The CFR is supported by a network of interdisciplinary Faculty Associates. Faculty associates are sit on the CFR's awards and governance committees and participate in the Centre's activities.
Faculty Associates are part-time, full-time or emeritus faculty members at York University, or elsewhere. For faculty members at other universities, membership is either through invitation, or by application, and requires substantive and continuing participation in the intellectual life of the Centre.
Meet Our Faculty Associates

Dr. Sheila Embleton pursues an internationally recognized research agenda in multiple fields of linguistics but is also well known for contributions to the study of post-secondary education. She holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor in Linguistics at York University, where from 2000 to 2009 she served as Vice-President Academic (VP-Academic & Provost in 2008-09). In January 2023, Dr. Embleton became interim President of Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

Minakshi Das is an experienced educator and community development researcher with professional experience in the realm of Social/Public Policy with the right blend of research, training, and program management. Dr. Das has a Post-Doctoral degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She has gathered teaching, research, and mentoring experience in healthcare management, experiential learning, disaster emergency management rapid response support, conflict resolution, and peacebuilding. Her expertise in maternal and child health well-being expanded her research horizon into HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, COVID-19, breast cancer, oncology nursing, refugees' access to health care, gender equity, and environmental health governance. She has been working ardently for Afghan refugee integration and their mental health and well-being in India, the UK, and Canada having working associations with UNHCR, UNFPA, UNICEF, and DFID. As an ardent advocate of human rights in practice, she has extensive global fieldwork experience with disadvantaged regions and vulnerable communities. Currently, she has been working on environmental health and community resiliency in India. She possesses publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

Gabrielle Moser is an art historian, writer, and independent curator. She is the author of Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire (Penn State University Press, 2019) and she is at work on her second book, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press). She is currently pursuing two collaborative research projects that examine the intersections of artistic practice and political subjectivity. The first, "Photography and Biopolitics," undertaken with student researchers Jeffrey Newberry, Charles Marco Diokno Manzo and Myrtle Sodhi, investigates how artists and youth navigate their experiences of (self-) surveillance, and how they resist its effects through glitches, hacks, and other creative forms of speaking back to state power. The second, “Feminist Transmissions” (alongside Giulia Damiani and Helena Reckitt), examines the ongoing resonance of 1970s feminist practices on the present, with a particular attention to the uses of art, psychoanalysis and writing in Italian feminism.
See more: https://edu.yorku.ca/edu-profiles/index.php?mid=650808

Shobna Nijhawan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. See more: https://shobna.info.yorku.ca/

Patricia E. Perkins is an ecological economist concerned with climate justice: addressing global inequities while advancing the energy transition. She is interested in the political ecology of commons governance, local economies, and energy transitions; feminist theory and practice in times of climate change; and mining / metals in the green transition. Patricia teaches courses in Climate Justice, Climate Mitigation, Ecological Economics, Community Economic Development, and interdisciplinary qualitative research methods. She often works with students pursuing research themes related to climate justice, local economic development, trade and the environment, water management, and feminist ecological economics. Patricia was a Lead Author for the 6th Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, chapter on "Demand, Services, and Social Aspects of Mitigation" (published in 2022).
See more: https://euc.yorku.ca/faculty/patricia-elaine-perkins/

Alexandra Rutherford is a Professor in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology graduate area in the Department of Psychology. She uses critical historical and qualitative approaches to analyze the development and contemporary status of the human sciences. Most generally, she is interested in how psychologists have used their scientific ‘expertise’ to impact society and how, in turn, social and political factors have shaped the nature of this expertise and its influence. Specifically, she is interested in how feminism as a diverse body of theory and practice, as well as a social and political movement, has impacted psychology and how feminist psychology has impacted society. In her current project, Alexandra examines the relationship between feminist psychology and policy in the United States over the course of the 20th century. Over the past two decades she has developed a multimedia digital archive of the relationship between feminism and psychology called Psychology's Feminist Voices. A central component of the archive is an oral history collection that now includes over 130 interviews with feminist psychologists from all over the world. She is currently working with feminist decolonial scholars in the United States and South Africa on a special issue of American Psychologist on decolonial psychology, which aims to re-center, reclaim, and mobilize global marginalized knowledges.
See more: https://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=78979

Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Assistant Professor of Politics and Social Science at York University. She has also been appointed as a Broadbent Institute Fellow. Previously, she was the Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta’s Department of Political Science. She received her doctoral degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.
Her research looks at migrant labor, specifically assessing migrant activism. Her forthcoming book, “From the Politics of Everyday Resistance to the Politics from Below,” which will be published by the University of Illinois Press, won the 2014 National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize. Her work has been published in academic journals such as the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and Canadian Ethnic Studies. She is also one of the editors of “Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility,” which was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012.
Dr. Tungohan specializes in socially engaged research and is actively involved in grassroots migrant organizations such as Gabriela-Ontario and Migrante-Canada.

Agnès Whitfield is Professor of English and member of the graduate programs in French, Translation, and Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies. In her research, Professor Whitfield draws on feminist readings in Narratology, Sociology, and Translation Studies to study the conditions of production and reception of Canadian women’s life writing in English and French, and Canadian Francophone and Anglophone women’s literary translations. Her commitment to developing archival material and recovering the neglected work of women translators underlies her SSHRC funded project on Hannah Josephson, the American translator of Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion, one of over 40 research grants she has received from external agencies. She has published seven scholarly volumes and three special issues of scientific journals, including Le Métier du double. Portraits de traducteurs et traductrices littéraires (2005), short-listed for the Canadian Federation of the Humanities Raymond-Klibansky Prize, authored over 90 peer-reviewed articles in Canadian and international journals, and presented over 100 refereed conference papers and invited lectures in Canada and abroad. Professor Whitfield’s action research approach includes advocacy for women’s rights, particularly in the context of sexual violence. In 2009-2010 she was bilingual Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa where she organized the national conference “Women’s Rights on the Political Agenda/Les droits des femmes sur l’échiquier politique,” co-sponsored by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and Equal Voice. Since 2021, she is a regular contributor to Law360 Canada on minority French-language rights and the revictimization of sexual violence survivors in the Canadian justice system. She is also the author of four volumes of poetry in French.