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This directory includes Cultural Studies-affiliated faculty and can be used to identify potential supervisors or committee members using the search bar to confirm if there are professors doing research in the areas of interest to you. Keywords are non-standardized; to maximize search effectiveness, use variants or abbreviations, e.g., "cinema film video," "femini," or "histor."

Associate Professor

Sociology

Keywords: issues of temporality, visuality, memory, and ethnography in digital culture; consumption theory and practice; mundane technologies; cultural institutions; material culture; Science and 91ÊÓÆµ Studies. 

Assistant Professor

History

Keywords: history of medicine; gender, technology, and health policy; reproduction and the "biological clock"; history of childlessness; reproductive activism. 

Associate Professor

History

Keywords: history of modern China; political economy of agriculture; environmental history.

Associate Curator, Academic Outreach and Community Engagement

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Professor

Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Keywords: 20th/21st century German culture, particularly film; Cuba in the German imaginary; urban mobility cultures; bicycles; Berlin and Havana; critical pedagogies; peer-to-peer language exchange. 

Associate Professor

History, Religion

Keywords: Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; the Islamic world and Muslim diaspora; comparative history of religion; cultural and intellectual history; cross-cultural and inter-regional approaches to history; transnational solidarities and resistance culture; public history. 

Associate Professor

French Studies

Keywords: Littérature québécoise; littérature française des XXe et XXIe siècles; rapports littérature et politique; représentations littéraires de la temporalité; messianisme.

Assistant Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: audiences and spectatorship; performance studies; contemporary theatre; theatre history; directing and immersive theatre design; qualitative methodologies. 

Professor

Art History & Art Conservation

Keywords: visual cultural studies; international exhibitions, museum representation, and the construction of nationalist art canons; cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations; art historiography.

Associate Professor

Health Sciences & Rehabilitation Studies

design and conduct of research and knowledge translation; integrated knowledge translation; partnership-based approaches to research in collaboration with urban Indigenous, Inuit, First Nations, and Métis communities; client-centred care with a particular focus on health care systems

Assistant Professor

Art History & Art Conservation

Keywords: Curation and Museum Studies; film and visual arts; gender and queer theory; globalization and transnational studies; postcolonial theory; experimental and radical pedagogies; feminist media studies, theory, material culture, and historiography; digital cultures and experimental digital art practices.

Curator of Contemporary Art / Adjunct Assistant Professor

Agnes Etherington Art Centre / Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies

Associate Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: aesthetic theory; experimental media and literature; image theory; image-text relations.

Professor

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Keywords: the politics of health, sport, and the body; queer, feminist, and critical race theory; critical studies of philanthropy, social movements, and consumer culture.

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: political economy of migration; masculinity studies; racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia; neoliberalism; caste, religion, and marriage; marginalized rural women, matrimonial choice, and gender subordination; India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Greece; South Asia; documentary film-making. 

Professor

Law

Keywords: structural inequalities and discriminatory practices; property, political, tax, and budget laws; sustainability and social justice; Indigenous and vernacular knowledges.

Assistant Professor

Gender Studies

Keywords: maternity care on reserves; medical evacuation; midwifery; Indigenous feminist theories and methodologies; Indigenous women and Two Spirit leadership; Indigenous health and wellness. 

Keywords: 20th-21st century French and Quebec literature; relations between literature and politics; intellectual history; cultural history; sociology of literature and publishing; Jacques Rancière; Pierre Bourdieu.

Assistant Professor

Religion

Keywords: anthropology of nature; Indigenous knowledges and practices; rationality, performance and ritualization; traditional agriculture and land; Indigenous governance of the environment; sustainability and postcolonial development; Indigenous citizenship and cosmopolitics of the State; ethnography; discourse analysis; Science and 91ÊÓÆµ Studies; Actor-Network Theory; Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia.

Associate Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: video game music; contemporary art music; Canadian music and culture; music theory; community music.