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Contract Faculty

Meet our part-time contract faculty, who bring their experience to York as professionals within their industries, visiting professors from other institutions or as top scholars in their fields. Find out more about their professional experience, research activities and areas of academic interest.

Alex Borkowski

Alex Borkowski (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Communication & Culture. Her doctoral research examines the performance of gender in ...

Alex Chalk

Alex Chalk holds a PhD in Communication & Culture through the joint program at York University and TMU. His research ...

Keah Hansen

Keah Hansen (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Communication & Culture program at York University. Her primary areas of ...

Derek Hrynyshyn

Victor Phillip Dahdaleh (DB) Building, 3024 Derek Hrynyshyn is a political theorist who is interested in the political economy of ...

Lise Lareau

Lise Lareau brings her decade of experience as national president of the Canadian Media Guild/Communications Workers of America, where she ...

Alex Levant

Academic Background:Ph.D. (Social and Political Thought – York University)Research Awards: $74,620 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG), Government of Canada $42,000 ...

Richard Lippe

Richard Lippe is a co-founder of CineAction magazine which is currently available online. He is writing of book on Kim Novak's ...

Emily Merson

Emily Merson holds a PhD in Political Science from York University. She is the author of 'Creative Presence: Settler Colonialism, ...

Michelle Mohabeer

Dr. Michelle Mohabeer is a multi-award-winning filmmaker/media artist, media and culture scholar. Her body of films and digital videos have ...

Marlene Murphy

Marlene Murphy is a news producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with a focus on national and international stories. She ...

Steven Pinter

Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building, 2013 With a PhD in Social and Political Thought (York), my background is interdisciplinary. I teach ...

Brian Wright-McLeod

Indigenous author/musicologist Brian Wright-McLeod enjoys a lengthy career in media and academia. Based in Toronto, he currently teaches at York ...