Among the finest anywhere, York’s Faculties introduce students to a broad perspective of the world that results in original thought and theory. Our flexible cross-discipline programming, innovative course design, and diverse experiential learning provides students with an amazing variety of academic opportunities where learning and debate are not only valued; they are encouraged.
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| Name | Stream | Department | Areas of Expertise | |
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 | Ope Akanbi | Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Law and communication; regulation of digital work; privacy and the political economy of digital media. |
 | Gene Allen | Technology in Practice | Journalism (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Media history; the history of journalism; the evolution of news; news agencies; news and national identity; the popularization of history in film and television. |
 | Shana Almeida | Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Empire; colonialism and communication policy; political communications; race; ethnicity and media; representation; identity and culture. |
 | Natalie Alvarez | Media & Culture | School of Performance (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Immersive performance in the public sphere; performance and scenario-based pedagogy; contemporary performance; Latina/o-Canadian theatre; performance activism; and performance theory. |
 | Sedef Arat-Koç | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Immigration policy and citizenship, especially as they affect immigrant women; transnational feminism; politics of imperialism; racialization and the politics of racism; and reconfiguration of social and political identities under neoliberal globalization. |
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 | Steve Bailey | Media & Culture | Humanities (York) | Cinema; critical theory; cultural studies; philosophy of technology. |
 | Ian G Balfour (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | English (York) | Romantic poetry and prose; contemporary theory and criticism; 18th-century literature; 18th-century philosophy (especially aesthetic theory and philosophy of language). |
 | Deborah Jean Barndt (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Environmental Studies (York) | Popular education and social movements; media analysis; photographic methods for participatory research/education/action; cultural production; community development; women, globalization, and food. |
 | Ben Barry | Media & Culture | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Fashion; women's studies; women's fashion; men's fashion; modelling; advertising; fashion advertising; marketing; fashion imagery; body image; policy; cross-cultural consumer attitudes. |
 | Tuna Baskoy | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Research methods; statistics and computer applications; comparative public policy and administration (especially competition/antitrust and telecommunication policies); theories of capitalist market competition; political economy of European integration; e-government; e-democracy. |
 | Shannon M Bell | Politics & Policy; Technology in Practice | Politics (York) | Extremes in art (especially bio- and hybrid-art); shooting theory (videoing-imagining philosophical concept such as Heidegger's stillness, Husserl’s epoché, Bataille's waste, Weil's attention, Deleuze's deterritorialization, Virilio's vision machine and accident). |
 | Kelly Bergstrom | Department of Communication & Media Studies (York) | Gender Issues; communications; game studies; feminist media studies; social media. | |
 | Jody D. Berland | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Humanities (York) | Cultural theory; Canadian communication theory; cultural studies of nature; science; technology and the environment; music and the media; space and place. |
 | Art Blake | Media & Culture | History (Toronto Metropolitan University) | North America; U.S. 20th-century cultural history; urban history; sound studies. |
 | Alan Blum (Member Emeriti & Senior Scholar) | Media & Culture | Sociology (York) | Medical humanities; culture of the city; sociology of knowledge; theorizing everyday life; the imaginary, symbolic, and real registers of social life and phenomena. |
 | Marusya Bociurkiw | Media & Culture | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Canadian television; affect theory; nationalist discourses; community cable; media activism; sexuality & gender studies. |
 | Robert M J Bowman | Media & Culture | Music (York) | Popular music studies; history of popular music; writer; broadcaster; and performer in many musical genres. |
 | Jason Boyd | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Digital innovation and scholarly practice; work emerging at the intersection of the digital and the literacy; critical code studies; computer games and gaming in social, literary, and scholarly contexts; and ‘digital lives’ in its broadest sense. |
 | Jean Bruce | Media & Culture | Communication and Design (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Advertising; cinema; feminism; visual culture; television; melodrama; ethnography. |
 | Burcu Bulgurcu | Technology in Practice | Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Digital humanities; digital life; new media; privacy. |
 | Jennifer Burwell | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Contemporary feminist science fiction; utopian writing and thought—from feminist theory to postmodern theory to critical Marxism; “bio-art”; biosemiotics. |
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 | Darcey Callison | Media & Culture | Dance (York) | Choreography; dance dramaturgy; popular culture and dance; performance studies and gender (masculinity). |
 | Miranda Campbell | Media & Culture | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Youth culture; labour; creative industries; cultural policy; political economy; community arts; critical pedagogy; gender studies. |
 | John Caruana | Media & Culture | Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Phenomenology; Frankfurt school; psychoanalysis; post-structuralism; European cinema; theories of the sacred. |
 | Mark J. Cauchi | Media & Culture | Humanities (York) | 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy and social theory; intersections of religious and secular thought and culture; theories of the secular and postsecular; intersections of philosophy and the arts (literature, visual art, and film). |
 | David Cecchetto | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Humanities (York) | Critical theory; digital humanities; new media; philosophy of technology; sound studies. |
 | Eliza Chandler | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Disability Studies (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Accessibility; embodiment; representation; identity and culture; research-creation and media practices; visual culture. |
 | Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati | Politics and Policy; Media and Culture | International Studies, York | International law; human rights; children and youth; entertainment industry; girl child; feminist legal theory; semiotics of law. |
 | Sibo Chen | Media & Culture | School of Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical theory; linguistics; political economy; semiotics; environmental communication. |
 | David Ciavatta | Media & Culture | Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Kant and 19th-century continental philosophy (especially Hegel and Marx); phenomenology and existentialism; social and political philosophy; philosophy of action. |
 | Dave Colangelo | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Monumentality; screen studies; screen cultures; public art; public space; public projection; media architecture; digital placemaking; smart cities; critical theory; research-creation. |
 | Rosemary J. Coombe | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Anthropology; Social Science (York) | Intellectual property; Indigenous peoples; cultural and biological diversity; publics; public domains and public sphere; human rights; cultural rights; postcolonial theory; theories of information; civil society; transnationalism; neoliberalism; informational capital. |
 | Natalie H. Coulter | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies(York) | Communications; children and youth; gender and communications; consumer culture; critical technology studies. |
 | Wendy Cukier | Technology in Practice | Entrepreneurship & Strategy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Technology strategy and decision making; regulation and policy; vertical market applications (especially government, policing, health, education, non-profits); technology enabled learning; government relations; advocacy and social marketing and the role of IT; critical theory and IT; gender; diversity and IT. |
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 | Patricio Davila | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Cinema and Media Arts (York) | Critical visualization practice; material semiotics; research-creation; data visualization; new media; visual design; interactive installation; public participation. |
 | Charles Davis | Politics & Policy; Technology in Practice | Communication and Design (Toronto Metropolitan University) | IT; media, and creative industries; new firm formation; internationalization, and product and service innovation practices; innovation and industrial policy; consumer behaviour with respect to digital technologies and services; work practices and occupations in creative industries; management practices in media industries. |
 | Nancy Viva Davis Halifax | Media & Culture | Health Policy & Management (York) | Disability; education healthcare; social exclusion; structural violence; homelessness; public and community spaces; and arts-based research. |
 | Desiree de Jesus | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Communications; children and youth; black cultural and feminist studies; videographic criticism; community-based research; decolonial approaches to cinema and media. | |
 | Colleen Derkatch | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical theory; cultural studies; science and technology studies; rhetoric. |
 | Kevin Leslie Dowler (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Cultural policy in Canada and Europe; art and the city; aesthetics and popular culture; history of communications. |
 | Daniel Drache (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Political Science (York) | The political economy of integration and social exclusion; borders and identity; North American integration; global cultural commons and microactivism; public goods theory and the theory of the public good; the thought and influence of Harold Innis, Jürgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt. |
 | Susan Driver | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Feminist and queer theory, youth culture, affect theory, posthumanism and new materialism. |
 | Louis-Étienne Dubois | Media & Culture | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Collaborative and innovation processes; management practices in the creative industries; gaming and performance arts industries. |
E | ||||
 | R. Bruce Elder (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice | Film Studies (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Cinema; cultural studies; embodiment; philosophy of technology; visual culture. |
 | Greg Elmer | Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Documentary; media activism and social movements; political communications; research-creation and media practices; surveillance studies. |
 | Barbara Evans | Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | Documentary; film; women; history; politics. |
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 | Seth Feldman (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice | Film (York) | Film; radio. |
 | Deborah Fels | Technology in Practice | Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Inclusive design; inclusive media; accessibility; human-computer interaction; digital media; people with disabilities; inclusive gaming; design for older people. |
 | Caitlin Fisher | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | Augmented reality; digital storytelling; hypermedia fiction and documentary; feminist theory; archives and collecting; locative media. |
 | Jennifer Fisher | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Contemporary art; curatorial practice; display culture; the aesthetics of the non-visual senses. |
 | Laura Fisher | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Nineteenth - and twentieth-century American literature with focus on race, gender, and urban culture; social reform institutions and the production, mediation, and reception of American literature around the turn of the twentieth century; settlement houses and working girls’ clubs across New York City. |
 | Blake Fitzpatrick | Technology in Practice | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Photographic representation of the nuclear era; visual responses to contemporary militarism; disaster in contemporary landscape photography. |
 | Frederick James Fletcher (Member Emeriti) | Politics and Policy | Politics (York) | Political communication; social advocacy; communication and public policy; communication policy. |
 | Sarah Flicker | Politics & Policy | Environmental Studies (York) | Adolescent health; community based participatory research; HIV/AIDS; Community Development. |
 | Mary Fogarty | Media & Culture | Dance (York) | Dance; music; popular culture. |
 | James Scott Forsyth (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Politics (York) | Film and media politics; film history; Marxist cultural and aesthetic theory; film in the third world. Projects on cultural politics and Canadian Communists and on Hollywood and imperialism. |
 | Estee Fresco | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Sport media; promotional culture; Canadian identity; citizenship; Indigenous-Settler relations; ageing. |
 | May Friedman | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Social Work (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Embodiment; feminism; new media; women's studies; fat studies; motherhood studies. |
G | ||||
 | Irene Gammel | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Modernism; modern literature and culture; avant-garde; visual culture; life writing and auto/biography; Dada and Surrealism; New York Modern; theories of urban space; ecocriticism; curating; performance art; feminist theory; gender and sexuality theory; body theory; salon culture and theory; digital archiving; World War I; trauma narratives. |
 | David Gauntlett | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Creative processes; self-initiated everyday creativity; cultures of making and exchanging. |
 | Donald J. Gillies (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | The Toronto School of Communication; Marshall McLuhan; history of media and communications; history of telecommunications; the communications industry; communications policy; international communications and development; media ecology; media ecology in Gaelic culture. |
 | Jacqui Gingras | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Nutrition communication; subjectivity and performativity; pedagogy and epistemology; autoethnography and phenomenology; social health movements; health activism; healthism; weight stigma; sociology of work/health professions. |
 | Rob Goodman | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History; policy; rhetoric. |
 | Jay Goulding | Media & Culture | Social Science (York) | Cultural studies, Linguistics, hermeneutics, phenomenology, Chinese/Japanese Philosophy. |
 | Michael Greyeyes | Media & Culture | Theatre Studies (York) | Theatre; physical performance; devised theatre; practiced-based research to create live performance; exploring dance; opera; music, design and the spoken word. |
 | Anatoliy Gruzd | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice, Politics & Policy | Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | ICTs; big data and society; new media; privacy; social media and society. |
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 | Ratiba Hadj-Moussa | Media & Culture | Sociology (York) | Sociology; violence; sociology of art and culture; political sociology; common cultural artifacts to art (cinema and music); visual culture in general; gender and post-colonial studies; Mediterranean and North African societies; memory studies/violence; sociology of culture; political sociology. |
 | Jan Hadlaw | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Design (York) | Communication and media history; cultural history of telephony; the design and representation of technology; technologies and the social imaginaries of time and space; media and everyday life; advertising and consumer society; modern design and Canadian nationalism. |
 | Alison Harvey | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Communications Program, Glendon Campus (York) | Game studies; internet studies; digital media and culture; feminist media studies; qualitative and digital methods; political economy; critical technology studies. |
 | Mark Hayward | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Television studies; cultural policy and technology; economics in popular culture; philosophy of technology. |
 | Robert J. Heynen | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Surveillance studies; visual culture; media history (esp. photography and film); Marxist cultural theory; critical theories of race and gender; aesthetics and politics. |
 | Shelley Hornstein (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Architecture; place; urban culture; 19th and 20th century cultures; contemporary visual culture. |
 | Anna Hudson | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Postcolonial art of the Americas; contemporary art of the Arctic; museology; the art market and the business of culture; sex and gender in the representation of beauty and the social order; humanism in 20th century Canadian art. |
I | ||||
 | Susan Ingram | Media & Culture | Humanities (York) | European film; fashion; biography and autobiography; comparative literature; translation studies. |
J | ||||
 | Jenna Jacobson | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Retail Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | New media; privacy; social media; influencers; gender; branding. |
 | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; cultural studies; digital humanities; gender studies; visual culture. |
K | ||||
 | Carolyn Kane | Media & Culture | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History and philosophy of technology; digital aesthetics; visual studies; electronic media. |
 | Andreas Kitzmann | Media & Culture | Humanities (York) | Culture and technology; new media and society; digital culture; critical theory; cultural studies. |
 | Mustafa Koç | Politics & Policy | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Food studies; food writing; food on the web; food and films; cook books and national cuisines; ethnic and diasporic food cultures and identity; policy studies; food and agricultural policy; immigration policy; cultural studies; globalization and impacts of restructuring; global population movements and diasporas. |
 | Ruth Koleszar-Green | Media & Culture | Social Work (York) | Onkwehonwe (the Mohawk word for "original people") knowledges; approaches and world views; Indigenous education and social issues that impact Indigenous communities; anti-racist education; income security reform. |
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 | Richard Lachman | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Digital Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Convergent media; digital documentary; collaborative work, and new forms of storytelling; interactive art; animation; virtual environments; digital culture. |
 | Ganaele M. Langlois | Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Critical theory; digital life; philosophy of technology; science and technology studies; semiotics. |
 | Robert E. Latham | Politics & Policy | Political Science (York) | Politics of environmental knowledge and large-scale monitoring systems; security and IT; technologies of border surveillance; critical theories of sovereignty; transnational relations; migration; multiculturalism and international communication politics; human security; global governance. |
 | Anne-Marie Lee-Loy | Politics & Policy | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Postcolonial studies; representations of minority diasporic populations in relation to the construction of cultural identities; postcolonial identities; diaspora; transnationalism; Chinese Caribbean experience; Caribbean Studies; Asians in the Americas; Yellow Peril discourse; hemispheric Asian American studies; overseas Chinese. |
 | Bruno Lessard | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Cinema; documentary; game studies; new media; continental philosophy. |
 | Laura Levin | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Theatre (York) | Embodiment; gender studies; new media; visual culture; performance Studies. |
 | Evan Light | Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Translation (York) | Surveillance and privacy; communication and telecommunications policy and infrastructure; participatory democracy; community and independent media; social movements and institutional accountability and transparency practices. |
 | William Kenneth Little | Media & Culture | Anthropology (York) | Analysis of society as spectacle; visual culture; popular cultural performance in both Euro-North American and post-colonial cultures; circus and the politics and poetics of spectacle. |
 | Brenda Longfellow | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | Feminist film theory; gender and national identity; women and cinema; film-making; women and culture, environmentalism, globalization. |
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 | Anne F. MacLennan | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Work; labour and class in communication; communications; Canadian studies; media; popular culture; broadcasting; media history; radio; sound; audio identity; audience/community; advertising; consumption; social welfare; poverty; labour and methodology. |
 | Janine Marchessault | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | Cities and cinema; stereoscopic 3D cinema; future cinema architectures; feminist/post-colonial media; social media and activism; Marshall McLuhan and the Explorations Group; World Fairs; film festivals and utopias; micro-cinemas; curatorial studies; process philosophy; theories of spectatorship; phenomenology and affect; experimental cinema. |
 | Jean Mason (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Communication Theory (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Health communication, writing media and technologies, and personal narrative. |
 | Alison Matthews David | Media & Culture | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History of fashion; material culture. |
 | Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Design and application of emerging physical sensing and digital media technologies to areas such as narrative expression, abstract thinking, and scientific modeling, as well as the study and use of embodied cognition as a framework for tangible and embodied interaction design. |
 | Patricia A Mazepa (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Critical political economy of communication (commodification, structuration, spatialization, hegemony, ideology); Canadian media history; social movement media. |
 | John McCullough | Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | North American film and television; media labour and globalization; representation of spatial, class and racial relations. |
 | Casey Mecija | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Sound Studies; Diaspora Studies; Performance Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Filipinx Studies; Transnational Feminisms. |
 | Catherine Middleton | Technology in Practice | Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Telecommunications; policy; usage; internet; broadband; mobile; wireless; infrastructure; next generation networks; information society; digital economy. |
 | Andrew Monti | Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Propaganda; advertising; satire; biolinguistics; political economy and humour studies. |
 | Colin Mooers (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Politics and Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | The political economy of capitalism; political theory; social movements; theories of citizenship; and the public sphere. |
 | Paul S. Moore | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Research methodologies; cultural and social theories; media history; historiography; history of technology; material culture; governmentality & social regulation; publics and counterpublics; regional and mass market consumption; popular screen cultures & practices; popular print cultures & practices; ephemera; collecting; the archive and nostalgia; film industries in Canada; film exhibition and screen practices; the newspaper & its supplements. |
 | Catriona Sandilands | Media & Culture | Environmental Studies (York) | Environmental humanities and ecocriticism; queer, multispecies & feminist ecologies; critical plant studies; public humanities and cultures; creative writing practice; biopolitics. |
 | Jessica Mudry | Politics & Poicy; Technology in Practice | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History of nutrition; Public health policy; Science communication; Technology and science studies. |
 | Stephen Muzzatti | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Crime and media; popular culture; consumerism; social inequality; cultural criminology; globalisation; transgression; criminalisation; advertising and consumption; youth tribes; leisure pursuits and transgresssive pleasure; resistance and social control. |
N | ||||
 | Nima Naghibi | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Postcolonial and diasporic theories; human rights; memory; trauma; life narratives/memoir. |
 | Nicole Neverson | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Representation of subjectivities in the mass media; socio-cultural aspects of sport and gender; use of force technologies and policing; the social construction of 'risk' and risk narratives; alternative media perspectives of Canadian Caribbean disaspora. |
 | Emilia Nielsen | Media & Culture | Social Science (York) | Health humanities; medical humanities; feminist cultural studies of health; illness and disability; arts; medicine and healing. |
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 | Jonathan Obar | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Information policy; communication policy; big data and privacy; network neutrality and digital activism. |
 | Mona Oikawa | Politics & Policy | Equity Studies (York) | Sociology; gender issues; critical race studies; cultural studies. |
 | Tokunbo Ojo | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Political economy; journalism studies; global media; ICT4D; media industries. |
 | Andrew O'Malley | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Children's literature and culture; popular culture; historical popular culture; comics and graphic novels; eighteenth century; robinsonades. |
 | Dana Osborne | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Anthropology; cultural studies; linguistics; postcolonialism; semiotics. |
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 | Ruth Panofsky | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; copyright; feminism; history; women's studies. |
 | Sarah Parsons | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Historical relationship between photography, privacy, family. |
 | Jamin Pelkey | Media & Culture | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Anthropology; cultural studies; embodiment; linguistics; semiotics. |
 | Nalini Persram | Media & Culture | Social Science (York) | Cinema; critical theory; documentary; political economy; postcolonialism. |
 | Lila Pine | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Storytelling and new media; media and communication. |
 | Elizabeth Podnieks (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Life writing; modernism; Women's studies; mothering; popular culture; celebrity culture; scholarly editing; digital humanities. |
 | Chris Powell | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical theory; science and technology studies; sociology. |
 | Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | Technology in Practice | Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History and theory of avant-garde art and cinema; cine-dance; body art; artist's body and self-portraiture; feminine aesthetics and ecriture feminin; psychodynamics of the creative process and imagination; Julia Kristeva; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Marshall McLuhan; Sigmund Freud; Marion Milner; Donald Winnicott; Anton Ehrenzweig; phenomenology; avant-garde poetry and poetics; media poetics. |
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 | Rai Reece | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Canadian Black feminism; critical race theory; anti-Black racism; punishment and misogynoir; critical feminist criminology; community-based ethnography; prison health; equity as social praxis; and abolition and activism. |
 | Markus Reisenleitner | Media & Culture | Humanities (York) | Visual and textual interpretations of global cities; European urban culture; history, memory and nostalgia in popular and digital culture. |
 | Danielle Robinson | Media & Culture | Dance (York) | Dance ethnography; cultural studies; dance history; critical race theory; social dance reconstruction; multicultural dance education; popular dance practices; African diaspora within the Americas; Latin American dance cultures. |
 | Shirley Roburn | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Indigenous sovereignty movements; activism; traditional knowledge; climate change policy; oral tradition; research methodology; documentary films. |
 | Wade Rowland (Member Emeriti) | Politics and Policy; Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Communication; ethics; critical realism; technology. |
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 | Leslie Sanders | Media & Culture | Humanities (York) | African American and black Canadian literature and culture; literatures of the African diaspora. |
 | Carmen Schifellite (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Science and technology studies; popular culture; sociology of knowledge; graduate methodologies. |
 | Catherine Schryer (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Socializing students in medicine, optometry, and Social Work. |
 | Alan Sears | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Sexuality; theory; social movements; work; education. |
 | Mitu Sengupta | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Indian market liberalization and development; labour and migration; the politics of sporting and cultural events. More recent work focuses on human rights and development; global justice; and development ethics. |
 | Abigail Shabtay | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy; Technology in Practice | Humanities (York) | Children and youth; theatre and performance; arts-based research methods; child-centred research; children's rights; fan cultures; digital theatre. |
 | John Shiga | Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication and media in intercultural, political and scientific contexts; digital rights management, media theory and agency; copyright. |
 | Jeremy Shtern | Politics & Policy | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Internet governance; media policy; communication rights; globalization and communication; political economy of social media advertising; emerging media; creative labour; and research methods. |
 | Hyacinth Simpson | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Caribbean and postcolonial literatures; migration, diaspora, and transnational studies; short fiction studies; orality. |
 | Yvonne Singer | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Memory; history; identity; perception; psychoanalysis. |
 | Rianka Singh | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Communications; media; feminist media studies; platform studies; race and technology. | |
 | David Skinner | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York) | Political economy of communication; media and communications policy; alternative and community media; media democracy. |
 | Donna Smith | Politics & Policy | Retail Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Social media research; consumer behaviour; retailer-vendor strategic partnerships in the context of Commitment-Trust. |
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 | Nell Tenhaaf (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Critiques of genetic engineering and biotechnology; artificial life; Max/MSP programming. |
 | Philippe Theophanidis | Media & Culture | Communications Program, Glendon Campus (York) | Visual culture; philosophies of communication & media studies. |
 | Sophie Thomas | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; cultural studies; visual culture; material culture, literature. |
 | Cheryl Thompson | Media & Culture | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Visual culture; media studies; advertising history; consumer history; promotional culture; celebrity, and black Canadian history. |
 | Matthew Tiessen | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | School of Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Digital humanities; embodiment; philosophy of technology; visual communication; finance; power, propaganda. |
 | Temenuga Trifonova | Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | European cinema; screenwriting; film theory; philosophy of film; film remakes and sequels; film adaptations; film criticism; contemporary American cinema; psychopathology and film; migrant and diasporic cinema; film/video production; creative writing; photography; aesthetic theory; 20th century American literature; existentialism. |
 | Elizabeth (Betty) Trott (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Canadian philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy of art and design; multiculturalism; metaphysics; culture. |
 | Monique Tschofen | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical theory; cultural studies; media philosophy; research-creation and media practices; visual culture. |
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 | Livy Visano | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Equity Studies (York) | Ontology; critical legal studies; social justice; human rights; youth; critical criminology and ethnographies. |
 | Leah Vosko | Politics & Policy | Political Science (York) | Gender studies; political economy; policy; labour studies; citizenship & migration. |
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 | Kimberly Wahl | Media & Culture | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Intersections between academic feminism and the histories and theories of fashion; visual culture and the body; fashioning feminism: women, clothing, art and power in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British culture. |
 | Stéphanie Walsh Matthews | Media & Culture | Languages, Literatures & Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Language; postcolonialism; postmodernity; post-war cultural theories; semiotics; French Caribbean literature; translation; Franco-Canadian literature and culture; magical realism. |
 | Wendy Siuyi Wong | Technology in Practice | Design (York) | Design culture; Chinese graphic design history; poster design; Chinese comics art history. |
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 | Frauke Zeller | Media & Culture | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Human-Computer Interaction/Human-Robot Interaction; digital communication, and method development for digital research analyses. |
 | Joyce Zemans (Member Emeriti) | Politics and Policy | Visual Art & Art History (York) | Twentieth century Canadian art with a special focus on the art of women; cultural policy (Canadian and comparative); curatorial practice and arts administration. |
 | Michael Zryd | Media & Culture | Cinema & Media Arts (York) | Experimental / avant-garde cinema; documentary film theory; history of cinema and media studies; American populism in film and media; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Hollis Frampton; Su Friedrich; Philip Hoffman; Ruth Ozeki. |
 | Detlev Zwick | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Schulich School of Business (York) | Marketing practices in the context of the Attention Economy; strategic innovation of new marketing forms. |
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The York & Toronto Metropolitan University Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education.