York University’s Chairholders are recognized as both established and emerging research leaders in their fields. Fostering their world-leading expertise on 21st century issues supports the University’s mission to be in service of society and the public good.
Featured Research Chairs
Sakis Gekas
Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek HistoryGekas is an Associate Professor in the Department of History in the Faculty of LA&PS. His research interests include the history of British colonialism in the Mediterranean, the economic and social history of the Ionian Islands and the Greek State in the nineteenth century, and the history of Greeks in Canada.
Joel Ong
Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the ArtsOng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Arts at the School of AMPD. Ong's research agenda includes multimodal expressions of Creative Data Aesthetics, focusing primarily on environmental sensing technologies to facilitate transactions of elements such as the wind through Ambisonic technologies of sound spatialization, mixed reality visualizations and physical computing.
Canada Research Chairs
The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program is a Government of Canada initiative and stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries in research and development.
The federal government makes significant investments each year to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising research talent.
York Research Chairs
York Research Chairs are the University’s internal counterpart to the national CRC program and represent a diverse group of groundbreaking researchers dedicated to the pursuit and dissemination of new knowledge and discovery.
