with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and continues to consult for various nongovernmental organizations in Asia and Europe. He is Director York's Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Since 2008, he has also been co-convenor of Osgoode's international seminar series on "Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism," He has been a H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the National Law School University of India in Bangalore. He is currently involved in research projects focusing on criminal law theory, as well as emergencies, involving American, European, and Indian researchers.
- Professor Van Esterik’s interests include Theravada Buddhism, the adaptation of Southeast Asian refugees to life in North America, issues of development, and the New Age movement. Author (with B. Miller & P. Van Esterik): Cultural Anthropology (Canadian Edition, 2004).
- Professor Van Esterik currently is examining questions around food and globalization in Lao PDR, in collaboration with Professor Peter Vandergeest. Her past research and publications concerned infant feeding among urban poor in developing countries, Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia and North America, nutritional anthropology, gender and development and maternal and child health.
- Peter Vandergeest teaches and writes in the areas of political ecology, agro-food studies, and the cultural politics of environment and development. Current and recent research encompasses agrarian studies in Southeast Asia, the history of scientific forestry in Southeast Asia, privatizing environmental regulation in industrial aquaculture, and democratization in natural resource management. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. Chiangmai University (Thailand).
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
- Professor Wright’s research deals with many international areas including management and negotiations. She has a special interest in Asia and the Pacific Basin, and has worked with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She has held appointments at the National Institute for Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand; and
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Afghanistan
Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
Australia
Joseph Baker (School of Kinesiology & Health Science)
- Joe Baker is collaborating with faculty from Leeds Metropolitan University, England, and the Australian Institute of Sport on research on whether early sport specialization is required for sport expertise as an adult. Current investigations focus on comparing the early training of expert athletes in sports that have varying ages of peak performance. At present they are collecting data on rugby players in the UK, gymnasts in the UK, US, France, and Canada and skeleton racers in Australia.
- Jon Baturin is currently working on a series of collaborative photo-based and sculptural projects which deal with the fragility of the human species and subjective interpretations of both hope and loss. Prof. Baturin's research process is anchored in his collaborative work with international institutions as artist-in-residence. His international residencies have included the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), Tallinn Art University (Estonia), Athens School of Art (Greece) and Tasmania School of Art (Australia). He is a co-founder of Critical Media, an international not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote and develop challenging international cultural projects in diverse media. Large international museum projects have been presented in major venues in Budapest – Hungary, Lubjiana – Slovenia, Auckland - New Zealand, Hobart – Tasmania, and Sydney – Australia.
- Professor Belk’s specialty is marketing, and studying consumerism in a global context. His current externally-funded international research projects include a study of “Vanity versus Modesty among Covered Women of the Arab Gulf” and “Hospitality versus Privacy in the Arab Gulf,” both with Rana Sobh of Qatar University and both funded by the Qatar Foundation; “Baby Boomer Construction and Reconstruction of Gender Barriers in Japan” with Takeshi Matsui of Hitotsubashi University and Yuko Minowa of Long Island University, funded by a grant from the Yoshida Foundation; “Redemptive Materialism in Ghana” with Sammy Bonsu, funded by a SSHRC grant; and “Consumer Activists” with Timothy Devinney (Australian Graduate School of Management), Joachim Schwalback, Pat Auger, and Ann Gunnthorsdottir, funded by a grant from the Australia Research Council. Prof. Belk has done consulting for businesses in the USA and Japan. In 2010 he was Corona Chair Distinguished Visitor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management (Bogota, Colombia); in 2007-2009 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong; in 2006, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School (UK) and Visiting Professor at ESCP-EAP (European School of Management, Paris); in 2003 he was Guest Research Professor and Honorary Professor, Centrum för konsumentventskap (Center for Consumer Science), Göteborg University (Sweden); and in 2002 he was Williams Evans Fellow, Marketing Department, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).
- Professor Bradbury’s research interests include Feminist family history, Quebec and the British Empire, marriage and widowhood, and marriage and inheritance laws and colonization in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Cape (South Africa).
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
- Professor Buchanan publishes in the areas of globalization, international economic law, law and development, and political and social theory. She has co-authored the following publications with Sundhya Pahuja of the University of Melbourne (Australia): “Law, Nation, and (Imagined) International Communities” (Law, Text, Culture 8, 2004) and “Legal Imperialism: Empire’s Invisible Hand?” in The Empire’s New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (edited by Paul Passavant and Jodi Dean, Routledge, 2003).
- Christopher Chan teaches and researches in the human resource management (HRM) area. He earned his PhD in management from Murdoch University (Australia). He has published in the areas of organizational learning, hospital management, and cross cultural management. In addition to his eclectic interests in HRM, his current research interests include ethical businesses, ethical leadership, and the intersect between religious philosophies and HRM. Chris continues to collaborate with his ex-colleagues from Curtin University (in Australia) and the Australian National University. He has taught various HRM courses in Australia and Singapore when he was working at Murdoch University and the Australian National University. While in Perth, he also set up and ran a marketing and management consultancy that provided services to government departments and private businesses from 1999 to 2003. He was an honorary research fellow at the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2003. He is currently an honorary research fellow at the Australian Catholic University.
- Dr. Warren Crichlow teaches graduate courses in Cultural Studies; Globalization and Migration, Museums, Memory and Pedagogical Practice; and Urban Education, as well as undergraduate courses in Foundations of Education and Popular Culture. His doctorate in education is from the University of Rochester (New York), and he held a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Black Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). He has been a visiting scholar at University of California Los Angeles, Monash University (Australia), The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (Australia), and Pedagogische Hochschule Freiburg/University of Education (Germany). Professor Crichlow has published on topics related to race and education, arts and education, and film, and visual culture. He co-edited: Race Identity and Representation in Education (Routledge, vol. 1, 1993 and vol. 2, 2005), and Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, a special issue of Cultural Studies (1995). He has authored articles appearing in The Journal of Negro Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Urban Education, Discourse, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Afterimage and PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas Current research initiatives include a project on pedagogies of collective memory, identity and commemoration practice to be conducted in Kigali, Rwanda around the 20th anniversary of the genocide, 2012.
- Prof. de Costa came to York from Australia; his PhD thesis was a comparative study of treaty-making in Canada and reconciliation in Australia. He has published A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia (University of New South Wales Press, 2006).
- Daniel Drache has written widely on globalization and the limits of markets, trade blocs, employment and economic integration. Most recently, he has focused his attention on the WTO, poverty eradication and the Doha Development Round. His work has been recognized internationally and he has been a research associate at the European University Institute, Florence; a professor invité at CEPREMAP-CNRS, Paris; a visiting scholar at Macquarrie University, the University of Western Sydney and the AGSM, University of New South Wales, and a guest lecturer at UNAM, Mexico. His current research is on the political economy of dissent and the emergence of counterpublics post-Cancun.
- In 2003, Prof. Fawcett was invited to be the Visiting Scholar in Environmental Philosophy and
Education at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, where she worked with Dr. Patsy Hallen and students.
- Prof. Freedhoff’s work in the area of Intense Field Resonance Fluroescence has involved a study of the dynamic Stark effect of atoms in bichromatic and trichromatic driving fields, in collaboration with theoretical and experimental groups in Australia.
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Stephen Gill, a specialist in international relations and global political economy, has been a visiting professor at a number of universities including the University of Warwick; the University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara: New York University; the University of Tokyo and the Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama. He has also held the following fellowships and honours: Hallsworth Senior Research Fellow in Political Economy, University of Manchester; Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association, two Fulbright Fellowships, and the La Trobe Senior Fellow in Global Governance, Melbourne.
- Terry Goldie, whose research interests are gay studies, sexuality studies, and literary theory, is author of Fear and Temptation: the Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen’s, 1989). He is now conducting research for a book tentatively titled John Money: The Man Who Invented Gender (University of British Columbia Press, 2012).
- Filmmaker Philip Hoffman apprenticed in Europe with director Peter Greenaway. His experimental films have won many awards, including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and Gus Van Sant Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2002 for What These Ashes Wanted, a diaristic meditation on loss and grief. All Fall Down, Hoffman’s first feature length film, had its World Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009, and North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival also in 2009. Hoffman has been a Visiting Professor at University of Helsinki (Finland) and University of South Florida (USA). Professor Hoffman has given seminars and production workshops and presented screenings of his films on four continents, including international festivals in Holland and Australia, and at the Chicago Art Institute. Thirteen of his productions were shown at the 2003 IV Fest in Trivandrum, India, and the San Francisco Cinematheque presented Passing Through: A Philip Hoffman Retrospective in 2004. In September 2006, a two-program survey of Philip Hoffman's works launched a special six-month series featuring productions by Canadian artists, presented by Anthology Film Archives in New York.
- Prof. Kim has been a Visiting Research Fellow with British Telecom (UK) and a Visiting Research Engineer with BHP Labs (Australia).
- Prof. Krasnow founded Dance Source, a professional training school in San Francisco, USA, and was artistic director for its resident company Möbius. She performed with the Daniel Lewis Repertory Dance Company in New York and assisted with the staging of Jose Limón's classic works There Is A Time and A Choreographic Offering. She is a guest instructor at the Limón Institute in New York, and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. She has taught extensively in the United States, Australia and Japan.
- Prof. Lalonde (with Prof. Michaela Hynie) has collaborated with colleagues at Koç University and Galatsaray University (Turkey) and at the University of Queensland (Australia). Much of his current research focuses on bicultural identity.
- Professor Lanphier’s research interests include newcomer integration, refugee resettlement, and the comparative study of newcomer settlement in Canada, the US, Australia, and Finland.
- Professor Leblanc researches corporate governance practices and what the necessary conditions are for board and individual director effectiveness. Dr. Leblanc’s findings have been of interest to boards of directors, individual directors, shareholders, governments, regulators, the media, professional advisors to boards (law, accounting, consulting and director recruiting firms) and industry associations, both domestically and internationally. Prof. Leblanc has advised directors, executives and academics from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China and Mexico.
- Dr. Lexchin has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service and the World Health Organization. Dr. Lexchin is one of the principal investigators, along with Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Profs. Wiktorowicz and Lexchin are the editors of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Policy in a Global Era: International Perspectives (Nova Publishers, New York, 2004).
- Prof. Li has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (USA), a Greenwoods and Freehills Visiting Professor of International Taxation at the University of Sydney (Australia), and a visiting professor at Kenneth Wang Law School, Suzhou University (China). She has served as a legal consultant to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Professor Li’s research interests include taxation law and policy, electronic commerce, social security law, pension law, and Chinese law.
- Prof. Lotherington held earlier faculty appointments in Education and Psychology at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji (1989 – 1996); and in Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (1996-1999) where she was Associate, then Executive Director of the Language and Society Centre. Prof. Lotherington studies multilingual education, especially focused on the connection that multilingualism may share with technology.
- Prof. Madhok is a Visiting Professor of Organization Theory and Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam (Netherlands). He was formerly a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (USA). He has also been a Visiting Full Professor for two years at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as a visiting research scholar at a number of other institutions, such as EM Lyon (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Lille (France), Salamanca University (Spain), and Massey University (New Zealand). Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India. His research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm.
- Prof. Mawani was an International Tax Policy Research Fellow at San Jose State University (USA) in 2005 and ATAX Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales (Australia) in 2004. He has also held a visiting professorship at Meiji University Graduate School of Professional Accounting, Tokyo, Japan (2006, 2007).
- Prof. McBey has been a visiting professor at the Aberdeen Business School and the Graduate Programs in Human Resources and in Management at the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University (Scotland); the Australian National University; and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He was appointed to the Order of St. John by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
- Professor McNeil's primary research interest is the rights of Indigenous peoples, particularly in Canada, Australia, and the United States. He has written a book, Common Law Aboriginal Title, and numerous monographs and articles on this subject, some of which are collected in Emerging Justice?: Essays on Indigenous Rights in Canada and Australia. Aspects of his work include land rights, treaty rights, and self-government. He has acted as a consultant and expert witness on these matters, most recently in relation to a land claim by Mayan people in Belize. In 2006, he was awarded a Killam Fellowship to pursue research on the legality of European assertions of sovereignty in North America.
- Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Industrial Relations, Christine Oliver has been an external dissertation examiner for Erasmus University and Tilberg University (Netherlands), Monash University and the University of Western Sydney (Australia) and Oxford University (UK).
- Professor Peterson is the Vice-Chair of the Russia-Canada Corporate Governance Program, and his research interests include corporate governance in Russia. Additionally, he has acted as a visiting professor in Austria and Argentina.
- Professor Philipps' research examines tax law and fiscal policy through the lenses of critical legal and social theory. She has published papers comparing the experiences of Canada, the UK, Australia and South Africa with gender budgeting, and on the development of fiscal transparency codes and laws by countries around the world as well as international bodies such as the IMF and OECD. Her current research includes a project on tax expenditure budgeting in developing countries, with a focus on India.
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
- Professor Scott’s scholarly and teaching interests include comparative studies in religions and postcolonial cultures and religions and popular film. His most recent publications include ‘Religions and Postcolonial Literatures,’ in the Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures (2012) and essays on Christian missions and film and Christian missions and fiction in several scholarly journals. He is the editor of and contributor to ‘And the Birds Began to Sing’: Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures (1996), and co-editor of Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures (2001, with Paul Simpson-Housley), Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions (2005, with Gareth Griffiths), and Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous People: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad (2005, with Alvyn Austin). Professor Scott has been Visiting Fellow, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, Cambridge University (1998); Visiting Scholar, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia (1999); and Visiting Research Professor, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (2008-09). He is working on a study of transnational Christianity and globalized popular film.
- Ian Smith specializes in sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. His current work focuses on contact-induced language change. His areas of language specialization include South Asian languages, Australian languages, English, and Romance languages.
- Colleen Wagner’s first stage play, Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in 1989. Her play The Monument has been produced across North America, Australia and Germany, and was the first commercial production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. The Monument has been translated into French, German, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and French. She is also a recipient of a SSHRC research/creation grant 2009-12) which has taken her to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and the Sahara) to research and create a female-centred heroic myth from the actual stories of women and girls who have survived trauma in post-conflict zones in Africa. Colleen has also done research work for Home, a play about repatriation, that took her to Estonia and East Berlin, with an early draft of the play being performed in French at Festival d’été, Pont a Mousson, France.
- Prof. Walker has lectured in Wuhan and Xi’an (China), and has taught Conflict of Laws as a visitor at Monash (Australia) and Haifa (Israel), as a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University (USA), in the joint program with the National University of Singapore and, for the past seven years, as a Foreign Research Professor at the University of Carthage in Tunisia. She gave a series of lectures at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2005 and she co-chaired the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in 2006. Prof.Walker has served as an ICC arbitrator in various matters and she is active in the international arbitration community. She has served as an International Advisor to the American Law Institute in its project with Unidroit to develop Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure.
- Mary Wiktorowicz is one of the principal investigators, along with Joel Lexchin and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Professor Wiktorowicz is a co-author of “Keeping an eye on drugs...keeping patients safe: Active monitoring systems for drug safety and effectiveness in Canada and internationally,” commissioned by the Health Council of Canada (2010, with J. Lexchin, K. Moscou, A. Silversides and L. Eggertson).
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
Bangladesh
Samuel K. Bonsu (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Bonsu has taught at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (USA), and has taught Culture Dimensions of Business Research (Certificate) at Odense University, Denmark. He has been a Visiting Consultant for the International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Business Group Coordinator with GCG Investments Ltd, Accra, Ghana.
- Professor Esteve-Volart, whose research focuses on development economics, gender, and labour economics, has written on “Gender Discrimination and Growth: Theory and Evidence from India,” “Dowry in Rural Bangladesh: Participation as Insurance against Divorce,” and (with Tim Besley and Robin Burgess, London School of Economics) “Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth: India Case Study.”
- Dr. Fahim Quadir is Director of the graduate program in Development Studies. His current research focuses on aid effectiveness, emerging donors, migration and development, corporatization of the voluntary sector, civil society, governance, human development, micro-finance, and NGOs. He has published on these topics in several journals and books. He has also co-edited three books: Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: globalization, democracy, and civil society in Asia (2004); Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: democratic transitions and social movements in Asia (2004), and Crises of Governance in Asia and Africa (2001).
Cambodia
Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
China
Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Professor Beechy is Director of International Development (Academic) at the Schulich School of Business, with China as one of his primary responsibilities. He is the manager for Schulich of the dual-degree MBA program between Schulich and the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Previously, he developed most of Schulich's exchange programs in Hong Kong and Taiwan while he was Schulich's Associate Dean Academic. He has also represented Schulich in various MBA Fairs across China and Taiwan. In 2000-03, he was a curriculum consultant to KPMG for a World Bank-financed advising project to Beijing National Accounting Institute, Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China. In 2001, he was appointed as the College of Commerce's first international visiting professor at National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, where he taught Accounting for the International Manager in the inaugural class of NCCU’s English-language International MBA Program. He also was Executive Director of the York-CGA International Business Program.
- Professor Belk’s specialty is marketing, and studying consumerism in a global context. His current externally-funded international research projects include a study of “Vanity versus Modesty among Covered Women of the Arab Gulf” and “Hospitality versus Privacy in the Arab Gulf,” both with Rana Sobh of Qatar University and both funded by the Qatar Foundation; “Baby Boomer Construction and Reconstruction of Gender Barriers in Japan” with Takeshi Matsui of Hitotsubashi University and Yuko Minowa of Long Island University, funded by a grant from the Yoshida Foundation; “Redemptive Materialism in Ghana” with Sammy Bonsu, funded by a SSHRC grant; and “Consumer Activists” with Timothy Devinney (Australian Graduate School of Management), Joachim Schwalback, Pat Auger, and Ann Gunnthorsdottir, funded by a grant from the Australia Research Council. Prof. Belk has done consulting for businesses in the USA and Japan. In 2010 he was Corona Chair Distinguished Visitor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management (Bogota, Colombia); in 2007-2009 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong; in 2006, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School (UK) and Visiting Professor at ESCP-EAP (European School of Management, Paris); in 2003 he was Guest Research Professor and Honorary Professor, Centrum för konsumentventskap (Center for Consumer Science), Göteborg University (Sweden); and in 2002 he was Williams Evans Fellow, Marketing Department, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).
- Prof. Bell, a specialist in language and literacy, recently took a two-year leave to teach in Hong Kong, which allowed her to extend her research into the relationship between alphabetic and non-alphabetic literacies.
- Professor Bhanich Supapol has focused his research to study international corporations and technology transfer, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. He has worked as a research consultant for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), a United Nations organization. Prof. Supapol has taught at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, and SASIN, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and has been a visiting professor at Nankai University, Tienjin, People's Republic of China. He has written various articles on the subject of business in Thailand.
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
- Prof. Cheng is conducting a study of complex mineralization systems and quantitative prediction of mineral resource potential in Yunnan Province, China. Several of the projects in this research are supported by the Chinese National Science Foundation (NSF) for studying the complexity and singularity of mineralization systems of Sn, Cu, Pb/Zn/Ag and Au and for mapping mineral potentials in Yunnan Province, China with GIS technology.
- Prof. Connolly, Director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, is involved in three cross-cultural studies of adolescents’ romantic relationships and dating violence. They are investigating whether the patterns of romantic development and dating aggression seen in Canada (and North America) are also the patterns seen in other countries. They are also interested in social-contextual processes that may account for cross-national differences. One project examines dating violence incidence and predictors in Canada and Italy. A second project, in collaboration with Professor Kathy Li of Xi’an University, examines patterns of romantic development in Chinese high school and university students. A third project, supported by a Shastri Student Research Award to Amrit Dhariwal, will examine romantic development among late adolescents in India.
- Prof. Darke has held visiting professorships at Florida State University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Prof. deCarufel is currently running the Joint Kellogg Schulich Executive MBA Program. He has delivered executive education seminars in Hong Kong, Latvia, France, Kenya, Haiti and Sri Lanka.
- Professor Dimick, the associate dean of academics at Schulich, is an expert in human resource management. He has held a visiting professorship at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, and was a particiapant in CIDA-funded management education projects in the People's Republic of China.
- Prof. Etcheverry is involved in the development of the World Wind Energy Institute, a new training network involving renewable energy centres located in Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt and Russia. He is also focusing on the analysis of climate change policies in Mexico.
- Trevor Farrow has been a Visiting Professor at Niigata University, Faculty of Law in Japan, the Ames Fellow at Harvard Law School and a teaching fellow at Harvard College (for which he was awarded two Harvard University certificates of distinction in teaching). His research focuses on the administration of civil justice. He has been instrumental in developing several judicial training seminars to be administered to Bosnian judges in regards to their new procedural codes. He has also participated in other international initiatives in China, Japan and Trinidad.
- Prof. Feldman has written two books on the work of the Soviet director Dziga Vertov. In 1998, he co-organized a landmark Canadian cinema retrospective with the China Film Archive in Beijing.
- Professor Fogel is a specialist in Chinese-Japanese cross-cultural connections and a renowned translator of East Asian languages. He was awarded a Canada Research Chair and began his work at York in July 2005. He continues to research about modern China and the dynamic cultural, political and economic interactions between China and Japan over the last two centuries. He is the author of well-known books such as The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China (Stanford, 1995) and The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations (M.E. Sharpe, 1994).
- Bernie Frolic is the Director of the Asian Business & Management Program, which provides executive development training to Chinese professionals. He is the author of several books, monographs and articles on democracy, human rights and civil society, particularly on China and Russia. He is the author of China's Second Wave of Development (1995) and Mao's People (1980). He has written several articles and papers on modernization and urbanization in China and the USSR, state-led civil society, transitions to democracy after the cold war, non-comparative communism between China and the USSR, among a host of others.
- Professor Gewurtz’s research interests are in the field of Sino-Western cultural relations, with a special focus on the history of Canadian missionaries in China. She is currently working on a study of the women converts of the Canadian mission field in North Honan, China, from 1890 to 1948.
- Professor Giordan is coordinator of York’s Chinese language program.
- Professor Gomez’s areas of specialization are labour economics, demography and economics, and social capital and local economic development. He is the co-author of The Paradox of American Unionism (with Seymour Martin Lipset, Ivan Katchonovski and Noah Meltz, Cornell University Press, 2004), and co-editor of China and the Long March to Global Trade: The Accession of China to the WTO (with Alan Alexandroff and Sylvia Ostry, Routledge, 2002).
- Professor Goulding specializes in Chinese and Japanese philosophy, hermeneutic phenomenology and comparative religion. In 2005, he was co-chair of the international conference, “Ontology and Hermeneutics,” held at East China Normal University in Shanghai to celebrate the 70th birthday of Cheng Chung-ying, founder of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy and founder and honorary president of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. Prof. Goulding is the author of Visceral Manifestation and the East Asian Communicative Body (Hampton Press Inc., forthcoming).
- Professor Ho, whose research interests are macroeconomics and open-economy macroeconomics, has a number of publications focusing on the transforming Chinese economy.
- Professor Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, focuses his research on international business strategy and management. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as a member of the advisory board of the International Management Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. As dean of the Schulich School of Business, he has overseen the development of international degree programs at the master’s and bachelor’s levels, and the establishment of Schulich executive education centres in China and India.
- Professor Huang has been instrumental in establishing dual degrees between York University and Fudan University, China. He is the Ontario Scientific Director of MITACS, the only Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE) for the mathematical sciences, and works with members of the Mathematical Centre of the Chinese Ministry of Education. He was a member of the organizing and scientific committees for the 2008 China-Canada Quantitative Finance Problem Solving Workshop held at Shandong University.
- Professor Huang’s research areas are statistical models and machine learning for information retrieval, contextual information retrieval and Web personalization, biomedical text retrieval and mining, high accuracy retrieval from terabyte scale data sets, Chinese information retrieval and Web search and mining. He has served on the committees of many international conferences.
- Rongbing Huang’s research interests include location theory, combinatorial optimization, service management and online auctions. He teaches on quantitative methods, decision analysis, and e-commerce; and has experience with online insurance in China. Dr. Huang’s work has appeared in the Journal of the Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research and Computers & Operations Research.
- Lesley Jacobs leads the Canada team of researchers on a major collaborative research project with Japanese and Chinese law and society researchers who are comparing human rights and international trade disputes in Canada, China and Japan. The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and based at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of Britich Columbia. Author: Pursuing Equal Opportunities (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- Professor Judge’s research interests are Chinese women’s history and print culture. Author: The Precious Raft of History: China’s Woman Question and the Politics of Time at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Stanford University Press, 2008).
- Prof. Keil is co-investigator on a research project entitled “Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt.” The primary objective of the research is to broaden and deepen understanding of regional governance through an innovative comparative project. As Director of York’s City Institute, Prof. Keil has also organized joint conferences on urban issues with Fudan University, China, one held at Fudan, the other at York. Prof. Keil is co-editor of The Global Cities Reader (with N. Brenner, Routledge, 2006), and co-author of Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles (with G. Desfor, University of Arizona Press, Nature and Society Series, 2004).
- Prof. Lai holds a PhD in Accounting from Texas A&M University (USA). In 1997, she passed the Certified Public Accounting exam and placed 8th in the State of Montana. She has both teaching and research interests in financial accounting, international accounting and capital markets. She has participated in several doctoral consortia and symposia, including the 2002 Doctoral Internationalization Consortium on Accounting and the 2005 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Summer Symposium on Accounting Research.
- The focus of Professor Landa’s research interest for over two decades has been the law-and-economic analysis of extralegal institutions for achieving social order, such as social norms embedded in ethnic trading networks and gift exchange. She has published extensively on trust, ethnicity, and identity of Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia, a topic which formed the central focus of her work on the economics of identity. She is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bioeconomics, an international scholarly journal that integrates economics with biology.
- Professor Leblanc researches corporate governance practices and what the necessary conditions are for board and individual director effectiveness. Dr. Leblanc’s findings have been of interest to boards of directors, individual directors, shareholders, governments, regulators, the media, professional advisors to boards (law, accounting, consulting and director recruiting firms) and industry associations, both domestically and internationally. Prof. Leblanc has advised directors, executives and academics from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China and Mexico.
- Prof. Li has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (USA), a Greenwoods and Freehills Visiting Professor of International Taxation at the University of Sydney (Australia), and a visiting professor at Kenneth Wang Law School, Suzhou University (China). She has served as a legal consultant to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Professor Li’s research interests include taxation law and policy, electronic commerce, social security law, pension law, and Chinese law.
- Dr. Lee Li’s research interests include international marketing and small business management. He has published in Strategic Management Journal, International Business Review, Industrial Marketing Management, and Thunderbird International Review. Author: The Dynamics of Export Channels from the United Kingdom to the P.R. of China.
- Professor Li’s research interests are global political economy, long waves and stages of capitalist development, the political economy of China, and comparative economic systems. He has written several articles focusing on China.
- Professor Li’s research interests are empirical finance, labour economics and applied econometrics. Before coming to York, she was an economist at the Economic Reform Research Institute of China and a research specialist at McKinsey & Company in Beijing. She has collaborated with Xinlei Zhao of Kent State University, U.S.A., on the article, "Propensity Score Matching and Abnormal Performance after Seasoned Equity Offerings" (Journal of Empirical Finance, 2006).
- Professor Lo’s international research interests and writing focus on retail internationalization and consumer behaviour in Chinese cities, and current research projects focus on retail restructuring and consumer behavioural change in China, immigrant consumer preferences, and foreign banks and immigrant community development.
- Brenda Longfellow is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and film theorist. Her productions include the feature-length drama Gerda (1992), on the life and times of Gerda Munsinger; and A Balkan Journey/Fragments From the Other Side of War (1996). Her most recent film is the critically-acclaimed Tina in Mexico (2002), a feature documentary on the silent film star and avant-garde photographer Tina Modotti, which won Bronze at the Columbus Film Festival, and a Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival. As the recipient of a research/creation grant under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's new pilot program in the fine arts, Professor Longfellow is currently developing Weather Report, a feature-length documentary film and website exploring the politics and impacts of climate change in India, China and Canada.
- Bernard Luk is an authority on Hong Kong. He served as Vice-President (Academic) of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIED) for four years.
- Professor Lumsden, a medical anthropologist, has conducted research in China (Sichuan Province and Beijing), Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the United States; on psychosocial stress and coping, on resettler and refugee mental health, on 'traveling theory', on the Rockefeller Foundation and international health, and on the 'profession' of psychiatry in and among different societies. He has served as president of the Toronto Chongqing (Sister City) Association, and as an advisory committee member for the Confederation of Metro Toronto Chinese Canadian Organizations.
- Prof. Middleton is executive director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre and Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Schulich School of Business. His research includes international marketing. He has taught courses in international marketing at Rutgers School of Management (US), Moscow State University (Russia), Southwest Normal University (China), IDEA in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Chiangmai University and NIDA (Thailand). He has also taught courses in international strategy and entrepreneurship at Yonok College, Lampang (Thailand). Prior to his academic career he had worked in marketing for companies in the UK, US, Norway, Japan and China.
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- Professor Pan’s research deals with international marketing, with a special focus on China’s role within the global market.
- Professor Peng completed her PhD in Accounting at the Business School of Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Peng’s research interests are financial accounting, with special interests in international accounting standards, and capital market regulation. Her dissertation involved an empirical evaluation of the convergence of Chinese accounting standards with the International Financial Accounting Standards (IFAS).
- Prof. Qu is participating in a research project on “Creating and popularizing a global management accounting idea: the case of the Balanced Scorecard,” a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) funded project with David Cooper (University of Alberta, Canada) and Mahmoud Ezzamel (Cardiff University, UK). She has served as a reviewer for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2001& 2003). Professor Qu has also been invited at research seminars at Kyoto University and Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
- Professor Rahn’s research interests are English- and French-language traditional song of Canada, analytic studies of Rumanian, sub-Saharan African, South Asian, and Chinese music; theoretical formulations of musical form, texture, scales, rhythm, metre, and medieval-Renaissance modality; history of music theory including Marchetto of Padua's Lucidarium (14th century) and John Curwen's tonic sol-fa method (19th century).
- Prof. Reisenleitner has taught in Austria, Finland, the United States and Hong Kong. His publications include an introduction to Cultural Studies, monographs and edited volumes on European culture with an emphasis on cross-cultural constructions of Central Europe and North America, and an edited volume on Urban Imaginaries in the Asia-Pacific. He is currently the vice-president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, a member of the editorial collective of the web journal spacesofidentity.net (housed at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies), and a research associate of Hong Kong's Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme. His recent research has focused on urban culture and theories of space and the environment.
- Klaus Rupprecht, director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, was formerly consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto. Rupprecht has more than thirty years of experience as a German diplomat, including posts in Germany, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Prior to being appointed consul general in 2002, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and then director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a master’s degree in comparative law from the University of Iowa, and speaks six languages, including German, Mandarin, English and French.
- Prof. Shen focuses her research on the history of science in modern China.
- Professor Smithin’s current research focuses on money and alternative views on political economy and capitalism, alternative types of guidelines for monetary policy, and a new macroeconomic model of growth and inflation, the latter in collaboration with Professor H. Sonmez Atesoglu of Clarkson University (USA). He has also written on economics and politics in the Czech Republic. Prof. Smithin’s book, Controversies in Monetary Economics: Revised Edition (Edward Elgar, 2003), has been translated into Chinese by Yongming Lui (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press [SHUPE], 2004).
- Professor Tan’s research interests include firm strategy in China. He has acted as a visiting professor at a number of Chinese universities, and worked with Chinese government agencies. He will soon publish “When ‘iron fist,’ ‘visible hand,’ and ‘invisible hand’ meet: Firm-level effects of varying institutional environments in the Chinese economy,” forthcoming in Journal of Business Research.
- Colleen Wagner’s first stage play, Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in 1989. Her play The Monument has been produced across North America, Australia and Germany, and was the first commercial production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. The Monument has been translated into French, German, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and French. She is also a recipient of a SSHRC research/creation grant 2009-12) which has taken her to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and the Sahara) to research and create a female-centred heroic myth from the actual stories of women and girls who have survived trauma in post-conflict zones in Africa. Colleen has also done research work for Home, a play about repatriation, that took her to Estonia and East Berlin, with an early draft of the play being performed in French at Festival d’été, Pont a Mousson, France.
- Prof. Walker has lectured in Wuhan and Xi’an (China), and has taught Conflict of Laws as a visitor at Monash (Australia) and Haifa (Israel), as a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University (USA), in the joint program with the National University of Singapore and, for the past seven years, as a Foreign Research Professor at the University of Carthage in Tunisia. She gave a series of lectures at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2005 and she co-chaired the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in 2006. Prof.Walker has served as an ICC arbitrator in various matters and she is active in the international arbitration community. She has served as an International Advisor to the American Law Institute in its project with Unidroit to develop Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure.
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
- Prof. Wong is conducting a study of “The Development of the Social Work Profession and Curriculum in China.” Recently she has organized a practicum placement exchange between York University and Hong Kong Polytechnic.
- Professor Wong has published extensively on Chinese and Hong Kong visual culture and history. She is the author of Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua. She has published 4 books for Chinese readers funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
She served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1999 to 2000, and was the 2000 Lubalin Curatorial Fellow at the Cooper Union School of Art, where she curated an exhibit entitled “Chinese Graphic Design towards the International Sphere.” She has taught both traditional creative print and digital interactive media full-time since 1997, in North America and Hong Kong.
- Jianhong Wu established the Centre for Disease Modelling at York. One of the Centre’s projects is the Canada-China Thematic Program on Disease Modeling, 2007-09. The main Chinese partner is MCME (The Mathematical Centre of the Chinese Ministry of Education). Prof. Wu and colleagues at York’s Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics work closely with the Institute of Mathematics and Computation at the University of São Paulo – San Carlos. This collaboration includes the exchange of graduate students.
- Professor Xu teaches Chinese language. Among her Chinese publications is a small book on Confucius, and she contributed entries to an encyclopedia of modern Chinese literature. She has also contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book on Chinese literary societies in the Republican Era. For two summers, Professor Xu has organized a study-abroad course for York students at Fudan University in Shanghai.
- Suzie S.F. Young is a film scholar and cultural theorist specializing in Asian cinema, the horror genre and feminism and popular culture. Originally from Hong Kong, she has lectured on a variety of cultural topics including the New Wave Cinemas of the three Chinas. Dr. Young has taught at the University of California, San Diego.
- Qiang Zha is a research fellow with the Institute for Higher Education Studies at Fudan University (Shanghai) and with the Developmental Studies Center of the Anhui Provincial Government. He is co-investigator on a study of “China’s Move to Mass Higher Education: Implications for Democratization and Global Cultural Dialogue.“ This project looks at China’s move to mass higher education in terms of the policy making process and the empirical experience. It also considers the implications for the growth of civil society and democracy through a survey of students and focus group meetings with faculty and students at nine public and three private universities.
East Timor
Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Professor Shugarman’s research interests run towards the history of political thought and theory, in Canada and internationally. He is the principal investigator of the Ethics of International Intervention (EII) Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This project has two components: 1) a comparative study of cases of international military intervention and non-intervention in situations of widespread disruption, including Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo and North Korea, and 2) an overarching analysis of the ethical issues involved in decisions to intervene on “humanitarian” grounds. The EII team members are coordinating their research with empirical studies being undertaken by members of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance located at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
Fiji
Heather Lotherington (Education)
- Prof. Lotherington held earlier faculty appointments in Education and Psychology at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji (1989 – 1996); and in Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (1996-1999) where she was Associate, then Executive Director of the Language and Society Centre. Prof. Lotherington studies multilingual education, especially focused on the connection that multilingualism may share with technology.
India
Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Prof. Bunch has worked with the University of Madras, India, on exploring an adaptive ecosystem approach to managing the urban environment with the aim of improving the health of city dwellers in Chennai, India. He is now involved in a project that will adapt an outcome mapping approach to evaluate achievements and consolidate learning from the earlier research, and implement the outcome mapping evaluation approach in an inner city slum area of Chennai, and disseminate lessons and findings from the evaluation study to institutional governmental and non-governmental actors of Chennai, as well as the international scientific community.
- Prof. Connolly, Director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, is involved in three cross-cultural studies of adolescents’ romantic relationships and dating violence. They are investigating whether the patterns of romantic development and dating aggression seen in Canada (and North America) are also the patterns seen in other countries. They are also interested in social-contextual processes that may account for cross-national differences. One project examines dating violence incidence and predictors in Canada and Italy. A second project, in collaboration with Professor Kathy Li of Xi’an University, examines patterns of romantic development in Chinese high school and university students. A third project, supported by a Shastri Student Research Award to Amrit Dhariwal, will examine romantic development among late adolescents in India.
- Professor Das, whose research interests include development studies and political economy, has published several studies focusing on India, including “Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India” (Journal of Peasant Studies, 2007).
- Prof. Desai Trilokekar has extensive professional experience in international and intercultural education in Canada, India and the USA. Among her research interests are internationalization of higher education; student experiential learning through international study and work opportunities; diversity and education. She has been closely involved in the initiative to establish the Ontario-Maharashtra-Goa exchange program.
- Vice-President Academic and Provost Sheila Embleton has been very active internationally, and in 2005 she received an award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) for leadership in internationalization. Her particular academic areas of research are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical linguistics, onomastics, and women and language. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. In 2007, while visiting India as part of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s delegation, Dr. Embleton signed an MOU with the University of Pune for a new Ontario-Maharashtra-Goa student exchange agreement. Dr. Embleton is President-elect of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
- Professor Esteve-Volart, whose research focuses on development economics, gender, and labour economics, has written on “Gender Discrimination and Growth: Theory and Evidence from India,” “Dowry in Rural Bangladesh: Participation as Insurance against Divorce,” and (with Tim Besley and Robin Burgess, London School of Economics) “Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth: India Case Study.”
- Professor Fisher has served as consultant and teacher to the Jamia Millia Mass Communications Project in New Delhi, India, and the Film Sound and Video program at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore.
- Professor Gibbons publishes and teaches in the areas of the sociology of culture, women, gender, and family, with particular attention paid to South Africa, India, and Canada. Her current research interests include women's culture and imprisonment, and voices in culture.
- Professor Gururani has conducted extensive ethnographic and archival research in the land of Chipko, in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, India, and critically explored the cultural production and representation of nature, environmentalism, place, gender, and identity. Professor Gururani is launching a new project on Third World cities which will investigate the changing environmental and territorial politics in urban metropolis in the era of globalization. Her previous research was on the conflict among Hindus and Muslims in India and reflects her abiding interest in the South Asian politics of religion and identity.
- Professor Handy’s research interests are focused on environmental economics and the nonprofit sector, especially in relation to work within India and Europe.
- Professor Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, focuses his research on international business strategy and management. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as a member of the advisory board of the International Management Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. As dean of the Schulich School of Business, he has overseen the development of international degree programs at the master’s and bachelor’s levels, and the establishment of Schulich executive education centres in China and India.
- Prof. Kazimi is a documentary filmmaker, and was the cinematographer for the 1991 A Song for Tibet. His work has been honoured with three retrospectives - Images Festival, ('98), Pacific Film Archives/Berkeley Art Museum ('06) and the Mumbai International Film Festival ('08). In 2008 Prof. Kazimi was a juror for the prestigious Mumbai International Film Festival. Born and raised in India, Kazimi graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University with a B.Sc. in 1982.
- Brenda Longfellow is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and film theorist. Her productions include the feature-length drama Gerda (1992), on the life and times of Gerda Munsinger; and A Balkan Journey/Fragments From the Other Side of War (1996). Her most recent film is the critically-acclaimed Tina in Mexico (2002), a feature documentary on the silent film star and avant-garde photographer Tina Modotti, which won Bronze at the Columbus Film Festival, and a Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival. As the recipient of a research/creation grant under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's new pilot program in the fine arts, Professor Longfellow is currently developing Weather Report, a feature-length documentary film and website exploring the politics and impacts of climate change in India, China and Canada.
- Professor Maitra’s research interests are development economics, gender development, health economics and applied econometrics. She has written on the subject of dowries in India, and on the Indian middle class.
- Arun Mukherjee did her graduate work in English at the University of Saugar, India and came to Canada as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1971 to do a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. Her current teaching interests are South Asian and Minority Canadian literatures. She has edited and written the Introduction of Sharing Our Experience (Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women: 1993), an anthology of autobiographical writings by aboriginal women and women of colour. She is a member of York Stories Editorial Collective which edited York Stories: Women in Higher Education (TSAR: 2000). Her translation of Dalit writer Omprakash Valmiki's autobiography Joothan: A Dalit's Life (Samya: Kolkata & Columbia U Press: 2003) won the New India Foundation Prize for "the finest book published in India during 2002-2003." Her translation of Dalit writer Sharan Kumar Limbale's novel Hindu was published in 2010 (Samya Publications: Kolkata). She is currently working on a book on Dalit literature.
- Ananya Mukherjee-Reed is Professor of Political Science and Development Studies, with a specialization in South Asia. She is the Founding-Director of the International Secretariat of Human Development (ISHD) at York University. Under her leadership, ISHD has collaborated with leading international institutions such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva; United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Rome; United Nations Development Program (UNDP); and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva. Ananya’s latest book, Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia is published by Routledge (London and New York, 2008). Her previous publications include Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities (Palgrave-Macmillan, UK 2003); Perspectives on India’s Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, (Macmillan, UK 2001); and a number of articles in international journals. She has received numerous research awards from organizations such as the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (including its Millennium Development Research Grant 2011), amongst others. One of her current research projects focuses on the development of democratic, sustainable forms of enterprise amongst marginalized women in India. In 2009, she was Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.
- Prof. Nirupama holds a DrEng in Water Resources Engineering from Kyoto University (Japan), a master’s in Hydrology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) and an MSc in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India). She has also spent a year at the University of Newcastle (UK). She has co-authored several articles on the tsunami of December 2004 in the Indian Ocean.
- Angela Norwood’s current research interests include examining the role of design in Ladakh, India through social, cultural and cognitive aspects of wayfinding and signage systems. She is also interested in analyzing structural devices in advertising. A former professional designer in Chicago, IL and Raleigh, NC (USA), she has over 15 years experience in practice. Her professional work has been recognized by several organizations and publications including the Type Directors Club, Graphis and Communication Arts Magazine. Her work is also included in the American Institute of Graphic Arts National Design Archive.
- Professor Orr, whose discipline is philosophy, has a special research interest in the application of meditation to anti-oppressive pedagogic praxis. She teaches a course called Embodied Understanding in which she brings together Eastern and Western theory and praxis to challenge the dominant Western understanding of ‘understanding’ as a cognitive process. In addition to the study of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, central to the course is the study of such texts as Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamikakkarika in conjunction with the practice of yoga asanas and meditation.
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- York’s Dean of Graduate Studies, Douglas Peers, is a historian of India, and an expert on British colonial rule there. He is co-editor of a soon-to-be-completed book on India and the British Empire, part of the Oxford University Press series on the British Empire.
- Prof. Przychodzen is co-investigator on a research project funded by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, entitled “Dialogues et expériences multiculturels en littérature indienne. Approches comparatives avec la littérature québécoise.” He has also collaborated on “Figures et mythes littéraires des Amériques. Dictionnaire,” with the Universidade federal de Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
- Professor Reed has a wide range of research interests in the field of business and society, including corporate governance, community economic development, business ethics and development ethics. Editor (with Sanjoy Mukherjee): Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development (2003). He has taught at the Budapest University of Economics and was the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at the Management Centre for Human Values at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta.
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
- Dr. Trichy Sankaran has had a prolific international performing career, appearing as a featured musician at major music festivals and cultural events in Europe, Australia, North America and Asia. He has composed a dynamic body of work that bridges the musical traditions of both India and the West. Collaborations include performances with New Music, jazz, Western Classical, world fusion, and internationally-recognized Carnatic and Hindustani musicians. As an Indian music scholar he has contributed to many learned societies across the globe and has authored several textbooks.
- Prof. Siu is an Associate Vice-President Research at York University. His group uses mass spectrometry to perform research in the bioanalytical and biophysical areas. In their research in the area of proteomics and cancer biomarker discovery and quantification, they collaborate with Professor Ranju Ralhan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (India).
- Sharada Srinivasan teaches Development Studies. Her research is focused on two broad themes: gender, culture and violence; and young people and development. She is currently working on daughter elimination and children's experience of gender discrimination and gender violence. She has written on dowry, domestic violence and daughter elimination in India and has published in World Development, Economic and Political Weekly and Journal of Development Studies.
- Allan Stauffer (Physics) collaborates with Rajesh Srivastava and his students of the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee) on atomic and molecular physics. Professor Stauffer has also collaborated with Prof. R. P. McEachran at the Australian National University, and he has had a long-time collaboration with Professor C.A.N. Conde and Dr. Teixeira Dias and their group at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Prof. Stauffer also publishes joint experimental theoretical papers with experimental groups in Serbia, Germany, Australia and the US.
- Peter Vandergeest teaches and writes in the areas of political ecology, agro-food studies, and the cultural politics of environment and development. Current and recent research encompasses agrarian studies in Southeast Asia, the history of scientific forestry in Southeast Asia, privatizing environmental regulation in industrial aquaculture, and democratization in natural resource management. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. Chiangmai University (Thailand).
- Professor Whitworth’s research is focused on international gender relations, feminist critiques, and the United Nations and peacekeeping. She is author of Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004), and co-editor of The International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), working with Scottish and Indian co-editors.
Indonesia
Julia Richardson (School of Administrative Studies)
- Dr. Richardson was awarded her PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand). She also has extensive professional experience in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Singapore. With a specific interest in the international dimensions of business, her recent work focuses on internationally-mobile professionals. This interest also relates to a broader interest in IHRM and career development across international boundaries. Julia's research also draws on the concept of the 'boundaryless career' and examines the extent to which contemporary careers might be individually managed while at the same time taking into account the influence of other stakeholders such as organizations, managers, peers and family members.
- Prof. Russon has worked for the last 23 years on studying orangutans reintroduced into their natural environment in Borneo, after being orphaned and held captive, and disseminates the results of her research on their imitative abilities, cultural transmission, and complex intelligence. She has published numerous scholarly publications, is the co-editor of The Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence (2004, coedited with David Begun) and Reaching into Thought; The Minds of the Great Apes (1996, co-edited with Kim Bard and Sue Parker), and author of Orangutans, Wizards of the Rainforest (2000). She is also an Associate Editor for the journal Behaviour, Executive Director of the Borneo Orangutan Society Canada, member of the Board of Directors of the Orangutan Conservancy (USA), and organizing secretary of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS).
- Professor Schrauwers has conducted anthropological research in Indonesia, and has written extensively on the To Pamona of Central Sulawesi, including a book (2000) on colonial reformation in the highlands between 1892 and 1995. His interests include kinship, ethnic group formation, colonialism, and the role of religion in the development of civil society.
- Peter Vandergeest teaches and writes in the areas of political ecology, agro-food studies, and the cultural politics of environment and development. Current and recent research encompasses agrarian studies in Southeast Asia, the history of scientific forestry in Southeast Asia, privatizing environmental regulation in industrial aquaculture, and democratization in natural resource management. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. Chiangmai University (Thailand).
Japan
Ellen Bialystok (Psychology)
- Ellen Bialystok is a Distinguished Research Professor whose specialization is bilingualism. She has co-authored articles with many colleagues around the world, including A. Blaye (Universite de Provence, France); Z. Wodniecka (Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland); D.W. Green (University College London, UK); X. Feng (Nanjing University, China) and C. McBride-Chang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China). She has taught in various international institutions and her work has received media attention around the world.
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
- David Cabianca has taught at the University of Michigan, where he received the Donna M. Salzer Award for excellence in teaching, and was a Visiting Faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts Program in Graphic Design in 2010. Prior to joining York University, he was a designer for The New York Times Magazine, Weiden Kennedy Japan, Ogilvy Mather’s Brand Integration Group NY, and Bloomingdales. His typeface, Cardea, scheduled for public release by the Émigré Font Foundry based in Sacramento, California (USA), has already received awards of recognition by the Tokyo Type Directors Club and Coupe Magazine. He is co-organizer along with Kenneth FitzGerald and Jiwon Lee of a forthcoming American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Educators Conference, “Blunt: Explicit and Graphic Design Criticism Now” to be held at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA in June 2013. During the 2011-12 academic year, he was on sabbatical leave and completing an MA in Design Writing Criticism at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
- Before joining York in 2004, Professor Chan, whose research area is algebraic combinatorics, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Information Sciences in Tohoku University (Japan) and Bateman Research Instructor in the Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology (USA).
- Prof. Etkin has participated in three international hazard projects and was one of only two non-Americans to assist with their 2nd national assessment of natural hazards. He has been principal investigator for a NATO short-term project on natural hazards and disasters and the Canadian Assessment of Natural Hazards Project that resulted in the book, An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada, which he edited. The summary report he wrote of this latter project has been widely distributed within Canada and was used by PSEPC and Foreign Affairs as the official Canadian contribution to the ISDR Kobe disaster conference held this past year.
- Trevor Farrow has been a Visiting Professor at Niigata University, Faculty of Law in Japan, the Ames Fellow at Harvard Law School and a teaching fellow at Harvard College (for which he was awarded two Harvard University certificates of distinction in teaching). His research focuses on the administration of civil justice. He has been instrumental in developing several judicial training seminars to be administered to Bosnian judges in regards to their new procedural codes. He has also participated in other international initiatives in China, Japan and Trinidad.
- Professor Fogel is a specialist in Chinese-Japanese cross-cultural connections and a renowned translator of East Asian languages. He was awarded a Canada Research Chair and began his work at York in July 2005. He continues to research about modern China and the dynamic cultural, political and economic interactions between China and Japan over the last two centuries. He is the author of well-known books such as The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China (Stanford, 1995) and The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations (M.E. Sharpe, 1994).
- Stephen Gill, a specialist in international relations and global political economy, has been a visiting professor at a number of universities including the University of Warwick; the University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara: New York University; the University of Tokyo and the Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama. He has also held the following fellowships and honours: Hallsworth Senior Research Fellow in Political Economy, University of Manchester; Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association, two Fulbright Fellowships, and the La Trobe Senior Fellow in Global Governance, Melbourne.
- Professor Goossen’s research interests are traditional or contemporary Japan; Western culture and the Oriental other; Asian culture and the Occidental other; and comparative examinations of cultural constructs of selfhood, society, nature and the sacred in Western and non-Western societies. He is the editor of the Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford University Press, 1997).
- Professor Goulding specializes in Chinese and Japanese philosophy, hermeneutic phenomenology and comparative religion. In 2005, he was co-chair of the international conference, “Ontology and Hermeneutics,” held at East China Normal University in Shanghai to celebrate the 70th birthday of Cheng Chung-ying, founder of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy and founder and honorary president of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. Prof. Goulding is the author of Visceral Manifestation and the East Asian Communicative Body (Hampton Press Inc., forthcoming).
- Professor Hayashi specializes in Japanese cinema and media studies. Current research projects includes a study of Japanese cinema and empire, a critical history of Japanese Pink Cinema, and a web-based archival documentary about the uses of new media by new social movements. She has worked in documentary film and TV production and as a programmer and translator for Japanese and Asian film festivals.
- Lesley Jacobs leads the Canada team of researchers on a major collaborative research project with Japanese and Chinese law and society researchers who are comparing human rights and international trade disputes in Canada, China and Japan. The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and based at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of Britich Columbia. Author: Pursuing Equal Opportunities (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Professor Kipping is currently finishing a book on The Consultancy Business in Historical and Comparative Perspective (which will be published by Oxford University Press). It covers the development of management consulting as a business activity in the major industrialized regions (Europe, North America and Japan) from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. He is also looking at the role of consulting firms in the introduction of the multidivisional form of organization in European banks. He has held appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). Prof. Kipping has also held visiting professorships at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, and Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) (France); Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, and Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan); and Università Bocconi, Institute for Economic History, Milan, Italy.
- Prof. Krasnow founded Dance Source, a professional training school in San Francisco, USA, and was artistic director for its resident company Möbius. She performed with the Daniel Lewis Repertory Dance Company in New York and assisted with the staging of Jose Limón's classic works There Is A Time and A Choreographic Offering. She is a guest instructor at the Limón Institute in New York, and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. She has taught extensively in the United States, Australia and Japan.
- Prof. Krylov and his York colleagues have collaborated with chemists at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Germany) to demonstrate how a newly developed capillary electrophoresis method can be used to screen potential enzyme inhibitors. Termed transverse diffusion of laminar flow profiles (TDLFP), it represents the first effective method for mixing together different reactants within a capillary tube.
- Prof. MacKenzie spent his sabbatical in 2002-03 at the University of Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction (Finland), where he taught a course on Research in Advanced User Interfaces: Models, Methods, Measures. With Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii of the University of Tokyo, he is the co-author of Text Entry Systems : Mobility, Accessibility, Universality (Elsevier, 2007).
- Professor Marchessault holds a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization. One key area that Dr. Marchessault examines is the role of artists in the growth of large-scale centres that combine new media technologies in the areas of art, science and education, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Hexagram in Montreal and the European Media Lab in Dublin. In addition to her previous research on the digital cultures of North America and Europe, Dr. Marchessault extends her work to study the digital arts in a variety of urban centres such as Mexico City, Senegal and Tokyo to understand new spatial transformations and cultural environments created by global networks. Prof. Marchessault is also a co-investigator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to study the Culture of Cities in Toronto, Berlin, Montreal and Dublin.
- Atsuko Matsuoka is exploring the application of the strengths-based critical social work approach. A part of this work was supported by funding from Japan when this approach was applied for social work practice education. The results were published in 2007 as a book, Kuritical social work to datsukoutikubunseki: Ensyu keisiki ni yoru naiseisikouno manabi (Critical Social Work and Analysing Practice through Deconstruction: Experiential Learning). Prof. Matsuoka is co-investigator on another project, “Gender and Reconstruction in Eritrea,” which examines gender relations in the new state, Eritrea, that gained independence from Ethiopia after three decades of war.
- Prof. Mawani was an International Tax Policy Research Fellow at San Jose State University (USA) in 2005 and ATAX Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales (Australia) in 2004. He has also held a visiting professorship at Meiji University Graduate School of Professional Accounting, Tokyo, Japan (2006, 2007).
- Professor Morgan, Associate Professor, English Department, Glendon College, is the ESL Director at Glendon, and involved in the Diploma for Teaching English as an International Language (D-TEIL) at Glendon. He has led groups of students to Cuba, and is a part of a 3 year, SSHRC-funded partnership developmental grant entitled “Brazil/Canada Knowledge Exchange: Developing Transnational Literacy”. He was also an invited speaker at the University of Sao Paulo in September 2011.
- Prof. Nirupama holds a DrEng in Water Resources Engineering from Kyoto University (Japan), a master’s in Hydrology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) and an MSc in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India). She has also spent a year at the University of Newcastle (UK). She has co-authored several articles on the tsunami of December 2004 in the Indian Ocean.
- Professor Oikawa is currently researching Japanese Canadians’ relationship to colonialism, the historical construction of relational racial formations in Canada, and coalition building between racialized communities in Canada. She also conducts research on the Internment of Japanese Canadians. Her book manuscript, Cartographies of Violence, is under review at the University of Toronto Press.
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- Dr. Richardson was awarded her PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand). She also has extensive professional experience in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Singapore. With a specific interest in the international dimensions of business, her recent work focuses on internationally-mobile professionals. This interest also relates to a broader interest in IHRM and career development across international boundaries. Julia's research also draws on the concept of the 'boundaryless career' and examines the extent to which contemporary careers might be individually managed while at the same time taking into account the influence of other stakeholders such as organizations, managers, peers and family members.
- Casey Sokol, pianist and musical explorer, has toured extensively as a soloist and ensemble player in Europe and North America. Performance highlights include the Pro Musica Nova Festival, Bremen, and O Kanada Festival, Berlin, Germany; Avignon Festival and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival; and many other notable venues in Europe, the USA and Japan. His creative collaborations include the conception and production of Cagewake, a music-circus with 150 performers marking the passing of composer John Cage, and the adaptation of the medieval mystery play, The Clown of God, with New York director André Serban.
- Professor Wakabayashi’s works are based on early-modern Japan and modern Japanese thought. He is the editor of Modern Japanese Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
- Among Prof. Westney’s areas of expertise are Japanese business and social change, the internationalization of R&D, and cross-border organizational learning. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo and Hitotsubashi University Institute of Business Research (Japan). She was on the faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management for 25 years before she returned to her native Canada to teach at Schulich.
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
- Professor Wright’s research deals with many international areas including management and negotiations. She has a special interest in Asia and the Pacific Basin, and has worked with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She has held appointments at the National Institute for Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand; and
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
- Professor Zemans has been a Butterworth’s Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, University of London (UK), and a visitor at Kobe University Law Department (Japan) and the University of California at Los Angeles (USA).
- Prof. Zemans is the author of Comparing Cultural Policy: A Study of Japan and the United States (AltaMira/Sage, 1999). She is currently working as part of an international team of researchers on an international comparative examination of cultural diplomacy.
Korea
Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Laam Hae has done work on community renewal projects in Korea focusing on cultural regeneration; these were initiated by Citizen’s Solidarity for a Sustainable City (an NGO) and by the Seoul Development Institute. Her research is in the area of legal and cultural impacts on the uses of urban space.
- Professor Hyun conducts research on Korean women writers and translation: translation as a form of cultural interaction and comparative literature and culture. Professor Hyun is the author of Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period, which relates the work of Korean women writers and translators to the rise of nationalism during the Japanese colonial period. The Korean translation of her book has been published by Ewha Womans University.
- Professor Jeon teaches Korean. Her research and teaching interests focus on heritage language maintenance, biliteracy, second language development, and curriculum and materials design for Korean learners.
- Professor Kal teaches art and cultural history of Asia. Her research interests cover the roles of visual spectacles in forming and transforming cultures of colonialism, nationalism and neo-liberal globalism in 20th-century East Asia. She is working on a book titled “Aesthetic Constructions of Nationalism: Cultural Politics of Spectacle in Twentieth-Century Korea.”
- Professor Kim’s research interests include modern Korean and East Asian history. She has just published To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Stanford, 2008). Linking economic and social historical research methods with special reference to the evolution of the industrial labour force, this book offers an account of the popular expansion of gender, labour, and political consciousnesses among working women in colonial Korea.
- Tom Klassen was a visiting professor in the Department of Public Administration at Yonsei University during 2006-07, conducting research for a project entitled “Raising the Age of Retirement: The Politics of Reforming Public and Private Pensions in Canada, Germany and South Korea, 1995-2005.”
- Prof. Lynch has primary school teaching experience in South Korea and England, and was a course director at Michigan State University. She has participated in early/family literacy research across Canada and in the U.S.
- Hyun Ok Park has attended post-secondary institutions all around the world, including Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea; the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the University of California, Berkeley. She was an Assistant Professor at New York University and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her most recent publication is a book entitled Two Dreams in
One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria
(Duke University Press, 2005). In her current research, she examines how the transnational
labour migration of Koreans across China, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia since the 1990s constitutes a privileged venue of the Korean nation and a democratic capitalist order in post-cold war East Asia and specifically an immanent link between them. Her new book project concerns the meaning of democracy, violence, humanism, and sovereignty in the neoliberal capitalist order.
- Professor Shepherd is Principal Investigator for the Canada-France Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII) on NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. WINDII acquired data from 1991 to 2003 and analysis of winds in the upper atmosphere is continuing. These results demonstrated the influence of winds on atomic oxygen concentration in the upper atmosphere and revolutionized the understanding of the dynamics of this region. He led an NSERC-supported study of the dynamics of the Arctic region in collaboration with U.S. and Korean scientists and has worked with researchers in Japan and India. He is currently involved with the development of a new optical method for studying the atmosphere, Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy.
- Professor Shugarman’s research interests run towards the history of political thought and theory, in Canada and internationally. He is the principal investigator of the Ethics of International Intervention (EII) Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This project has two components: 1) a comparative study of cases of international military intervention and non-intervention in situations of widespread disruption, including Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo and North Korea, and 2) an overarching analysis of the ethical issues involved in decisions to intervene on “humanitarian” grounds. The EII team members are coordinating their research with empirical studies being undertaken by members of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance located at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
Laos
Robert MacDonald (Environmental Studies)
- Prof. MacDonald’s current research focuses on bioregional approaches to planning and development in the Canadian and East African contexts. He is involved in a multi-year linkage between the York Faculty of Environmental Studies and various East African universities, government and NGO agencies in the field of environment, energy and development. He is also exploring a possible link with training centres in Laos focused on environmental planning and management.
- Professor Van Esterik currently is examining questions around food and globalization in Lao PDR, in collaboration with Professor Peter Vandergeest. Her past research and publications concerned infant feeding among urban poor in developing countries, Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia and North America, nutritional anthropology, gender and development and maternal and child health.
Malaysia
Peter Vandergeest (Sociology)
- Peter Vandergeest teaches and writes in the areas of political ecology, agro-food studies, and the cultural politics of environment and development. Current and recent research encompasses agrarian studies in Southeast Asia, the history of scientific forestry in Southeast Asia, privatizing environmental regulation in industrial aquaculture, and democratization in natural resource management. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. Chiangmai University (Thailand).
Mongolia
Dawn Rose Ann Bazely (Biology)
- Professor Bazely, Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) is part of an interdisciplinary team which researches the effects that oil and gas activity have on peoples in Norway, Canada and Russia. This work is entwined with a second research interest in studying invasive species into ecosystems, as increased traffic following arctic oil sources leads to increased species invasion. She co-authored the book, Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants (2003). One of her current research projects focuses on fungal endophytes of grasses in Sweden and Scotland. In 2005, Prof. Bazely led a group of students from York to work on a project with the National University of Mongolia on water resources.
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
Nepal
Benjamin Richardson (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Prior to joining Osgoode's faculty, Prof. Richardson lectured at the law schools of the Universities of Manchester (UK) and Auckland (New Zealand). Passionate about environmental law, he also worked for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in Kenya and Nepal. Presently, he is the co-chair of the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. His current major research is a book project on Socially Responsible Investment Law.
New Zealand
Michael Barutciski (Multidisciplinary Studies)
- Professor Barutciski directed the diplomacy program at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He also was a member of Oxford University's department of international development. Professor Barutciski has carried out research in conflict zones and refugee camps in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also worked for the United Nations, as well as authored reports for the British government and the South African parliament.
- Professor Belk’s specialty is marketing, and studying consumerism in a global context. His current externally-funded international research projects include a study of “Vanity versus Modesty among Covered Women of the Arab Gulf” and “Hospitality versus Privacy in the Arab Gulf,” both with Rana Sobh of Qatar University and both funded by the Qatar Foundation; “Baby Boomer Construction and Reconstruction of Gender Barriers in Japan” with Takeshi Matsui of Hitotsubashi University and Yuko Minowa of Long Island University, funded by a grant from the Yoshida Foundation; “Redemptive Materialism in Ghana” with Sammy Bonsu, funded by a SSHRC grant; and “Consumer Activists” with Timothy Devinney (Australian Graduate School of Management), Joachim Schwalback, Pat Auger, and Ann Gunnthorsdottir, funded by a grant from the Australia Research Council. Prof. Belk has done consulting for businesses in the USA and Japan. In 2010 he was Corona Chair Distinguished Visitor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management (Bogota, Colombia); in 2007-2009 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong; in 2006, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School (UK) and Visiting Professor at ESCP-EAP (European School of Management, Paris); in 2003 he was Guest Research Professor and Honorary Professor, Centrum för konsumentventskap (Center for Consumer Science), Göteborg University (Sweden); and in 2002 he was Williams Evans Fellow, Marketing Department, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).
- Professor Bradbury’s research interests include Feminist family history, Quebec and the British Empire, marriage and widowhood, and marriage and inheritance laws and colonization in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Cape (South Africa).
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
- Terry Goldie, whose research interests are gay studies, sexuality studies, and literary theory, is author of Fear and Temptation: the Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures (McGill-Queen’s, 1989). He is now conducting research for a book tentatively titled John Money: The Man Who Invented Gender (University of British Columbia Press, 2012).
- Professor Haig-Brown’s research focuses on education broadly defined in Indigenous communities and schools with implications for work in varied international contexts. Emphasizing ethnographic approaches and (de)colonizing methods, she has studied educational partnerships between universities and Aboriginal communities in Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
- Prof. Hastie is an atmospheric chemist and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.
- One of Professor Haug’s research interests is monetary unions, and he has prepared papers focusing on New Zealand.
- Prof. Johnson has held visiting appointments at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and at Aix-Marseilles III (France). As a consultant to multilateral development agencies and various governments he has advised on financial sector reform, land tenure reform, institutional strengthening and the rule of law, predominantly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Central Asia. A recent assignment took him to Afghanistan where he worked on the “Afghanistan Rule of Law Project”.
- Professor Leblanc researches corporate governance practices and what the necessary conditions are for board and individual director effectiveness. Dr. Leblanc’s findings have been of interest to boards of directors, individual directors, shareholders, governments, regulators, the media, professional advisors to boards (law, accounting, consulting and director recruiting firms) and industry associations, both domestically and internationally. Prof. Leblanc has advised directors, executives and academics from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China and Mexico.
- Dr. Lexchin has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service and the World Health Organization. Dr. Lexchin is one of the principal investigators, along with Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Profs. Wiktorowicz and Lexchin are the editors of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Policy in a Global Era: International Perspectives (Nova Publishers, New York, 2004).
- Prof. Madhok is a Visiting Professor of Organization Theory and Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam (Netherlands). He was formerly a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (USA). He has also been a Visiting Full Professor for two years at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as a visiting research scholar at a number of other institutions, such as EM Lyon (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Lille (France), Salamanca University (Spain), and Massey University (New Zealand). Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India. His research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm.
- Prof. Mar’s research is devoted to understanding people’s complex relation to fictional social others, and what the specific consequences that result from these interactions might be. He collaborates or has collaborated with Allan R. Braun and Philip Kohn of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA), Todd F. Heatherton and William M. Kelley of Dartmouth College (USA), Malia F. Mason of Columbia University (USA), C. Neil Macrae of the University of Aberdeen (UK), and Catherine A. Hynes of the University of Queensland (New Zealand).
- Prof. McBey has been a visiting professor at the Aberdeen Business School and the Graduate Programs in Human Resources and in Management at the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University (Scotland); the Australian National University; and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He was appointed to the Order of St. John by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
- Professor Philipps' research examines tax law and fiscal policy through the lenses of critical legal and social theory. She has published papers comparing the experiences of Canada, the UK, Australia and South Africa with gender budgeting, and on the development of fiscal transparency codes and laws by countries around the world as well as international bodies such as the IMF and OECD. Her current research includes a project on tax expenditure budgeting in developing countries, with a focus on India.
- Prior to joining Osgoode's faculty, Prof. Richardson lectured at the law schools of the Universities of Manchester (UK) and Auckland (New Zealand). Passionate about environmental law, he also worked for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in Kenya and Nepal. Presently, he is the co-chair of the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. His current major research is a book project on Socially Responsible Investment Law.
- Dr. Richardson was awarded her PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand). She also has extensive professional experience in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Singapore. With a specific interest in the international dimensions of business, her recent work focuses on internationally-mobile professionals. This interest also relates to a broader interest in IHRM and career development across international boundaries. Julia's research also draws on the concept of the 'boundaryless career' and examines the extent to which contemporary careers might be individually managed while at the same time taking into account the influence of other stakeholders such as organizations, managers, peers and family members.
- Professor Scott’s scholarly and teaching interests include comparative studies in religions and postcolonial cultures and religions and popular film. His most recent publications include ‘Religions and Postcolonial Literatures,’ in the Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures (2012) and essays on Christian missions and film and Christian missions and fiction in several scholarly journals. He is the editor of and contributor to ‘And the Birds Began to Sing’: Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures (1996), and co-editor of Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures (2001, with Paul Simpson-Housley), Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions (2005, with Gareth Griffiths), and Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous People: Representing Religion at Home and Abroad (2005, with Alvyn Austin). Professor Scott has been Visiting Fellow, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, Cambridge University (1998); Visiting Scholar, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia (1999); and Visiting Research Professor, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (2008-09). He is working on a study of transnational Christianity and globalized popular film.
- Mary Wiktorowicz is one of the principal investigators, along with Joel Lexchin and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Professor Wiktorowicz is a co-author of “Keeping an eye on drugs...keeping patients safe: Active monitoring systems for drug safety and effectiveness in Canada and internationally,” commissioned by the Health Council of Canada (2010, with J. Lexchin, K. Moscou, A. Silversides and L. Eggertson).
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
Pakistan
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah (School of Administrative Studies)
- Dr. Hassan earned his PhD in Decision Sciences from the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) before joining York University in 2003. His research interests and courses benefit from his research on and experience with organizations in Canada, Pakistan, Norway, Singapore, and the US.
- Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Tanguay-Renaud was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he taught jurisprudence. He has worked with the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and the Asian Network for Free Elections in Thailand, as well as with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and continues to consult for various nongovernmental organizations in Asia and Europe. He is Director York's Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Since 2008, he has also been co-convenor of Osgoode's international seminar series on "Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism," He has been a H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the National Law School University of India in Bangalore. He is currently involved in research projects focusing on criminal law theory, as well as emergencies, involving American, European, and Indian researchers.
Philippines
Philip Kelly (Geography)
- Among Professor Kelly’s research interests are Filipino migration and transnationalism; international, regional, rural-rural and rural-urban migration in/from Southeast Asia; and labour, industrialization and urbanization in Southeast Asia; as well as the politics of globalization and other representations of economic space. He is the author of Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000).
- Barry Miller works in the areas of syntax, semantics and child language acquisition. He is currently conducting a study of the acquisition of syntax of Tagalog by children in Manila. His areas of language specialization are English and the Philippine languages.
- Professor Nicol is an award-winning video artist and documentary filmmaker whose work is grounded in the tradition of the artist as activist, probing issues of human rights, social justice and struggles for social change. Nicol leads a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)’s Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) awards. Since 2009, Nicol has been bringing together a strategic alliance of partners with proven capacity in international LGBT human rights work with grass roots partners in Canada, India, East Africa, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean.
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
Singapore
John Buzacott (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Buzacott has held visiting professorships at the National University of Singapore, the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He was a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; and a member of the NATO Advisory Panel on Advanced Study Institutes and Advanced Research Workshops. Prof. Buzacott has an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands. He has also co-authored two books in German, with professors from the Technical University of Ilmenau, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Kaiserslautern.
- Christopher Chan teaches and researches in the human resource management (HRM) area. He earned his PhD in management from Murdoch University (Australia). He has published in the areas of organizational learning, hospital management, and cross cultural management. In addition to his eclectic interests in HRM, his current research interests include ethical businesses, ethical leadership, and the intersect between religious philosophies and HRM. Chris continues to collaborate with his ex-colleagues from Curtin University (in Australia) and the Australian National University. He has taught various HRM courses in Australia and Singapore when he was working at Murdoch University and the Australian National University. While in Perth, he also set up and ran a marketing and management consultancy that provided services to government departments and private businesses from 1999 to 2003. He was an honorary research fellow at the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2003. He is currently an honorary research fellow at the Australian Catholic University.
- Professor Fisher has served as consultant and teacher to the Jamia Millia Mass Communications Project in New Delhi, India, and the Film Sound and Video program at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore.
- Dr. Hassan earned his PhD in Decision Sciences from the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) before joining York University in 2003. His research interests and courses benefit from his research on and experience with organizations in Canada, Pakistan, Norway, Singapore, and the US.
- Dr. Richardson was awarded her PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand). She also has extensive professional experience in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Singapore. With a specific interest in the international dimensions of business, her recent work focuses on internationally-mobile professionals. This interest also relates to a broader interest in IHRM and career development across international boundaries. Julia's research also draws on the concept of the 'boundaryless career' and examines the extent to which contemporary careers might be individually managed while at the same time taking into account the influence of other stakeholders such as organizations, managers, peers and family members.
- Prof. Walker has lectured in Wuhan and Xi’an (China), and has taught Conflict of Laws as a visitor at Monash (Australia) and Haifa (Israel), as a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University (USA), in the joint program with the National University of Singapore and, for the past seven years, as a Foreign Research Professor at the University of Carthage in Tunisia. She gave a series of lectures at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2005 and she co-chaired the 72nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in 2006. Prof.Walker has served as an ICC arbitrator in various matters and she is active in the international arbitration community. She has served as an International Advisor to the American Law Institute in its project with Unidroit to develop Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure.
Sri Lanka
André deCarufel (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. deCarufel is currently running the Joint Kellogg Schulich Executive MBA Program. He has delivered executive education seminars in Hong Kong, Latvia, France, Kenya, Haiti and Sri Lanka.
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Wenona Giles teaches and publishes in the areas of gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project, “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” at York University. Author: Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration and Nationalism (2002).
- Professor Ondaatje specializes in recent Canadian and American literature and contemporary world literature. Co-winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for his novel In the Skin of a Lion, Prof. Ondaatje is also the author of Anil’s Ghost: A Novel, set in Sri Lanka.
- Barbara Rahder has been a visiting professor in the Department of Town and Country Planning at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and was a delegate with the Canadian Institute of Planners to South Africa to meet with academics, students, professional planners and community members to discuss planning issues from climate change to affordable housing.
- Professor Smaller studies the history of education, and was the director of the York-URACCAN (Nicaragua) CIDA-supported partnership from 1997 to 2003. He was also a member of the York Faculty of Education’s Sri Lanka Graduate Program from 1998 to 2000. Even after retirement, Professor Smaller remains active in York’s international work, serving on the Faculty of Education’s International Advisory Group and helping to maintain York’s ties with URACCAN.
Taiwan
Thomas H. Beechy (Schulich School of Business)
- Professor Beechy is Director of International Development (Academic) at the Schulich School of Business, with China as one of his primary responsibilities. He is the manager for Schulich of the dual-degree MBA program between Schulich and the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Previously, he developed most of Schulich's exchange programs in Hong Kong and Taiwan while he was Schulich's Associate Dean Academic. He has also represented Schulich in various MBA Fairs across China and Taiwan. In 2000-03, he was a curriculum consultant to KPMG for a World Bank-financed advising project to Beijing National Accounting Institute, Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China. In 2001, he was appointed as the College of Commerce's first international visiting professor at National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, where he taught Accounting for the International Manager in the inaugural class of NCCU’s English-language International MBA Program. He also was Executive Director of the York-CGA International Business Program.
- Professor Petrowska studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne in New York, musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, and composition with Gyorgy Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany, She has premiered more than one hundred works by leading North American and European composers and has appeared in solo recital and with orchestras on major concert stages throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan.
- Klaus Rupprecht, director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, was formerly consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto. Rupprecht has more than thirty years of experience as a German diplomat, including posts in Germany, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Prior to being appointed consul general in 2002, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and then director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a master’s degree in comparative law from the University of Iowa, and speaks six languages, including German, Mandarin, English and French.
Thailand
Atipol Bhanich Supapol (Schulich School of Business)
- Professor Bhanich Supapol has focused his research to study international corporations and technology transfer, with a special focus on Southeast Asia. He has worked as a research consultant for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), a United Nations organization. Prof. Supapol has taught at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology, and SASIN, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and has been a visiting professor at Nankai University, Tienjin, People's Republic of China. He has written various articles on the subject of business in Thailand.
- Professor Campbell has research interests in the field of international marketing, and is a judge for the Queen’s University/Center for Canada-Asia Business Relations MBA Paper Competition. She has written a paper on "Using Value Creating Networks to Increase Innovation Speed: An Exploratory Study of Thai Textile Exporters," to be published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
- Professor Darroch has been actively involved in Training the Trainers in Entrepreneurship at Sasin in Bangkok,Thailand.
- Prof. Heron has been conducting a study entitled “Creating Global Citizens? The Impact of Volunteer/Study Abroad Programs” that is looking at whether 3-6 month placements really do make young Canadians into “global citizens” and what impact these short stays have on the organizations and communities that host Canadians and other Northerners. South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Peru, Guatemala, Jamaica and India are the countries in the international part of the study.
- Prof. Middleton is executive director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre and Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Schulich School of Business. His research includes international marketing. He has taught courses in international marketing at Rutgers School of Management (US), Moscow State University (Russia), Southwest Normal University (China), IDEA in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Chiangmai University and NIDA (Thailand). He has also taught courses in international strategy and entrepreneurship at Yonok College, Lampang (Thailand). Prior to his academic career he had worked in marketing for companies in the UK, US, Norway, Japan and China.
- Professor Podhorsky’s research fields include international trade, environmental economics and applied microeconomics. In the summer of 2007, he was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Economics at Chulalongkorn University..
- Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Tanguay-Renaud was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he taught jurisprudence. He has worked with the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and the Asian Network for Free Elections in Thailand, as well as with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and continues to consult for various nongovernmental organizations in Asia and Europe. He is Director York's Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Since 2008, he has also been co-convenor of Osgoode's international seminar series on "Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism," He has been a H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the National Law School University of India in Bangalore. He is currently involved in research projects focusing on criminal law theory, as well as emergencies, involving American, European, and Indian researchers.
- Professor Van Esterik’s interests include Theravada Buddhism, the adaptation of Southeast Asian refugees to life in North America, issues of development, and the New Age movement. Author (with B. Miller & P. Van Esterik): Cultural Anthropology (Canadian Edition, 2004).
- Peter Vandergeest teaches and writes in the areas of political ecology, agro-food studies, and the cultural politics of environment and development. Current and recent research encompasses agrarian studies in Southeast Asia, the history of scientific forestry in Southeast Asia, privatizing environmental regulation in industrial aquaculture, and democratization in natural resource management. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. Chiangmai University (Thailand).
- Professor Wright’s research deals with many international areas including management and negotiations. She has a special interest in Asia and the Pacific Basin, and has worked with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She has held appointments at the National Institute for Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand; and
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Tonga
Taly Dawn Drezner (Geography)
- Professor Drezner has a diverse range of interests in biogeography, which include desert environments, plant-climate interactions, disturbance, succession, tropical ecosystems and island biogeography theory, and urban ecosystems. She is currently working on a large project in the Tongan island group in the tropical Pacific, with well over 900 plant species.
Vanuatu
Margaret Crichlow Rodman (Anthropology)
- Professor Rodman has a longstanding research interest in the Pacific islands. During eight field trips to Vanuatu she has studied customary land tenure, colonial history and development issues. Her publications include three books on Vanuatu, the most recent being Houses Far From Home (2001). Her current research includes a project on “Gender and Race in New Hebridean Settler Space,” supported by a three-year grant, that addresses issues of gender, race, and violence, first through interviews and historical anthropological research with mixed-race settler families who live, or used to live, in Vanuatu; and second, through collaborative work with indigenous women fieldworkers.
Vietnam
Neil Brooks (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
- Professor Drummond’s research interests are urban geography, the social life of non-Western cities, gender and geography, urban society in Vietnam, the geography of urban Southeast Asia, Asian popular culture, and gender in developing societies. Editor (with Helle Rydstrom): Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam (Singapore University Press, 2004). Co-editor with Van Nguyen-Marshall and Danièle Bélanger, The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam (Springer, 2011). Prof. Drummond is currently working on a book about public space in Hanoi from the French colonial period to the present; a SSHRC-funded project on Socialist Cities in the 21st Century with Douglas Young (Urban Studies, York) comparing Hanoi, Berlin and Stockholm)
- Prof. MacDermid was one of three York faculty participants in a 2005 Canada Corps project targeted towards establishing undergraduate programs in public policy and administration at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem for the purpose of training future Palestinian civil servants. Prof. MacDermid has also been involved in advising of a similar nature in Vietnam.
Europe
Europe Regional
Anna Agathangelou (Political Science)
- Professor Agathangelou’s research interests are globalization, empire and contemporary imperialism, (in)securities studies, feminist and postcolonial theory and praxis, feminist and postcolonial pedagogies, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Politics. She is the author of The Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in the Mediterranean Nation-States (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004).
- Philipp Angermeyer was born in Bonn, Germany and earned his MA there at the Universität zu Köln. He earned his PhD at New York University (USA). Prior to joining York he was an adjunct assistant professor at New York University, Barnard College of Columbia University and Queens College of the City University of New York (USA). He is involved in an international collaborative research project supported by the SSHRC-ITST program. With Dr. Thomas Schmidt at the University of Hamburg and Prof. Bernd Meyer at the University of Mainz he is working on establishing an international database of interpreter-mediated interaction (i.e., transcribed and annotated audio and video recordings of interactions where speakers of two different languages communicate with the help of an interpreter or translator). Among his research interests are Pidgin and Creole languages, and Slavic languages.
- Professor Arthur is interested in classical and medieval literatures and languages, and has created language instruction software for a wide variety of languages including Latin, Old English, Old Norse, Old Occitan, Catalan, Portuguese, Gothic, and Sanskrit. Most recently, he has edited and published some ten thousand pages of electronic documents, most of which are public domain translations of medieval literary texts.
- Professor Bahry teaches Russian literature, comparative literature, and East European film and culture. She is the author of Shliakh Sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukrainu (The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine)(Kyïv: Vsesvit, 1993) and Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine (Captus University Publications, 1989).
- Professor Balfour's teaching and research interests include Romantic poetry and prose and 18th-century poetry and philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language). He has written essays on the Romantics (Wordsworth, Blake, Godwin, Inchbald), Walter Benjamin, and Paul de Man.
- Professor Barutciski directed the diplomacy program at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He also was a member of Oxford University's department of international development. Professor Barutciski has carried out research in conflict zones and refugee camps in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also worked for the United Nations, as well as authored reports for the British government and the South African parliament.
- Particle physicist Sampa Bhadra and her team are conducting an experiment called ZEUS at HERA, the world’s only electron quark collider, at the D.E.S.Y. laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. This allows them to expand their knowledge of the Standard Model, describing the electromagnetic and weak interactions of leptons and quarks; and Quantum Chromodynamics, which describes the strong interactions of quarks and gluons.
- Prof. Boon was a Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities in 2011-12. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard UP, 2002) and In Praise of Copying (Harvard UP, 2010). He is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Empty Theory: On the Unfinished Projects of Buddhism and Modernity and writing a book on the concept of practice in contemporary culture and society. He also writes about music and sound for The Wire.
- Professor Buturovic’s research addresses the intersections of religion, identity and literature, specifically in the context of Balkan Islam; and medieval Arabo-Islamic culture. By looking at different linguistic cultures and their modes of literary production, she examines the ways in which Europe and the Middle East are configured and interconnected through multiple but unstable categories. She teaches courses in Islamic Mysticism, Islamic Literatures, the Qur’an and its Interpretations, Identities and Cultures in the Balkans, and World Religions. She is the author of Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombstones, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2002).
- Professor Cameron has taught screenwriting, design and production in England and the United States. He is an authority on the philosophical foundations of classical film theory. His philosophical interests centre on the intersection of logic and history, and on the writings of Kant, Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Austin, Berlin, Googman and Quine.
- Lisette Canton, founding artistic director of the Ottawa Bach Choir, led the choir on its first European tour in May 2005, then in 2007 and again in 2009. In 2011, Dr. Canton conducted two concerts in New York City, the first at Carnegie Hall with the Ottawa Bach Choir's debut, and the second at Lincoln Center with the York University Singers, professional orchestra and soloists. She has guest-conducted for numerous ensembles in Canada and the US.
- Professor Cohen works on Renaissance Italy, Rome especially, and that city’s rural hinterland. His take is a mix of cultural and political anthropology. He studies gestures and symbols and decodes actions. As a writer, he often uses microhistory, telling fine-grained stories about the lives of ordinary Romans. He looks to coalitions, conspiracies, trades, bluffs, dares, and wily dodges. A devotee of style and vividness in scholarly writing, he tells stories about seductions, betrayals, conspiracies, murders, and poisonings, not just for the tales themselves, but for the clues they offer about the culture of negotiation and the habits of coalition that made a distant world work. His current main project is a book on a rebellious village high in mountains east of Rome.
- Professor Comninel’s research interests are European political theory considered in a socio-historical context, comparative study of the development of state and society, revolutions, especially the French Revolution, Marxist and liberal theories of class, state and social change.
- As Chair of Computer Science, Peter Cribb has been active in pursuing international student exchange and curriculum development opportunities, and has overseen the development of Canada-EU Mobility grant proposals.
- Dr. Denholm Crosby's research interests include European security and Canadian-U.S. security relations.
- Dr. Dimock’s areas of expertise are ethics: meta-ethics and normative theory; applied ethics; personal autonomy; political philosophy; philosophy of law; punishment theory; legal theory (esp. criminal and constitutional); early modern history of philosophy (esp. Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Bentham and Mill).
- Professor Dowler’s research interests are cultural policy in Canada and Europe, art and the city; aesthetics and popular culture and history of communications.
- Professor Eberlein’s research examines international business, especially concerning European integration and multi-level governance. One of his current research projects is “New Modes of Governance and Regulatory Networks in the EU.” He has taught at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France), and has been an EU Exchange Guest Lecturer at the University of Tampere (Finland).
- Vice-President Academic and Provost Sheila Embleton has been very active internationally, and in 2005 she received an award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) for leadership in internationalization. Her particular academic areas of research are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical linguistics, onomastics, and women and language. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. In 2007, while visiting India as part of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s delegation, Dr. Embleton signed an MOU with the University of Pune for a new Ontario-Maharashtra-Goa student exchange agreement. Dr. Embleton is President-elect of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
- Prof. Farah has recently held visiting positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques,
France and Mittag--Leffler Institute, Sweden. He is a co-organizer for conferences in 2012 on operator algebras and set theory at the American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto (with David Kerr, Texas A & M) and at the Banff International Research Station (with E. Effros, UCLA, G. Elliott, Toronto and A. Toms, Purdue). In 2012 he will also be giving tutorials to graduate students on his research at CIRM (Luminy, France), Logic Colloquium (Manchester, England)
and Institut for Mathematical Sciences of the National University of Singapore. With J.T. Moore (Cornell) and S. Todorcevic (Toronto) he will be co-organizing a thematic program of Forcing Axioms at the University of Toronto.
- Prof. Feliciano, who specializes in literary criticism and translation in a number of languages, is an Italo-Argentinian poet. She has published several volumes of her own poetry and participated in many poetry readings in Europe and in the Americas.
- Robert Fink's areas of interest fall within the domain of psycholinguistics, in particular, first language acquisition, speech processing and the mental representation of language. His work has focused on English, French and Spanish.
- Prof. Fisher-Stitt was the York lead on a Canada/EC Mobility Program, “Cultural Production in an International Environment,” that linked three Canadian universities (UQAM, Nipissing, York) with three European universities -- Hogeschool Rotterdam (Netherlands), University of Trento (Italy) and HUMAK (Finland).
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Professor Gibson’s research interests are women and medieval philosophy, Renaissance women and education, women and the historiography of philosophy.
- Wenona Giles teaches and publishes in the areas of gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project, “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” at York University. Author: Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration and Nationalism (2002).
- Jarek Gryz has been the Canadian lead on a Canada/EU International Academic Mobility Program that links Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), University of Crete (Greece) and Warsaw Technical University (Poland) with three Canadian universities: Carleton, Alberta and York.
- Prof. Haberman is an intellectual historian of modern Europe. In addition to his research and teaching at York, he participates in teaching and curriculum development throughout Canada and the United States. He is co-author (with Adrian Shubert) of The West and the World (Gage, 2002, 2004).
- Professor Handy’s research interests are focused on environmental economics and the nonprofit sector, especially in relation to work within India and Europe.
- Professor Hellman is a specialist in European (especially Italian) left-wing and labour politics and 20th-century Marxism.
- Professor Henders’ research interests are the international and domestic politics of ethnic and religious identities, multinational states, and special status regions; the politics of international human rights; post-Westphalian politics, including the cross-border roles of non-state actors and non-central / federal governments. Her geographic specialties are Eastern Asia and Western Europe. She has written Diversity and (A)symmetry: The Politics of Special Status Regions (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) and is editor of and contributor to Democratization and Identity: Constituting Regimes and Ethnicity in East and South-East Asia (Lexington Books, 2004).
- Professor Henriques has held a visiting professorship at the University of California at Davis (USA), has served as a member of the OECD working group on environmental policy and firm level management was an appointed member of the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America (2005 to 2008) and it’s Chair in 2007. Her research interests include corporate environmental management and sustainability, international trade and the economics of research and development.
- Prof. Hildebrand, whose areas of specialization are Labour Economics, Microeconometrics,
Public Finance and Immigration, has written on subjects relating to Mexico, the USA and Europe. In 2001, he completed Public and Private Returns to Education in the European Union: An Appraisal, a study carried out on behalf of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
- Filmmaker Philip Hoffman apprenticed in Europe with director Peter Greenaway. His experimental films have won many awards, including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and Gus Van Sant Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2002 for What These Ashes Wanted, a diaristic meditation on loss and grief. All Fall Down, Hoffman’s first feature length film, had its World Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009, and North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival also in 2009. Hoffman has been a Visiting Professor at University of Helsinki (Finland) and University of South Florida (USA). Professor Hoffman has given seminars and production workshops and presented screenings of his films on four continents, including international festivals in Holland and Australia, and at the Chicago Art Institute. Thirteen of his productions were shown at the 2003 IV Fest in Trivandrum, India, and the San Francisco Cinematheque presented Passing Through: A Philip Hoffman Retrospective in 2004. In September 2006, a two-program survey of Philip Hoffman's works launched a special six-month series featuring productions by Canadian artists, presented by Anthology Film Archives in New York.
- Professor Hoffman’s research interests include the environmental, economic, and social history of medieval and early modern Europe, notably involving natural resource use (fisheries), human ecology, peasants, frontiers and intercultural relations. He has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; Centre for Social Ecology, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Education (IFF), Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt-Graz-Vienna, Austria; and (most recently) Research Centre for Environmental History and Policy, University of Stirling, Scotland.
- Sara Horowitz is currently the Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Her primary areas of teaching and research are Holocaust representation, literary witnessing, and contemporary Jewish writing, with a focus on gender. She is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (1997), co-editor of the journal Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism, and editor of the Azreili Series of Holocaust Memoirs. She is currently working on a book project called “Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory.”
- Professor Ingram is the coordinator of York’s European Studies Program. She is the author of Zarathustra's Sisters: Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and a co-editor of books on culture in Central Europe and North America.
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- Marlene Kadar's publications include investigations into the historical, literary and political uses of life writing, with particular attention to the Holocaust in Central Europe. She is also interested in Hungarian-speaking Roma (Gypsy) peoples, and how various historical edicts and violent measures have constructed their historical memory and its representation differently through versions of the formal lament. Prof. Kadar is working on a history of the career of a female guard who was once employed at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in 1939 for four years, and who lived in Nova Scotia in 1958.
- A volume of Prof. Keeney’s Selected Poems (Oberon Press) was published in 1996 with an introduction by the distinguished Russia poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her poetry has been translated into French (winning the Prix Jean Paris in 2003), Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese and Hindi. One of three Canadian writers sent to Mexico in 1995 on a cultural exchange program under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), she has also produced a series of conversations and poems on national and personal culture, entitled You Bring Me Wings, with the Mexican poet Ethel Krauze. Professor Keeney served as a consulting editor (1990-2000) on The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, published by Routledge.
- Professor Kipping is currently finishing a book on The Consultancy Business in Historical and Comparative Perspective (which will be published by Oxford University Press). It covers the development of management consulting as a business activity in the major industrialized regions (Europe, North America and Japan) from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. He is also looking at the role of consulting firms in the introduction of the multidivisional form of organization in European banks. He has held appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). Prof. Kipping has also held visiting professorships at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, and Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) (France); Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, and Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan); and Università Bocconi, Institute for Economic History, Milan, Italy.
- Professor Kirschbaum’s research interests include Slovak studies and Central European politics. He was elected to his sixth term as secretary to the International Council for Central and Eastern European Studies (ICCEES) in 2005, marking his 25th year in the position. The council brings together scholars from around the world with an interest in what were known as “Soviet” or “Communist” studies. Author: A History of Slovakia; The Struggle for Survival (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed., 2005).
- Professor Langlois is a specialist in modern European history, and is the author of La Résistance dans le cinéma français. De La Libération de Paris à Libera me, 1944-1994 (L’Harmattan, 2001). Her current research in cultural history examines the role of film in the mission of the United Nations during and after the Second World War.
- Professor Leblanc researches corporate governance practices and what the necessary conditions are for board and individual director effectiveness. Dr. Leblanc’s findings have been of interest to boards of directors, individual directors, shareholders, governments, regulators, the media, professional advisors to boards (law, accounting, consulting and director recruiting firms) and industry associations, both domestically and internationally. Prof. Leblanc has advised directors, executives and academics from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China and Mexico.
- Dr. Lexchin has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service and the World Health Organization. Dr. Lexchin is one of the principal investigators, along with Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Profs. Wiktorowicz and Lexchin are the editors of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Policy in a Global Era: International Perspectives (Nova Publishers, New York, 2004).
- Professor Little’s research focuses most generally on the analysis of society as spectacle, visual culture, and popular cultural performance in both Euro-North American and postcolonial societies. His earliest fieldwork was with the European one-ring circus. He is writing the life histories of three circus artists in concert with a cultural and historical analysis of European circus spectacles and fascism, in hopes of developing an idea about the varied crises of the modern, most significantly revealed by fascism. He has also conducted research on tourist safaris in Kenya as spectacle productions, analyzing the visual politics of tourist experience, and is now conducting research with Dr.Theresa Holmes, on the rise of the tourist state in Belize.
- Professor Lockshin’s major scholarly interest is the history of Jewish Bible interpretation, but he also does work in the fields of medieval Jewish history, Jewish-Christian polemics, and Jewish intellectual history in general. He recently completed a four-volume annotated translation of Samuel ben Meir's commentary on the Torah, and is now working on the Bible commentaries of Joseph Bekhor Shor.
- Brenda Longfellow is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and film theorist. Her productions include the feature-length drama Gerda (1992), on the life and times of Gerda Munsinger; and A Balkan Journey/Fragments From the Other Side of War (1996). Her most recent film is the critically-acclaimed Tina in Mexico (2002), a feature documentary on the silent film star and avant-garde photographer Tina Modotti, which won Bronze at the Columbus Film Festival, and a Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival. As the recipient of a research/creation grant under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's new pilot program in the fine arts, Professor Longfellow is currently developing Weather Report, a feature-length documentary film and website exploring the politics and impacts of climate change in India, China and Canada.
- Professor Maas’ research interests include comparative and European politics, citizenship, migration policy, nationalism, democratic theory, sovereignty, evolution of the state, federalism, Canada, the European Union, the Netherlands, France, Germany, regional integration and international law. He is the author of Creating European Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
- Heather MacRae’s current research focuses on gender politics in the European Union. She has two main projects under way: the first looks at the influence of multi-level governance on the activities of the German women’s movement and the redefinition of parental leave benefits. Her second area of interest examines the unintentional gender consequences of supposedly “gender neutral” EU policies.
- Professor Mahant’s areas of specialization are the European Union, the politics of Western Europe, North American free trade, and foreign policy.
- Professor Marchessault holds a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization. One key area that Dr. Marchessault examines is the role of artists in the growth of large-scale centres that combine new media technologies in the areas of art, science and education, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Hexagram in Montreal and the European Media Lab in Dublin. In addition to her previous research on the digital cultures of North America and Europe, Dr. Marchessault extends her work to study the digital arts in a variety of urban centres such as Mexico City, Senegal and Tokyo to understand new spatial transformations and cultural environments created by global networks. Prof. Marchessault is also a co-investigator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to study the Culture of Cities in Toronto, Berlin, Montreal and Dublin.
- Prof. Menary, a member of the particle physics group at York, has worked on experiments at Fermilab, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, at the CESR accelerator at Cornell University, and at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany. He is presently working on the ALPHA anti-hydrogen experiment at CERN. ALPHA is a collaboration of scientists from Canada, the U.S., Denmark, Wales, England, Israel, Japan and Brazil. He also participates in studies with groups from around the world on so-called long-baseline neutrino experiments and, in particular, on large argon detectors for use in these experiments.
- Professor Mott is a saxophonist and composer whose work draws on western art music and jazz traditions as well as the musical styles of Asia and Eastern Europe. David Mott has been an Artist in Residence at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Illinois, the University of Massachusetts and Yale University. He has performed solo concerts all across North America and Europe.
- Professor o’ Neil’s interests are textual theory, psychoanalytic approach, theories of desire: hegel to lacan; theories of social justice: liberal-communitarianism; human capital and social capital-generalized in debates of globalism, cognitivism and reschooling. His recent works include: The domestic economy of the soul: Freud’s five case histories, the poverty of post modernism and the missing child in liberal theory. He is also the co-editor of the journals Philosophy of the Social Sciences and Journal of Classical Sociology.
- Before joining York, Elizabeth Pentland was a graduate student at Stanford University (USA). Her current research focuses on the impact that Elizabeth I’s marriage negotiations with the Duke of Anjou in the late 1570s had on the development of English literature. She also works on Renaissance English literature, with a focus on England’s cultural and political relations with France. In recent years, she has taught a course on English travel writing from 1500 to the present. She also teaches Shakespeare at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and her seminars look at Shakespearean adaptation in a global context, using contemporary drama and film (including works from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean).
- Professor Petrowska studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne in New York, musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, and composition with Gyorgy Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany, She has premiered more than one hundred works by leading North American and European composers and has appeared in solo recital and with orchestras on major concert stages throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan.
- Prof. Reisenleitner has taught in Austria, Finland, the United States and Hong Kong. His publications include an introduction to Cultural Studies, monographs and edited volumes on European culture with an emphasis on cross-cultural constructions of Central Europe and North America, and an edited volume on Urban Imaginaries in the Asia-Pacific. He is currently the vice-president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, a member of the editorial collective of the web journal spacesofidentity.net (housed at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies), and a research associate of Hong Kong's Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme. His recent research has focused on urban culture and theories of space and the environment.
- Ester Reiter is principal investigator on a research project entitled “Secular Jewish Culture and Community,” a study of the Labour League, later the United Jewish People’s Order [UJPO], during the 1920s through the 1950s. The project documents the cultural, educational, mutual aid and political activities that immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe organized to enrich their lives in Canada.
- Prof. Rickard’s paintings have been exhibited in France and are found in a number of private collections in Europe. A prolific author, Professor Rickard's writing credits include scholarly articles, short stories, plays and poetry; much of her poetry has been performed in both Spain and New York.
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
- Professor Rives teaches in the area of classical studies. His research interests centre on the history of religion in the Roman imperial period, and encompass not only Graeco-Roman religious traditions, or 'paganism', but also early Christianity and Judaism in the late Second Temple and early rabbinic periods. He has worked on the Graeco-Roman view of the peoples of northern Europe, especially as presented in Tacitus' monograph on the ancient Germans.
- Professor Robbin has appeared with leading conductors and orchestras in recital, concert and opera performances across the United States, Britain and Europe. She serves as president of the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation, an organization that supports Canadians studying and performing in the Britten-Pears Young Artists program in the U.K.
- Professor Rudolph conducts research on the history of political thought, specializing in early modern Europe, with an emphasis on epistemology and politics. He has written several articles on Thomas Hobbes.
- Klaus Rupprecht, director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, was formerly consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto. Rupprecht has more than thirty years of experience as a German diplomat, including posts in Germany, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Prior to being appointed consul general in 2002, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and then director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a master’s degree in comparative law from the University of Iowa, and speaks six languages, including German, Mandarin, English and French.
- Professor Shugarman’s research interests run towards the history of political thought and theory, in Canada and internationally. He is the principal investigator of the Ethics of International Intervention (EII) Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This project has two components: 1) a comparative study of cases of international military intervention and non-intervention in situations of widespread disruption, including Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo and North Korea, and 2) an overarching analysis of the ethical issues involved in decisions to intervene on “humanitarian” grounds. The EII team members are coordinating their research with empirical studies being undertaken by members of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance located at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
- Casey Sokol, pianist and musical explorer, has toured extensively as a soloist and ensemble player in Europe and North America. Performance highlights include the Pro Musica Nova Festival, Bremen, and O Kanada Festival, Berlin, Germany; Avignon Festival and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival; and many other notable venues in Europe, the USA and Japan. His creative collaborations include the conception and production of Cagewake, a music-circus with 150 performers marking the passing of composer John Cage, and the adaptation of the medieval mystery play, The Clown of God, with New York director André Serban.
- Professor Stuckey’s research interests are goddess worship in the ancient eastern Mediterranean, female spirituality and feminist theology.
- Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Tanguay-Renaud was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he taught jurisprudence. He has worked with the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and the Asian Network for Free Elections in Thailand, as well as with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and continues to consult for various nongovernmental organizations in Asia and Europe. He is Director York's Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Since 2008, he has also been co-convenor of Osgoode's international seminar series on "Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism," He has been a H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the National Law School University of India in Bangalore. He is currently involved in research projects focusing on criminal law theory, as well as emergencies, involving American, European, and Indian researchers.
- Professor Taylor, the York University Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics, is searching for new particles, such as magnetic monopoles, at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. The ATLAS experiment is an international collaboration of 3,000 physicists from more than 174 universities and laboratories in 38 countries,
and has a large nation-wide Canadian effort. Formerly, she studied the properties of b-quarks at the Tevatron Collider at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
- Professor Teleky’s research areas include Central European literature, ethnic studies/immigrant literature, early modernist writing, and film and contemporary culture, as well as the creative process.
- Professor Tenhaaf is an interdisciplinary artist and theoretician with extensive publication, lecture and exhibition credits in the U.S. and Europe, including dDNA (d is for dancing), a storefront video projection developed on-site at MediaArts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Professor Webber’s research focuses on problems of interculturality that arise in attempts to negotiate differences in understanding historical, cultural and linguistic features of North America and Europe, particularly Germany. He is a recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse, the German equivalent of the Order of Canada, for his contributions to Canadian-German and Christian-Jewish understanding. His current research involves questions of comparability rooted in a theory of metaphor and applied to such varied situations as the divergence of liberal and conservative thought in 19th-century German literature, the work of Franz Kafka, understandings of 20th-century German-Jewish relations, and Holocaust comparisons. A keen observer of Germany, Mark Webber has been an election observer for German federal elections on three occasions. Mark Webber was the founding co-director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and, on the Ontario side, of the Ontario / Baden-Württemberg Student Exchange Program. Since 2000, he has co-directed the Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education, which brings together students, teachers, journalists, and researchers from Canada, Germany and Poland.
- Professor Weiser teaches courses about modern and eastern European Jewish history and culture, including ones about Yiddish culture, Jewish languages, and the Holocaust. He is the co-editor of Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical and Perspective (2010) and author of Jewish People, Yiddish Nation. Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (2011).
- Professor Westcott is a pianist, composer, arranger, musicologist and music theorist specializing in African-American and classical music of the 20th century. He studied blues piano with “Little Brother” Montgomery, a major blues-recording artist of the 1930s and of the later blues revival, alongside his formal university training in music. He has appeared as pianist and singer in Canadian and American music festivals as well as Canadian radio and television broadcasts. Orchestras in the United States and Eastern Europe have performed his original compositions and arrangements.
- Mary Wiktorowicz is one of the principal investigators, along with Joel Lexchin and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Professor Wiktorowicz is a co-author of “Keeping an eye on drugs...keeping patients safe: Active monitoring systems for drug safety and effectiveness in Canada and internationally,” commissioned by the Health Council of Canada (2010, with J. Lexchin, K. Moscou, A. Silversides and L. Eggertson).
- Professor Wilson’s international research interests include supranationality with particular reference to the EC/EU, international approaches to and methods of evaluation and governance, and the tension between law and ethics. He has published numerous books and has held visiting professorships at various universities in Ireland, UK, Australia, Japan and Sweden.
- Among Prof. Winfield’s research interests is the sustainability of energy systems, and his work has included extensive comparative analyses of Canadian energy policy relative to leading jurisdictions in the United States and the European Union. He brings an extensive network of contacts in the energy field to York.
- As the director of the Schulich International MBA program, Professor Wolf’s international research interests are numerous. Current research projects include studying foreign ownership of the telecommunication industry in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, as well as a study of global consolidation of the automotive industry. His areas of expertise include international trade and finance; multinational enterprises; causes and consequences of strategic alliances; changes in the global automotive industry; foreign ownership in the telecommunications industry; the impact of economic integration and trade/investment liberalization in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia; and the role of China, Korea and Japan in the world economy.
- Belarie Zatzman’s research focuses on drama and education, theatre for young audiences and arts education. She has published extensively and works internationally in fine arts and Holocaust education.
- Prof. Zemel has taught in the USA at Temple University (Philadelphia), Dartmouth College and the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she chaired the Art History Department from 1997 to 2000. Her areas of research and publication include 19th and 20th-century European art, the modern art market, feminism in the arts, Jewish visual culture and diaspora studies. She is an authority on the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In 2000-01, Dr. Zemel was a Fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, engaged in completing a book titled Graven Images: Visual Culture and Modern Jewish History. With Professors Shelley Hornstein (York University) and Reesa Greenberg (Concordia University), she is co-founder and co-director of Project Mosaica, a web-based exploration of Jewish cultural expression in the arts.
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- Professor Barta has worked as both a writer and director at the Romanian National Film Board in Bucharest, and at the Austrian Film Board. Her films have been screened at prestigious international festivals such as Bilbao, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Bucharest, and Chicago.
- Professor of Management Science Henry Bartel's recent international experience includes appointments as Visiting Professor at Indiana University (USA), Roemerquelle Visiting Professor at the Wirtschafts University of Vienna (Austria) and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.
- Prof. Bernardi’s theatre and opera productions have been presented in various European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy), including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Frankfurt Opera (March 2007). Recently he collaborated with Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues for a new dance piece to be premiered in Paris in November 2011.
- Prof. Buzacott has held visiting professorships at the National University of Singapore, the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He was a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; and a member of the NATO Advisory Panel on Advanced Study Institutes and Advanced Research Workshops. Prof. Buzacott has an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands. He has also co-authored two books in German, with professors from the Technical University of Ilmenau, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Kaiserslautern.
- Prof. Reisenleitner has taught in Austria, Finland, the United States and Hong Kong. His publications include an introduction to Cultural Studies, monographs and edited volumes on European culture with an emphasis on cross-cultural constructions of Central Europe and North America, and an edited volume on Urban Imaginaries in the Asia-Pacific. He is currently the vice-president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, a member of the editorial collective of the web journal spacesofidentity.net (housed at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies), and a research associate of Hong Kong's Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme. His recent research has focused on urban culture and theories of space and the environment.
- Dr. Andreas Strebinger teaches Brand Management, Market Research and International Marketing. Before joining York in 2006, he taught at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). His research focuses on brand management, particularly on domestic and international brand architecture, brand portfolio management, brand equity, brand personality and e-branding. He has received awards from the American Marketing Association, the German Brands Association, the Austrian Advertising Research Association, and Henkel Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Stregbinger has written three books on brand management and country-of-origin effects. In 2005, Prof. Strebinger was the chair of an international academic conference on Brand Management in Vienna. His latest book on Brand Architecture provides an in-depth discussion of scholarly research and practical experiences regarding the pros and cons of product vs. corporate branding strategies as well as of local vs. global branding. It appeared in 2010 in its 2nd edition in the German Gabler Verlag. Currently, he is working on an international research project on the effects of perceived brand globalness on brand quality and prestige image among young urban consumers in Japan, Canada, and Europe.
Belgium
Alain Baudot (Drama Studies (Glendon))
- Professor Baudot’s areas of interest are the history and theory of contemporary Francophone literature (of the West Indies, Belgium, Switzerland), understanding opera, and editing and publishing in French. Among his publications are Musiciens romains de l’Antiquité; Identité culturelle et francophonie dans les Amériques (coedited with J-Cl. Jaubert) and short Répertoire pour une initiation à la chanson de langue française; Éducation des adultes et Éducation permanente: analyse de la documentation récente en français.
- Prof. Bernardi’s theatre and opera productions have been presented in various European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy), including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Frankfurt Opera (March 2007). Recently he collaborated with Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues for a new dance piece to be premiered in Paris in November 2011.
- As former coordinator of Glendon’s student exchange program, Professor Lewin has connections with many universities in France and Belgium.
- In her research into the roles of the various structures in the brain that are thought to play a role in face processing, Prof. Steeves collaborates with members of the Department of Psychology at Durham University (UK), the Faculty of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and INSERM U455, Toulouse (France).
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Craig Scott joined Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000 following a term as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. To date, his teaching and research have been primarily in the fields of public international law and private international law, with a focus on the place of international human rights law in both of these fields. Professor Scott was closely involved in the development of aspects of the current South African constitution, beginning with his role advising the African National Congress on these matters while the ANC was still in exile. He has given academic opinions on international law to various governments and international organizations on issues related to such matters as the law of the sea, territorial claims and adjudicative procedures. In 1993-94, he served as co-counsel for the government of Bosnia in a case before the International Court of Justice, with responsibility for developing arguments on the limits of the powers of the UN Security Council. He was also the co-founder of the Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS) and the International Association of Law Schools (IALS).
Croatia
Marcia Rioux (Health Policy and Management)
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
- Professor Winland has conducted research with Croats, Mennonites, Hmong refugees and homeless youth. Since 1992, she has been working with Croats, investigating the influence of diasporas on nation-building projects, and also the involvement of homelands in construing a national imaginary for diasporas. In the context of a series of field trips to Croatia beginning in 1997, she has spent considerable time investigating these issues and other interests among Croatian diaspora “returnees” to the homeland. One of her current projects is funded by SSHRC: “Homeward Bound: Croatian Canadians and Homeland Return.” Recently she has begun to expand these interests to include other former Yugoslav republics such as Bosnia. She has also recently coauthored a report on her research with homeless youth in Toronto titled "Family Matters: Homeless Youth and Eva's Family Reconnect Program".
Czech Republic
Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
Denmark
Samuel K. Bonsu (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Bonsu has taught at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (USA), and has taught Culture Dimensions of Business Research (Certificate) at Odense University, Denmark. He has been a Visiting Consultant for the International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Business Group Coordinator with GCG Investments Ltd, Accra, Ghana.
- Prof. Etcheverry is involved in the development of the World Wind Energy Institute, a new training network involving renewable energy centres located in Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt and Russia. He is also focusing on the analysis of climate change policies in Mexico.
- Prof. Madhok is a Visiting Professor of Organization Theory and Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam (Netherlands). He was formerly a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (USA). He has also been a Visiting Full Professor for two years at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as a visiting research scholar at a number of other institutions, such as EM Lyon (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Lille (France), Salamanca University (Spain), and Massey University (New Zealand). Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India. His research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm.
England
Michael Davey (Visual Arts)
- Professor Davey is a sculptor whose research has taken him to Carrara, Italy, where he created a site-specific work, and more recently to an artist-in-residency and group exhibition in England, which led to the establishment of an annual student exchange program with the University of Northumbria. He has held lectureships in sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.
- Igor Djordjevic specializes in English Renaissance dramatic and non-dramatic literature, including Shakespeare. He is author of Holinshed's Nation (Ashgate, 2010), has been involved with the Oxford Holinshed Project as a contributor to the forthcoming Handbook to Holinshed's Chronicles (Oxford University Press), and has published articles in Renaissance and eighteenth-century studies. He is currently working on the memory of the reign of King John in sixteenth-century English historical writing, his primary research interest continues to be in early modern English 'Commonwealth discourse.'
- Robert Fink's areas of interest fall within the domain of psycholinguistics, in particular, first language acquisition, speech processing and the mental representation of language. His work has focused on English, French and Spanish.
- Professor Hay’s research interests include the legal and social history of the judiciary and central courts of England, 1701-1820; English criminal law in the same period; enforcement and evolution of the contract of employment (master and servant) in England, Scotland and Ireland to 1875; and magistrates and summary justice and the English court of King’s Bench. He has recently edited (with Paul Craven) Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), a volume in Studies in Legal History, the series of the American Society for Legal History. Other recent work includes the history of the English high court’s criminal jurisdiction (Crown Side Cases in the Court of King's Bench, forthcoming). He is presently writing about the administration of the criminal law in Georgian England. He has been a visitor at Yale, Warwick, and Columbia law schools.
- Professor Hutchinson’s teaching and research interests lie mainly in the medieval field, in particular, vernacular epics and romances, writings by medieval women, and women's spirituality in late medieval England. Her area of specialization centres on St. Birgitta of Sweden and the English house of her order, Syon Abbey, founded in 1415. She has just completed a critical edition of British Library MS 18,650 which tells the story of Mary Champney, a Bridgettine nun in the time of Elizabeth.
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- A historian of religion, Professor Lee’s research interests include medieval English rituals and customs related to childbirth, lay spirituality in late medieval England, and the methods and theories of women’s history and gender history.
- Professor Leps specializes in literary theory and 19th-century narratives in England and France. Together with Lesley Higgins, she is co-authoring a study of subjectivity and governmentality in modernist and postmodernist fictions.
- Prof. Lynch has primary school teaching experience in South Korea and England, and was a course director at Michigan State University. She has participated in early/family literacy research across Canada and in the U.S.
- Professor Neeson’s research interests include the social history of agrarian England 1750-1850, shared land use, petty landholders, rural protest, pastoral economy, and hunting and gathering in industrialization.
- Professor Shand who has a special interest in text and performance, has served as a text coach and dramaturge at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. He is currently working on actorly reading as a critical strategy, and has edited several non-dramatic texts for the forthcoming Oxford Thomas Middleton.
- Professor Shteir’s research interests are in gender and science, cultural history, historical perspectives on women and nature, 18th-19th century British botany, and mythology and iconography. Her book Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora's Daughters and Botany in England, 1760 to 1860 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996; paperback edition 1999) was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Women's History and selected in 2007 as an E-book by the American Council of Learned Societies. She has co-edited two publications: Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997) and Figuring it Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture (Dartmouth College Press, 2006), written numerous book chapters, and spoken by invitation at conferences in the US, the UK, and Europe.
- Dr. Stamos’ research interests are philosophy of biology (e.g. the species problem, the quantum in deterministic causes of point mutations, whether DNA contains information, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary psychology, etc.), Darwin (historical research on his species concept and pre-Darwinian taxonomy) and Hume (finding Hume’s God).
- Professor Tweyman’s research interests are early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, epistemology, ethics, and research in the philosophy of Descartes and of David Hume. He is currently the Master of Vanier College at York University.
Estonia
David Scott Armstrong (Visual Arts)
- Professor Armstrong is a print artist whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Estonia, Russia, Brazil, and Japan and is found in the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Museum, USA.
- Jon Baturin is currently working on a series of collaborative photo-based and sculptural projects which deal with the fragility of the human species and subjective interpretations of both hope and loss. Prof. Baturin's research process is anchored in his collaborative work with international institutions as artist-in-residence. His international residencies have included the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), Tallinn Art University (Estonia), Athens School of Art (Greece) and Tasmania School of Art (Australia). He is a co-founder of Critical Media, an international not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote and develop challenging international cultural projects in diverse media. Large international museum projects have been presented in major venues in Budapest – Hungary, Lubjiana – Slovenia, Auckland - New Zealand, Hobart – Tasmania, and Sydney – Australia.
Finland
Amin Alhassan (Social Sciences)
- Professor Alhassan’s research interests are development communication policy, international communications, ICTs and digital inclusion, and postdevelopment theory. He has taught undergraduate courses in communication theory at Tampere University, Finland. Prof. Alhassan previously worked as a journalist with the Ghana News Agency and with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in Accra. Author: Development Communication Policy and Economic Fundamentalism in Ghana (2004).
- Professor Dingley’s research and teaching interests include the Russian language, the Finnish language, Slavic linguistics and Fenno-Slavic contacts. He writes on Russian, Old Church Slavonic, and Slavic linguistics.
- Professor Eberlein’s research examines international business, especially concerning European integration and multi-level governance. One of his current research projects is “New Modes of Governance and Regulatory Networks in the EU.” He has taught at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France), and has been an EU Exchange Guest Lecturer at the University of Tampere (Finland).
- Vice-President Academic and Provost Sheila Embleton has been very active internationally, and in 2005 she received an award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) for leadership in internationalization. Her particular academic areas of research are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical linguistics, onomastics, and women and language. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. In 2007, while visiting India as part of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s delegation, Dr. Embleton signed an MOU with the University of Pune for a new Ontario-Maharashtra-Goa student exchange agreement. Dr. Embleton is President-elect of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
- Prof. Fisher-Stitt was the York lead on a Canada/EC Mobility Program, “Cultural Production in an International Environment,” that linked three Canadian universities (UQAM, Nipissing, York) with three European universities -- Hogeschool Rotterdam (Netherlands), University of Trento (Italy) and HUMAK (Finland).
- Prof. Keil serves as a docent for Corporate Venturing and Strategic Alliances at the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, where he has also held various full-time teaching and research positions in the strategy faculty.
- Professor Lanphier’s research interests include newcomer integration, refugee resettlement, and the comparative study of newcomer settlement in Canada, the US, Australia, and Finland.
- Professor Lindström is regarded as the premier scholarly authority on Finnish Canadian immigration, and forged an academic career specializing in North American social history, immigration and women. Professor Lindström was invited to work as researcher and historical consultant on the film after the director read her book, Defiant Sisters: A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada 1890-1930. The documentary has been shown on national TV in Finland and at film festivals around the world. It won best picture and best documentary at the Manitoba motion picture industry’s 2006 Blizzards Awards.
- Prof. MacKenzie spent his sabbatical in 2002-03 at the University of Tampere Unit for Computer-Human Interaction (Finland), where he taught a course on Research in Advanced User Interfaces: Models, Methods, Measures. With Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii of the University of Tokyo, he is the co-author of Text Entry Systems : Mobility, Accessibility, Universality (Elsevier, 2007).
- Prof. Martel is a member of the Buffer Zone Project, a collaborative research project including members from the universities of Turku and Oulu, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, and Southwest Finland Regional Environment Centre. The main site of research is the University of Turku. Link to personal site
- Prof. Richardson has held visiting professorships at the University of Manchester, UK; and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland.
France
Joseph Baker (School of Kinesiology & Health Science)
- Joe Baker is collaborating with faculty from Leeds Metropolitan University, England, and the Australian Institute of Sport on research on whether early sport specialization is required for sport expertise as an adult. Current investigations focus on comparing the early training of expert athletes in sports that have varying ages of peak performance. At present they are collecting data on rugby players in the UK, gymnasts in the UK, US, France, and Canada and skeleton racers in Australia.
- Barbara Balfour is an interdisciplinary and print media artist who has exhibited and given lectures in the USA, the UK and France.
- Professor Bénayoun-Szmidt has research interests in linguistics and North African literature, including Jewish North African writers and the writing of North African women (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco). She is the recipient of the 1999 Médaille d'argent du Rayonnement Culturel (Silver Medal of Cultural Diffusion) in Lettres françaises (French Literature).
- Prof. Bernardi’s theatre and opera productions have been presented in various European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy), including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Frankfurt Opera (March 2007). Recently he collaborated with Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues for a new dance piece to be premiered in Paris in November 2011.
- Professor Black’s research interests are women and politics, feminist theory, the political opinions of farm women in Quebec and France, Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and the contemporary women's movement in North America.
- Martin Breaugh earned his DEA and his PhD from the University of Paris VII Denis-Diderot. His book, L’Expérience plébéienne, Une histoire discontinue de la liberté politique deals with the theory and practice of emancipation from the Roman Republic to the Paris Commune of 1871 and was published in 2007 at the Éditions Payot-Rivages in Paris. It was featured and reviewed in Le Monde and Le Devoir and is currently being translated into English by Columbia University Press. He co-edited with Francis Dupuis-Déri, La démocratie au-delà du libéralisme (2009) and with Yves Couture, L’usage des Anciens dans la pensée politique contemporaine (2010). Currently his research is focused on the question of freedom and emancipation in contemporary political thought in France. A new co-edited volume, under review at the University of Toronto Press, offers an introductory perspective of this project: Vita Democratica: Politics beyond the Canon. Professor Breaugh has lectured in Brazil and France, and was invited to take part in the "Young Academic Leaders" program at the Tecnológico de Monterrey University in Querétaro, Mexico in 2012.
- Professor Brown is a medievalist whose research areas include the art of medieval Ireland, Britain and the Norman world, with special emphasis on the results of the meeting of different artistic heritages. The founding director of the Registry of Stained Glass Windows in Canada, Professor Brown also teaches the history of stained glass and investigates 19th and 20th century architectural glass produced in Canada or imported to Canada from abroad. She has written a history and bibliography of the Bayeux Tapestry.
- Amnon Buchbinder's short films have been screened at major venues and festivals worldwide including Cannes, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and the Paris Cinémathèque. Professor Buchbinder's first feature film, The Fishing Trip, which he produced and directed, was based on a screenplay written by one of his students at York. The production received its world premiere to critical acclaim at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by national theatrical release and a Genie Award. His second feature, Whole New Thing, which he co-wrote with Daniel MacIvor and directed, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to screen internationally at more than hundred film festivals, winning over 10 best-film awards, and was released theatrically in Canada, the United States and Europe.
- Professor Code’s research interests are epistemology and ethics, feminist philosophy, and 20th-century French philosophy (Foucault, Beauvoir, Le Doeuff); ecological theory; and post-colonial theory.
- Professor Comninel’s research interests are European political theory considered in a socio-historical context, comparative study of the development of state and society, revolutions, especially the French Revolution, Marxist and liberal theories of class, state and social change.
- Professor Couchman’s research interests are 16th century women's writing, French and English; and 16th century exploration literature, especially French.
- Prof. Crawford, Canada Research Chair, has collaborated in his publications with colleagues in France and the Netherlands. Prof. Crawford studies how the brain represents visual space and then transforms this into the patterns of muscular contraction required for accurate movements in 3-D space.
- Professor Daigneault has exhibited in a number of solo and group shows in the United States and France. His previous teaching appointments include Ohio State University and École nationale d’art de Cergy Pontoise in France.
- Prof. deCarufel is currently running the Joint Kellogg Schulich Executive MBA Program. He has delivered executive education seminars in Hong Kong, Latvia, France, Kenya, Haiti and Sri Lanka.
- Daniel Drache has written widely on globalization and the limits of markets, trade blocs, employment and economic integration. Most recently, he has focused his attention on the WTO, poverty eradication and the Doha Development Round. His work has been recognized internationally and he has been a research associate at the European University Institute, Florence; a professor invité at CEPREMAP-CNRS, Paris; a visiting scholar at Macquarrie University, the University of Western Sydney and the AGSM, University of New South Wales, and a guest lecturer at UNAM, Mexico. His current research is on the political economy of dissent and the emergence of counterpublics post-Cancun.
- Prof. Drummond holds a postgraduate Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies from the Université d'Aix-Marseille, specializing in legal theory and legal anthropology. She is the author of Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities, which won the Canadian Law and Society Association/Association canadienne droit et société 2006 Book Prize.
- Prof. Dumont’s areas of interest include the teaching and learning of French as a Second Language (blended learning, community-based learning), the Francophone world, and particularly French-Creole societies.
- Professor Eberlein’s research examines international business, especially concerning European integration and multi-level governance. One of his current research projects is “New Modes of Governance and Regulatory Networks in the EU.” He has taught at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France), and has been an EU Exchange Guest Lecturer at the University of Tampere (Finland).
- Prof. Farah has recently held visiting positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques,
France and Mittag--Leffler Institute, Sweden. He is a co-organizer for conferences in 2012 on operator algebras and set theory at the American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto (with David Kerr, Texas A & M) and at the Banff International Research Station (with E. Effros, UCLA, G. Elliott, Toronto and A. Toms, Purdue). In 2012 he will also be giving tutorials to graduate students on his research at CIRM (Luminy, France), Logic Colloquium (Manchester, England)
and Institut for Mathematical Sciences of the National University of Singapore. With J.T. Moore (Cornell) and S. Todorcevic (Toronto) he will be co-organizing a thematic program of Forcing Axioms at the University of Toronto.
- Robert Fink's areas of interest fall within the domain of psycholinguistics, in particular, first language acquisition, speech processing and the mental representation of language. His work has focused on English, French and Spanish.
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Prof. Gill is an author of works of fiction and translator of works from the French into English, as well as a translator of Cuban poetry.
- Prof. Goel is interested in understanding the cognitive, computational, and neural basis of rational decision-making and emotional processing in humans, and more recently, the interaction between the two. He collaborates or has collaborated internationally with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, (UK), the Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (USA), the Dept. of Neurology, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy), the Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS Lyon (France), La Laguna University, Tenerife (Spain), San Camillo Hospital, Venice (Italy) and the University of Sheffield (UK).
- Andil Gosine’s research has focused on the way environmentalists think about culture, race and difference. He studies how environmentalists represent themselves in posters and pictures, and how those ideas influence the way green agendas are constructed. In Paris, France he investigated the ways people in the French Green Party negotiate policies around immigration, citizenship and sexual rights.
- Professor Grosskurth's current research interests include Miró, Surrealism, contemporary art and philosophy in France, and issues surrounding public sculptures.
- Dr. Laurence Harris is studying the way that different senses are combined by the brain. Examples include the visual and vestibular system's role in orientation and self-motion perception; and vision and hearing's role in localizing events in space and time. Dr. Harris is particularly interested in the way these combinations can adapt to changing demands brought about by unusual environments such as the microgravity of space or by clinical conditions such as Parkinson's syndrome. His laboratory employs a number of techniques to address these questions including psychophysics and physiological measurements such as blood pressure, reaction times and eye movements. Unusual environments are created using virtual reality, parabolic flights, moving and unusually constructed rooms, and access to the International Space Station.
Dr. Harris has extensive international collaborations. The project on the International Space Station involved collaborations with NASA through the Canadian Space Agency. He is presently carrying out studies in France and Germany at the Rangueil University Hospital in Toulouse and the DLR Institute for Aerospace Medicine in Köln-Porz, again sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency to explore the cognitive consequences of bedrest. He is presently hosting Dr. Fred Mast, who is a visiting sabbaticant from the University of Bern in Switzerland and has previously hosted Dr. Marcus Lappe from Muenster University, Germany. He is serving on the dissertation committee of a student at the Universite de la Mediterannee in Marseille, France. He is partially sponsored by a Von Humboldt award for collaborations with Dr. Reiner Herpers at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University (Germany) on the perception of self-motion. He has active collaborations with Dr. Andy Smith at the University of London. He is planning future collaborations with Dr. MacIntyre (Paris), Dr. Li Li (Hong Kong) and Dr. Kenzo Sakurai (Japan). As director the Centre for Vision Research at York he is dedicated to encouraging international links of the centre's members and furthering the international reputation of York University.
- Shelley Hornstein is Professor of Architectural History & Visual Culture at York University. Her work looks at the intersection of memory and place in architectural and urban sites. She is currently working on projects that explore demolition, Google Earth and museums in virtual space, Starlets and Starchitecture, Jewish topographies, and architectural tourism. During her tenure as Walter L. Gordon Fellow, she completed her newest book, Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place (Ashgate, 2011). Her other books include: Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art (McGill-University Press, 2000); Image and Remembrance: Representation and The Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2002), and Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (NYU Press, 2003 ).
- Professor Innes, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Distinguished Research Professor, holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. He is the author of, among others, Modern British Drama - The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has published widely on modern drama and theatre history, in particular the development of political and avant-garde theatrical movements in Germany and France, including Brecht and Artaud; and on the work of stage directors. He is general editor of the Cambridge Directors in Perspective series, co-editor of the Lives of the Theatre series, and an editor of Modern Drama.
- Mario Jametti has written on questions of natural disaster insurance in France.
- Heather Jenkin is part of a team from York’s Centre for Vision Research that recently (2006) conducted experiments on flights from Bordeaux, France, aboard a specially-designed Airbus 300, on weightlessness, in order to investigate why astronauts become disoriented in space and what can be done about it. They worked alongside Professor Joe McIntyre of the Université René Descartes (Paris, France).
- Prof. Johnson has held visiting appointments at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and at Aix-Marseilles III (France). As a consultant to multilateral development agencies and various governments he has advised on financial sector reform, land tenure reform, institutional strengthening and the rule of law, predominantly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Central Asia. A recent assignment took him to Afghanistan where he worked on the “Afghanistan Rule of Law Project”.
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- Prof. Keil is co-investigator on a research project entitled “Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt.” The primary objective of the research is to broaden and deepen understanding of regional governance through an innovative comparative project. As Director of York’s City Institute, Prof. Keil has also organized joint conferences on urban issues with Fudan University, China, one held at Fudan, the other at York. Prof. Keil is co-editor of The Global Cities Reader (with N. Brenner, Routledge, 2006), and co-author of Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles (with G. Desfor, University of Arizona Press, Nature and Society Series, 2004).
- Prof. Kipfer is co-investigator on the project, “Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt,” which aims to broaden and deepen understanding of regional governance through an innovative comparative project.
He has also conducted case studies on second-tier global cities in North America and Europe (Toronto and Zurich), examining the role of urban social movements and local-regional politics and planning in processes of transnational urban restructuring between the late 1960s and the early 2000s.
- Professor Kipping is currently finishing a book on The Consultancy Business in Historical and Comparative Perspective (which will be published by Oxford University Press). It covers the development of management consulting as a business activity in the major industrialized regions (Europe, North America and Japan) from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. He is also looking at the role of consulting firms in the introduction of the multidivisional form of organization in European banks. He has held appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). Prof. Kipping has also held visiting professorships at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, and Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) (France); Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, and Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan); and Università Bocconi, Institute for Economic History, Milan, Italy.
- Prof. Klein-Lataud, a graduate of Université Paris X, Université Paris IV and Université Paris, specializes in literary translation and French stylistics.
- Among Prof. Kowal’s specializations are general and applied Spanish linguistics, history of Spanish language and grammar, and contrastive Romance linguistics (Spanish – French/Italian/Romanian).
- Among Prof. Lambert-Drache’s research interests are French and French-based Creoles - terminology and terminological planning (in France).
- Prof. Laurendeau is interested in enunciative linguistics, the history and epistemology of linguistics, and the philosophy of language, the latter including the materialist philosophy and theory of language; doctrines of language of Descartes, Spinoza, Helvétius, Diderot and Condillac.
- Professor Le Goff’s research interests include French economic and social history, 1600-1900; agriculture in France, 1600-1900; French state finance in the old regime; and the Paris Bourse, 1650-1791. He is the coordinator of the graduate student exchange program between York’s History department and Université Paris IV - Sorbonne.
- Professor Leps specializes in literary theory and 19th-century narratives in England and France. Together with Lesley Higgins, she is co-authoring a study of subjectivity and governmentality in modernist and postmodernist fictions.
- Professor Lesage’s areas of specialization include communities and social movements, with emphasis on France, Canada and Quebec society.
- As former coordinator of Glendon’s student exchange program, Professor Lewin has connections with many universities in France and Belgium.
- Dr. Lexchin has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service and the World Health Organization. Dr. Lexchin is one of the principal investigators, along with Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Profs. Wiktorowicz and Lexchin are the editors of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Policy in a Global Era: International Perspectives (Nova Publishers, New York, 2004).
- Ecologist Christopher Lortie has collaborated with researchers from Sonoma State University and the University of California (USA), and the University of Bordeaux (France) on a study of using gradients to explore the plant community process on coastal dunes in California & France and on alpine meadows in California and the Yukon. He is also a member of a working group on bias in the publication process in ecology that is supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California. Prof. Lortie collaborates with researchers in Argentina and Montana (USA) on a project on seedbank dynamics.
- Professor Maas’ research interests include comparative and European politics, citizenship, migration policy, nationalism, democratic theory, sovereignty, evolution of the state, federalism, Canada, the European Union, the Netherlands, France, Germany, regional integration and international law. He is the author of Creating European Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
- Prof. Madhok is a Visiting Professor of Organization Theory and Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam (Netherlands). He was formerly a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (USA). He has also been a Visiting Full Professor for two years at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as a visiting research scholar at a number of other institutions, such as EM Lyon (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Lille (France), Salamanca University (Spain), and Massey University (New Zealand). Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India. His research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm.
- Prof. Marjollet is interested in the promotion of French as a language for business, and incorporates marketing, management, strategy, negotiation and new corporate trends in his classes. He served for eight years as the academic director of the Ontario-Rhônes-Alpes Student Exchange Program. He is currently Master of New College and works with York’s Global House residence students.
- Professor McMillan, a professor of policy and international business, studies the impact of globalization on decision making in a corporate environment. He has taught in France and Poland, has represented Canada as a policy advisor to the Prime Minister, and has been a member of G-7 Summits. Professor McMillan authored the 2006 casebook, The Strategy Challenge: From Serfdom to Surfing in the Global Village (Toronto: Captus Press, 2006).
- Prof. McRoberts, principal of York’s bilingual Glendon College and a specialist in Canadian political science, particularly Quebec, was named “Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes académiques” by the French government in June 2004.
- Prof. Miller is a collaborator in the “AGRIC-LaserUAV” project, supported by the European Commission 7th Framework Program, awarded to Inian Moorthy (recent PhD graduate of York and recipient of a Marie Curie International Fellowship) and Pablo Zarco-Tejada, at the Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain, Feb.1, 2011 to Jan 31, 2013. Prof. Miller has also been appointed “Guest Professor” in the Faculty of Geo-Environmental Science at Rissho University, Saitama, Japan, April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2013.
- Professor Moyal’s research interests are Descartes’ metaphysics and philosophy of science. He also has an interest in Ancient Greek Philosophy. He is the author of La critique cartésienne de la raison (Montreal & Paris, 1997) and editor of René Descartes: Critical Assessments (4 vols, London & New York, 1991).
- Professor Orellana was born in El Salvador and immigrated to Canada in 1986. He obtained a PhD in chemistry from the University of British Columbia with Professor Edward Piers and was a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Andrew E. Greene at Université Joseph Fournier (France), and Prof. Tomislav Rovis at Colorado State University (USA). His group works on the development of new reactions for organic synthesis and the synthesis of natural products with promising biological activity.
- Prof. Pilgram teaches courses on historiography and early-modern France, Renaissance art and warfare. He has written about religion and warfare in 17th-century France, and is currently researching the French response to the English revolution of 1688.
- Prof. Pioffet specializes in French literature of the Ancien Régime period (i.e. 16th-18th centuries). Her work focuses mainly on narrative literature (accounts of voyages, utopias, novels, tales, short stories, lampoons and historiography), but also, since 2007, on occasional poetry, intimacy writing and cartography.
- Professor Petrowska studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne in New York, musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, and composition with Gyorgy Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany, She has premiered more than one hundred works by leading North American and European composers and has appeared in solo recital and with orchestras on major concert stages throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan.
- Professor Raventós-Pons’ areas of specialization include contemporary Peninsular Spanish literature. She is the author of Rupturas espaciales. Imagen y palabra en textos catalanes, New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2003.
Prof. Raventós-Pons’ primary field of specialization is contemporary Peninsular Spanish literature. She has a Diploma in Visual Arts from Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos of Barcelona, Spain and pursued her studies in the Musée du Louvre (France) and Museo del Prado (Spain). Esther Raventós-Pons' research and teaching interest are interdisciplinary and include contemporary Hispanic literature, art, women's literature and critical theory.
- Prof. Rickard’s paintings have been exhibited in France and are found in a number of private collections in Europe. A prolific author, Professor Rickard's writing credits include scholarly articles, short stories, plays and poetry; much of her poetry has been performed in both Spain and New York.
- Harriet Rosenberg, one of the founders of York’s Health & Society Program, has done field work in France, Italy, North America and the Kalahari Desert of Botswana and Namibia. She has worked with a variety of community groups on environmental and women's health issues.
- Among Prof. Rosienski-Pellerin’s areas of specialization are twentieth-century French literatures as well as Children's Literature (France and Quebec).
- Dr. Shen received his PhD degree from INSEAD. Professor Shen’s current research projects, sponsored by New York University and York University, investigate the origin of American legal institutions from 1890 to 1990 as well as the effects of initial public offerings on competitive dynamics.
- Prof. Singer has written much about the origins of the modern nation-state, more particularly on France and the French Revolution. Has also written about Cornelius Castoriadis, Jean Baudrillard and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and translated works by these authors.
- Yvonne Singer is a practising artist whose exhibitions include The Trouble with Translation (tour - Germany, France) and The Veiled Room (ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany). She was also invited to present her work at the Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art in 2011.
- Casey Sokol, pianist and musical explorer, has toured extensively as a soloist and ensemble player in Europe and North America. Performance highlights include the Pro Musica Nova Festival, Bremen, and O Kanada Festival, Berlin, Germany; Avignon Festival and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival; and many other notable venues in Europe, the USA and Japan. His creative collaborations include the conception and production of Cagewake, a music-circus with 150 performers marking the passing of composer John Cage, and the adaptation of the medieval mystery play, The Clown of God, with New York director André Serban.
- In her research into the roles of the various structures in the brain that are thought to play a role in face processing, Prof. Steeves collaborates with members of the Department of Psychology at Durham University (UK), the Faculty of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and INSERM U455, Toulouse (France).
- Prof. Stuerzlinger collaborates with O. Chapuis and N. Roussel from inSitu, Paris-Sud (France) on a project titled “Towards Fully Adaptable User Interfaces .” This project presents a new technology that lets end-users adapt the user interface of arbitrary applications to their needs without resorting to coding.
- Prof. Tatilon specializes in translation studies, French and general linguistics, stylistics and feminisation in French. He contributes to the work of the functional linguists of the Paris School.
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
- Professor Tweyman’s research interests are early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, epistemology, ethics, and research in the philosophy of Descartes and of David Hume. He is currently the Master of Vanier College at York University.
- Prof. Uritescu holds PhDs from the University of Timisoara, Romania, and from l’Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. In collaboration with I. Stan, Prof. Uritescu has published The New Romanian Linguistic Atlas – Crisana (Romanian Academy Press, 2 vols). For Vol. I, he earned the prize of the Romanian Academy in Linguistics (1998). He is Associated Research Director at the Romanian Academy Institute for Linguistics and Literary History ‘Sextil Puscariu’ in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 2011, he submitted to the Romanian Academy Press the 3rd volume of the same work, carried out under his coordination, with the collaboration of three researchers trained by him, one in Canada and two at the above-mentioned institute. Prof. Uritescu also contributes to Atlas linguarum Europae and Atlas linguistique roman, two multilingual linguistic atlases carried out in Europe.
- Colleen Wagner’s first stage play, Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in 1989. Her play The Monument has been produced across North America, Australia and Germany, and was the first commercial production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. The Monument has been translated into French, German, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and French. She is also a recipient of a SSHRC research/creation grant 2009-12) which has taken her to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and the Sahara) to research and create a female-centred heroic myth from the actual stories of women and girls who have survived trauma in post-conflict zones in Africa. Colleen has also done research work for Home, a play about repatriation, that took her to Estonia and East Berlin, with an early draft of the play being performed in French at Festival d’été, Pont a Mousson, France.
- Mary Wiktorowicz is one of the principal investigators, along with Joel Lexchin and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Professor Wiktorowicz is a co-author of “Keeping an eye on drugs...keeping patients safe: Active monitoring systems for drug safety and effectiveness in Canada and internationally,” commissioned by the Health Council of Canada (2010, with J. Lexchin, K. Moscou, A. Silversides and L. Eggertson).
- With a focus on resource and environmental management, tourism and recreation planning, and protected area management, as well as international development, much of Professor Wilkinson’s research is international in nature. He has published widely on these topics, including numerous publications on the Caribbean, Indonesia, and Europe. Prof. Wilkinson has been a visiting researcher at the Centre International de Recherche et d'Etudes Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence, France.
- In her research on the generation of immune diversity, specifically in the genetics of V(D)J recombination and autoimmune diseases, Dr. Wu collaborates with Professors James Kaufman and Gillian Griffiths, University of Cambridge (UK); Dr. Ellen Hsu, CUNY (New York City, USA); Dr. Susanna Lewis (Boston, USA); Dr. Ana Cumano, Pasteur Institute (Paris, France); and Dr. Antonio Coutinho, Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Portugal). Link to personal site
Georgia
Walter Tholen (Mathematics & Statistics)
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
Germany
Sabah Alnasseri (Political Science)
- Sabah Alnasseri’s teaching interests are politics, economy, and society in the Middle East and North Africa, Marxian theory, regulation theory, and global politics. He obtained his PhD from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Prior to coming to York, he lectured at Frankfurt and Kassel universities in Germany. In research he is interested in the internationalization of the state in the Middle East and North Africa, development, (new) social movements, grassroots democracy and civil society in the region.
- Professor Argyle conducts research on the formal and thematic role of German allusions in English fiction; the English reception of German women novelists of the Vormärz (pre-1848 Revolution literature), and transformation of women’s life-writings into male Victorian fiction. She has also published literary translations from German into English and the reverse. She has published the book, Germany as Model and Monster: Allusions in English Fiction, 1830s-1930s (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002).
- Professor Armborst’s research and teaching interests are Germanic linguistics; language pedagogy; and business German.
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Professor Baker’s research interests are ethics, philosophy of mind and political philosophy. Dr. Baker is currently working on Kant's moral theory, and the topics of trust and friendship. Her recently co-edited book is entitled Group Rights.
- Professor Barta has worked as both a writer and director at the Romanian National Film Board in Bucharest, and at the Austrian Film Board. Her films have been screened at prestigious international festivals such as Bilbao, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Bucharest, and Chicago.
- Prof. Bernardi’s theatre and opera productions have been presented in various European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy), including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Frankfurt Opera (March 2007). Recently he collaborated with Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues for a new dance piece to be premiered in Paris in November 2011.
- Ellen Bialystok is a Distinguished Research Professor whose specialization is bilingualism. She has co-authored articles with many colleagues around the world, including A. Blaye (Universite de Provence, France); Z. Wodniecka (Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland); D.W. Green (University College London, UK); X. Feng (Nanjing University, China) and C. McBride-Chang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China). She has taught in various international institutions and her work has received media attention around the world.
- Among Professor Biehl’s areas of expertise are international and green supply chain management. He conducts joint research with colleagues across Canada and the USA. Professor Biehl has held appointments at the International University (IU) in Germany and DuPree College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, and has been a visiting professor at HHL Graduate School of Management in Leipzig, the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, and the German Graduate School of Management and Law, among others.
- Professor Blum’s research interests are social theory, justice and law, language and knowledge and culture. He is the director of the Culture of Cities project that analyzes the urban experience in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin, and Dublin. It examines the tensions between features of cities that seem to be unique and also the broader problems that the cities share. Dr. Blum received his PhD from the University of Chicago, was US National Institutes of Mental Health Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard, and was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, King’s College, England. Blum has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the US and the UK including the University of Wales, the Institute of Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the New College of the University of South Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including The Imaginative Structure of the City; Theorizing; On the Beginning of Social Inquiry (with Peter McHugh, Stanley Raffel and Daniel Foss) and Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences (with Peter McHugh).
- Dr. Warren Crichlow teaches graduate courses in Cultural Studies; Globalization and Migration, Museums, Memory and Pedagogical Practice; and Urban Education, as well as undergraduate courses in Foundations of Education and Popular Culture. His doctorate in education is from the University of Rochester (New York), and he held a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Black Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). He has been a visiting scholar at University of California Los Angeles, Monash University (Australia), The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (Australia), and Pedagogische Hochschule Freiburg/University of Education (Germany). Professor Crichlow has published on topics related to race and education, arts and education, and film, and visual culture. He co-edited: Race Identity and Representation in Education (Routledge, vol. 1, 1993 and vol. 2, 2005), and Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, a special issue of Cultural Studies (1995). He has authored articles appearing in The Journal of Negro Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Urban Education, Discourse, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Afterimage and PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas Current research initiatives include a project on pedagogies of collective memory, identity and commemoration practice to be conducted in Kigali, Rwanda around the 20th anniversary of the genocide, 2012.
- Professor Eberlein’s research examines international business, especially concerning European integration and multi-level governance. One of his current research projects is “New Modes of Governance and Regulatory Networks in the EU.” He has taught at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France), and has been an EU Exchange Guest Lecturer at the University of Tampere (Finland).
- Vice-President Academic and Provost Sheila Embleton has been very active internationally, and in 2005 she received an award from the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) for leadership in internationalization. Her particular academic areas of research are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical linguistics, onomastics, and women and language. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Romance, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. In 2007, while visiting India as part of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s delegation, Dr. Embleton signed an MOU with the University of Pune for a new Ontario-Maharashtra-Goa student exchange agreement. Dr. Embleton is President-elect of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.
- Professor Funck’s teaching and research interests include the social and cultural history of modern Germany such as nobility and elites, military and sports, urban history (cities and war, global cities), and recent international history combining the history of international relations with the (national) history of societies. In his current research project, he analyses the creation of the international (and later global) air-traffic system and the experiences of modern air-travel from the 1920s to the 1960s as part of a general history of globalization.
- Prof. Geva specializes in commercial, financial and banking law. He has held visiting positions in the United States, at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Utah and Northwestern University as well as having taught in the summer program of Duke University in Hong Kong; in Israel at Tel Aviv University; in Australia in Monash, Deakin and Melbourne Universities; and in France at the faculté de droit et de science politique d'Aix-Marseille. He was a Visitor at the law faculties of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany. Under the IMF technical assistance program, he has advised and drafted key financial sector legislation for the authorities of several countries, particularly on missions for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, and Sri Lanka.
- Prior to joining Schulich, Professor Giesler was a research fellow at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and a visiting scholar at Stockholm University's School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. from Witten/Herdecke University (Germany). A native of Germany, Professor Giesler has a decade of entertainment industry experience.
- Verena Gottschling completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Mainz (Germany). Prior to joining the Department of Philosophy, Verena was an Assistant Professor at both the University of Mainz and the University of Tuebingen. Her current research examines philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, especially cognitive architecture, nativism, perceptual representations, non-linguistic thinking, decision-making and
emotion.
- Jarek Gryz has been the Canadian lead on a Canada/EU International Academic Mobility Program that links Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), University of Crete (Greece) and Warsaw Technical University (Poland) with three Canadian universities: Carleton, Alberta and York.
- In 2004 Prof. Harris was appointed by the German Minister for Education and Resesarch as a member of the Perspectives Commission of the Juelich Research Centre. He and his colleagues are one of the most experienced groups in the world in the application of mid and near infra red tunable diode lasers (TDL) for atmospheric research. They are part of the Canadian contribution to the International Collaboration on Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transportation (ICARTT). Since the movement of air knows no boundaries, their work often includes international collaborations with government, industry, other universities and agencies. They have a close collaborative relationship with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany and a range of spectroscopic techniques are in use or under development at the laboratories there and at York. A new high precision, fast response diode laser spectrometer at York can be deployed aboard Canadian and US research aircraft operated by the Atmospheric Environment Service and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, respectively
- Dr. Laurence Harris is studying the way that different senses are combined by the brain. Examples include the visual and vestibular system's role in orientation and self-motion perception; and vision and hearing's role in localizing events in space and time. Dr. Harris is particularly interested in the way these combinations can adapt to changing demands brought about by unusual environments such as the microgravity of space or by clinical conditions such as Parkinson's syndrome. His laboratory employs a number of techniques to address these questions including psychophysics and physiological measurements such as blood pressure, reaction times and eye movements. Unusual environments are created using virtual reality, parabolic flights, moving and unusually constructed rooms, and access to the International Space Station.
Dr. Harris has extensive international collaborations. The project on the International Space Station involved collaborations with NASA through the Canadian Space Agency. He is presently carrying out studies in France and Germany at the Rangueil University Hospital in Toulouse and the DLR Institute for Aerospace Medicine in Köln-Porz, again sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency to explore the cognitive consequences of bedrest. He is presently hosting Dr. Fred Mast, who is a visiting sabbaticant from the University of Bern in Switzerland and has previously hosted Dr. Marcus Lappe from Muenster University, Germany. He is serving on the dissertation committee of a student at the Universite de la Mediterannee in Marseille, France. He is partially sponsored by a Von Humboldt award for collaborations with Dr. Reiner Herpers at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University (Germany) on the perception of self-motion. He has active collaborations with Dr. Andy Smith at the University of London. He is planning future collaborations with Dr. MacIntyre (Paris), Dr. Li Li (Hong Kong) and Dr. Kenzo Sakurai (Japan). As director the Centre for Vision Research at York he is dedicated to encouraging international links of the centre's members and furthering the international reputation of York University.
- Professor Innes, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Distinguished Research Professor, holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. He is the author of, among others, Modern British Drama - The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has published widely on modern drama and theatre history, in particular the development of political and avant-garde theatrical movements in Germany and France, including Brecht and Artaud; and on the work of stage directors. He is general editor of the Cambridge Directors in Perspective series, co-editor of the Lives of the Theatre series, and an editor of Modern Drama.
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- Professor Kater's research and teaching interest is in the history of modern Germany, with strong emphasis not only on the political, but also the social and cultural in the widest sense. The specialties he is internationally known for are the rise of Nazism and the Third Reich, including the Holocaust. To date he has published seven monographs. He is author of Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits (New York/Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000).
- Prof. Keil is co-investigator on a research project entitled “Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt.” The primary objective of the research is to broaden and deepen understanding of regional governance through an innovative comparative project. As Director of York’s City Institute, Prof. Keil has also organized joint conferences on urban issues with Fudan University, China, one held at Fudan, the other at York. Prof. Keil is co-editor of The Global Cities Reader (with N. Brenner, Routledge, 2006), and co-author of Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles (with G. Desfor, University of Arizona Press, Nature and Society Series, 2004).
- Prof. Kipfer is co-investigator on the project, “Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt,” which aims to broaden and deepen understanding of regional governance through an innovative comparative project.
He has also conducted case studies on second-tier global cities in North America and Europe (Toronto and Zurich), examining the role of urban social movements and local-regional politics and planning in processes of transnational urban restructuring between the late 1960s and the early 2000s.
- Christina Kraenzle’s research and teaching interests are German studies, cultural studies, transnational literature, and German romanticism.
- Prof. Krylov and his York colleagues have collaborated with chemists at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (Germany) to demonstrate how a newly developed capillary electrophoresis method can be used to screen potential enzyme inhibitors. Termed transverse diffusion of laminar flow profiles (TDLFP), it represents the first effective method for mixing together different reactants within a capillary tube.
- Brenda Longfellow is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and film theorist. Her productions include the feature-length drama Gerda (1992), on the life and times of Gerda Munsinger; and A Balkan Journey/Fragments From the Other Side of War (1996). Her most recent film is the critically-acclaimed Tina in Mexico (2002), a feature documentary on the silent film star and avant-garde photographer Tina Modotti, which won Bronze at the Columbus Film Festival, and a Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival. As the recipient of a research/creation grant under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's new pilot program in the fine arts, Professor Longfellow is currently developing Weather Report, a feature-length documentary film and website exploring the politics and impacts of climate change in India, China and Canada.
- Professor Maas’ research interests include comparative and European politics, citizenship, migration policy, nationalism, democratic theory, sovereignty, evolution of the state, federalism, Canada, the European Union, the Netherlands, France, Germany, regional integration and international law. He is the author of Creating European Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
- Heather MacRae’s current research focuses on gender politics in the European Union. She has two main projects under way: the first looks at the influence of multi-level governance on the activities of the German women’s movement and the redefinition of parental leave benefits. Her second area of interest examines the unintentional gender consequences of supposedly “gender neutral” EU policies.
- Professor Marchessault holds a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization. One key area that Dr. Marchessault examines is the role of artists in the growth of large-scale centres that combine new media technologies in the areas of art, science and education, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Hexagram in Montreal and the European Media Lab in Dublin. In addition to her previous research on the digital cultures of North America and Europe, Dr. Marchessault extends her work to study the digital arts in a variety of urban centres such as Mexico City, Senegal and Tokyo to understand new spatial transformations and cultural environments created by global networks. Prof. Marchessault is also a co-investigator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to study the Culture of Cities in Toronto, Berlin, Montreal and Dublin.
- Prior to joining Schulich as a professor of policy, Prof. Matten was the Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics and Director of the Centre for Research into Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) and a research fellow with the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School (UK). He continues to hold visiting professorships at these institutions. Prof. Matten has also lectured at the University of Swansea, Wales (UK) and Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany). He is co-author (with Andrew Crane) of Business Ethics: A European Perspective – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2004 [best selling business ethics textbook in Europe]), which won the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne.
- Sylvie Morin collaborates with the group of Prof. Dr. Olaf Magnussen at the Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel to investigate two particular aspects of metal electrode-position processes.
- Professor Mueller’s research and teaching interests include contemporary German cinema and literature, film history and German cultural studies. She was accredited as a Diplomlehrer by the University of Leipzig and received her M. Phil., Ph.D. from the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
- Gabriele Muller’s research and teaching interests include contemporary German cinema and literature, film history and German cultural studies.
- Professor Paasche’s fields of interest are education, urban sociology; classical theory, social change/ social history and methodology. His current research interests are participatory research in the community and social history in early 20th-century Germany.
- Prof. Peacock was educated in England (at the universities of Sussex and Cambridge); he taught at the Institute for Economics and Philosophy, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany, and at the Institute for Institutional Economics and Economic Policy, Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Erfurt University, Germany. His research focuses on most aspects of the relationship
between philosophy and economics.
- Prof. Pitt’s current research explores paradoxes of autonomy in professional life from the vantage point of three realms: the political, the philosophical and the psychological. Using in-depth interviews, Alice Pitt and her co-investigator Anne Phelan also explore teachers’ understandings of autonomy at the beginning of their careers, and late mid-career, and in times of social change. This latter case study involves interviews with teachers in Berlin, Germany whose teaching careers have been affected by significant political and demographic changes.
- Professor Petrowska studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne in New York, musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, and composition with Gyorgy Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany, She has premiered more than one hundred works by leading North American and European composers and has appeared in solo recital and with orchestras on major concert stages throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan.
- Klaus Rupprecht, director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, was formerly consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto. Rupprecht has more than thirty years of experience as a German diplomat, including posts in Germany, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Prior to being appointed consul general in 2002, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and then director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a master’s degree in comparative law from the University of Iowa, and speaks six languages, including German, Mandarin, English and French.
- Yvonne Singer is a practising artist whose exhibitions include The Trouble with Translation (tour - Germany, France) and The Veiled Room (ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany). She was also invited to present her work at the Goteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art in 2011.
- Dagmar Soennecken is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled “The Growth of Judicial Power and the Admission of Refugees: Comparing Canada and Germany,” which has been supported by an SSHRC doctoral studies grant. Among her research interests are comparative politics & policy in Europe and North America.
- Casey Sokol, pianist and musical explorer, has toured extensively as a soloist and ensemble player in Europe and North America. Performance highlights include the Pro Musica Nova Festival, Bremen, and O Kanada Festival, Berlin, Germany; Avignon Festival and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival; and many other notable venues in Europe, the USA and Japan. His creative collaborations include the conception and production of Cagewake, a music-circus with 150 performers marking the passing of composer John Cage, and the adaptation of the medieval mystery play, The Clown of God, with New York director André Serban.
- Diana Spokiene’s research and teaching interests are modern German literature, inter/cultural studies, gender and cultural production and small nations in the context of globalization.
- Among Professor Steigerwald’s research interests are German Romanticism and idealism. Currently she is working on a monograph on German natural philosophy at the turn of the 19th century, for which she holds a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her work focuses upon the relationships between science, philosophy and aesthetics in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods, particularly in the German lands.
- Professor Steinisch’s research interests include the comparative political and social history of Germany and the United States.
- Dr. Andreas Strebinger teaches Brand Management, Market Research and International Marketing. Before joining York in 2006, he taught at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). His research focuses on brand management, particularly on domestic and international brand architecture, brand portfolio management, brand equity, brand personality and e-branding. He has received awards from the American Marketing Association, the German Brands Association, the Austrian Advertising Research Association, and Henkel Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Stregbinger has written three books on brand management and country-of-origin effects. In 2005, Prof. Strebinger was the chair of an international academic conference on Brand Management in Vienna. His latest book on Brand Architecture provides an in-depth discussion of scholarly research and practical experiences regarding the pros and cons of product vs. corporate branding strategies as well as of local vs. global branding. It appeared in 2010 in its 2nd edition in the German Gabler Verlag. Currently, he is working on an international research project on the effects of perceived brand globalness on brand quality and prestige image among young urban consumers in Japan, Canada, and Europe.
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
- Prof. Tourlakis is the Canadian coordinator of a Canada-EU Mobility consortium that includes faculty and student exchanges with the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and the University of Crete (Greece). He also maintains close links with another of York’s exchange partners, the University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
- Colleen Wagner’s first stage play, Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in 1989. Her play The Monument has been produced across North America, Australia and Germany, and was the first commercial production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. The Monument has been translated into French, German, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and French. She is also a recipient of a SSHRC research/creation grant 2009-12) which has taken her to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and the Sahara) to research and create a female-centred heroic myth from the actual stories of women and girls who have survived trauma in post-conflict zones in Africa. Colleen has also done research work for Home, a play about repatriation, that took her to Estonia and East Berlin, with an early draft of the play being performed in French at Festival d’été, Pont a Mousson, France.
- Professor Webber’s research focuses on problems of interculturality that arise in attempts to negotiate differences in understanding historical, cultural and linguistic features of North America and Europe, particularly Germany. He is a recipient of the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse, the German equivalent of the Order of Canada, for his contributions to Canadian-German and Christian-Jewish understanding. His current research involves questions of comparability rooted in a theory of metaphor and applied to such varied situations as the divergence of liberal and conservative thought in 19th-century German literature, the work of Franz Kafka, understandings of 20th-century German-Jewish relations, and Holocaust comparisons. A keen observer of Germany, Mark Webber has been an election observer for German federal elections on three occasions. Mark Webber was the founding co-director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and, on the Ontario side, of the Ontario / Baden-Württemberg Student Exchange Program. Since 2000, he has co-directed the Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education, which brings together students, teachers, journalists, and researchers from Canada, Germany and Poland.
- Professor Peer Zumbansen is the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School. Prior to joining the faculty, he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt and spent the academic year 2001-02 as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Idaho College of Law (USA). Together with Professor Russell Miller of the University of Idaho College of Law, Professor Zumbansen is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the monthly English-language legal periodical German Law Journal - Review of Developments in German, European & International Jurisprudence (http://www.germanlawjournal.com ), and of the Annual of German & European Law , a hardbound collection of articles and book reviews, published every year by Berghahn Books. He is also co-editor of the German legal quarterly, Kritische Justiz. In 2007 Prof. Zumbansen founded the Critical Research Laboratory for multimedia projects on global cities [CRL], funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (co-investigators: Patricia Wood [York Geography], Brenda Longfellow [York Film]). The CRL hosts a weekly Reading Lab, an interdisciplinary research seminar on urban governance methodology and a number of global cities-related research projects.
Greece
Jon Baturin (Visual Arts)
- Jon Baturin is currently working on a series of collaborative photo-based and sculptural projects which deal with the fragility of the human species and subjective interpretations of both hope and loss. Prof. Baturin's research process is anchored in his collaborative work with international institutions as artist-in-residence. His international residencies have included the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), Tallinn Art University (Estonia), Athens School of Art (Greece) and Tasmania School of Art (Australia). He is a co-founder of Critical Media, an international not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote and develop challenging international cultural projects in diverse media. Large international museum projects have been presented in major venues in Budapest – Hungary, Lubjiana – Slovenia, Auckland - New Zealand, Hobart – Tasmania, and Sydney – Australia.
- Professor Clark teaches ancient Greek culture and literature, and was the winner of the University-Wide Teaching Award in 2002. His research interests include archaic Greece, Homeric epic, rhetoric, narrative theory, and the classical tradition. He is the author of Out of Line: Homeric Composition Beyond the Hexameter (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997); A Matter of Style (Oxford, 2002); Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self (2010); and Exploring Greek Myth (Blackwell, forthcoming). His current project is a study of myth in the
Greek travel writer Pausanias.
- Jarek Gryz has been the Canadian lead on a Canada/EU International Academic Mobility Program that links Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), University of Crete (Greece) and Warsaw Technical University (Poland) with three Canadian universities: Carleton, Alberta and York.
- Anne-Marie Lewis teaches Classical Greek and Latin. Her research interests are Roman literature and the classical tradition.
- Professor Métraux's research interests include Greek and Roman art, architecture and urban planning; relationships between the visual arts and literary and social developments in antiquity; and the intersection of art and science in Greek and Roman art history. Among his numerous scholarly publications are writings on Greek city-planning and political space in Greece and Rome, as well as articles and monographs on the archaeological excavations of which he has been a member, in Turkey (Sardis), Italy (Francolise) and Tunisia (Utica and Carthage). His book on Greek medical science and art, Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth Century Greece, was awarded the Raymond Klibansky Prize by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation. His most recent publication is a volume of essays on "ordinary" Roman art, to which he contributed an article on Walter Benjamin and the commercial arts in late Roman times.
- Professor Moyal’s research interests are Descartes’ metaphysics and philosophy of science. He also has an interest in Ancient Greek Philosophy. He is the author of La critique cartésienne de la raison (Montreal & Paris, 1997) and editor of René Descartes: Critical Assessments (4 vols, London & New York, 1991).
- Professor Naddaf is a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy, particularly of the origins of philosophy, the Pre-Socratic and Plato. His current research is on the origin and development of allegory and inspiration in ancient Greece on which he has published several essays. He is the co-author and author of several books including, The Greek Concept of Nature (State University of New York Press, SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2005). He has also published numerous articles and essays in ancient philosophy.
- Prof. Potvin collaborates with the Falaras group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Centre of Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS" (Greece).
- Prof. Tourlakis is the Canadian coordinator of a Canada-EU Mobility consortium that includes faculty and student exchanges with the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and the University of Crete (Greece). He also maintains close links with another of York’s exchange partners, the University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
- Professor Trevett’s research interests include the social, economic and political history of classical Athens, and Greek oratory.
Hungary
Jon Baturin (Visual Arts)
- Jon Baturin is currently working on a series of collaborative photo-based and sculptural projects which deal with the fragility of the human species and subjective interpretations of both hope and loss. Prof. Baturin's research process is anchored in his collaborative work with international institutions as artist-in-residence. His international residencies have included the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), Tallinn Art University (Estonia), Athens School of Art (Greece) and Tasmania School of Art (Australia). He is a co-founder of Critical Media, an international not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote and develop challenging international cultural projects in diverse media. Large international museum projects have been presented in major venues in Budapest – Hungary, Lubjiana – Slovenia, Auckland - New Zealand, Hobart – Tasmania, and Sydney – Australia.
- Professor Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, focuses his research on international business strategy and management. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as a member of the advisory board of the International Management Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. As dean of the Schulich School of Business, he has overseen the development of international degree programs at the master’s and bachelor’s levels, and the establishment of Schulich executive education centres in China and India.
- Professor Reed has a wide range of research interests in the field of business and society, including corporate governance, community economic development, business ethics and development ethics. Editor (with Sanjoy Mukherjee): Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development (2003). He has taught at the Budapest University of Economics and was the Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at the Management Centre for Human Values at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta.
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
Ireland
Marcia Annisette (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Annisette currently is working on a Human Rights project with Australian academics Susan Greer and Ken McPhail. She is the author of “Joined for the common purpose: The establishment of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland as an All-Ireland Institution” (Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management 4:1, 2007, with Philip O'Regan), which was the Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008. She has also written on the history of the Spanish banking industry and the accountancy profession in England. She sits on the editorial boards of numerous international journals in Australia, USA, UK, New Zealand, Canada and Portugal. She has worked for Price Waterhouse in Trinidad, and has written on the subject of accounting in Trinidad and Tobago. Prof. Annisette is also working on a Human Rights project with Australian academics Susan Greer and Ken McPhail.
- Professor Blum’s research interests are social theory, justice and law, language and knowledge and culture. He is the director of the Culture of Cities project that analyzes the urban experience in Montreal, Toronto, Berlin, and Dublin. It examines the tensions between features of cities that seem to be unique and also the broader problems that the cities share. Dr. Blum received his PhD from the University of Chicago, was US National Institutes of Mental Health Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard, and was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, King’s College, England. Blum has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the US and the UK including the University of Wales, the Institute of Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the New College of the University of South Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including The Imaginative Structure of the City; Theorizing; On the Beginning of Social Inquiry (with Peter McHugh, Stanley Raffel and Daniel Foss) and Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences (with Peter McHugh).
- Professor Brown is a medievalist whose research areas include the art of medieval Ireland, Britain and the Norman world, with special emphasis on the results of the meeting of different artistic heritages. The founding director of the Registry of Stained Glass Windows in Canada, Professor Brown also teaches the history of stained glass and investigates 19th and 20th century architectural glass produced in Canada or imported to Canada from abroad. She has written a history and bibliography of the Bayeux Tapestry.
- Stephen Gaetz’s commitment is to a research agenda that foregrounds social justice and attempts to make research relevant to policy and program development. His research on homelessness has focused on their economic strategies, health, education and legal and justice issues, as well as solutions to homelessness from both a Canadian and international perspective. Professor Gaetz is the director of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network and the Homeless Hub (http://www.homelesshub.ca), projects dedicated to mobilizing homelessness research so that it has a greater impact on policy, planning and service provision, thereby contributing to solutions to end homelessness in Canada.
- Professor Hay’s research interests include the legal and social history of the judiciary and central courts of England, 1701-1820; English criminal law in the same period; enforcement and evolution of the contract of employment (master and servant) in England, Scotland and Ireland to 1875; and magistrates and summary justice and the English court of King’s Bench. He has recently edited (with Paul Craven) Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), a volume in Studies in Legal History, the series of the American Society for Legal History. Other recent work includes the history of the English high court’s criminal jurisdiction (Crown Side Cases in the Court of King's Bench, forthcoming). He is presently writing about the administration of the criminal law in Georgian England. He has been a visitor at Yale, Warwick, and Columbia law schools.
- Professor Jenkins’s research interests include Irish migration in comparative geographical perspective; migration, diaspora and nationalism; and Canada and the British imperial world. He currently holds a research grant for a project titled “Placing Ireland: mapping the diasporic imaginations of Irish migrants and their descendants in North America 1900-1930” (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006-09).
- Professor Marchessault holds a Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization. One key area that Dr. Marchessault examines is the role of artists in the growth of large-scale centres that combine new media technologies in the areas of art, science and education, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, Hexagram in Montreal and the European Media Lab in Dublin. In addition to her previous research on the digital cultures of North America and Europe, Dr. Marchessault extends her work to study the digital arts in a variety of urban centres such as Mexico City, Senegal and Tokyo to understand new spatial transformations and cultural environments created by global networks. Prof. Marchessault is also a co-investigator on a Major Collaborative Research Initiative to study the Culture of Cities in Toronto, Berlin, Montreal and Dublin.
- Professor Nicol is an award-winning video artist and documentary filmmaker whose work is grounded in the tradition of the artist as activist, probing issues of human rights, social justice and struggles for social change. Nicol leads a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)’s Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) awards. Since 2009, Nicol has been bringing together a strategic alliance of partners with proven capacity in international LGBT human rights work with grass roots partners in Canada, India, East Africa, Southern Africa, and the Caribbean.
Italy
Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Professor Bakker’s research includes feminist perspectives of international public policy. She is an expert on gender-sensitive budgeting and has worked with the United Nations, UNIFEM, UNDP, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the OECD on these questions. She has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), the University of Helsinki (Finland) and at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA).
- Prof. Bernardi’s theatre and opera productions have been presented in various European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy), including Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, at the Frankfurt Opera (March 2007). Recently he collaborated with Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues for a new dance piece to be premiered in Paris in November 2011.
- Professor Brooke’s research interests include the social, cultural and political history of 20th-century Britain. He has completed a book-length study of the British Labour Party and questions of sexuality between the 1880s and the present day entitled Sexual Politics and published by Oxford University Press.
- Professor Buccheri teaches courses in Italian Cinema, Literature and Society; 19th Century Italian Literature; and Mapping the Italian Experience in Canada. He has published on 19th and 20th century Italian writers. He is currently working on a study of myth and dialectics, titled "In the Shadow of Orpheus," which attempts to trace the history of Greek myth and its entanglement with logos or dialectical reason.
- Professor Cohen is a historian of Medieval and early modern Europe. She is the co-author of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (with Thomas V. Cohen,Greenwood Press, 2001) and of Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates (with Thomas V. Cohen, University of Toronto Press, 1993).
- Professor Cohen works on Renaissance Italy, Rome especially, and that city’s rural hinterland. His take is a mix of cultural and political anthropology. He studies gestures and symbols and decodes actions. As a writer, he often uses microhistory, telling fine-grained stories about the lives of ordinary Romans. He looks to coalitions, conspiracies, trades, bluffs, dares, and wily dodges. A devotee of style and vividness in scholarly writing, he tells stories about seductions, betrayals, conspiracies, murders, and poisonings, not just for the tales themselves, but for the clues they offer about the culture of negotiation and the habits of coalition that made a distant world work. His current main project is a book on a rebellious village high in mountains east of Rome.
- Professor Colussi Arthur’s area of specialization is Italian language and second language pedagogy. She has published articles on the use of various teaching techniques, and comprehensive overviews of Italian language texts, and she has produced teacher's manuals. Prof. Colussi Arthur is active in York University’s exchange program with the University of Bologna.
- Prof. Connolly, Director of the LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution, is involved in three cross-cultural studies of adolescents’ romantic relationships and dating violence. They are investigating whether the patterns of romantic development and dating aggression seen in Canada (and North America) are also the patterns seen in other countries. They are also interested in social-contextual processes that may account for cross-national differences. One project examines dating violence incidence and predictors in Canada and Italy. A second project, in collaboration with Professor Kathy Li of Xi’an University, examines patterns of romantic development in Chinese high school and university students. A third project, supported by a Shastri Student Research Award to Amrit Dhariwal, will examine romantic development among late adolescents in India.
- Professor Costa teaches courses on Italian Cinema, Literature and Society, and Dante and Medieval Italian Literature.
- Professor Davey is a sculptor whose research has taken him to Carrara, Italy, where he created a site-specific work, and more recently to an artist-in-residency and group exhibition in England, which led to the establishment of an annual student exchange program with the University of Northumbria. He has held lectureships in sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.
- Prof. Fisher-Stitt was the York lead on a Canada/EC Mobility Program, “Cultural Production in an International Environment,” that linked three Canadian universities (UQAM, Nipissing, York) with three European universities -- Hogeschool Rotterdam (Netherlands), University of Trento (Italy) and HUMAK (Finland).
- Prof. Goel is interested in understanding the cognitive, computational, and neural basis of rational decision-making and emotional processing in humans, and more recently, the interaction between the two. He collaborates or has collaborated internationally with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, (UK), the Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (USA), the Dept. of Neurology, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy), the Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS Lyon (France), La Laguna University, Tenerife (Spain), San Camillo Hospital, Venice (Italy) and the University of Sheffield (UK).
- Professor Hellman is a specialist in European (especially Italian) left-wing and labour politics and 20th-century Marxism.
- Dr. Iannacito- Provenzano’s research interests are Romance linguistics, dialectology and Southern Italian dialect literature, cultural anthropology, second language pedagogy, and the father-daughter relationship in Italian and North-American Italian literature. Dr. Iannacito has published on the history of the Molise region and on morpho-phonological and syntactic processes in the Molisan dialects. Her most recent book is Il dialetto molisano di Villa San Michele (IS): Fonologia, morfologia, sintassi e lessico (Ottawa: Legas, 2006).
- Professor Kipping is currently finishing a book on The Consultancy Business in Historical and Comparative Perspective (which will be published by Oxford University Press). It covers the development of management consulting as a business activity in the major industrialized regions (Europe, North America and Japan) from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. He is also looking at the role of consulting firms in the introduction of the multidivisional form of organization in European banks. He has held appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). Prof. Kipping has also held visiting professorships at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, and Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) (France); Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, and Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan); and Università Bocconi, Institute for Economic History, Milan, Italy.
- Prof. Korrick has taught field studies courses in Rome and Venice and has written on 16th century Italian art and music.
- Among Prof. Kowal’s specializations are general and applied Spanish linguistics, history of Spanish language and grammar, and contrastive Romance linguistics (Spanish – French/Italian/Romanian).
- Professor Lawee is a contributor to the website (eventually to be a hyper-textbook), “Medieval Spains: Antiquity to the New World,” an initiative sponsored by Stanford University's Humanities Laboratory. His primary research interests lie in medieval and early modern Judaism and Jewish history, with an emphasis on intellectual history. Much of his research has focused on Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508), a courtier in three major European centres (Portugal, Spain, Italy) who stands out as one of Judaism's leading scholars at the turn of the sixteenth century.
- Prof. Legerstee is internationally known for her research on the way that cognitive and social factors interact in the developmental process. She has been an invited speaker at conferences in Germany, Japan and Italy, and her book, Infants' Sense of People: Precursors to a Theory of Mind (Cambridge University Press, 2005), is being translated into Italian by professors at the Catholic University of Milano (Italy).
- Anne-Marie Lewis teaches Classical Greek and Latin. Her research interests are Roman literature and the classical tradition.
- Michael Longford is one of a group of Canadian and Italian researchers who are working within the metaphoric trajectory inaugurated by Marshall McLuhan to explore the 'Marconi Galaxy'. Their international research efforts investigate how the wireless imaginary has shaped our everyday practices. This research project coincides with the Marconi Foundation's year-long celebration of Marconi’s 1909 Noble Prize in physics. It is led by the University of Bologna (Italy).
- His primary scholarly interests are in the law of war, and international criminal law. Among his many published works are The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada (Thompson Education Publishers, 1989, 1994; French edition, 1996), How America Gets Away with Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes against Humanity (Pluto Press, 2004, Italian and German editions, 2005) and The Unbearable Flexibility of the Statuto Albertino (CLUEB Bologna, 2006). Recent articles include "Aggressors' Rights: The Doctrine of 'Equality between Belligerents' and the Legacy of Nuremberg" (2011), 24 Leiden Journal of International Law 627, and "Israel and Palestine: Three Questions for International Law" Dartmouth Law Journal (2011) 9: 101 (forthcoming).
He has also taught and lectured at several of Italy's major universities: Bologna (where he ran an exchange program for law students from 1995-2001), Torino, Trento, Padova, Napoli, Calabria, and the European University Institute in Florence where he was a Jean Monnet Fellow in 1990-91. In 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Mandel was a founding member of Lawyers against the War and frequently comments in the mass media on issues of war and peace.
- Professor Métraux's research interests include Greek and Roman art, architecture and urban planning; relationships between the visual arts and literary and social developments in antiquity; and the intersection of art and science in Greek and Roman art history. Among his numerous scholarly publications are writings on Greek city-planning and political space in Greece and Rome, as well as articles and monographs on the archaeological excavations of which he has been a member, in Turkey (Sardis), Italy (Francolise) and Tunisia (Utica and Carthage). His book on Greek medical science and art, Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth Century Greece, was awarded the Raymond Klibansky Prize by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation. His most recent publication is a volume of essays on "ordinary" Roman art, to which he contributed an article on Walter Benjamin and the commercial arts in late Roman times.
- Professor Parkinson’s research interests include cost accounting methods and accounting history. He has worked as an accountant in advertising (London, England) and in food production (Nairobi, Kenya). Professor Parkinson has held visiting positions at the University of the West Indies; Bolzano Free University and the American University in Dubai. Author: Accounting for Non-Financial Managers (2011).
- John Picchione teaches Italian literature and culture at York University. His research interests include modern and contemporary Italian poetry and narrative, avant-garde movements, literary and cultural theory, modern/post-modern aesthetics. He has published extensively in books, encyclopaedias, and journals, with articles on Italian poetry, avant-garde movements, and literary criticism and interpretation. He has devoted particular attention to authors of the Italian new avant-garde (Porta, Sanguineti, Giuliani, Balestrini, Pagliarani) and to poets and novelists such as Ungaretti, Palazzeschi, Volponi, Quasimodo, Zanzotto, and Pavese. He is the author of The New Avant-Garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), for which he was awarded the 2005 Book Prize of the American Association for Italian Studies. He has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Quaderni d’italianistica and he is currently the Canadian editor for Parol: quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia. He is the Canadian representative of the Centre for the Studies on Cesare Pavese (Italy). He is the co-founder and co-organizer of York Summer Studies Program (Florence and Rome).
- Professor Ricci teaches Italian language.
- Harriet Rosenberg, one of the founders of York’s Health & Society Program, has done field work in France, Italy, North America and the Kalahari Desert of Botswana and Namibia. She has worked with a variety of community groups on environmental and women's health issues.
- Craig Scott joined Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000 following a term as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. To date, his teaching and research have been primarily in the fields of public international law and private international law, with a focus on the place of international human rights law in both of these fields. Professor Scott was closely involved in the development of aspects of the current South African constitution, beginning with his role advising the African National Congress on these matters while the ANC was still in exile. He has given academic opinions on international law to various governments and international organizations on issues related to such matters as the law of the sea, territorial claims and adjudicative procedures. In 1993-94, he served as co-counsel for the government of Bosnia in a case before the International Court of Justice, with responsibility for developing arguments on the limits of the powers of the UN Security Council. He was also the co-founder of the Association of Transnational Law Schools (ATLAS) and the International Association of Law Schools (IALS).
- Professor Sinyor has been involved in the York Summer Studies in Italy program since 2001 and has taught (together with Gabriella Colussi Arthur) at the York University - University of Bologna Summer Studies program since its inception in 2002.
- Professor Sturino is an expert on the Italian immigrant community in Canada. He has written two books on Italian immigration to North America: Arrangiarsi: The Italian Immigration Experience in Canada and Forging the Chain. Professor Sturino teaches Italian history and Italian politics (especially Northern separatism), migration into Italy, and Italian regionalism.
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
- Professor Vizmuller-Zocco teaches Italian language and linguistics. She is a member of the editorial board of E-talis – Revue des cultures italiennes (www.e-talis.com) published by the Université d’Avignon (France).
- Robert Wai teaches Contracts, Ethical Lawyering in a Global Community, International Business Transactions and International Trade Regulation. He completed graduate work in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and his doctorate in international law as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School. He was appointed as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy over the 2004-05 academic year. Professor Wai’s current research focuses on governance through public and private law in areas such as international business transactions and transnational litigation.
- Professor Weiser teaches courses about modern and eastern European Jewish history and culture, including ones about Yiddish culture, Jewish languages, and the Holocaust. He is the co-editor of Czernowitz at 100: the First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical and Perspective (2010) and author of Jewish People, Yiddish Nation. Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (2011).
- Professor Peer Zumbansen is the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School. Prior to joining the faculty, he researched and taught at the University of Frankfurt and spent the academic year 2001-02 as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Idaho College of Law (USA). Together with Professor Russell Miller of the University of Idaho College of Law, Professor Zumbansen is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the monthly English-language legal periodical German Law Journal - Review of Developments in German, European & International Jurisprudence (http://www.germanlawjournal.com ), and of the Annual of German & European Law , a hardbound collection of articles and book reviews, published every year by Berghahn Books. He is also co-editor of the German legal quarterly, Kritische Justiz. In 2007 Prof. Zumbansen founded the Critical Research Laboratory for multimedia projects on global cities [CRL], funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (co-investigators: Patricia Wood [York Geography], Brenda Longfellow [York Film]). The CRL hosts a weekly Reading Lab, an interdisciplinary research seminar on urban governance methodology and a number of global cities-related research projects.
Latvia
André deCarufel (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. deCarufel is currently running the Joint Kellogg Schulich Executive MBA Program. He has delivered executive education seminars in Hong Kong, Latvia, France, Kenya, Haiti and Sri Lanka.
Lithuania
Neil Brooks (Osgoode Hall Law School)
- Professor Brooks, who has published extensively on income tax issues, has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the governments of New Zealand and Australia. He has participated in capacity-building projects relating to the income tax in Lithuania (Harvard Institute for International Development), Vietnam (Swedish International Development Agency), Japan (Asian Development Bank), China (AUSAid) and Mongolia (AUSAid).
Netherlands
Amnon Buchbinder (Film & Video)
- Amnon Buchbinder's short films have been screened at major venues and festivals worldwide including Cannes, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and the Paris Cinémathèque. Professor Buchbinder's first feature film, The Fishing Trip, which he produced and directed, was based on a screenplay written by one of his students at York. The production received its world premiere to critical acclaim at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by national theatrical release and a Genie Award. His second feature, Whole New Thing, which he co-wrote with Daniel MacIvor and directed, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to screen internationally at more than hundred film festivals, winning over 10 best-film awards, and was released theatrically in Canada, the United States and Europe.
- Prof. Crawford, Canada Research Chair, has collaborated in his publications with colleagues in France and the Netherlands. Prof. Crawford studies how the brain represents visual space and then transforms this into the patterns of muscular contraction required for accurate movements in 3-D space.
- Prof. Fisher-Stitt was the York lead on a Canada/EC Mobility Program, “Cultural Production in an International Environment,” that linked three Canadian universities (UQAM, Nipissing, York) with three European universities -- Hogeschool Rotterdam (Netherlands), University of Trento (Italy) and HUMAK (Finland).
- Filmmaker Philip Hoffman apprenticed in Europe with director Peter Greenaway. His experimental films have won many awards, including a Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and Gus Van Sant Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2002 for What These Ashes Wanted, a diaristic meditation on loss and grief. All Fall Down, Hoffman’s first feature length film, had its World Premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009, and North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival also in 2009. Hoffman has been a Visiting Professor at University of Helsinki (Finland) and University of South Florida (USA). Professor Hoffman has given seminars and production workshops and presented screenings of his films on four continents, including international festivals in Holland and Australia, and at the Chicago Art Institute. Thirteen of his productions were shown at the 2003 IV Fest in Trivandrum, India, and the San Francisco Cinematheque presented Passing Through: A Philip Hoffman Retrospective in 2004. In September 2006, a two-program survey of Philip Hoffman's works launched a special six-month series featuring productions by Canadian artists, presented by Anthology Film Archives in New York.
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- Professor Maas’ research interests include comparative and European politics, citizenship, migration policy, nationalism, democratic theory, sovereignty, evolution of the state, federalism, Canada, the European Union, the Netherlands, France, Germany, regional integration and international law. He is the author of Creating European Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
- Prof. Madhok is a Visiting Professor of Organization Theory and Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam (Netherlands). He was formerly a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (USA). He has also been a Visiting Full Professor for two years at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as a visiting research scholar at a number of other institutions, such as EM Lyon (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Lille (France), Salamanca University (Spain), and Massey University (New Zealand). Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India. His research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm.
- Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Industrial Relations, Christine Oliver has been an external dissertation examiner for Erasmus University and Tilberg University (Netherlands), Monash University and the University of Western Sydney (Australia) and Oxford University (UK).
- Dr. Andreas Strebinger teaches Brand Management, Market Research and International Marketing. Before joining York in 2006, he taught at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). His research focuses on brand management, particularly on domestic and international brand architecture, brand portfolio management, brand equity, brand personality and e-branding. He has received awards from the American Marketing Association, the German Brands Association, the Austrian Advertising Research Association, and Henkel Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Stregbinger has written three books on brand management and country-of-origin effects. In 2005, Prof. Strebinger was the chair of an international academic conference on Brand Management in Vienna. His latest book on Brand Architecture provides an in-depth discussion of scholarly research and practical experiences regarding the pros and cons of product vs. corporate branding strategies as well as of local vs. global branding. It appeared in 2010 in its 2nd edition in the German Gabler Verlag. Currently, he is working on an international research project on the effects of perceived brand globalness on brand quality and prestige image among young urban consumers in Japan, Canada, and Europe.
Norway
Dawn Rose Ann Bazely (Biology)
- Professor Bazely, Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) is part of an interdisciplinary team which researches the effects that oil and gas activity have on peoples in Norway, Canada and Russia. This work is entwined with a second research interest in studying invasive species into ecosystems, as increased traffic following arctic oil sources leads to increased species invasion. She co-authored the book, Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants (2003). One of her current research projects focuses on fungal endophytes of grasses in Sweden and Scotland. In 2005, Prof. Bazely led a group of students from York to work on a project with the National University of Mongolia on water resources.
- Dr. Lexchin has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service and the World Health Organization. Dr. Lexchin is one of the principal investigators, along with Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Profs. Wiktorowicz and Lexchin are the editors of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Policy in a Global Era: International Perspectives (Nova Publishers, New York, 2004).
- Dr. Hassan earned his PhD in Decision Sciences from the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) before joining York University in 2003. His research interests and courses benefit from his research on and experience with organizations in Canada, Pakistan, Norway, Singapore, and the US.
- Mary Wiktorowicz is one of the principal investigators, along with Joel Lexchin and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Professor Wiktorowicz is a co-author of “Keeping an eye on drugs...keeping patients safe: Active monitoring systems for drug safety and effectiveness in Canada and internationally,” commissioned by the Health Council of Canada (2010, with J. Lexchin, K. Moscou, A. Silversides and L. Eggertson).
Poland
Iljas Farah (Mathematics & Statistics)
- Prof. Farah has recently held visiting positions at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques,
France and Mittag--Leffler Institute, Sweden. He is a co-organizer for conferences in 2012 on operator algebras and set theory at the American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto (with David Kerr, Texas A & M) and at the Banff International Research Station (with E. Effros, UCLA, G. Elliott, Toronto and A. Toms, Purdue). In 2012 he will also be giving tutorials to graduate students on his research at CIRM (Luminy, France), Logic Colloquium (Manchester, England)
and Institut for Mathematical Sciences of the National University of Singapore. With J.T. Moore (Cornell) and S. Todorcevic (Toronto) he will be co-organizing a thematic program of Forcing Axioms at the University of Toronto.
- Jarek Gryz has been the Canadian lead on a Canada/EU International Academic Mobility Program that links Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), University of Crete (Greece) and Warsaw Technical University (Poland) with three Canadian universities: Carleton, Alberta and York.
- Professor McMillan, a professor of policy and international business, studies the impact of globalization on decision making in a corporate environment. He has taught in France and Poland, has represented Canada as a policy advisor to the Prime Minister, and has been a member of G-7 Summits. Professor McMillan authored the 2006 casebook, The Strategy Challenge: From Serfdom to Surfing in the Global Village (Toronto: Captus Press, 2006).
- Prof. Tourlakis is the Canadian coordinator of a Canada-EU Mobility consortium that includes faculty and student exchanges with the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (Germany), Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and the University of Crete (Greece). He also maintains close links with another of York’s exchange partners, the University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
Portugal
Maria João Dodman (Languages, Literatures & Linguistics)
- Professor Maria João Dodman teaches Portuguese language, culture and literature and Brazilian literature. Her teaching and research interests are Portuguese and Spanish Golden Age literature; contemporary Brazilian literature: modernismo and the Northeast novel; Portuguese island culture and literature; Gender, identity and representation; travel narratives. Professor Dodman has organized and participated in conferences and research projects in both Brazil and Portugal.
- Wenona Giles teaches and publishes in the areas of gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project, “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” at York University. Author: Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration and Nationalism (2002).
- Professor Lawee is a contributor to the website (eventually to be a hyper-textbook), “Medieval Spains: Antiquity to the New World,” an initiative sponsored by Stanford University's Humanities Laboratory. His primary research interests lie in medieval and early modern Judaism and Jewish history, with an emphasis on intellectual history. Much of his research has focused on Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508), a courtier in three major European centres (Portugal, Spain, Italy) who stands out as one of Judaism's leading scholars at the turn of the sixteenth century.
- Professor Price’s areas of interest are intellectual history of the Middle Ages, history of science and technology in the Middle Ages, classification of the sciences, history of ancient and medieval economic thought and history of the origins of the civilizations of the world. Her publication Medieval Thought.- An Introduction (1992), has been translated into Portuguese. She has just returned to York after a five-year leave at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching and teaching early civilization and medieval science/technology.
- Klaus Rupprecht, director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, was formerly consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto. Rupprecht has more than thirty years of experience as a German diplomat, including posts in Germany, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Prior to being appointed consul general in 2002, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and then director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a master’s degree in comparative law from the University of Iowa, and speaks six languages, including German, Mandarin, English and French.
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
- Ana Viseu is interested in the interactions of humans and emergent technologies and how these interactions are reifying and reformulating notions of identity, embodiment, agency and privacy. In her research she examines these issues through an analysis of the practices of development and use of emergent (and contested) technologies, from both theoretical and material perspectives. She has so far critically examined technologies-such as nanotechnology, wearable computing, robotics and currently Nano medicine - that posit the body as the interface between biology and information. Ana has worked as a Research Associate at Cornell University with the Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) and the Department of Science and Technology Studies. While at Cornell she was the “in-house” social scientist at CNF, and collaborated with practitioners to examine the social and ethical dimensions of nanotechnology research and development. She is also affiliated with the Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
- In her research on the generation of immune diversity, specifically in the genetics of V(D)J recombination and autoimmune diseases, Dr. Wu collaborates with Professors James Kaufman and Gillian Griffiths, University of Cambridge (UK); Dr. Ellen Hsu, CUNY (New York City, USA); Dr. Susanna Lewis (Boston, USA); Dr. Ana Cumano, Pasteur Institute (Paris, France); and Dr. Antonio Coutinho, Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Portugal). Link to personal site
Romania
Gabriela Alboiu (Languages, Literatures & Linguistics)
- Gabriela Alboiu specializes in generative syntax. She has worked on Romanian, English, and Onondaga, with Germanic, Romance, and the Balkan Sprachbund as general language interests. She is the author of The Features of Movement in Romanian (2002).
- Professor Barta has worked as both a writer and director at the Romanian National Film Board in Bucharest, and at the Austrian Film Board. Her films have been screened at prestigious international festivals such as Bilbao, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Bucharest, and Chicago.
- Prof. Dinca began his teaching career with the AISTEDA University and the University of Bucharest in Romania. His research career began in the Bioengineering Department of the Institute of Public Health, Bucharest. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow with the Hunter Holmes McGuire Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Virginia, USA. He has worked for Marquette-Hellige, GE Medical Systems and Drager Medical in Romania.
- Among Prof. Kowal’s specializations are general and applied Spanish linguistics, history of Spanish language and grammar, and contrastive Romance linguistics (Spanish – French/Italian/Romanian).
- Professor Rahn’s research interests are English- and French-language traditional song of Canada, analytic studies of Rumanian, sub-Saharan African, South Asian, and Chinese music; theoretical formulations of musical form, texture, scales, rhythm, metre, and medieval-Renaissance modality; history of music theory including Marchetto of Padua's Lucidarium (14th century) and John Curwen's tonic sol-fa method (19th century).
- Prof. Uritescu holds PhDs from the University of Timisoara, Romania, and from l’Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. In collaboration with I. Stan, Prof. Uritescu has published The New Romanian Linguistic Atlas – Crisana (Romanian Academy Press, 2 vols). For Vol. I, he earned the prize of the Romanian Academy in Linguistics (1998). He is Associated Research Director at the Romanian Academy Institute for Linguistics and Literary History ‘Sextil Puscariu’ in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 2011, he submitted to the Romanian Academy Press the 3rd volume of the same work, carried out under his coordination, with the collaboration of three researchers trained by him, one in Canada and two at the above-mentioned institute. Prof. Uritescu also contributes to Atlas linguarum Europae and Atlas linguistique roman, two multilingual linguistic atlases carried out in Europe.
- Colleen Wagner’s first stage play, Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in 1989. Her play The Monument has been produced across North America, Australia and Germany, and was the first commercial production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. The Monument has been translated into French, German, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and French. She is also a recipient of a SSHRC research/creation grant 2009-12) which has taken her to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and the Sahara) to research and create a female-centred heroic myth from the actual stories of women and girls who have survived trauma in post-conflict zones in Africa. Colleen has also done research work for Home, a play about repatriation, that took her to Estonia and East Berlin, with an early draft of the play being performed in French at Festival d’été, Pont a Mousson, France.
Russia
Romana Bahry (Languages, Literatures & Linguistics)
- Professor Bahry teaches Russian literature, comparative literature, and East European film and culture. She is the author of Shliakh Sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukrainu (The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine)(Kyïv: Vsesvit, 1993) and Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine (Captus University Publications, 1989).
- Professor Bazely, Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) is part of an interdisciplinary team which researches the effects that oil and gas activity have on peoples in Norway, Canada and Russia. This work is entwined with a second research interest in studying invasive species into ecosystems, as increased traffic following arctic oil sources leads to increased species invasion. She co-authored the book, Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants (2003). One of her current research projects focuses on fungal endophytes of grasses in Sweden and Scotland. In 2005, Prof. Bazely led a group of students from York to work on a project with the National University of Mongolia on water resources.
- Professor Dingley’s research and teaching interests include the Russian language, the Finnish language, Slavic linguistics and Fenno-Slavic contacts. He writes on Russian, Old Church Slavonic, and Slavic linguistics.
- Prof. Etcheverry is involved in the development of the World Wind Energy Institute, a new training network involving renewable energy centres located in Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt and Russia. He is also focusing on the analysis of climate change policies in Mexico.
- Prof. Feldman has written two books on the work of the Soviet director Dziga Vertov. In 1998, he co-organized a landmark Canadian cinema retrospective with the China Film Archive in Beijing.
- Bernie Frolic is the Director of the Asian Business & Management Program, which provides executive development training to Chinese professionals. He is the author of several books, monographs and articles on democracy, human rights and civil society, particularly on China and Russia. He is the author of China's Second Wave of Development (1995) and Mao's People (1980). He has written several articles and papers on modernization and urbanization in China and the USSR, state-led civil society, transitions to democracy after the cold war, non-comparative communism between China and the USSR, among a host of others.
- Professor Jones, a practicing artist, has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows in Germany, France, England, the Netherlands and the USA (New York). Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China.
- A volume of Prof. Keeney’s Selected Poems (Oberon Press) was published in 1996 with an introduction by the distinguished Russia poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her poetry has been translated into French (winning the Prix Jean Paris in 2003), Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese and Hindi. One of three Canadian writers sent to Mexico in 1995 on a cultural exchange program under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), she has also produced a series of conversations and poems on national and personal culture, entitled You Bring Me Wings, with the Mexican poet Ethel Krauze. Professor Keeney served as a consulting editor (1990-2000) on The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, published by Routledge.
- Professor Leblanc researches corporate governance practices and what the necessary conditions are for board and individual director effectiveness. Dr. Leblanc’s findings have been of interest to boards of directors, individual directors, shareholders, governments, regulators, the media, professional advisors to boards (law, accounting, consulting and director recruiting firms) and industry associations, both domestically and internationally. Prof. Leblanc has advised directors, executives and academics from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China and Mexico.
- Prof. Middleton is executive director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre and Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Schulich School of Business. His research includes international marketing. He has taught courses in international marketing at Rutgers School of Management (US), Moscow State University (Russia), Southwest Normal University (China), IDEA in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Chiangmai University and NIDA (Thailand). He has also taught courses in international strategy and entrepreneurship at Yonok College, Lampang (Thailand). Prior to his academic career he had worked in marketing for companies in the UK, US, Norway, Japan and China.
- Professor Peterson is the Vice-Chair of the Russia-Canada Corporate Governance Program, and his research interests include corporate governance in Russia. Additionally, he has acted as a visiting professor in Austria and Argentina.
- Prof. Plekhanov’s research interests include problems of postcommunist transition, and the history of the Cold War. He teaches courses on Soviet and post-Soviet politics and foreign policy. His publications include articles and chapters on American politics and ideology, comparative political systems, U.S.-Soviet relations, and postcommunist reforms in Russia. He has recently co-edited Russia: The Challenge of Change (with Domenico Mazzeo, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming).
- Professor Pope teaches and conducts research on Russian literature and culture, mediaeval Slavic literature and modern Russian literature. He is the author of numerous works on Old Russian literature and Dostoevsky.
Scotland
Jon Baturin (Visual Arts)
- Jon Baturin is currently working on a series of collaborative photo-based and sculptural projects which deal with the fragility of the human species and subjective interpretations of both hope and loss. Prof. Baturin's research process is anchored in his collaborative work with international institutions as artist-in-residence. His international residencies have included the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), Tallinn Art University (Estonia), Athens School of Art (Greece) and Tasmania School of Art (Australia). He is a co-founder of Critical Media, an international not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote and develop challenging international cultural projects in diverse media. Large international museum projects have been presented in major venues in Budapest – Hungary, Lubjiana – Slovenia, Auckland - New Zealand, Hobart – Tasmania, and Sydney – Australia.
- Amnon Buchbinder's short films have been screened at major venues and festivals worldwide including Cannes, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and the Paris Cinémathèque. Professor Buchbinder's first feature film, The Fishing Trip, which he produced and directed, was based on a screenplay written by one of his students at York. The production received its world premiere to critical acclaim at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, followed by national theatrical release and a Genie Award. His second feature, Whole New Thing, which he co-wrote with Daniel MacIvor and directed, premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to screen internationally at more than hundred film festivals, winning over 10 best-film awards, and was released theatrically in Canada, the United States and Europe.
- Professor Davey is a sculptor whose research has taken him to Carrara, Italy, where he created a site-specific work, and more recently to an artist-in-residency and group exhibition in England, which led to the establishment of an annual student exchange program with the University of Northumbria. He has held lectureships in sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland.
- Prof. Dwyer’s research interests are the enlightenment of the 18th century; Adam Smith and the Scottish enlightenment; and sentimental philosophy and the literature of the 18th century.
- Professor Hay’s research interests include the legal and social history of the judiciary and central courts of England, 1701-1820; English criminal law in the same period; enforcement and evolution of the contract of employment (master and servant) in England, Scotland and Ireland to 1875; and magistrates and summary justice and the English court of King’s Bench. He has recently edited (with Paul Craven) Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), a volume in Studies in Legal History, the series of the American Society for Legal History. Other recent work includes the history of the English high court’s criminal jurisdiction (Crown Side Cases in the Court of King's Bench, forthcoming). He is presently writing about the administration of the criminal law in Georgian England. He has been a visitor at Yale, Warwick, and Columbia law schools.
- Professor Whitworth’s research is focused on international gender relations, feminist critiques, and the United Nations and peacekeeping. She is author of Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004), and co-editor of The International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), working with Scottish and Indian co-editors.
Serbia
Daphne Winland (Anthropology)
- Professor Winland has conducted research with Croats, Mennonites, Hmong refugees and homeless youth. Since 1992, she has been working with Croats, investigating the influence of diasporas on nation-building projects, and also the involvement of homelands in construing a national imaginary for diasporas. In the context of a series of field trips to Croatia beginning in 1997, she has spent considerable time investigating these issues and other interests among Croatian diaspora “returnees” to the homeland. One of her current projects is funded by SSHRC: “Homeward Bound: Croatian Canadians and Homeland Return.” Recently she has begun to expand these interests to include other former Yugoslav republics such as Bosnia. She has also recently coauthored a report on her research with homeless youth in Toronto titled "Family Matters: Homeless Youth and Eva's Family Reconnect Program".
Slovakia
Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (International Studies (Glendon))
- Professor Kirschbaum’s research interests include Slovak studies and Central European politics. He was elected to his sixth term as secretary to the International Council for Central and Eastern European Studies (ICCEES) in 2005, marking his 25th year in the position. The council brings together scholars from around the world with an interest in what were known as “Soviet” or “Communist” studies. Author: A History of Slovakia; The Struggle for Survival (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed., 2005).
Slovenia
Jon Baturin (Visual Arts)
- Jon Baturin is currently working on a series of collaborative photo-based and sculptural projects which deal with the fragility of the human species and subjective interpretations of both hope and loss. Prof. Baturin's research process is anchored in his collaborative work with international institutions as artist-in-residence. His international residencies have included the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland), Tallinn Art University (Estonia), Athens School of Art (Greece) and Tasmania School of Art (Australia). He is a co-founder of Critical Media, an international not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote and develop challenging international cultural projects in diverse media. Large international museum projects have been presented in major venues in Budapest – Hungary, Lubjiana – Slovenia, Auckland - New Zealand, Hobart – Tasmania, and Sydney – Australia.
Spain
Ellen Anderson (Languages, Literatures & Linguistics)
- Professor Anderson’s research interest is Spanish literature of the Golden Age.
- Professor Barta has worked as both a writer and director at the Romanian National Film Board in Bucharest, and at the Austrian Film Board. Her films have been screened at prestigious international festivals such as Bilbao, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Bucharest, and Chicago.
- Imogen Coe is working with Marcal Pastor-Anglada (University of Barcelona) on a family of proteins that control how certain chemicals or compounds get in and out of cells. Their research is aimed at establishing a fundamental understanding of how cells work and also has clinical applications in terms of developing and improving drug therapies that use these types of compounds. Imogen Coe also works with Cesare Indiveri (University of Calabria) on transport proteins involved in the day to day lives of all cells.
- Prof. Drummond holds a postgraduate Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies from the Université d'Aix-Marseille, specializing in legal theory and legal anthropology. She is the author of Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities, which won the Canadian Law and Society Association/Association canadienne droit et société 2006 Book Prize.
- Professor Edmondson is a historian of ancient Rome, and conducts research on the society, economy and culture of Roman Spain (especially Lusitania) from the late Iron Age to the late Roman Empire; Roman epigraphy, especially of the Roman Empire; gladiators in Roman society; and the Roman family. In 2003, he was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia (the Royal Academy of History of Spain) and in 2009 a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of Granite Funerary Stelae from Augusta Emerita (Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 2006) and Imagen y Memoria: Monumentos funerarios con retratos en la Colonia Augusta Emerita (Real Academia de la Historia / Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, 2001), as well as the editor of Augustus (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), (with A. Keith) of Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2008) and (with S. Mason and J.B. Rives) of Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome (Oxford University Press, 2005).
- Robert Fink's areas of interest fall within the domain of psycholinguistics, in particular, first language acquisition, speech processing and the mental representation of language. His work has focused on English, French and Spanish.
- Prof. Husted, an expert in business and sustainability, holds a joint appointment with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, and the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain. He has held visiting professorships at INCAE Business School, Alajuela, Costa Rica; Coppead Graduate School of Business, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Escuela Militar de Ingeniería, La Paz, Bolivia; and Universidad Privada Boliviana, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
- Scott Kelly is working with Dr. José Miguel Cerdà Reverter of the Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, in Castellón, on the neuroendocrine regulation of appetite in fish. This work is aimed at fundamentally understanding vertebrate appetite regulation as well as exploring potential economic applications that may benefit the aquaculture industry. Prof. Kelly has a student currently doing research at the Instituto.
- Professor Kipping is currently finishing a book on The Consultancy Business in Historical and Comparative Perspective (which will be published by Oxford University Press). It covers the development of management consulting as a business activity in the major industrialized regions (Europe, North America and Japan) from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. He is also looking at the role of consulting firms in the introduction of the multidivisional form of organization in European banks. He has held appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). Prof. Kipping has also held visiting professorships at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, and Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) (France); Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, and Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan); and Università Bocconi, Institute for Economic History, Milan, Italy.
- Among Prof. Kowal’s specializations are general and applied Spanish linguistics, history of Spanish language and grammar, and contrastive Romance linguistics (Spanish – French/Italian/Romanian).
- Professor Lawee is a contributor to the website (eventually to be a hyper-textbook), “Medieval Spains: Antiquity to the New World,” an initiative sponsored by Stanford University's Humanities Laboratory. His primary research interests lie in medieval and early modern Judaism and Jewish history, with an emphasis on intellectual history. Much of his research has focused on Isaac Abarbanel (1437-1508), a courtier in three major European centres (Portugal, Spain, Italy) who stands out as one of Judaism's leading scholars at the turn of the sixteenth century.
- Prof. Madhok is a Visiting Professor of Organization Theory and Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Studies, Vrije University, Amsterdam (Netherlands). He was formerly a Professor of Management at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (USA). He has also been a Visiting Full Professor for two years at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Netherlands) as well as a visiting research scholar at a number of other institutions, such as EM Lyon (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Lille (France), Salamanca University (Spain), and Massey University (New Zealand). Earlier, he worked as a manager in prominent multinational firms operating in India. His research interests span strategy and international management and include topics such as multinational firm strategy, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, trust and interfirm collaboration, and the theory and boundaries of the firm.
- Roxanne B. Marcus’ research interests are 19th and 20th century Spanish literature.
- Prof. Miller is a collaborator in the “AGRIC-LaserUAV” project, supported by the European Commission 7th Framework Program, awarded to Inian Moorthy (recent PhD graduate of York and recipient of a Marie Curie International Fellowship) and Pablo Zarco-Tejada, at the Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain, Feb.1, 2011 to Jan 31, 2013. Prof. Miller has also been appointed “Guest Professor” in the Faculty of Geo-Environmental Science at Rissho University, Saitama, Japan, April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2013.
- Marcela Porporato received her PhD in Management from IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra (Spain). Her primary research interest is to study how management control systems arise and evolve in turbulent environments such as new organizational forms (i.e. strategic alliances) and regional economies of developing countries (i.e. Cordoba, Argentina). Currently, she investigates the design of management control systems in international joint ventures and in family-owned businesses in Argentina, and teaches cost accounting and management planning and control systems. Marcela's teaching and research benefit from her international experience in South America, Europe and North America.
- Professor Raventós-Pons’ areas of specialization include contemporary Peninsular Spanish literature. She is the author of Rupturas espaciales. Imagen y palabra en textos catalanes, New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2003.
Prof. Raventós-Pons’ primary field of specialization is contemporary Peninsular Spanish literature. She has a Diploma in Visual Arts from Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos of Barcelona, Spain and pursued her studies in the Musée du Louvre (France) and Museo del Prado (Spain). Esther Raventós-Pons' research and teaching interest are interdisciplinary and include contemporary Hispanic literature, art, women's literature and critical theory.
- Prof. Rickard’s paintings have been exhibited in France and are found in a number of private collections in Europe. A prolific author, Professor Rickard's writing credits include scholarly articles, short stories, plays and poetry; much of her poetry has been performed in both Spain and New York.
- Dr. Sánchez-Rodríguez received his PhD in business management from the University of Murcia (Spain). The courses he teaches on management information systems benefit from his research with multinational organizations in Spain as well as his experience with International Data Corporation (IDC) Canada.
- Sandra Schecter collaborates with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) on public policy and infrastructure related to the education of Latino immigrant students. She also collaborates with the Universidad de Sonora (Mexico) on public policy and infrastructure related to the education of linguistic minority students. Her research interests are language and literacy acquisition and learning, language socialization, language and global processes, and Latin American immigrants en el norte.
- Professor Shubert is a specialist on Spain, and his research interests include a broad range of topics in modern Spanish history and Spain in the New World. He is a Comendador de la Orden de Mérito Civil (awarded by King Juan Carlos of Spain). His publications include A las Cinco de la Tarde: Historia de la Corrida de Toros (Turner, 2002). As York’s first Associate Vice-President International, he was instrumental in furthering York’s internationalization strategy, which included developing new linkages with institutions all over the world.
- Prof. Toms has held visiting positions at the Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona (Spain).
Sweden
Dawn Rose Ann Bazely (Biology)
- Professor Bazely, Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) is part of an interdisciplinary team which researches the effects that oil and gas activity have on peoples in Norway, Canada and Russia. This work is entwined with a second research interest in studying invasive species into ecosystems, as increased traffic following arctic oil sources leads to increased species invasion. She co-authored the book, Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants (2003). One of her current research projects focuses on fungal endophytes of grasses in Sweden and Scotland. In 2005, Prof. Bazely led a group of students from York to work on a project with the National University of Mongolia on water resources.
- Professor Belk’s specialty is marketing, and studying consumerism in a global context. His current externally-funded international research projects include a study of “Vanity versus Modesty among Covered Women of the Arab Gulf” and “Hospitality versus Privacy in the Arab Gulf,” both with Rana Sobh of Qatar University and both funded by the Qatar Foundation; “Baby Boomer Construction and Reconstruction of Gender Barriers in Japan” with Takeshi Matsui of Hitotsubashi University and Yuko Minowa of Long Island University, funded by a grant from the Yoshida Foundation; “Redemptive Materialism in Ghana” with Sammy Bonsu, funded by a SSHRC grant; and “Consumer Activists” with Timothy Devinney (Australian Graduate School of Management), Joachim Schwalback, Pat Auger, and Ann Gunnthorsdottir, funded by a grant from the Australia Research Council. Prof. Belk has done consulting for businesses in the USA and Japan. In 2010 he was Corona Chair Distinguished Visitor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management (Bogota, Colombia); in 2007-2009 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong; in 2006, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School (UK) and Visiting Professor at ESCP-EAP (European School of Management, Paris); in 2003 he was Guest Research Professor and Honorary Professor, Centrum för konsumentventskap (Center for Consumer Science), Göteborg University (Sweden); and in 2002 he was Williams Evans Fellow, Marketing Department, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).
- Before coming to York, Prof. Crane taught at the University of Nottingham (UK) and Cardiff University (UK). He continues to hold a visiting professorship at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham. He has been a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and at Bocconi University (Italy). He has provided executive education in Brazil and Sweden. He is co-author (with Dirk Matten) of Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization (Oxford University Press,3rd edition 2010 [best-selling business ethics textbook in Europe]), which won the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne.
- Prior to joining Schulich, Professor Giesler was a research fellow at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and a visiting scholar at Stockholm University's School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. from Witten/Herdecke University (Germany). A native of Germany, Professor Giesler has a decade of entertainment industry experience.
- Among Prof. Green’s most recent productions is the critically acclaimed documentary Thin Ice, adapted from the 1997 memoir Thin Ice: Saved by the American Dream by Canadian expatriate humourist and New Yorker magazine illustrator Bruce McCall. His awards include a Silver Hugo at the 1996 Chicago International Film Festival, and Jackdaw for Best Documentary at the 1997 Uppsala International Short Film Festival.
- Professor James researches racial integration in the Caribbean, and immigration in Sweden. The research is viewed within the field of educational equity, as well as anti-racism and multiculturalism. He was one of the recipients of the 14th Annual New Pioneers Awards in 2006, awarded as a celebration of diversity and multiculturalism. Born in Antigua, Professor James wrote the 2003 book Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture (Thompson Educational Publishing), as well as Race in Play: Understanding the Socio-Cultural Worlds of Student Athletes (Canadian Scholars Press, 2005). He received an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Uppsala University in 2006.
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
Switzerland
Alain Baudot (Drama Studies (Glendon))
- Professor Baudot’s areas of interest are the history and theory of contemporary Francophone literature (of the West Indies, Belgium, Switzerland), understanding opera, and editing and publishing in French. Among his publications are Musiciens romains de l’Antiquité; Identité culturelle et francophonie dans les Amériques (coedited with J-Cl. Jaubert) and short Répertoire pour une initiation à la chanson de langue française; Éducation des adultes et Éducation permanente: analyse de la documentation récente en français.
- Professor Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, focuses his research on international business strategy and management. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, and has served as a member of the advisory board of the International Management Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. As dean of the Schulich School of Business, he has overseen the development of international degree programs at the master’s and bachelor’s levels, and the establishment of Schulich executive education centres in China and India.
- Prof. Kipfer is co-investigator on the project, “Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt,” which aims to broaden and deepen understanding of regional governance through an innovative comparative project.
He has also conducted case studies on second-tier global cities in North America and Europe (Toronto and Zurich), examining the role of urban social movements and local-regional politics and planning in processes of transnational urban restructuring between the late 1960s and the early 2000s.
- Dr. Andreas Strebinger teaches Brand Management, Market Research and International Marketing. Before joining York in 2006, he taught at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). His research focuses on brand management, particularly on domestic and international brand architecture, brand portfolio management, brand equity, brand personality and e-branding. He has received awards from the American Marketing Association, the German Brands Association, the Austrian Advertising Research Association, and Henkel Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Stregbinger has written three books on brand management and country-of-origin effects. In 2005, Prof. Strebinger was the chair of an international academic conference on Brand Management in Vienna. His latest book on Brand Architecture provides an in-depth discussion of scholarly research and practical experiences regarding the pros and cons of product vs. corporate branding strategies as well as of local vs. global branding. It appeared in 2010 in its 2nd edition in the German Gabler Verlag. Currently, he is working on an international research project on the effects of perceived brand globalness on brand quality and prestige image among young urban consumers in Japan, Canada, and Europe.
- Prof. Tholen led the development at York of a dual degree in Mathematics with the University of L’Aquila. He has been a visiting professor at numerous institutions, including ETH Zürich, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Georgian Academy of Sciences, University of Sydney, University of Coimbra, University of L'Aquila, University of Trieste, Universty of Perugia, Masaryk University, Université Catholique de Louvain, Université du Littoral, University of Bremen, and Fernuniversität.
Turkey
Nergis Canefe (Political Science)
- Professor Canefe’s areas of interest are memories of atrocities and injustice and the way they shape the notion of citizenship for marginalized groups, critical studies of human rights, genocide and crimes against humanity, the relationship between nationalism and minority rights in the Balkans and the Middle East, forced migration, and debates on ethics in international law pertaining to mass political violence. She has held adjunct positions at Bogazici University (Turkey) and, in 2006, became affiliated with Bilgi University Law School, Center for Human Rights in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a co-editor, with William Safran, University of Colorado, of The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging (forthcoming, Edwin Mellen Publishers); and a co-editor in collaboration with Mehmet Ugur, University of Greenwich, of Turkey and European Integration: Accession Prospects and Issues (Routledge, 2004). She is also the author of Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet [Nationalism, Identity and Belonging] (Bilgi University Publishing House, 2006).
- Prof. Farjoun has taught at Tel Aviv University (Israel), and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). He has held visiting professorships at New York University (USA), Sabanci University (Turkey) and Technion (Israel).
- Professor Hynie is interested in the ways in which social norms, emotions, and cultural value systems shape people's personal values, moral decisions and behaviour. Her other research interests include how social groups can improve the well-being of their members via community involvement and a psychological sense of community. An example of her publications is “Interdependence as a mediator between culture and interpersonal closeness for Euro-Canadians and Turks” (Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2004).
- Professor Karakul studies the effects of coordinating pricing and procurement decisions on the overall profitability of the supply chains. He teaches on quantitative methods, operations management, operations research, and supply chain management – and relates his experiences with organizations in Canada and Turkey. Dr. Karakul’s work has appeared in Naval Research Logistics , Computers and Operations Research, and International Journal of Production Economics.
- Prof. Kristal has studied and worked in Turkey, most recently as a civil aviation and airport engineer with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Turkey, and completed his Ph.D. at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).
- Prof. Lalonde (with Prof. Michaela Hynie) has collaborated with colleagues at Koç University and Galatsaray University (Turkey) and at the University of Queensland (Australia). Much of his current research focuses on bicultural identity.
- Professor Métraux's research interests include Greek and Roman art, architecture and urban planning; relationships between the visual arts and literary and social developments in antiquity; and the intersection of art and science in Greek and Roman art history. Among his numerous scholarly publications are writings on Greek city-planning and political space in Greece and Rome, as well as articles and monographs on the archaeological excavations of which he has been a member, in Turkey (Sardis), Italy (Francolise) and Tunisia (Utica and Carthage). His book on Greek medical science and art, Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth Century Greece, was awarded the Raymond Klibansky Prize by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation. His most recent publication is a volume of essays on "ordinary" Roman art, to which he contributed an article on Walter Benjamin and the commercial arts in late Roman times.
- Few people know the details of organizing international sports teams better than Patricia Murray. She has represented Canada at more than twenty-five major competitions outside the country, including five Olympic Games and two world university games. Vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Committee, a seasoned administrator and successful coach, Murray was also named Chef de Mission for the Canadian team heading to the 23rd world university games in 2005 in Turkey.
UK
James Alcock (Psychology)
- Prof. Alcock co-edited, with US physicist Jean Burns and Anthony Freeman, UK managing editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the book entitled Psi Wars: Getting to Grips with the Paranormal (Imprint Academic, 2003).
- Steve Alsop has taught in primary and secondary schools in inner city London and coordinated the Centre for Learning and Research in Science Education (CLARISE) at Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey. He holds affiliated scholarly positions at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico (UABC), and Roehampton University, England. He has published widely in science and technology education and his recent books include Beyond Cartesian Dualism: Encountering Affect in Science Education (Kluwer Press), and Analysing Exemplary Science Teaching: Theoretical Lenses and a Spectrum of Possibilities for Practice (Open University Press) [co-edited with Larry Bencze and Erminia Pedretti].
- Professor Anderson is completing a book, Prophecy and Prediction: Victorians and the Weather, on 19th-century meteorology. It explores the controversial origins of official weather forecasting in the 19th century, studying the different practices, expectations and relationships between different groups interested in science (administrators, professional scientists, sailors, astrological prophets, and the general public).
- University Professor, former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School (1972-77) and President of York University (1985-92), Harry Arthurs has also been an academic visitor at Oxford, Cambridge and University College, London. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Arthurs has been an arbitrator and mediator in labour disputes, and has conducted inquiries and reviews at Canadian and American universities. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Decent Work Research Prize 2008 from the International Labour Organization (ILO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a co-investigator on CRIMT (Centre de Recherches Interuniversitaires de mondalisation de travail), a $2.3 million international collaborative project on globalization and work funded by SSHRC (MRCI). He is also a member of other international research networks and teams including INTELL (an international network of labour and employment law scholars), CRN8 (international labour law network) and the Labour Law Group Trust (a US-based collective).
- Professor Bahry teaches Russian literature, comparative literature, and East European film and culture. She is the author of Shliakh Sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukrainu (The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine)(Kyïv: Vsesvit, 1993) and Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine (Captus University Publications, 1989).
- Joe Baker is collaborating with faculty from Leeds Metropolitan University, England, and the Australian Institute of Sport on research on whether early sport specialization is required for sport expertise as an adult. Current investigations focus on comparing the early training of expert athletes in sports that have varying ages of peak performance. At present they are collecting data on rugby players in the UK, gymnasts in the UK, US, France, and Canada and skeleton racers in Australia.
- Barbara Balfour is an interdisciplinary and print media artist who has exhibited and given lectures in the USA, the UK and France.
- Professor Balfour's teaching and research interests include Romantic poetry and prose and 18th-century poetry and philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language). He has written essays on the Romantics (Wordsworth, Blake, Godwin, Inchbald), Walter Benjamin, and Paul de Man.
- Professor Barutciski directed the diplomacy program at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He also was a member of Oxford University's department of international development. Professor Barutciski has carried out research in conflict zones and refugee camps in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has also worked for the United Nations, as well as authored reports for the British government and the South African parliament.
- Professor Bazely, Director of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) is part of an interdisciplinary team which researches the effects that oil and gas activity have on peoples in Norway, Canada and Russia. This work is entwined with a second research interest in studying invasive species into ecosystems, as increased traffic following arctic oil sources leads to increased species invasion. She co-authored the book, Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants (2003). One of her current research projects focuses on fungal endophytes of grasses in Sweden and Scotland. In 2005, Prof. Bazely led a group of students from York to work on a project with the National University of Mongolia on water resources.
- Professor Beer's areas of special interest are medieval literature, women's studies, the l9th-century novel and children's literature. She has published editions of Julian of Norwich's Revelations, and the Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë; a study entitled Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages; and a translation of Julian's work for the Library of Medieval Women.
- Professor Belk’s specialty is marketing, and studying consumerism in a global context. His current externally-funded international research projects include a study of “Vanity versus Modesty among Covered Women of the Arab Gulf” and “Hospitality versus Privacy in the Arab Gulf,” both with Rana Sobh of Qatar University and both funded by the Qatar Foundation; “Baby Boomer Construction and Reconstruction of Gender Barriers in Japan” with Takeshi Matsui of Hitotsubashi University and Yuko Minowa of Long Island University, funded by a grant from the Yoshida Foundation; “Redemptive Materialism in Ghana” with Sammy Bonsu, funded by a SSHRC grant; and “Consumer Activists” with Timothy Devinney (Australian Graduate School of Management), Joachim Schwalback, Pat Auger, and Ann Gunnthorsdottir, funded by a grant from the Australia Research Council. Prof. Belk has done consulting for businesses in the USA and Japan. In 2010 he was Corona Chair Distinguished Visitor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management (Bogota, Colombia); in 2007-2009 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong; in 2006, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School (UK) and Visiting Professor at ESCP-EAP (European School of Management, Paris); in 2003 he was Guest Research Professor and Honorary Professor, Centrum för konsumentventskap (Center for Consumer Science), Göteborg University (Sweden); and in 2002 he was Williams Evans Fellow, Marketing Department, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).
- Professor Bell teaches Victorian fiction, examining the growing split between serious fiction and popular fiction during the years 1840-1900.
- In addition to his scholarly interest in Victorian literature, American literature and literary criticism, Professor Benson uses the tools of systemic functional linguistics to investigate inter-species communication, and in particular dialogue between bonobos and humans.
- Professor Black’s research interests are women and politics, feminist theory, the political opinions of farm women in Quebec and France, Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and the contemporary women's movement in North America.
- Prof. Blewchamp has choreographed for the Concert Dance Company (Boston, USA) and Junction Dance Theatre (UK). She has taught at London School of Contemporary Dance (The Place, UK), the Dance Centre (UK), Spirel-E (Vienna, Austria) and at Concert Dance Company
(Boston, USA). Her choreographed works have been presented in the UK and the USA through tours by Dancemakers, Canada, and as independent projects. She has also performed with Junction Dance Company, UK and has presented conference papers in the UK and Europe.
- Professor Brooke’s research interests include the social, cultural and political history of 20th-century Britain. He has completed a book-length study of the British Labour Party and questions of sexuality between the 1880s and the present day entitled Sexual Politics and published by Oxford University Press.
- Professor Brown is a medievalist whose research areas include the art of medieval Ireland, Britain and the Norman world, with special emphasis on the results of the meeting of different artistic heritages. The founding director of the Registry of Stained Glass Windows in Canada, Professor Brown also teaches the history of stained glass and investigates 19th and 20th century architectural glass produced in Canada or imported to Canada from abroad. She has written a history and bibliography of the Bayeux Tapestry.
- Professor Cameron has taught screenwriting, design and production in England and the United States. He is an authority on the philosophical foundations of classical film theory. His philosophical interests centre on the intersection of logic and history, and on the writings of Kant, Collingwood, Wittgenstein, Austin, Berlin, Googman and Quine.
- Professor Campbell is currently preparing an anthology of 17th-century English and American women's writing and a book on autobiographical writings by 17th-century women in England and New England.
- Professor Canefe’s areas of interest are memories of atrocities and injustice and the way they shape the notion of citizenship for marginalized groups, critical studies of human rights, genocide and crimes against humanity, the relationship between nationalism and minority rights in the Balkans and the Middle East, forced migration, and debates on ethics in international law pertaining to mass political violence. She has held adjunct positions at Bogazici University (Turkey) and, in 2006, became affiliated with Bilgi University Law School, Center for Human Rights in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a co-editor, with William Safran, University of Colorado, of The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging (forthcoming, Edwin Mellen Publishers); and a co-editor in collaboration with Mehmet Ugur, University of Greenwich, of Turkey and European Integration: Accession Prospects and Issues (Routledge, 2004). She is also the author of Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet [Nationalism, Identity and Belonging] (Bilgi University Publishing House, 2006).
- Professor Carley, Distinguished Research Professor, is a specialist in Old and Middle English; the history of manuscripts; bibliography and the early Tudor period. He has written extensively on Glastonbury, John Leland, the Arthurian legend, and Lawrence Durrell. His most recent book is John Leland/De uiris illustribus (editor and translator, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies & Bodleian Library, 2010). He is also author of The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives, published by the British Library (2005).
- Professor Choi specializes in 19th-century British literature, with a particular focus on the Victorian novel. Her current research examines the representation of bodily contact in Victorian literary and medical writing.
- Professor Cohen, whose main research interests are in the history of economics and student learning, has written extensively about capital theory and capital controversies in the history of economics, including the Cambridge controversies and the methodological implications for economic theory in general. He is past President of the History of Economics Society, a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and is the author of Economics for Life: Smart Choices for You, Smart Choices for All? (Pearson Canada), textbooks aimed at educating citizens.
- Professor Cohen focuses on drama, especially Shakespeare, and on Restoration and 18th-century literature. His most recent book is Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and Authority (University of Toronto Press, 2004). Other interests include South African literature, on which he has published widely.
- Prof. Cook has held a visiting professorship at the University of Bath, UK.
- Before coming to York, Prof. Crane taught at the University of Nottingham (UK) and Cardiff University (UK). He continues to hold a visiting professorship at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham. He has been a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and at Bocconi University (Italy). He has provided executive education in Brazil and Sweden. He is co-author (with Dirk Matten) of Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization (Oxford University Press,3rd edition 2010 [best-selling business ethics textbook in Europe]), which won the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne.
- Michael Cummings is Emeritus Professor and Senior Scholar in the Department of English. His publications include The Language of Literature (Pergamon, 1983), Linguistics in a Systemic Perspective (Benjamins, 1988), Relations and Functions within and around Language (Continuum, 2002) and An Introduction to the Grammar of Old English (Equinox, 2010). His research interests include Old English syntax, the history of English, and modern functional linguistics.
- Dr. Davis is a leading researcher in exercise and health psychology with an emphasis on the etiology of eating disorders. One of her more recent projects is shared with Dr. Gordon Claridge from the University of Oxford and Dr. John Fox of McMaster University. Their research article, “Not just a pretty face: Physical attractiveness and perfectionism in the risk for eating disorders” (International Journal of Eating Disorders 27: 67-73, 2000), takes a look at the relationship between physical attractiveness and eating pathologies.
- Dorothy de Val is a musicologist and pianist whose research interests include Scots Gaelic song, the first English folksong revival, pianos and pianism, and Haydn reception in England. Particular research interests include early 20th-century collectors and arrangers of folksong, and collectors of Gaelic song. Dr. de Val's book, In Search of Song: The Life and Times of Lucy Broadwood, is currently at press with Ashgate. She is also co-editing a collection of essays on Haydn. Professor de Val's research extends into the field of dance, focusing on English social dance and Morris dance. Dr. de Val has taught at the Royal Academy of Music (London), Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oxford, and served as assistant curator of musical instruments at the Royal College of Music (London).
- Professor Denning’s research has included studies of the relationship of mainstream and alternative archaeology in Britain.
- Prof. Di Paolantonio held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Research Unit in Law, Justice & Social Change at Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK). While in London, he also conducted research and was affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He has explored questions regarding the contested terrain of public memory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, funded by the Organization of American States/ LASPAU Academic & Professional Programs for the Americas, Harvard University. Along with colleague Dr. Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths College), he is involved in a research project which explores the dynamics between art production and justice demands in societies reckoning with past state abuses. Professor Di Paolantonio is an International Research Associate with the Unit for Global Justice at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Also, he was most recently named an International Research Associate at the Centro de Estudios en Pedagogías Contemporáneas (CEPEC), and the Escuela de Humanidades (EHU) at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Professor Esteve-Volart, whose research focuses on development economics, gender, and labour economics, has written on “Gender Discrimination and Growth: Theory and Evidence from India,” “Dowry in Rural Bangladesh: Participation as Insurance against Divorce,” and (with Tim Besley and Robin Burgess, London School of Economics) “Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth: India Case Study.”
- A graduate of the National Film and Television School (England), Prof. Evans has worked in Britain for educational television, the BBC, ITV and on films sponsored by the British Film Institute. She is a founding member of the London Women's Film Group and the British Newsreel Collective.
- Prof. Fichman conducts research in the areas of the cultural history of science and technology and in Victorian studies. He recently completed a major intellectual biography of Alfred Russel Wallace.
- Professor Gentles is an authority on British history, and on the revolution of the 17th century in particular.
- Stephen Gill, a specialist in international relations and global political economy, has been a visiting professor at a number of universities including the University of Warwick; the University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara: New York University; the University of Tokyo and the Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama. He has also held the following fellowships and honours: Hallsworth Senior Research Fellow in Political Economy, University of Manchester; Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association, two Fulbright Fellowships, and the La Trobe Senior Fellow in Global Governance, Melbourne.
- Prof. Goel is interested in understanding the cognitive, computational, and neural basis of rational decision-making and emotional processing in humans, and more recently, the interaction between the two. He collaborates or has collaborated internationally with the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, (UK), the Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (USA), the Dept. of Neurology, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy), the Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS Lyon (France), La Laguna University, Tenerife (Spain), San Camillo Hospital, Venice (Italy) and the University of Sheffield (UK).
- Dr. Green teaches in the areas of jurisprudence and legal theory, and in sexuality and the law. He has published many papers in jurisprudence and political theory on topics including the nature of law, freedom of expression, minority rights, language rights, and the philosophy of gender and sexuality. Prof. Green holds the Chair in the Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Balliol College. He is among the leading legal theorists in the English-speaking world. He has visited or taught at many other prominent law schools, including the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University New York, the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member of the Hauser Global Faculty of the NYU Law School. He is author of The Authority of the State and co-editor of Law and the Community: The End of Individualism?
- Dr. Laurence Harris is studying the way that different senses are combined by the brain. Examples include the visual and vestibular system's role in orientation and self-motion perception; and vision and hearing's role in localizing events in space and time. Dr. Harris is particularly interested in the way these combinations can adapt to changing demands brought about by unusual environments such as the microgravity of space or by clinical conditions such as Parkinson's syndrome. His laboratory employs a number of techniques to address these questions including psychophysics and physiological measurements such as blood pressure, reaction times and eye movements. Unusual environments are created using virtual reality, parabolic flights, moving and unusually constructed rooms, and access to the International Space Station.
Dr. Harris has extensive international collaborations. The project on the International Space Station involved collaborations with NASA through the Canadian Space Agency. He is presently carrying out studies in France and Germany at the Rangueil University Hospital in Toulouse and the DLR Institute for Aerospace Medicine in Köln-Porz, again sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency to explore the cognitive consequences of bedrest. He is presently hosting Dr. Fred Mast, who is a visiting sabbaticant from the University of Bern in Switzerland and has previously hosted Dr. Marcus Lappe from Muenster University, Germany. He is serving on the dissertation committee of a student at the Universite de la Mediterannee in Marseille, France. He is partially sponsored by a Von Humboldt award for collaborations with Dr. Reiner Herpers at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University (Germany) on the perception of self-motion. He has active collaborations with Dr. Andy Smith at the University of London. He is planning future collaborations with Dr. MacIntyre (Paris), Dr. Li Li (Hong Kong) and Dr. Kenzo Sakurai (Japan). As director the Centre for Vision Research at York he is dedicated to encouraging international links of the centre's members and furthering the international reputation of York University.
- Professor Hay’s research interests include the legal and social history of the judiciary and central courts of England, 1701-1820; English criminal law in the same period; enforcement and evolution of the contract of employment (master and servant) in England, Scotland and Ireland to 1875; and magistrates and summary justice and the English court of King’s Bench. He has recently edited (with Paul Craven) Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), a volume in Studies in Legal History, the series of the American Society for Legal History. Other recent work includes the history of the English high court’s criminal jurisdiction (Crown Side Cases in the Court of King's Bench, forthcoming). He is presently writing about the administration of the criminal law in Georgian England. He has been a visitor at Yale, Warwick, and Columbia law schools.
- Pauline Head's areas of interest include Old and Middle English language and literature and women's writing in the Middle Ages. She has written on the narrative structure of the 9th-century biography of St. Leoba; interpretations of The Dram of the Rood and the Ruthwell cross; and representations of time in one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
- Professor Heller’s main interests are writing by women, and 19th- and 20th-century English and European literature. She has published articles on Wordsworth, George Eliot and Ibsen. She has contributed chapters to books on women in Italian literature.
- Professor Herren is a specialist in the Medieval Latin literature of the British Isles. He has written seven books, among them a two-volume critical edition of the Hisperica Famina and a translation of Aldhelm's prose writings. Since 1990, he has served as the editor of The Journal of Medieval Latin.
- Professor Higgins' research and teaching interests include Victorian literary culture, gender studies and feminist critique, textual studies, and poetry. She is co-editor of Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (ELT Press, 2004). For Oxford University Press, she is the co-general editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and will edit two volumes for the seven-volume series. Together with colleague Marie-Christine Leps, she is developing a project concerning Forms of Governance in Twentieth-Century Writing: The Critical Fictions of Foucault, Woolf, Auster, Ondaatje.
- Richard Hill’s areas of interest and expertise include historical and contemporary art created by Indigenous North American artists. In 2005, he co-curated, with Jimmie Durham, The American West at Compton Verney, UK.
- Prof. Idemudia was recently invited to the United Nations in New York, as a guest speaker as well as to participate in an expert group meeting on the use of non-renewable resources revenues for sustainable local development in developing countries. As a PhD student in Human Geography at Lancaster University (UK), he was actively involved in the collaboration between Lancaster and the University of Uyo (Nigeria).
- Prof. Kazimi is a documentary filmmaker, and was the cinematographer for the 1991 A Song for Tibet. His work has been honoured with three retrospectives - Images Festival, ('98), Pacific Film Archives/Berkeley Art Museum ('06) and the Mumbai International Film Festival ('08). In 2008 Prof. Kazimi was a juror for the prestigious Mumbai International Film Festival. Born and raised in India, Kazimi graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University with a B.Sc. in 1982.
- Gerald Kernerman, associate director of the Centre for Refugee Studies, was a visiting research fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University in 2006-07. His current research explores contemporary refugee issues in comparative perspective, focusing on the relationship between practices of refugee interdiction, national and international rights regimes, and the idea of “states of exception”. Previously, he was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University.
- Prof. Kim has been a Visiting Research Fellow with British Telecom (UK) and a Visiting Research Engineer with BHP Labs (Australia).
- Professor Kipping is currently finishing a book on The Consultancy Business in Historical and Comparative Perspective (which will be published by Oxford University Press). It covers the development of management consulting as a business activity in the major industrialized regions (Europe, North America and Japan) from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. He is also looking at the role of consulting firms in the introduction of the multidivisional form of organization in European banks. He has held appointments at the University of Reading (UK) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain). Prof. Kipping has also held visiting professorships at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, and Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE) (France); Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Innovation Research, Tokyo, and Meiji University, Tokyo (Japan); and Università Bocconi, Institute for Economic History, Milan, Italy.
- Prof. Krasny has a grant for a three-year project on “Diasporic narratives and national identities: Contesting historical writing in post-Soviet Ukraine.” In this study she investigates how Ukrainian diasporic narratives might inform conceptualizations of an independent and democratic national identity in Ukraine. This study will dialogically engage educators from both western and eastern Ukraine in the constructive process of locating themselves within the national continuity through the opportunity to read and respond to Ukrainian diasporic literature.
- Professor Kuin specializes in Renaissance poetry, Sir Philip Sidney, literature and history in the Elizabethan period and the practice of modern criticism upon Renaissance texts. He is the author of Chamber Music: A Reading of the Sonnet-Sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming). He is a member of the editorial board of the Sidney Newsletter and Journal.
- Dr. Lacher completed his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics.
- Professor Leblanc researches corporate governance practices and what the necessary conditions are for board and individual director effectiveness. Dr. Leblanc’s findings have been of interest to boards of directors, individual directors, shareholders, governments, regulators, the media, professional advisors to boards (law, accounting, consulting and director recruiting firms) and industry associations, both domestically and internationally. Prof. Leblanc has advised directors, executives and academics from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China and Mexico.
- Nina Levitt has exhibited her work in the UK and the US, and has taught at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
- Dr. Lexchin has been a consultant on pharmaceutical issues to the government of New Zealand, the Australian National Prescribing Service and the World Health Organization. Dr. Lexchin is one of the principal investigators, along with Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Profs. Wiktorowicz and Lexchin are the editors of Pharmaceutical Regulatory Policy in a Global Era: International Perspectives (Nova Publishers, New York, 2004).
- Dr. Lee Li’s research interests include international marketing and small business management. He has published in Strategic Management Journal, International Business Review, Industrial Marketing Management, and Thunderbird International Review. Author: The Dynamics of Export Channels from the United Kingdom to the P.R. of China.
- Professor Lightman's current research interests are in the cultural history of Victorian science. He is working on a book on Victorian popularizers of science which will focus on neglected figures of the latter half of the 19th century, including Arabella Buckley, Richard Proctor, David Page, Agnes Clerke, John George Wood, Frank Buckland, Alice Bodington and Mary Kirby. Professor Lightman is general editor of the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists (Thoemmes Continuum, 2004; American edition co-published by Thoemmes Continuum and University of Chicago Press, 2005).
- Peter Long studies Loessial, fluvial and slope deposits in North America (especially Southern Ontario and Central British Columbia) and Britain.
- Prof. Mar’s research is devoted to understanding people’s complex relation to fictional social others, and what the specific consequences that result from these interactions might be. He collaborates or has collaborated with Allan R. Braun and Philip Kohn of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA), Todd F. Heatherton and William M. Kelley of Dartmouth College (USA), Malia F. Mason of Columbia University (USA), C. Neil Macrae of the University of Aberdeen (UK), and Catherine A. Hynes of the University of Queensland (New Zealand).
- Prior to joining Schulich as a professor of policy, Prof. Matten was the Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics and Director of the Centre for Research into Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) and a research fellow with the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School (UK). He continues to hold visiting professorships at these institutions. Prof. Matten has also lectured at the University of Swansea, Wales (UK) and Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany). He is co-author (with Andrew Crane) of Business Ethics: A European Perspective – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2004 [best selling business ethics textbook in Europe]), which won the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne.
- Professor Mayer’s research interests include the bilingual models of literacy education, and literacy in deaf students. Her article in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, entitled “Can the linguistic interdependence theory support a bilingual-bicultural model of literacy for deaf student?” was selected by Oxford University Press as one of its seminal papers that the company has published in the last century. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the American Annals of the Deaf.
- Prof. McBey has been a visiting professor at the Aberdeen Business School and the Graduate Programs in Human Resources and in Management at the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University (Scotland); the Australian National University; and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He was appointed to the Order of St. John by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
- Dr. McKenna works with Dr. Julia Richardson in the area of internationally mobile skilled workers and self-initiated expatriates. He is also involved in a project on HRM and ethics and the global managerial and professional worker. He also has wider interests in cross-cultural management and international human resources management. He has contacts throughout Europe, Asia and South America as well as the Middle-East.
- Prof. Morgan has taught at the College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University (USA) and in the Dept. of Behavior in Organizations, University of Lancaster, England (UK). He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Warwick, England (UK); St. Gallen University (Switzerland), and Pennsylvania State University (USA).
- Professor Mueller’s research and teaching interests include contemporary German cinema and literature, film history and German cultural studies. She was accredited as a Diplomlehrer by the University of Leipzig and received her M. Phil., Ph.D. from the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
- Prof. Nirupama holds a DrEng in Water Resources Engineering from Kyoto University (Japan), a master’s in Hydrology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) and an MSc in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India). She has also spent a year at the University of Newcastle (UK). She has co-authored several articles on the tsunami of December 2004 in the Indian Ocean.
- Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Industrial Relations, Christine Oliver has been an external dissertation examiner for Erasmus University and Tilberg University (Netherlands), Monash University and the University of Western Sydney (Australia) and Oxford University (UK).
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- Among Peter Paolucci’s interests are Shakespeare and the Renaissance, electronic texts, the history and development of English prose through style and stylistics, horror fiction and film, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Victorian literature, technology and teaching, computer applications in literary scholarship and editorial work, and popular culture. He is currently creating an XML schema for Shakespeare which explores alternatives to the TEI's guidelines for a deep-tagging XML architecture for Shakespearean dramatic texts.
- Professor Parkinson’s research interests include cost accounting methods and accounting history. He has worked as an accountant in advertising (London, England) and in food production (Nairobi, Kenya). Professor Parkinson has held visiting positions at the University of the West Indies; Bolzano Free University and the American University in Dubai. Author: Accounting for Non-Financial Managers (2011).
- Professor Peake’s research interests are urban studies, feminist geography (particularly the gendered social organization of urban space), Guyana, United Kingdom, and urban Canada.
- Professor Philipps' research examines tax law and fiscal policy through the lenses of critical legal and social theory. She has published papers comparing the experiences of Canada, the UK, Australia and South Africa with gender budgeting, and on the development of fiscal transparency codes and laws by countries around the world as well as international bodies such as the IMF and OECD. Her current research includes a project on tax expenditure budgeting in developing countries, with a focus on India.
- Professor Pilgrim has written about or given papers on the works of English authors George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Barbara Pym and Margaret Drabble, and is particularly interested in the evolution of a text from first draft to first edition and beyond.
- Prof. Qu is participating in a research project on “Creating and popularizing a global management accounting idea: the case of the Balanced Scorecard,” a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) funded project with David Cooper (University of Alberta, Canada) and Mahmoud Ezzamel (Cardiff University, UK). She has served as a reviewer for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2001& 2003). Professor Qu has also been invited at research seminars at Kyoto University and Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
- Prof. Raphael, whose specialization is social determinants of health, was a Visiting Professor in the Division of Public Health, University of Liverpool, in 2005. He is one of the general editors of a new book, Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, which looks at contemporary health issues in Canada and the United States. In addition to traditional health sciences and sociological approaches, this book also provides the human rights and political economy perspectives on health, and provides an international context for these analyses.
- Prof. Richardson has held visiting professorships at the University of Manchester, UK; and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland.
- Prior to joining Osgoode's faculty, Prof. Richardson lectured at the law schools of the Universities of Manchester (UK) and Auckland (New Zealand). Passionate about environmental law, he also worked for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) in Kenya and Nepal. Presently, he is the co-chair of the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. His current major research is a book project on Socially Responsible Investment Law.
- Dr. Richardson was awarded her PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand). She also has extensive professional experience in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, New Zealand and Singapore. With a specific interest in the international dimensions of business, her recent work focuses on internationally-mobile professionals. This interest also relates to a broader interest in IHRM and career development across international boundaries. Julia's research also draws on the concept of the 'boundaryless career' and examines the extent to which contemporary careers might be individually managed while at the same time taking into account the influence of other stakeholders such as organizations, managers, peers and family members.
- Professor Robbin has appeared with leading conductors and orchestras in recital, concert and opera performances across the United States, Britain and Europe. She serves as president of the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation, an organization that supports Canadians studying and performing in the Britten-Pears Young Artists program in the U.K.
- Professor Rogers’ research interests include naval impressment in Britain and the Atlantic in the 18th century and British colonial encounters in the 18th-century Caribbean. His recent publications include Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night (Oxford UP, 2002), and a chapter on war, race and labour in American-Caribbean waters in The Global Eighteenth Century (Felicity A. Nussbaum, ed., Johns Hopkins Press, 2003).
- Professor Sabiston has taught courses in the 19th- and 20th- century novel, American literature, and comparative literature. She co-edited, with Suzanne Crosta, Perspectives Critiques: L’Oeuvre d’Hédi Bouraoui (2007), the Proceedings of the 2005 International Colloquium at York. She has also published articles on Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She has been working on Francophone Maghrebian literature, particularly the works of Hédi Bouraoui, and has translated several of his novels into English.
- Professor Salisbury’s research is in probability theory, and its connections to both finance and mathematical analysis. The applied side of his work deals with actuarial finance, or the interplay between insurance and hedging or risk management. He has taught at Purdue University and the University of California (San Diego), and has spent extended periods of time at the University of Edinburgh, MSRI in Berkeley, University of Auckland, Universite Paris Sud and Stanford University.
- Professor Shea’s research and teaching includes Victorian culture and literature, British Empire and imperialism, and literary theory. He is the co-editor, with William Whitla, of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (University of Virginia Press, 2000), and co-author, with William Whitla, of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (Prentice Hall, 2001; 2nd ed. 2005).
- Professor Small has taught dance in the United States, and in England at both Bretton Hall and the University of Leeds.
- In her research into the roles of the various structures in the brain that are thought to play a role in face processing, Prof. Steeves collaborates with members of the Department of Psychology at Durham University (UK), the Faculty of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and INSERM U455, Toulouse (France).
- Professor Subtelny’s works are based on the history of Ukraine and the Cossack era, especially the revolt of Hetman Ivan Mazepa against Tsar ‘Peter the Great’.
- Prior to joining Osgoode, Professor Tanguay-Renaud was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, where he taught jurisprudence. He has worked with the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development and the Asian Network for Free Elections in Thailand, as well as with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and continues to consult for various nongovernmental organizations in Asia and Europe. He is Director York's Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Since 2008, he has also been co-convenor of Osgoode's international seminar series on "Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism," He has been a H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a Visiting Professor at the National Law School University of India in Bangalore. He is currently involved in research projects focusing on criminal law theory, as well as emergencies, involving American, European, and Indian researchers.
- Malcolm Thurlby is an internationally renowned specialist in medieval art and architecture and Canadian architectural history. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 1987, he has published more than 150 articles on aspects of Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture in Britain and 19th century architecture in Canada. His book, The Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture (Logaston Press, 1999), was reprinted five times, and is currently being revised for a new edition. His most recent book is Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture in Wales (Logaston Press, 2006).
- Prof. Tsotsos is Distinguished Research Professor of Vision Science at York. His research area is computational vision with a current major focus being the modeling of visual attention. He is actively involved in both computational modeling and psychophysical experimentation based on the model’s predictions. He is also interested in a variety of applications of computer vision, most importantly, applications providing vision-based robotic aids for the physically-disabled. He has numerous international connections across Europe and the USA, through for example, his co-authored publications, editorship of special journal issues, keynote invited conference presentations, general chairmanship of several conferences and workshops, and program committee participation. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Technical University of Crete (Greece). He has had industrial contacts or substantial collaborations with Honda Research Institute Europe (Germany), Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC (USA) and Break-Step Productions Ltd. (UK).
- Prof. Van Harten was previously a member of faculty at the London School of Economics (UK) where he co-taught Administrative Law, International Economic Law, International Commercial Arbitration, and Public International Law. His recent book, Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law (OUP, 2007) presents a public law critique of investment treaty arbitration and proposes the establishment of an international investment court to ensure independence and accountability in the international adjudication of regulatory disputes between states and foreign investors. As a student, prof. Van Harten volunteered in Guatemala. He is also involved in a network of researchers from various countries dealing with international investment agreements and investment arbitration. In Ontario, he worked previously on the Arar Inquiry.
- Colleen Wagner’s first stage play, Sand, was shortlisted for best international play at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in 1989. Her play The Monument has been produced across North America, Australia and Germany, and was the first commercial production of a Canadian play to be produced in China. The Monument has been translated into French, German, Romanian, Mandarin, Portuguese and French. She is also a recipient of a SSHRC research/creation grant 2009-12) which has taken her to Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Morocco and the Sahara) to research and create a female-centred heroic myth from the actual stories of women and girls who have survived trauma in post-conflict zones in Africa. Colleen has also done research work for Home, a play about repatriation, that took her to Estonia and East Berlin, with an early draft of the play being performed in French at Festival d’été, Pont a Mousson, France.
- Professor Whitla specializes in the literature and culture of Victorian Britain, literary theory, and the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities. He has published The 1860 Text and Its Reading (University Press of Virginia, 2000) and Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (Prentice Hall, 2000), both co-authored with Victor Shea. Other projects include a book on William Morris and translation, a collection of readings on the Greek and Latin Classics and the European Renaissance, and a handbook for contemporary students of English.
- Mary Wiktorowicz is one of the principal investigators, along with Joel Lexchin and others, on a project entitled “International Survey of Strategies for Post-Market Pharmacosurveillance: Lessons for Canada,” funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institute of Health Services and Policy. Their survey included the following countries: UK, France, EU (European Medicines Evaluation Agency), USA, New Zealand, Australia and Norway. Professor Wiktorowicz is a co-author of “Keeping an eye on drugs...keeping patients safe: Active monitoring systems for drug safety and effectiveness in Canada and internationally,” commissioned by the Health Council of Canada (2010, with J. Lexchin, K. Moscou, A. Silversides and L. Eggertson).
- Professor Williams specializes in medieval and early modern literature, especially Shakespeare. Her book, The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2004) was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Best Book in Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. She is also the co-editor of a collection of essays entitled Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Current projects include a study of Renaissance Medievalism.
- Before joining the York Dept. of Chemistry, Prof. Wilson completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biophysical NMR at Cambridge under the supervision of Dr. Chris Dobson.
- In her research on the generation of immune diversity, specifically in the genetics of V(D)J recombination and autoimmune diseases, Dr. Wu collaborates with Professors James Kaufman and Gillian Griffiths, University of Cambridge (UK); Dr. Ellen Hsu, CUNY (New York City, USA); Dr. Susanna Lewis (Boston, USA); Dr. Ana Cumano, Pasteur Institute (Paris, France); and Dr. Antonio Coutinho, Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Portugal). Link to personal site
- Prof. Yon's previous career in education and administration includes teaching history in St Helena and later Zimbabwe where he also worked as a writer/lecturer for the National Curriculum Development Unit. Professor Yon has been a visiting academic and professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, and in the Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town. Recent work deals with school-based ethnography of race, identity and popular culture; works with the fluidity of both race and ethnicity and, in these global times, the dialectics of culture as product and process. His current research projects take him to Cape Town, Brazil and England.
- Professor Zeifman's major field of interest is contemporary British and American drama. A member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Modern Drama and former president of the Samuel Beckett Society, he is the co-editor of Contemporary British Drama (University of Toronto Press, 1993) and the editor of David Hare: A Casebook (Garland, 1994).
- Professor Zemans has been a Butterworth’s Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, University of London (UK), and a visitor at Kobe University Law Department (Japan) and the University of California at Los Angeles (USA).
Ukraine
Romana Bahry (Languages, Literatures & Linguistics)
- Professor Bahry teaches Russian literature, comparative literature, and East European film and culture. She is the author of Shliakh Sera Val'tera Skotta na Ukrainu (The Path of Sir Walter Scott to Ukraine)(Kyïv: Vsesvit, 1993) and Echoes of Glasnost in Soviet Ukraine (Captus University Publications, 1989).
- Prof. Krasny has a grant for a three-year project on “Diasporic narratives and national identities: Contesting historical writing in post-Soviet Ukraine.” In this study she investigates how Ukrainian diasporic narratives might inform conceptualizations of an independent and democratic national identity in Ukraine. This study will dialogically engage educators from both western and eastern Ukraine in the constructive process of locating themselves within the national continuity through the opportunity to read and respond to Ukrainian diasporic literature.
- Professor Subtelny’s works are based on the history of Ukraine and the Cossack era, especially the revolt of Hetman Ivan Mazepa against Tsar ‘Peter the Great’.
Latin America and Caribbean
Latin America and Caribbean Regional
Vijay Agnew (Social Sciences)
- Professor Agnew’s research interests are feminist theory with particular emphasis on racism, history of Asian, African, and Caribbean women in Canada, South Asian women, violence against immigrant women, and NGOs of immigrant women. Author: Diaspora, Memory and Identity: A Search for Home (2005) and Where I Come From (2003). Professor Agnew is a recipient of the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
- Professor Alston teaches courses on colonial and postcolonial Caribbean literature, on diaspora literatures in English (focusing on migrant minorities and national minorities in Britain, Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand); and postcolonial discourses of cultural hybridity and nationalism in Caribbean literature and literary theory. She is at work on a manuscript tentatively titled “Translated Languages, Bodies and Places.”
- Prof. Barndt is conducting a transnational research project entitled “Creative Tensions of Community Arts in Popular Education: A Transnational Study of the Americas,” that involves collaborators in the USA, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama in an examination of the intersection between popular education and community arts practice among pluriethnic and diasporic populations in northern and southern contexts.
- Professor Baudot’s areas of interest are the history and theory of contemporary Francophone literature (of the West Indies, Belgium, Switzerland), understanding opera, and editing and publishing in French. Among his publications are Musiciens romains de l’Antiquité; Identité culturelle et francophonie dans les Amériques (coedited with J-Cl. Jaubert) and short Répertoire pour une initiation à la chanson de langue française; Éducation des adultes et Éducation permanente: analyse de la documentation récente en français.
- Professor Benessaieh has numerous international research interests, including Latin America, North-South relations, and cultural industries, and is the author most recently of an article on international cooperation in Chiapas in the 1990s.
- Professor Birbalsingh teaches postcolonial literature. His publications include Passion and Exile: Essays in Caribbean Literature (1988), Novels and the Nation: Essays in Canadian Literature (1995) and From Pillar to Post: The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora (1998).
- Prof. Butler is interested in the ethnographic analysis of oral discourse; oral traditions of French and African-Caribbean ethnic groups in North America; and traditional and popular modes of expression and their influence on contemporary culture.
- Professor Canel's research focuses on the changing nature of state-civil society relations in Latin America resulting from neoliberal restructuring, democratization, and recent development discourses advocated by international development agencies. He is currently researching the process of municipal decentralization in Montevideo, Uruguay – examining how decentralization reforms promoted by municipal authorities relate with the specific contexts and associative cultures found at the local level. Author: “Uruguay's Tilt Left?" NACLA Report on the Americas, New York. Vol. 38, No.2, September/October 2004.
- Professor Das, whose research interests include development studies and political economy, has published several studies focusing on India, including “Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India” (Journal of Peasant Studies, 2007).
- Dr. Davis teaches courses in cultures of the Americas. Her research interests are Caribbean, African American and African Canadian literatures and history; Latin American literature; postcolonial and diaspora studies; and Black cultural and feminist studies.
- Alan Durston completed his graduate studies at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research currently focuses on the perception and treatment of indigenous languages in Latin America from the colonial period to the twentieth century. He is the author of Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
- Prof. Feliciano, who specializes in literary criticism and translation in a number of languages, is an Italo-Argentinian poet. She has published several volumes of her own poetry and participated in many poetry readings in Europe and in the Americas.
- Maria Figueredo’s research interests are Latin American literature and its relation to music, Hispanic women writers, Brazilian studies, and 20th century Hispanic poetry and short stories.
- Professor Fonseca’s international research is concerned with Third World comparative studies, and Latin American studies, with a special focus on Guatemala. He has published Entre la comunidad y la república. Ciudadanía y sociedad civil en Guatemala (Between Community and Republic. Citizenship and Civil Society in Guatemala) (F&G Editores, 2004).
- Professor Grinspun’s research interests are the social, labour and environmental aspects of international trade and economic development; and North American and Latin American integration. He is the initiator and coordinator of the University Consortium on the Global South at York, as well as organizer (with Peter Vandergeest) of the Colloquium on the Global South, a seminar which meets every Wednesday during the academic year. He is co-editor (with Y. Shamsie) of Canada, Free Trade, and “Deep Integration” in North America (2006).
- Maria Guzman coordinates the Spanish-English Translation Certificate program. She received her Ph.D in Comparative Literature with a concentration in Translation Studies from the State University of New York at Binghamton (2006). Her main scholarly interests are Translation Studies and 20th century Latin American Literature. Her research focuses on translation theory and pedagogy, with a particular emphasis on contemporary theoretical perspectives drawn from literary and cultural studies.
- Professor Hellman is a specialist in Latin America and the Caribbean. She has been a visiting scholar at New York University, and has lectured at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center School for Advanced International Studies. Her research interests are Third World politics, peasant movements, feminism and Marxism and new social movements. Most recently, Prof. Hellman has published The Rock and the Hard Place: The World of Mexican Migrants (The New Press, New York, 2008).
- Professor Holzinger’s research interests include leadership/ followership dynamics in international contexts. In collaboration with Randall B. Dunham from the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and student Thomas Medcalf, he published the 2006 article, “Leader and Follower Prototypes in an International Context: An Exploratory Study of Asia and South America,” in the Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. The paper won the Best Paper Award in the International Business Division.
- Prof. Imai is co-director of the Latin American Human Rights Research and Education Network. It brings together researchers and academics from York's Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) and Osgoode Hall Law School with a network of Latin American universities and civil society organizations, to promote human rights education, conduct applied research and build capacity in the region. Prof. Imai’s own research interests are Aboriginal law in Canada, indigenous rights in Latin America, alternative dispute resolution and clinical legal education.
- Professor James researches racial integration in the Caribbean, and immigration in Sweden. The research is viewed within the field of educational equity, as well as anti-racism and multiculturalism. He was one of the recipients of the 14th Annual New Pioneers Awards in 2006, awarded as a celebration of diversity and multiculturalism. Born in Antigua, Professor James wrote the 2003 book Seeing Ourselves: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture (Thompson Educational Publishing), as well as Race in Play: Understanding the Socio-Cultural Worlds of Student Athletes (Canadian Scholars Press, 2005). He received an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Uppsala University in 2006.
- Prof. Johnson has held visiting appointments at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and at Aix-Marseilles III (France). As a consultant to multilateral development agencies and various governments he has advised on financial sector reform, land tenure reform, institutional strengthening and the rule of law, predominantly in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Central Asia. A recent assignment took him to Afghanistan where he worked on the “Afghanistan Rule of Law Project”.
- Professor Johnson is interested in the history of Caribbean society and culture, as well as the history of the USA. She has written several articles focusing on Jamaica.
- Professor Kempadoo researches issues relating to sex workers. Author: Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor (2004).
- Prof. Llambias-Wolff conducts research in development studies and health studies, focusing on Latin America (mainly South America and Chile).
- Carlota McAllister's research is on the formation of political and moral agency in situations of violent conflict. She has primarily conducted fieldwork in Guatemala, but is now expanding her focus to include the rest of Central America and Cuba. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book manuscript entitled "The Good Road: Conscience and Consciousness in a Postrevolutionary Mayan Village," to be published by Duke University Press.
- Prof. McGillivray specializes in Latin American history generally, including social and labour history, and Cuban history. She is the author of Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and Politics in Cuba, 1868-1959 (Duke University Press, forthcoming). She is now doing research in Mexico for Sugar and Power in Latin America: State-Formation in Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil, 1900-1950. Prof. McGillivray seeks to answer three fundamental questions: why did Mexico and Cuba experience revolutions in the early twentieth century, while Brazil remained relatively stable? How was populism different in these countries, and how did it relate to World War, Depression, revolution, and dictatorship?
- Professor Murray chose Martinique, an island in the Caribbean that is an Overseas Department of France, as the fieldwork site in which to explore his interests. His dissertation and the majority of his publications, including his book, Opacity: Gender, Sexuality, Race and the ‘Problem’ of Identity in Martinique (2002), have investigated struggles over self-definition and representation in this postcolonial society from different perspectives, ranging from empowered French and local Martinican bureaucrats and artists to gay Martinican men. He is currently undertaking a new project that examines the impact of globalization and transnational discourses of "gay" identity on local gendered and sexual identities in the Caribbean.
- Liisa North is the author or co-author of nine books and many book chapters and journal articles on party politics, civil-military relations and political economic development processes in Chile, Peru and Ecuador; on the civil wars, United Nations peacekeeping missions and human rights
and refugee crises in El Salvador and Guatemala; and on Canadian-Latin American relations.
- Professor Parkinson’s research interests include cost accounting methods and accounting history. He has worked as an accountant in advertising (London, England) and in food production (Nairobi, Kenya). Professor Parkinson has held visiting positions at the University of the West Indies; Bolzano Free University and the American University in Dubai. Author: Accounting for Non-Financial Managers (2011).
- Viviana Patroni’s work has focused on the experience of development in Latin America, the changing nature of state-labour relations under neoliberalism and the emergence of new forms of unionism in Argentina. She is currently the co-director of a Canadian-funded project of activities aimed at supporting the development of a Latin American network for human rights education and research.
- Among Prof. Persram’s research interests are postcoloniality, feminism, Caribbean culture and resistance, and international political theory.
- Marcia Rioux is co-director of the international advisory committee of DRPI, a collaborative project working to establish a monitoring system to address disability discrimination globally, with sites in Australia, New Zealand, Rwanda, South Africa, Bolivia, Cameroon, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, India, Kenya, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina and Sweden (http://www.yorku.ca/drpi/index.html). Dr. Rioux's research addresses a broad range of public and health policy issues including health and human rights, universal education, international monitoring of disability rights, the impact of globalization on welfare policy, literacy policy, disability policy, and social inclusion. Dr. Rioux has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and India. She has just published an international volume on law and disability and is engaged in a number of international research projects, including an on-going 9-year research project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and another funded by Shastri.
- Professor Rubenstein’s international research interests focus on gender, sexuality, and popular culture in Latin America. She was a 2000 Summer Visiting Fellow at the University of Chicago/University of Illinois Joint Center for Latin American Studies. Her publications include Going to the Movies in Mexico: Cultural Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Era (Duke University Press, 2005), co-edited with Gilbert Joseph and Eric Zolov, and Fragments of a Golden Age: Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940 (Duke University Press, 2001).
- Sandra Schecter collaborates with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) on public policy and infrastructure related to the education of Latino immigrant students. She also collaborates with the Universidad de Sonora (Mexico) on public policy and infrastructure related to the education of linguistic minority students. Her research interests are language and literacy acquisition and learning, language socialization, language and global processes, and Latin American immigrants en el norte.
- Professor Silva’s areas of interest are Spanish and Latin American literature; she specializes in contemporary narrative and Latin American women writers. She is a co-author of Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women Writers (University Press of Florida, 2000, 2nd ed.)
- Professor Solomon has researched multicultural and antiracism pedagogies, and focused on internationalizing student learning. His initiatives include the York-University of the West Indies student exchange program and collaborating with teacher educators in Jamaica in building institutional capacity for community development projects for teachers.
- Patrick Taylor does research and teaches in the areas of postcolonial thought and Caribbean religion, culture and literature. He is director of the Caribbean Religions Project, an international, collaborative research and editorial project based at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) and funded by the Ford Foundation and SSHRC. He is the editor of Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean (Indiana University Press, 2001) and is currently co-editing an encyclopedia of Caribbean religions with Frederick I. Case. Professor Taylor is also a faculty coordinator of the York-University of the West Indies Exchange Program. He has organized study-abroad programs in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
- Professor Trotman's research interests include Caribbean history and anthropology, African history, American history, and the Caribbean. Most recently he has published Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (with Gad Heumanthe, Macmillan Caribbean, 2004). He is also the author of Crime in Trinidad: Conflict and Control in a Plantation Society, 1838-1900 (1988).
- James Walker's main specialization is variationist sociolinguistics. He has worked on sociolinguistic variation in English (especially African American, Canadian and Caribbean English) and Sango (the national language of the Central African Republic), as well as Celtic syntax.
- Prof. Witmer specializes in North American and Caribbean vernacular musics. Currently he is working on an article on "British Caribbean Music Cultures in the U.S. and Canada" (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 3: The United States and Canada.)
- One of Prof. Zamora’s areas of interest is postcolonial literatures (Africa and Latin America), and he is currently studying the links between French African and Latin American literatures.
Anguilla
Paul Wilkinson (Environmental Studies)
- With a focus on resource and environmental management, tourism and recreation planning, and protected area management, as well as international development, much of Professor Wilkinson’s research is international in nature. He has published widely on these topics, including numerous publications on the Caribbean, Indonesia, and Europe. Prof. Wilkinson has been a visiting researcher at the Centre International de Recherche et d'Etudes Touristiques, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Argentina
Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Aulakh holds the Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business at York. He has taught or held visiting professorships at universities in the USA (Temple University Philadelphia, Michigan State University, the University of Texas Austin and the University of Hawaii), and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. He has also taught in international programs in Italy, Argentina, Germany and the Czech Republic. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for National Competitiveness, Institute of Industrial Policy Studies, Korea. One of his current research areas is to examine internationalization strategies of firms from Brazil, Chile, China, India and Mexico. He wrote the 2000 text, Rethinking Globalization(s): From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Intervention (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002).
- Dr. Warren Crichlow teaches graduate courses in Cultural Studies; Globalization and Migration, Museums, Memory and Pedagogical Practice; and Urban Education, as well as undergraduate courses in Foundations of Education and Popular Culture. His doctorate in education is from the University of Rochester (New York), and he held a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Black Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). He has been a visiting scholar at University of California Los Angeles, Monash University (Australia), The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (Australia), and Pedagogische Hochschule Freiburg/University of Education (Germany). Professor Crichlow has published on topics related to race and education, arts and education, and film, and visual culture. He co-edited: Race Identity and Representation in Education (Routledge, vol. 1, 1993 and vol. 2, 2005), and Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, a special issue of Cultural Studies (1995). He has authored articles appearing in The Journal of Negro Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Urban Education, Discourse, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Afterimage and PUBLIC: Art, Culture, Ideas Current research initiatives include a project on pedagogies of collective memory, identity and commemoration practice to be conducted in Kigali, Rwanda around the 20th anniversary of the genocide, 2012.
- Prof. Di Paolantonio held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Research Unit in Law, Justice & Social Change at Goldsmiths College, University of London (UK). While in London, he also conducted research and was affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He has explored questions regarding the contested terrain of public memory in Buenos Aires, Argentina, funded by the Organization of American States/ LASPAU Academic & Professional Programs for the Americas, Harvard University. Along with colleague Dr. Vikki Bell (Goldsmiths College), he is involved in a research project which explores the dynamics between art production and justice demands in societies reckoning with past state abuses. Professor Di Paolantonio is an International Research Associate with the Unit for Global Justice at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Also, he was most recently named an International Research Associate at the Centro de Estudios en Pedagogías Contemporáneas (CEPEC), and the Escuela de Humanidades (EHU) at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Prof. Feliciano, who specializes in literary criticism and translation in a number of languages, is an Italo-Argentinian poet. She has published several volumes of her own poetry and participated in many poetry readings in Europe and in the Americas.
- Ecologist Christopher Lortie has collaborated with researchers from Sonoma State University and the University of California (USA), and the University of Bordeaux (France) on a study of using gradients to explore the plant community process on coastal dunes in California & France and on alpine meadows in California and the Yukon. He is also a member of a working group on bias in the publication process in ecology that is supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California. Prof. Lortie collaborates with researchers in Argentina and Montana (USA) on a project on seedbank dynamics.
- Prof. Middleton is executive director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre and Assistant Professor of Marketing in the Schulich School of Business. His research includes international marketing. He has taught courses in international marketing at Rutgers School of Management (US), Moscow State University (Russia), Southwest Normal University (China), IDEA in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Chiangmai University and NIDA (Thailand). He has also taught courses in international strategy and entrepreneurship at Yonok College, Lampang (Thailand). Prior to his academic career he had worked in marketing for companies in the UK, US, Norway, Japan and China.
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- Viviana Patroni’s work has focused on the experience of development in Latin America, the changing nature of state-labour relations under neoliberalism and the emergence of new forms of unionism in Argentina. She is currently the co-director of a Canadian-funded project of activities aimed at supporting the development of a Latin American network for human rights education and research.
- Professor Peterson is the Vice-Chair of the Russia-Canada Corporate Governance Program, and his research interests include corporate governance in Russia. Additionally, he has acted as a visiting professor in Austria and Argentina.
- Marcela Porporato received her PhD in Management from IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra (Spain). Her primary research interest is to study how management control systems arise and evolve in turbulent environments such as new organizational forms (i.e. strategic alliances) and regional economies of developing countries (i.e. Cordoba, Argentina). Currently, she investigates the design of management control systems in international joint ventures and in family-owned businesses in Argentina, and teaches cost accounting and management planning and control systems. Marcela's teaching and research benefit from her international experience in South America, Europe and North America.
Belize
Teresa Holmes (Anthropology)
- Professor Holmes has conducted research in Kenya and in Belize. She is completing a book, based on her Ph.D. research in western Kenya, entitled A House for the Kager: Contesting Relatedness in Colonial Kenya. Her continued work investigates the significance of local and state discourses of kinship in contemporary Kenyan society. Holmes is also conducting research on contemporary forms of tourism in Belize. This research continues her earlier interest in the links between identity and representation, focusing on how tourism serves as a foundation for the development of national identity and notions of citizenship in Belize.
- Professor Little’s research focuses most generally on the analysis of society as spectacle, visual culture, and popular cultural performance in both Euro-North American and postcolonial societies. His earliest fieldwork was with the European one-ring circus. He is writing the life histories of three circus artists in concert with a cultural and historical analysis of European circus spectacles and fascism, in hopes of developing an idea about the varied crises of the modern, most significantly revealed by fascism. He has also conducted research on tourist safaris in Kenya as spectacle productions, analyzing the visual politics of tourist experience, and is now conducting research with Dr.Theresa Holmes, on the rise of the tourist state in Belize.
- Professor McNeil's primary research interest is the rights of Indigenous peoples, particularly in Canada, Australia, and the United States. He has written a book, Common Law Aboriginal Title, and numerous monographs and articles on this subject, some of which are collected in Emerging Justice?: Essays on Indigenous Rights in Canada and Australia. Aspects of his work include land rights, treaty rights, and self-government. He has acted as a consultant and expert witness on these matters, most recently in relation to a land claim by Mayan people in Belize. In 2006, he was awarded a Killam Fellowship to pursue research on the legality of European assertions of sovereignty in North America.
Bolivia
Bryan Husted (Schulich School of Business)
- Prof. Husted, an expert in business and sustainability, holds a joint appointment with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, and the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain. He has held visiting professorships at INCAE Business School, Alajuela, Costa Rica; Coppead Graduate School of Business, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Escuela Militar de Ingeniería, La Paz, Bolivia; and Universidad Privada Boliviana, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Brazil
David Scott Armstrong (Visual Arts)
- Professor Armstrong is a print artist whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Estonia, Russia, Brazil, and Japan and is found in the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Museum, USA.
- Simone Bohn taught at the University of São Paulo (USP) and State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) before coming to York. Her research focuses on political parties and the feminist movement in Latin America and she is currently finishing a manuscript titled Party Organizations at a Crossroads: Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective.
- Before coming to York, Prof. Crane taught at the University of Nottingham (UK) and Cardiff University (UK). He continues to hold a visiting professorship at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham. He has been a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and at Bocconi University (Italy). He has provided executive education in Brazil and Sweden. He is co-author (with Dirk Matten) of Business Ethics – Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization (Oxford University Press,3rd edition 2010 [best-selling business ethics textbook in Europe]), which won the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics (Category Textbook) [Max Weber-Lehrbuch-Preis für Wirtschaftsethik] from the ‘Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft’, Cologne.
- Professor Curto teaches courses on modern Africa. His research interests are the historical demography of Angola in the 18th & 19th centuries; the Atlantic slave trade; and Angola slaves in Brazil. His most recent publication is Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade (edited with Renée Soulodre-La France, Africa World Press, 2005).
- Luiz Marcio Cysneiros works with Vera Werneck from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro on an evaluation of an exemplar to assess agent-oriented methodologies. Prof. Werneck has taught at York, and Prof. Cysneiros has taught at UERJ.
- Professor Elmes has represented Canada at the Venezuela International Jazz Festival, performed in Brazil and toured South Africa with the Canadian Jazz Giants. He toured Chile in 2000 with the Barry Elmes Quintet.
- Prof. Etcheverry is involved in the development of the World Wind Energy Institute, a new training network involving renewable energy centres located in Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt and Russia. He is also focusing on the analysis of climate change policies in Mexico.
- Maria Figueredo’s research interests are Latin American literature and its relation to music, Hispanic women writers, Brazilian studies, and 20th century Hispanic poetry and short stories.
- Prof. Husted, an expert in business and sustainability, holds a joint appointment with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, and the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid, Spain. He has held visiting professorships at INCAE Business School, Alajuela, Costa Rica; Coppead Graduate School of Business, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Escuela Militar de Ingeniería, La Paz, Bolivia; and Universidad Privada Boliviana, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
- Prof. McGillivray specializes in Latin American history generally, including social and labour history, and Cuban history. She is the author of Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and Politics in Cuba, 1868-1959 (Duke University Press, forthcoming). She is now doing research in Mexico for Sugar and Power in Latin America: State-Formation in Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil, 1900-1950. Prof. McGillivray seeks to answer three fundamental questions: why did Mexico and Cuba experience revolutions in the early twentieth century, while Brazil remained relatively stable? How was populism different in these countries, and how did it relate to World War, Depression, revolution, and dictatorship?
- Prof. Packer, Canada’s leading expert on the world’s bees, is leading a global campaign to DNA-barcode the bees of the world, in order to increase the efficiency of studies in agriculture, pollination, biodiversity and the environment. He works with specialists around the world from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Kirgizstan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, UK, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
- For the past several years, Prof. Perkins has been the lead on a development project entitled “Capacity Building of Civil Society in Water Resources Management in Sao Paulo State, Brazil.” In cooperation with the Brazilian non-governmental organization ECOAR Institute for Citizenship and the University of Sao Paulo, this initiative has been aimed at helping Brazil's civil society to participate more effectively in decision-making processes surrounding the management and protection of water resources. This has been accomplished by adopting a learning-by-doing approach and distance education strategies.
- Prof. Przychodzen is co-investigator on a research project funded by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, entitled “Dialogues et expériences multiculturels en littérature indienne. Approches comparatives avec la littérature québécoise.” He has also collaborated on “Figures et mythes littéraires des Amériques. Dictionnaire,” with the Universidade federal de Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
- Danielle Robinson’s areas of interest include theatrical, popular and social dance in the United States as well as African diasporic dance practices in the Americas. Her research has focused on ragtime, jazz and swing dancing in the US, specifically in relation to race and class politics. More recently, she has begun projects on samba de roda and forró in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. During 2005, Professor Robinson was a visiting scholar in the School of Dance at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil where she team-taught a graduate course on dance cultural studies. She has also taught at the University of California, Riverside and University of Texas, Austin and guest lectured at Sonoma State University, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley.
- Klaus Rupprecht, director of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies, was formerly consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto. Rupprecht has more than thirty years of experience as a German diplomat, including posts in Germany, China, Brazil, Taiwan, Portugal, the United States and Canada. Prior to being appointed consul general in 2002, he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and then director general of the German Institute Taipei in Taiwan. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a master’s degree in comparative law from the University of Iowa, and speaks six languages, including German, Mandarin, English and French.
- Tim Whiten has worked using art therapy in UN refugee assistance programs in Brazil.
- Jianhong Wu established the Centre for Disease Modelling at York. One of the Centre’s projects is the Canada-China Thematic Program on Disease Modeling, 2007-09. The main Chinese partner is MCME (The Mathematical Centre of the Chinese Ministry of Education). Prof. Wu and colleagues at York’s Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics work closely with the Institute of Mathematics and Computation at the University of São Paulo – San Carlos. This collaboration includes the exchange of graduate students.
- Prof. Yon's previous career in education and administration includes teaching history in St Helena and later Zimbabwe where he also worked as a writer/lecturer for the National Curriculum Development Unit. Professor Yon has been a visiting academic and professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, and in the Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town. Recent work deals with school-based ethnography of race, identity and popular culture; works with the fluidity of both race and ethnicity and, in these global times, the dialectics of culture as product and process. His current research projects take him to Cape Town, Brazil and England.
Chile
Alan Durston (History)
- Alan Durston completed his graduate studies at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research currently focuses on the perception and treatment of indigenous languages in Latin America from the colonial period to the twentieth century. He is the author of Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
- Professor Elmes has represented Canada at the Venezuela International Jazz Festival, performed in Brazil and toured South Africa with the Canadian Jazz Giants. He toured Chile in 2000 with the Barry Elmes Quintet.
- Astronomer Patrick Hall has been a Research Associate at the Princeton University Observatory (2000-04) and an Investigador Asociado at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile (2000-03).
- Prof. Llambias-Wolff conducts research in development studies and health studies, focusing on Latin America (mainly South America and Chile).
- Teresa Macias is conducting research on international human rights policy development, funded by the International Development Research Centre. This research uses a genealogical methodology to trace the process of human rights policy development over a period of 20 years after the end of the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile.