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Contract Faculty

Meet our 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.

Dave Baumken

Dave provides students with a rewarding learning experience through excellence in teaching core subject matter supported by case study analysis and providing expert guidance of students research objectives. He has ...

Sophia Craig

Sophia is a professional emergency manager with over 17 years of emergency response and recovery experience  internationally in complex emergencies, and domestically at municipal and regional levels in Canada. Sophia has ...

David DeVries

David believes in passing on information through readings and lectures and then reinforcing learning through interactive discussions and group work. He supports experiential learning  by providing scenarios based on real life emergencies or ...

Andrew Moull

Andrew approaches teaching with the aim of bringing the realities of the professional world into academics and pushing students to tackle the challenges and problems facing contemporary society. His students ...

Alain Normand

Alain teaches emergency management communication. Communication often fails in emergency management so he aims to give students a fighting chance. He uses case studies a lot to teach from other's ...

Mike O'Brien

Mike says teaching is about bringing the literature to life and giving it perspective and meaning in the student’s life. Mike is an emergency management practitioner with over ten years ...

Walter Perchal

Walter Perchal served both in the Canadian Forces as Senior Officer and taught a wide range of courses at York University.  Over the course of his military service he: Commanded ...