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Faculty of Business and Information Technology
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Faculty of Business and Information Technology

Dr. Hamid Akbari
Assistant Professor

Business strategy
Creation of high-growth, innovative firms
International strategy
New product development
Mobile applications

Dr. Bin Chang
Associate Professor

Asset pricing
Corporate finance
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Khalil El-Khatib
Associate Professor

IP telephony
Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (MANET)
Network intrusion detection
Parallel discrete event simulation
Personal and service mobility
Privacy
Privacy negotiation protocols
Quality of service for multimedia systems
Sensor networks
Ubiquitous computing
Virus detection
Additional language spoken: Arabic and French

Dr. John Friedlan
Associate Professor

Accounting management
Application of game technology to accounting education
Earnings management

Dr. Shahram Heydari
Associate Professor

Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) design and modelling
Network design, network monitoring and topology discovery
Network function, virtualization and software-defined networking
Network protection and failure recovery
Smart Grid communication
Telecommunication protocol and services
Additional language spoken: Persian

Dr. Andrew Hogue
Associate Professor

Animation
Augmented reality
Computer graphics
Computer vision
Immersive technology
Probabilistic sensor models
Robotics

Dr. Patrick Hung
Professor

Business process integration
Electronic negotiation and agreement
Security and privacy
Services computing
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Chinmay Jain
Assistant Professor

Financial regulations
Market microstructure
Short selling

Dr. Ying (Annie) Jiang
Associate Professor

Chinese consumer behaviour
Consumer goals
Consumer information processing and decision making
Hedonic consumption
New production adoption decisions

Dr. Bill Kapralos
Associate Professor

3D (spatial) sound generation for virtual environments and video games
Multimodal virtual reality/environments
Perception of auditory events
Real-time acoustical modelling
Serious games that maximize knowledge transfer and retention
Additional language spoken: Greek

Dr. Salma Karray
Associate Professor

Advertising and promotions
Distribution channels
Marketing models
National brands competition
Private labels
Additional language spoken: French

Dr. Igor Kotlyar
Associate Professor

Leadership
Talent management
Technology and cognition in the workplace

Dr. Joe Krasman
Associate Professor

General management
Human resources
Organizational behaviour

Dr. Fletcher Lu (on leave 2017-2018)
Associate Professor

Fraud auditing
Health informatics
Insurance
Machine learning
Mobile fitness
Scientific computing

Dr. Stephen Marsh
Assistant Professor

Computer-supported collaborative work
Human-computer interaction
Hyper-local security mechanisms
Intelligent agents
Mobile device information protection
Persuasive technologies
Trust, security, privacy
Ubiquitous computing

Dr. Miguel Vargas Martin
Professor

Adaptive virtual environments
Networking and computer security
Public safety
Additional languages spoken: Spanish, French and Italian

Dr. Carolyn McGregor
Professor and Canada Research Chair (Alumni) in Health Informatics

Data warehousing, data mining and data stream event correlation
Health informatics
Intelligent decision support systems
Patient journey modelling
Service computing in health care
Women in computing and information technology

Dr. Pejman Mirza-Babaei
Assistant Professor

Games user research
Human-computer interaction
Video games accessibility
Video games design
Video games for health and rehabilitation
Usability and user experience

Dr. Richard W. Pazzi
Assistant Professor

Multimedia communications
Networked 3D virtual environments
Vehicular and sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks

Dr. Karthik Sankaranarayanan
Assistant Professor

Agent-based modelling
Behavioural operations management
Modelling and simulation of complex social systems

Dr. Kamal Smimou
Associate Professor

Commodity/currency futures
Higher education research and business education
International finance and emerging markets
Investments and portfolio choice
Market microstructure
Risk management and optimization in finance
Socially responsible (SRI) investing

Dr. Serena Sohrab
Assistant Professor

Behavioural observation of teams working under natural settings
Group and team dynamics
Team adaptation to complex and dynamic situations
Team information processing and decision making

Dr. Julie Thorpe
Assistant Professor

Authentication
Biometrics
Graphical passwords
Human factors in computer security
Operating system security
Passwords
Security policy
Software security

Dr. Terry Wu
Professor

International business
International marketing
Marketing of higher education
North American Free Trade Agreement
Trade policy

Dr. Hui (Julia) Zhu
Assistant Professor

Corporate finance
Innovation
International finance
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Ying Zhu
Associate Professor

Network optimization
Peer-to-peer networks
Wired and wireless networks

Faculty of Education

Dr. Wendy Barber
Assistant Professor

Authentic assessment
Curriculum teaching and learning in HPE
Health and physical education
Online communities and transformative digital practice
Physical literacy
Teacher development

Dr. Elizabeth A. Childs
Assistant Professor

Digitally enhanced qualitative research methodologies
Information and communications technology (ICT)-enhanced, blended and flexible learning environments
Online learning communities
Professional development (PD) and the role of ICT in creating sustainable approaches to PD

Dr. Francois Desjardins
Associate Professor

E-pedagogy
Human-computer-human interaction
Mobile learning
Synchronous online learning
Techno-pedagogical competency

Dr. Maurice DiGiuseppe
Associate Professor

Digital gaming in science education
Science education and science teacher education/professional development
Science textbooks and digital teaching/learning resources
Additional language spoken: Italian

Dr. Allyson Eamer
Assistant Professor

Aboriginal language learning
Bilingualism/multilingualism in families, schools and communities
English as a second language education
Ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics
First-language maintenance in immigrant families
Language and multiculturalism
Online language learning
Additional languages spoken: French, Cantonese and Spanish

Dr. Jim Greenlaw
Professor (on leave)

Curriculum theory
Educational technology in humanities classrooms
Higher education and education for all
Internationalizing faculties of education
Philosophy of education
Post-colonial literary theory
Teaching English as a foreign language

Dr. Janette Hughes
Associate Professor
Associate Dean

Critical digital literacies
Digital literacies
Language and literacy
Media literacy
Multiple literacies
New literacies
Production pedagogies
Secondary school English pedagogy
Technology and pedagogy

Dr. William Hunter
Professor and Founding Dean

Leadership and change in higher education
Online learning and social cohesion
Teacher education
Technology and learning

Dr. Robin Kay
Professor
Graduate Program Director

Classroom response systems
E-learning
Emotions and the use of technology
Gender differences in the use of technology
Laptop use and mobile technology in the classroom
Learning and technology
Measurement of computer attitude and ability
Multimedia learning
Pre-service teachers and technology use in the classroom
Scale development (computer attitude, ability and use)
Video podcasts
Web-based learning tools (learning objects)

Dr. Ann LeSage
Associate Professor

Children’s literature and mathematics
Classroom use and effectiveness (affective and cognitive)
Critical numeracy and critical literacy
Evaluating quality
Impact on affective and cognitive factors specific to mathematics
Mathematics education (kindergarten to Grade 8): teacher knowledge and student development
Mathematics teacher development (pre-service and in-service)
Pre-service teacher education
Video podcasts and digital learning (pre-service teacher development: cognitive and affective)

Dr. Jia Li
Assistant Professor

Language and literacy development and assessment for diverse students
Mobile technologies, social networking media and instructional design
Technology-assisted language and literacy acquisition
TESL across curriculum and bilingual education
Quantitative studies and mixed methods

Dr. Ami Mamolo
Assistant Professor

Design, development and implementation of non-routine learning tasks using multimodal approaches, unconventional representation and authentic practices
Learning mathematics through contextualized and de-contextualized problem-solving scenarios
Mathematical thinking and reasoning (for teachers; and of learners)
Additional language spoken: French

Dr. Diana Petrarca
Assistant Professor

Documentary filmmaking
Field experience/practicum
Leadership
Pre-service teacher candidate identity and development
Teacher education programs
Web-based learning

Dr. Laura Pinto
Assistant Professor

Critical democracy and education
Critical thinking
Education policy and politics
Equity and social justice in pedagogy and leadership
Evidence-based practice
Financial literacy education

Dr. Lorayne Robertson
Associate Professor

Body image
Critical health literacy
Critical media literacy
Curriculum and assessment
Multiple literacies
Technology leadership in schools

Dr. Shirley Van Nuland
Associate Professor

Codes of conduct
Implications of Supreme Court of Canada judgments on schools, school boards, teachers and students
Standards of practice and ethical standards for the teaching profession
Additional language spoken: Dutch

Dr. Roland van Oostveen
Associate Professor
BA AEDT Program Director

Educational informatics
e-Learning and m-Learning
Online learning curriculum development
Problem-based learning (PBL) in online environments
Virtual environment creation.

Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science

Dr. George Bereznai
Professor and Director, Industry Training Program

Nuclear power plants
Additional language spoken: Hungarian

John P. S. Froats
Associate Professor and Nuclear Engineer-in-Residence

Nuclear leadership and management
Nuclear power plant design and operation
Project management

Dr. Hossam A. Gaber (Gabbar)
Professor

Fusion energy
Microgrids planning, protection and control
Process systems engineering of energy and nuclear facilities, and oil and gas production plants
Risk-based design of emerging energy technologies
Risk-based energy conservation
Safety engineering, fault diagnosis and real-time simulation
Smart energy grids
Smart green buildings
Additional languages spoken: Japanese and Arabic

Dr. Glenn Harvel
Professor and Associate Dean

Diagnostic systems
Electrohydrodynamical (EHD) phenomena and non-thermal plasmas energy systems
Nuclear power plant design
Nuclear thermalhydraulics

Dan Hoornweg
Associate Professor and Chief Safety and Risk Officer, Province of Ontario
Richard Marceau Research Chair

Energy systems and public policy
Material flows in cities (e.g. energy and solid waste)
Natural gas as a transportation fuel
Sustainable communities

Dr. Brian Ikeda
Associate Professor

Corrosion and passivation of materials in molten salt environments
Disposal of radioactive waste

Dr. Matthew H. Kaye
Associate Professor

Aqueous chemistry
High-temperature materials chemistry and applied thermodynamics

Dr. Lixuan Lu
Professor

Networked control systems
Nuclear-based hydrogen generation
Nuclear power plant instrumentation and control
Reliability and risk assessment
Risk-informed decision making
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Rachid Machrafi
Assistant Professor

ADS systems for energy production and nuclear waste transmutation
Applied radiation science
Monte Carlo simulation and modelling
Radiation detection for nuclear security and non-proliferation
Space radiation
Additional languages spoken: Arabic, French and Russian

Dr. Jennifer McKellar
Assistant Professor

Decision making
Life-cycle assessment and life-cycle costing
Techno-economic and environmental assessments of energy systems;
Unconventional fossil fuels

Dr. Eleodor Nichita
Associate Professor

Imaging and visualization techniques
Neutron and radiation physics
Nuclear reactor physics (statics and dynamics)
Nuclear reactor safety
Numerical modelling of physical processes

Dr. Igor Pioro
Professor

Heat engineering
Nuclear engineering
Thermal sciences
Additional languages spoken: Russian and Ukrainian

Dr. Markus Piro
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair Tier II

Nuclear fuel performance and safety
Spent nuclear fuel
Emerging nuclear technologies (i.e., GenIV, SMRs, ...)
Energy systems and manufacturing
Computational thermodynamics
Experimental and computational fluid dynamics
Multi-physics modelling and simulation
Applied mathematics (i.e., optimization, linear algebra, ...)

Dr. Anthony Waker
Professor

Nuclear instruments and methods
Radiation dosimetry and microdosimetry
Radiation biophysics

Dr. Ed Waller
Professor

CBRN counterterrorism
Emergency and first response to radiological incidents
Health physics
Nuclear security

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Dr. Michael Bennett
Associate Dean

General engineering
Project management
Software disasters
Software engineering

Dr. Ibrahim Dincer
Professor

Energy and environment policies and program implementation techniques
Energy and exergy analyses of thermal systems and applications
Energy conversion and conservation
Food refrigeration, cooling, heating and drying applications
Heat transfer in thermal processes and applications
Hydrogen energy and fuel cells
Refrigeration systems and applications
Solar thermal systems and applications
Thermal energy storage systems and applications
Transport phenomena in complex/advanced thermal-fluid systems and processes
Additional language spoken: Turkish

Dr. Ebrahim Esmailzadeh
Professor

Active vibration control
Directional control and stability of commercial vehicles
Intelligent and electric vehicles
Nonlinear dynamical systems
Optimal and nonlinear control systems
System modelling and optimization
Semi-active and active vibration control
System dynamics
Vehicle and ride dynamics
Vehicle suspension analysis
Vibration of machines and flexible structures
Additional language spoken: Farsi

Dr. Min Dong
Assistant Professor

Adaptive signal processing for communications
Statistical signal processing
Wireless communication systems and networks
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Mikael Eklund
Director, Electrical and Software Engineering programs

Electrical engineering
Healthcare information technology
Mobile robotics

Dr. Ali Grami
Professor

Satellite communications
Additional language spoken: Farsi (Persian)

Dr. Yuping He
Assistant Professor

Design optimization
Mechatronic systems modelling and simulation
Vehicle chassis design
Vehicle system dynamics
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Hossam Kishawy
Director, Automotive, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering programs

Finite element modelling
Machining
Material and manufacturing
Stress analysis of residual stresses
Additional language spoken: Arabic

Dr. Ramiro Liscano
Associate Professor

Access control
Distributed computing
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Semantic knowledge representation
Sensor networks
Service-oriented architectures (SOA)

Dr. Lixuan Lu
Assistant Professor

Instrumentation and control
Networked control
Reliability and safety assessment
Risk-informed maintenance
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Scott Nokleby
Assistant Professor

Advanced kinematics
Automation
Mechanisms
Mechatronics
Mobile-manipulator systems mechanism
Redundant manipulator systems
Robot design optimal design
Robotics

Dr. Shahryar Rahnamayan
Assistant Professor

Evolutionary computation and its applications
Medical image processing
Additional language spoken: Azerbaijani, Farsi (Persian) and Turkish

Dr. Ghaus Rizvi
Associate Professor

Composite processing and characterization
Materials science
Polymer processing and characterization
Thermal spray coatings
Additional language spoken: Urdu

Dr. Marc A. Rosen
Professor

Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy technologies and use
Engineering education
Environmental impact of engineering systems
Renewable energy

Dr. Shahram Shahbazpanahi
Assistant Professor

Signal processing
Wireless communications
Additional languages spoken: Farsi (Persian) and Kurdish

Dr. Vijay K. Sood
Associate Professor

Flexible AC Transmission Systems
High Voltage DC Transmission systems
Power electronics
Power systems
Additional language spoken: French

Dr. Sheldon Williamson
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Electric Energy Storage Systems for Transportation Electrification

Batteries and charging
Electric machines
Electric vehicles
Energy harvesting
Energy storage systems
Motor drives
Power electronics
Renewable energy systems
Transportation electrification

Faculty of Health Sciences

Dr. Jennifer Abbass Dick
Assistant Professor

Child development
Infant nutrition
Knowledge translation
Parental relationships
Utilizing technology in research

Dr. JoAnne Arcand
Assistant Professor

Chronic disease prevention and management
Dietary assessment
Food and nutrition policy
Food supply
Technology-based dietary screening

Dr. Robert Balogh
Assistant Professor

Disparities in health and health services between people with intellectual disability and the general population
Use of administrative databases to measure primary care outcomes in persons with intellectual disability

Dr. Caroline Barakat-Haddad
Assistant Professor

Air pollution and health
Child/adolescent health and health behaviours
Cohort research design
Quantitative analysis
Survey development
Systematic reviews

Dr. Emma Bartfay
Associate Professor

Cancer care
Dementia care
Gerontology
Global health
Neglected tropical diseases
Outcome assessment

Dr. Wally Bartfay
Associate Professor

Aging and population health
Health promotion
Impact of primary health care interventions and programs
Impact of technology on health outcomes
Prevention and management of non-communicable chronic diseases
Public health

Dr. Carolyn Byrne
Professor Emeritus

Depression
Health care
Mental health
Nursing
Post-partum depression

Dr. Sue Coffey
Associate Professor

Accessible post-secondary education for non-traditional students
Curriculum evaluation
Innovative nursing curriculum
Nursing theory development

Dr. Pierre Côté
Canada Research Chair in Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Director, UOIT-CMCC Centre for the Study of Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation

Determinants of disability
Epidemiology of musculoskeletal disorders and disability
Evidence-based management of chronic disorders and injury
Prevention and rehabilitation of disability
Randomized controlled trials, cohort studies and systematic reviews
Record linkage
Relationship between depression and back and neck pain
Traffic injury epidemiology
Additional language spoken: French

Dr. Shilpa Dogra
Assistant Professor

Aging and asthma
Asthma control and exercise
Exercise physiology
Predictors of physical inactivity or sedentary behaviour
Sedentary behaviour in older adults
Successful aging and physical activity

Dr. Brenda Gamble
Associate Professor

Approaches to accountability in the health-care sector
Health human resources
Interprofessional and intraprofessional collaborative practice and education
Medical laboratory sector

Dr. Clemon George
Assistant Professor

Community-based research and service learning
Epidemiology
Ethnicity, youth and masculinity
Men who have sex with men (MSM research)
Sexual health (HIV, STD issues)

Dr. Holly Jones-Taggart
Associate Professor and Associate Dean

Cancer cell response to external stimuli
Molecular manipulation techniques
Cancer research
Nutritional genomics education
Technology-enhanced strategies for delivery of health sciences education

Dr. Manon Lemonde
Associate Professor

Chronic diseases management
Gerontology
Health symptoms experienced by senior patients with cancer
Quality of life and symptoms management
Program evaluation
Work environment and human health resources-related subjects in specialized practice areas (e.g. oncology, gerontology)
Additional language spoken: French

Dr. Gail Lindsay
Associate Professor

Elaborating patterns of health experience (aging, end-of-life care, persistent conditions, post-motor vehicle collision)
Narrative inquiry (being/knowing/doing)
Nursing knowledge development
Patient experience
Person-centred care
Relationship between writing-as-thinking and technology-enhanced learning in undergraduate and graduate programs

Dr. Meghann Lloyd
Assistant Professor

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DSD)
Children and infants
Down Syndrome
Obesity in children with disabilities
Physical activity and motor development with and without disabilities
Physical literacy

Dr. Bernadette Murphy
Professor; Director of Bachelor of Health Science Kinesiology programs

Chronic back and neck pain
Exercise for chronic health conditions
Neural adaptation and learning
Neural effects of exercise
Neurophysiology of musculoskeletal treatments
Overuse injuries
Sensorimotor integration

Dr. Mika Nonoyama
Assistant Professor

Community-based care
Chronic respiratory disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Healthy aging
Long-term mechanical ventilation
Long-term oxygen therapy
Rehabilitation/exercise
Respiratory therapy

Dr. Efrosini Papaconstantinou
Assistant Professor

Sleep patterns and sleep disturbances in children, adolescents and their families
Interventions to improve sleep and other health outcomes in various populations

Dr. Otto Sanchez
Professor

Educational technology in health
Environmental factors of cancer
Knowledge synthesis and translation in environmental health
Mechanisms of cancer tumorigenesis and metastasis
Pathophysiology of cancer
Additional language spoken: Spanish

Dr. Wendy Stanyon
Associate Professor

Community health nursing (research projects with Durham Regional Police Services; Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences; and Region of Durham Social Services)
Mental health/illness awareness (first responders, general population)
Mental health training, education tools (mindsight) and simulations
Vulnerable populations and advocacy

Dr. Ellen Vogel
Associate Professor

Building capacities of registered dietitians
Community-based research
Evaluation of community-based health and/or social programs
Food and nutrition policy
Food security policy
Hybrid and online course delivery
Inter-professional education and care
Nutritional genomics
Participatory approaches
Population health
Public health nutrition
Teaching and learning technologies

Dr. Nick Wattie
Assistant Professor

Athlete development
Constraints on sport expertise
Epidemiology
Positive youth development
Skill acquisition and motor development
Psychosocial and environmental constraints on sport participation and sport expertise
Psychosocial and physical health outcomes associated with sport participation

Dr. Robert Weaver
Professor and Associate Dean

Chronic disease self-management
Clinical decision support
Community health and community-based research
Knowledge coupling
Health informatics
Social capital
Social detriments of health

Dr. Paul Yielder
Assistant Professor

Anatomical modelling
Computed tomography
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI)
Neuroscience and neuroanatomy
Performance asymmetry
Psychopathology
Ultrasound

Dr. Hilde Zitzelsberger
Assistant Professor

Biomedical, social, and philosophical theories of embodiment
Chronic health conditions
Disability and physical difference
Health-care technologies and places
Qualitative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches
Women’s and girls’ health

Faculty of Science

Dr. Sean Bohun
Associate Professor

Analytic, asymptotic and numerical solution of nonlinear processes
Applied mathematics
Mathematical modelling of problems from industry
Mathematical modelling specializing in the growth of crystals

Dr. Yuri Bolshan
Assistant Professor

Development of novel methodologies for the synthesis of medicinally relevant chemical motifs
Incorporation of unnatural motifs into known pharmaceutical agents to improve their chemical and enzymatic stability
Studying biological activity of newly synthesized entities using internal and external collaborations
Particular areas of interest: cancer and central nervous system (CNS)

Dr. Jeremy Bradbury
Associate Professor

Multi-core and many-core software, concurrent software
Open-source software development
Software quality, software testing, software bugs
Teaching strategies for programming and software development
Link to Dr. Bradbury's research page

Dr. Pietro-Luciano Buono
Associate Professor

Dynamical systems
Mathematics
Mathematical models of biological phenomena
Additional languages spoken: French and Italian

Dr. Christopher Collins
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization

Computational linguistics
Digital media and digital humanities
High-performance computing
Human-computer interaction
Information visualization, visual analytics
Multi-touch interfaces
User interfaces

Dr. Jean-Paul Desaulniers
Assistant Professor

Chemical biology
Gene expression
Nucleic acid chemistry
Organic chemistry

Dr. Brad Easton
Associate Professor

Electrochemistry
Fuel cells
Materials science
Polymer electrolytes

Dr. Sean Forrester
Associate Professor

Molecular biology
Neurochemistry
Parasitic nematodes
Pharmacology

Dr. Franco Gaspari
Associate Professor

Nanotechnologies
Photovoltaics
Semiconductors
Additional language spoken: Italian

Dr. Mark Green
Professor

Computer games
Computer graphics
Computers in the entertainment industry
Digital media
Virtual reality

Dr. Cecilia Hageman
Assistant Professor

Crime scene investigation and blood stain pattern analysis
Expert witness testimony in Canadian criminal courts
Forensic biology and DNA analysis
Quality assurance in forensic laboratories

Dr. Douglas Holdway
Dean, Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Toxicology

Aquatic toxicology
Effects of toxicants on aquatic organisms
Fish physiology
Metals
Pesticides
Pulp mill effluents
Additional language spoken: limited French

Dr. Andrea Kirkwood
Assistant Professor

Algae
Aquatic ecology
Environmental science
Fate of contaminants
Invasive species

Dr. Greg Lewis
Associate Professor

Applied mathematics
Computational science
Mathematical modelling

Dr. Fedor Naumkin
Associate Professor

Cluster science
Computational chemistry
Electronic structure of polyatomic systems
Intermolecular interactions
Molecular junctions and interfaces
Additional languages spoken: Russian and Ukrainian

Dr. Ken Pu
Associate Professor

Computer and information systems

Dr. Janice L. Strap
Assistant Professor

Microbial ecology
Microbiology genomics
Phylogenetic analysis
Proteomics streptomyces

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Dr. Shahid Alvi
Professor

Immigrant women
Poverty and crime
Violence against women
Youth crime

Dr. Scott Aquanno
Senior Lecturer

Central banking (the political economy of)
Economic innovation and knowledge-based growth (clustering, knowledge transfer)
Financial policy

Dr. Rachel Ariss
Assistant Professor

Aboriginal law
Law and social change
Midwifery and reproductive technologies
Regulation of motherhood

Dr. Sasha Baglay
Associate Professor

Immigration law and policy
Refugee law and policy
Additional languages spoken: Russian and Ukrainian

Dr. Andrea Braithwaite
Senior Lecturer

Cultural studies of communication
Feminist production and backlash discourses
Feminist theory and criticism
Television studies

Dr. Brian Campbell
Professor

The role of technical experts:
- In public inquiries and courts
- On technology diffusion in manufacturing firms
- On technology in Canadian higher education

Dr. Liqun Cao
Professor

Comparative criminology
Criminological theory
Gun control
Juvenile delinquency
Policing
School violence
Additional language spoken: Chinese

Dr. Carla Cesaroni
Associate Professor

Corrections/penology
Youth in custody
Youth justice
Additional language spoken: Italian

Dr. Kimberley Clow
Associate Professor

Perceptions of gender
Stereotypes and prejudice
Wrongful conviction

Dr. Wesley Crichlow
Associate Professor

Anti-racist education
Critical race theory and human rights
First Nations criminal law
Gay and lesbian issues
Meditation alternatives
Policing and racial minority communities
Popular culture and youth
Race and immigration
Racial minorities and the law
Youth and the law

Dr. Brian Cutler

Professor and Interim Dean

Eyewitness memory
Forensic psychology

Dr. Karla Dhungana-Sainju
Assistant Professor

Electronic monitoring of offenders
Gender and crime
Mass incarceration and correctional control
Prisoner re-entry
Traditional bullying and cyberbullying
Women’s imprisonment

Dr. Aziz Douai
Associate Professor

International broadcasting and communications
International security
Minority media
Socio-political implications of new media technologies

Dr. Steven Downing
Associate Professor

Criminal and deviant subcultures
Informal social control
Property crime

Dr. Joseph Eastwood
Assistant Professor

Alibis
Comprehension of legal rights
Investigative interviewing
Wrongful convictions

Dr. Karla Emeno
Assistant Professor

Crime linkage analysis
Geographic profiling
Predictive crime mapping

Dr. Shanti Fernando
Associate Professor

Diversity policy in Canada and the United States
Immigration and settlement policy in Ontario
Labour policy

Dr. Tyler Frederick
Assistant Professor

Homelessness
Mental health
Youth

Dr. Gary Genosko
Professor

Administrative surveillance
Hackers and phreaks
Participatory cultures
Social psychology
Technocultures

Dr. Judith Grant
Associate Professor

Addiction to/recovery from controlled substances
Community-academic alliances
Community activism
Drugs and gender
Drugs in society
Public policy
Violence against women

Rob Halpin
Lecturer

Change management (understanding change)
Globalization
Labour policies
Occupational disability and disability prevention

Jordan Harel
Senior Lecturer

Corporate crime
Financial crime
Organizational and occupational deviance/crime
White-collar crime

Dr. Leigh Harkins
Associate Professor

Aggression in groups
Offender rehabilitation
Sexual aggression

Dr. Ron Hinch
Professor

Criminology theory
Policing violent crime
Serial murder
Violence against women
Violent crime

Dr. Alyson King
Assistant Professor

History of higher education
Literacies in the knowledge economy
Non-fiction graphic novels student experiences in the university
Women's history

Dr. Sharon Lauricella (Loverock)
Associate Professor

Food communication
Meditation and prayer in communication
Mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education
Non-violent communication
Peace and conflict studies

Dr. Amy Leach
Associate Professor

Bias
Deception and lie detection
Interrogation/interviewing
Witness identification

Dr. Timothy MacNeill
Senior Lecturer

Canadian colonialism of Latin America
Environment and development / sustainable development
Global-political economy
Global poverty and inequality
International development
Latin America

Dr. Olga Marques
Assistant Professor

Gender and sex(uality)
Media representations of race/ethnicity and crime
Pornography and sexually explicit materials (‘pro’ stance)
Regulation/governance of sex(uality) and gender
Sex work (decriminalization) (‘pro’ stance)

Dr. Thomas McMorrow
Associate Professor

Administrative law
Alternative dispute resolution
Family law
Legal pluralism
Legal theory

Dr. Tanner Mirrlees
Assistant Professor

Global media studies/international communication
Political economy of communication
Politics of popular entertainment (TV shows, films and video games)
Propaganda/public relations/public diplomacy
U.S. foreign policy, international relations and the media
Web 2.0/digital media

Dr. Christopher O’Connor
Assistant Professor

Boomtowns
Citizen attitudes toward police
Youth crime
Youth transitions from school to work

Dr. Natalie Oman
Assistant Professor

Aboriginal law and politics
Global governance
Human rights
International law

Dr. Isabel Pedersen
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media and Culture

Communication arts
Digital life and culture
New media and digital media
Rhetoric
Wearable and mobile technology

Dr. Barbara Perry
Professor

Diversity
Hate crime
Race

Dr. Teresa Pierce
Associate Professor

Communication and digital culture
Computer-mediated communication
Discourse and technology
Film/hypertext narratives
Gender and cultural studies
New media theory

Dr. Jen Rinaldi
Assistant Professor

Disability and law
Gender and law
Health law and policy
Legal theory
Queer politics and law
Reproductive technologies

Dr. Hannah Scott
Professor

Crime prevention through environmental design
Gender and crime
Homicide
Statistics
Victimology

Dr. Matthew Shane
Associate Professor

Anti-social behaviour
Functional MRI of forensic populations
Psychopathic personalities
Neural underpinnings of empathy/perspective-taking
Neuromodulation
Substance abuse

Dr. Phillip Shon
Professor

Discourse analysis
Language and law
Parricide
Police behaviour
Police-citizen encounters

Dr. Andrea Slane
Associate Professor

Information law
Intellectual property
Law and technology
Privacy

Dr. Arshia U. Zaidi
Associate Professor

Immigration
Race
Sexuality and gender