Faculty in the School of Canadian Studies engage in research across a number of thematic areas, working across many disciplines, and many are cross-appointed to one or more other academic units at 杏吧原创 University. Our faculty also provide leadership in key research initiatives at the university:
- Dr. Carmen Robertson holds the聽 in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, jointly appointed between the School for Studies in Art and Culture, the School of Canadian Studies, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture.
| Faculty | Research themes | Cross appointment(s) and聽affiliations |
| Miranda Brady | Motherhood and Reproductive Labour; Critical Autism Studies; Media and Indigenous Studies | Journalism and Communication |
| Kenneth Jake Chakasim | Indigenous Planning & Design;聽Sustainable Building Technologies;聽Urban and Rural Aboriginal Development;聽Design-Based Research and Pedagogy | Architecture and Urbanism |
| Peter Coffman | Canadian Gothic Revival architecture | Art and Architectural History |
| Sebastian Cote | Representations of the Americas in French fiction written before 1800 (plays, short stories, novels); 聽written heritage of New France in Quebec and Canadian literary history; Travel writing in the Americas (16th-20th century), and the archeology of the noble savage; 20th-century cultural and intellectual history in France (literature, political commitment, ethnology, art, and the avant-garde) | French |
| Stacy Douglas | Legal and political theory; Critical constitutionalism; Critical theories of community; Feminist, queer, and critical race theory; Postcolonial legal studies; Law and aesthetics | Law and Legal Studies |
| Jerzy El偶anowski | Warsaw;聽Memory, curation;聽Architecture; Heritage, conservation; 聽Cartography;聽Architectural Heritage in Canada | Architecture and Urbanism; 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture; Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies |
| Patrizia Gentile | Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities; queer theory | History; Sociology; Law and Legal Studies |
| Jennifer Henderson | Settler Feminism and Race Making; Neoliberalism; Reconciliation; Settler-colonialism, settler-colonial modernity; 聽Feminism; English-Canadian literature; Indigenous literature; Cultural studies | English Language and Literature;聽Institute of Political Economy; Sociology and Anthropology |
| Peter Hodgins | The politics and poetics of public memory in Canada;聽Canadian cultural nationalism; 聽Canadian Cultural Studies;聽Cultural memory | Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture; Psychology; 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History |
| Anna Hoefnagels | Urban Aboriginal music-making; powwow traditions in Southwestern Ontario First Nation communities; gender politics and restrictions for female musicians in powwow music-making practices; emergence of children鈥檚 music performers in Canada | Music |
| Michel Hogue | Metis & Fur Trade History; Indigenous histories, settler colonialism; North American West, borderlands; Folklore and 鈥渧ernacular鈥� histories | History |
| Kahente Horn-Miller | Mapping Kanienkeha, Kanienkehaka place names and associations with governance and women鈥檚 issues;聽Consensus-based, Indigenous and Haudenosaunee governance; Indigenous pedagogy and online teaching;聽 Indigenous identity politics;聽Humour, storytelling, oral history;聽Indigenous womenism / women issues; Indigenous research methodologies;聽Indigenous rights and resurgence | Sociology and Anthropology; 膧nako Indigenous Research Institute |
| David Hugill | Urban geography and North American cities; Imperial and colonial urbanisms; Urban political economy and the 鈥淪haring Economy鈥� | Geography and Environmental Studies |
| Dan Irving | Transgender Studies; Two-Spirit and Trans Under- and Unemployment in Canada | Human Rights; Feminist Institute for Social Transformation |
| Brian Johnson | Canadian literature, literary theory, and genre. | English Language and Literature |
| Jacqueline Kennelly | Youth cultures; citizenship; democracy; social inclusion and exclusion; globalization/neoliberalism; social movements; urban sociology; homelessness; education | Sociology and Anthropology |
| Catherine Khordoc | Contemporary Qu茅b茅cois literature; 鈥溍ヽriture migrante鈥� and transnational writing; the works of Monique Bosco;聽francophone literature; transcultural writing; plurilingualism | French; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture |
| Andr茅s L贸pez | Indigenous and Black feminist theorizing and methodologies; Historiography, Cultural Rhetoric, and Queer Indigenous Two-Spirit Studies | Feminist Institute for Social Transformation; Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Patricia McGuire | Creating respectful frameworks for including Anishinaabe knowledge(s) in broader academic, social and political contexts | Social Work; Strategic Indigenous Initiatives Committee |
| Eva Mackey | Canadian Studies 鈥� interdisciplinary;聽anthropology of space/ place/ land studies;聽identity/ power/ representation;聽feminist theory/gender/sexuality; 聽Decolonization — aboriginal-settler state relations;聽anthropology of conflict, land rights, law and citizenship; National identity, multiculturalism, race in settler nations;聽post-colonial theory/ cultural studies/critical race theory;聽research methodology;聽anthropology of public issues;聽political anthropology 鈥� colonialism, neoliberalism 鈥� policy/law;聽politics of risk/uncertainty/neo-liberalism;聽law and society | English Language and Literature; Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies; Journalism |
| Jody Mason | Literatures and cultures in Canada; sociology of literature; print culture studies (reading and reception; publishing; uses of books and book cultures); settler-colonial studies | English Language and Literature |
| Jeffrey Monaghan |
Security governance; Policing; Surveillance of social movements; Settler colonial studies; Social movements studies; Globalization of surveillance and security practices |
Criminology and Criminal Justice |
| Richard Nimijean | National identity and the branding of Canada; the relationship between Canada鈥檚 role as a global actor and the Canadian identity; the politics of the brand state | FASS Research Centre in American Studies |
| Monica Patterson | Critical Race Museology; Museum Queeries,;Unsettling and Indigenizing Museology; National Heritage and Traumatic Memory; Children鈥檚 Museology | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Carol Payne | History of photography in Canada with an emphasis on collaborative photo-based methodologies undertaken with Inuit communities | Art & Architectural History |
| Carmen Robertson | Norval Morrisseau; Woodlands School of Indigenous art; Beading; Curation/curatorial work; Indigenous arts history and aesthetics | Studies in Art and Culture; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture |
| Susan Ross | Waste, deconstruction and heritage values;聽Sustainable heritage conservation theory and policy;聽Modern building technology history and conservation; 聽Twentieth-century housing history;聽Modern and industrial buildings, infrastructure and landscapes;聽University campus architecture and conservation;聽Urban environmental /landscape / parks history;聽Montreal and Quebec heritage conservation;聽Canadian conservation and environmental policy and practice;聽Heritage conservation theory and practices in Germany | Architecture and Urbanism; 杏吧原创 Immersive Media Studio;聽杏吧原创 Centre for Public History |
| Hugh Shewell | Indian Welfare in Canada | Social Work |
| Sophie Tamas | Trauma; Autoethnography; Research methods; Interdisciplinary critical qualitative research methods and ethics; Emotional geographies of academic spaces and practices; Feminist, Indigenous, post-qualitative, new materialist and trauma-informed approaches to subjectivity and knowledge; Personal narrative and creative arts at the intersection of academic, aesthetic, and therapeutic discourses; Feminist, arts-based and Indigenous pedagogies | Geography and Environmental Studies; Feminist Institute for Social Transformation |
| Julie Tomiak | Settler colonial cities;聽Indigenous resistance, resurgence;聽Neoliberalization;聽Indigenous cities; decolonization;聽land reclamation;聽urban reserves,聽settler statecraft,聽racial capitalism;聽urban Indigenous governance;聽political economy | Geography and Environmental Studies; Institute of Political Economy; Sociology/Anthropology |
| Anne Tr茅panier | Critical nationalism;聽Quebec studies; Language politics in Canada; Pedagogy, online pedagogy; Intercultural mediation; Museum narratives; Early Christianism and syncretism | French; History; 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History |
| Omeasoo Wahpasiw | Knowledge translation with Tla鈥檃min;聽Mistussin;聽Tla鈥檃min Historical practices regarding death and grief;聽Indigenous Art and Activism in the late 20th Century | Architecture and Urbanism; History |