Affiliated faculty
CISSC Affiliated Faculty include all Concordia faculty who are members of one or other of the CISSC Working Groups and all Concordia faculty who serve on the supervisory committees of interdisciplinary Humanities PhD students. The latter are listed below:
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Amin Hammad
- Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
- Affiliate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
Research areas: BIM, 4D simulation, and digital twins Automation and robotics in construction (Construction 4.0) Sustainable infrastructure management systems Construction management (health and safety, productivity, claim management, etc.) Applied AI, computer vision, and knowledge engineering Optimizing building energy performance Mixed reality
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Chantal Maillé
- Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
status: ProfessorResearch areas: Feminisms, Women's Movements, Intersectionality and EDI -
Gada Mahrouse
- Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
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Kimberley Manning
- Professor, Political Science
Research areas: Gender and politics in Maoist China; Parents of Trans Youth and their Families; and Feminist Leadership and Institutional Transformation -
Viviane Namaste
- Full Professor , Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
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Alan Nash
- Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean. -
Greg M. Nielsen
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Social and Cultural Theory, Journalism and Media Sociology -
Csaba Nikolenyi
- Professor, Political Science
- Director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
Research areas: legislative studies, electoral systems, political parties and party systems -
Kevin Pask
- Professor, English
Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / nationalism / fantasy / literary publics / popular literature -
Julie A. Podmore
- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Queering Suburbia, Queer Generationality and Urban Change, Queer Urbanisms and Gentrification, LGBTQ+ Activisms and Public Space, Queering Municipal Governance, Historical Geographies of Sexualities, Lesbian Studies. -
Norma M. Rantisi
- Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring -
Norman Ravvin
- Past Chair, Canadian Jewish Studies, Religions and Cultures
status: ProfessorResearch areas: Canadian Jewish Studies, North American Literature, Holocaust Studies, Eastern Europe, Yiddish literature, Creative Writing -
Bill Reimer
- Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Rural Canada, inequality, community development, social capital, comparative policy -
Ted Rutland
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Urban politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada. -
Daniel Salée
- Professor, Political Science
- Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
Research areas: The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics -
Julian Spencer-Churchill (Schofield)
- Associate Professor, Political Science
Research areas: International Relations; Security; Strategic Studies -
Bart Simon
- Director
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Digital Culture, Science and Technology, Social Theory -
Sherry Simon
- Distinguished University Research Professor, Études françaises
status: Professeure titulaire -
Kim Sawchuk
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: ageing studies; activist ageing; critical disability studies; mobile media; research creation; community based research; cultural discourses of age; social media as a representational force for generating knowledge about ageing subjects; ageing and technology -
Matt Soar
- Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies
Research areas: Critical Cultural Studies, Intermedia Arts, Residual and Emergent Media, Media Archaeology, Studies of Cultural Production, Experimental Film, Web Docs, Graphic Design -
Kate Sterns
- Associate Professor, English
status: Co-ordinator, Creative Writing ProgramResearch areas: creative writing / 19th century drama & literature / anatomical waxworks / botanical gardens / medical history -
Jeremy Stolow
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Media History, Material Religion, Religion & Media, History of Photography, Technology and Culture, Print Culture, Spiritualism Magic and the Occult, Science and Technology Studies, History of the Body. -
Amy Swiffen
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Sociolegal Studies, Social and Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Criminology -
Annette Teffeteller
- Professor, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
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Lucian Turcescu
- Acting Chair (July- December 2025), Professor, Graduate Program Director, Theological Studies
Research areas: Religion and Politics, Religion and Human Rights, Orthodox Christianity and Gender, Early Christianity / Patristics, Ecumenism -
Matthew P Unger
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Law and Society, Criminal Accusation, Social Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Sound studies, Metal Studies, Extreme Metal, Religion and Modernity -
Peter C. van Wyck
- Professor, Communication Studies
status: Not accepting new graduate studentsResearch areas: environmental and ecological humanities; atomic photography; nuclear and atomic history and aesthetics; cultural theory; writing as method; north and nordicity; monuments, archives and memory; risk and futurity -
Jean-Philippe Warren
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Quebec, Social Movements, Politics, Popular Culture -
Darren Wershler
- Associate Professor, English
- Concordia University Research Chair, Media & Contemporary Literature, Tier 2, English
Research areas: media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics
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Ingrid C Bachmann
- Professor, Studio Arts
Research areas: continge, embodiment, senses, generativity, media arts, participation, audience, interactivity, installation, digital technologies, human body, organ transplants, art practice, kinetic, sculpture, installation, drawing, art medicine, art and technology, transdisciplinary, automata -
Sandeep Bhagwati
- Professor, Music
- director, matralab - lab for research-creation in the performing arts , Fine Arts
- GM500-21, Music
status: Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art (2006-2016)Research areas: music, musicking, music composition, comprovisation, research-creation, transdisciplinary aesthetics, interactive scores, trans-traditional musicking, experimental theatre, situative scores, dramaturgy, performance, contemporary music, improvisation, intercultural music, artistic research, music notation, music technology, voice, computer music, opera, music theatre, piano music, orchestra music -
Deanna BowenResearch areas: *As detailed in my CV. Accepting inquiries for MFA supervision and PhD committee participation when time permits.
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Jessica Carmichael
- Associate Professor, Theatre
Research areas: Directing, Acting, Creation & Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Avant Garde Theatre, Devising, Dance Theatre, Performance Studies, Theatre for Social Change, Cultural Continuity, Indigenous Storytelling, Landscape Connectivity, Embodiment, Youth Culture -
Juan Carlos Castro
- Professor, Art Education
Research areas: complex dynamic systems, arts-based learning, teaching training, social media, internet studies, urban futures, pedagogy, curriculum development, data visualization, place, democratic values, youth media, youth engagement, social justice education, youth culture, critical disability studies -
Elaine Cheasley Paterson
- Professor of Craft Studies, Art History
- Associate Dean, Academic Programmes and Pedagogy, Fine Arts
Research areas: critical craft studies, women's cultural philanthropy, feminism, material culture, handmade, social movements, textile arts, Arts and Crafts movement, Victorian Child migration, Irish studies, materiality, decorative arts, Canadian cultural history, design history, ornament, tradition/modernity, ceramics, canadian art history, curatorial practices, craftivism -
May Chew
- Assistant Professor, Art History
- Assistant Professor, Cinema
Research areas: interactivity and immersion; public art and social engagement; affect; haunting and spectrality; cultural studies; visual and material cultures; museums and archives; critical race studies; settler and postcolonial studies. -
Carmela Cucuzzella
- Professor, Design and Computation Arts
- Founding Co-Director, Next Generation Cities Institute
Research areas: design studies, sustainability studies, architecture studies, built environment, cities, eco-design, eco-architecture, public space design, architecture competitions, teaching buildings, sustainability assessment tools, complex dynamic systems -
Rebecca Duclos
- Professor, Art History
Research areas: Contemporary art, material culture, critical museology, curatorial practice, exhibition design, thing theory, non-traditional research, research-creation methodologies, radical research methods, art + sci transdisciplinarity, leadership issues in arts administration, death studies (developing) -
Kristina Huneault
- Associate Dean, Faculty Relations & Inclusion, Fine Arts
- Professor, Art History
Research areas: meaning, Canadian art history, selfhood, women artists, subjectivity, colonialism, indigenous-settler relations, aesthetics, art historiography, 19th century, art-historical method, feminism, visual culture, Canadian cultural history, art theory, art and philosophy, material culture, identity -
Heather Igloliorte
- Associate Professor , Art History
- Special Advisor to the Provost, Advancing Indigenous Knowledges
- Director, Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership
- Co-Director, Indigenous Futures Cluster, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, Hexagram-Concordia
Research areas: Circumpolar Indigenous arts, Inuit, Metis, First Nations, Indigenous art and art history, curatorial practice, critical museology, Indigenous futures, sovereignty, continuity, decolonization, indigenization, contemporary art, new media, performance art, community consultation, collaborative art practices -
Shauna Janssen
- Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism (2018-2023), Fine Arts
- Associate Professor, Theatre
- Chair, Theatre
Research areas: site-specific performance practice, dramaturgy, intermedial performance creation, scenographic practices, 3D creative technologies & performance, Queer-feminist practices, hemispheric performance, performance & public space, theatre & architecture -
Alice Jarry
- Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
- Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality (New Scholar), Design and Computation Arts
Research areas: Materiality; Waste Remediation; Waste Infrastructures; Urban Futures; Bio-Inspired Design; Critical Design; Design for Sustainability; Biocomposites; Biomaterials; Active Materials; Surfaces and Scaffolds -
Alice Ming Wai Jim
- Professor of Contemporary Art History, Art History
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas (Brill)
- Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art Institutions (Tier 1)
status: On sabbatical until June 30, 2025Research areas: contemporary art, new media, contemporary Asian art, Asian Canadian, diaspora, ethnocultural art histories, migration, mobility, global art, critical curatorial studies -
Martha Langford
- Editor-in-chief, Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)
- Distinguished University Research Professor, Art History
- Research Chair and Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
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Josée Leclerc
- Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
Research areas: witness function of art, response-art, survival strategies, trauma, Holocaust art, genocide studies, racial discrimination, art therapy, art psychotherapy, ethics of reception, art and psychoanalysis, postmodern theory, creativity, heuristic paradigm -
Martin Lefebvre
- Chair of the School of Cinema; Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies (Hon.), Cinema
Research areas: General and applied semiotics, philosophy (Peirce and pragmatism, Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language, epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics), classical and contemporary film theories, modern and postmodern film, narrative theory, cultural studies, cinéma québécois, Hollywood cinema, Hitchcock, Eisenstein, Truffaut, Godard and the French New Wave. -
Jonathan Lessard
- Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
- Primary Investigator (LabLabLab)
Research areas: history of games, game studies and design, digital games, adventure games, interactive narrative, genre, narrative, 3d Imaging, interactivity, interaction design, rendering, computer graphics, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, virtual environments, interface design -
Jason Edward Lewis
- Director, Initiative for Indigenous Futures
- Special Advisor to the Provost on Indigenous Spaces
- University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary
- Nominated Principal Investigator and Co-director, Abundant Intelligences Partnership
- Professor of Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
- Co-director, Indigenous Futures Research Centre
- Co-director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
- Co-director, Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media
Research areas: Indigenous new media, Indigenous futures, digital poetry, the future imaginary, computational typography, computational culture, media arts, digital games, game studies and design, digital textuality, experimental typography, virtual environments, poetry, typographic design, computational aesthetics, Indigenous Peoples, mobile media, interface design, digital culture, science fiction
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Erin Manning
- Professor, Studio Arts
- Professor , Cinema
status: ProfessorResearch areas: process philosophy, neurodiversity, research-creation, ProTactile, blackness, ecology -
Rosanna Maule
- Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
Research areas: women and film/media, feminist media studies, creative economy, women's cinephilia, feminist theory, contemporary auteur cinema, moving image studies, postmodernism, globalization and women's cinema, silent films, film/media theory, theories of national cinemas, critical theory, screen culture, history of the moving image, French cinema, Italian cinema, Spanish cinema, literary theory -
Christopher Moore
- Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
- Graduate Program Director, Design, Design and Computation Arts
Research areas: humour and parody, playfulness, social change, visual communication, information design, semiotics, design theory, typographic design, satire, new media studies, art practice, Cuddle Commandos, installation, performance art, sculpture, storytelling, interactivity, everydayness, design economies, graphic design -
Nadia Myre
- Assistant Professor, Studio Arts
Research areas: contemporary art, Indigenous Art, research-creation, art practice, Indigenous Peoples, visual arts, Indigenous knowledges, decolonization, Algonquin, cultural continuity, transcultural objects, cultural identity, sculpture, installation, video, public art, beadwork, photography, fibres, performance art, experimental theatre -
Joshua Neves
- Associate Professor, Cinema
status: Canada Research Chair and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) LabResearch areas: global media, digital culture, China/Asia, cultural theory, political theory, overdevelopment -
Nicola Tullio Pezolet
- Professor, Art History
- Chair, Art History
Research areas: modernism, architecture, built environment, material culture, synthesis of the arts, post-WW2 reconstruction, Cold War, social history of art,Christian art and culture, Roman Catholic Church, Second Vatican Council, print culture, public art, abstraction in visual art, utopian thought, theological aesthetics, photography, history of the avant-garde, historiography -
John Potvin
- Professor, Art History
- Member, Centre for Sensory Studies
Research areas: Design History; Orientalism in Design & Art; Visual & Material Cultures of Masculinity; Modernism in Art, Design & Fashion; History of Interior Design; Fashion Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Body Studies & the Senses -
Rhona Richman Kenneally
- Distinguished Professor Emerita, Design and Computation Arts
- Academic Co-Founder and Fellow, School of Irish Studies
- Chair, Dept. of Design and Computation Arts (2010-12)
- Concordia Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2015
- 2019 Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Fine Arts, 2014
- Member, Textiles and Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute
Research areas: built environment, food studies, domestic space, Irish studies, Expo 67, fibres and wearables, mindful eating -
Catherine Russell
- Distinguished Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
Research areas: cinephilia, experimental cinema, Japanese cinema, ethnographic film, women and film/media, cultural studies, film/media theory, criticism, North American cinema, melodrama, Walter Benjamin, phantasmagoria, classic Hollywood, film/media historiography, moving image studies, urban futures, cinema, Japan, sound, history of media arts -
Christopher Lloyd Salter
- Professor Emeritus, Design and Computation Arts
- University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses
- Co-Director, Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Arts, Design, Technology and Digital Culture
- Director, Hexagram Concordia
- Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
- Director, xmodal
Research areas: immersion, machine learning, new media theory, STS, performance, haptics, senses, embodiment, digital audio, sensory studies, sensory ethnography, interaction design, media art history, sound design, critical AI studies, posthumanism, philosophy of technology, enactive cognition, research-creation -
Johanne Sloan
- Professor, Art History
Research areas: Contemporary Art, Canadian Art since the 1960s, Landscape, Art and Aesthetics, Visual Culture, Urban Art and Culture -
Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro
- Associate Professor, Theatre
Research areas: oral history performance, listening/hearing, experimental theatre, research-creation, social innovation, documentary theatre, walking, participatory processes, sound, activism, war and memory, theatre for social change, relational art, storytelling, representation, drama/performance, violence, performance studies, Latin America, participatory art -
Mark J. Sussman
- Professor, Theatre
- Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Research areas: performance studies, material performance, avant-garde and experimental theatre, animation of public space, object theatre, performance ethnography, Hemispheric performance, magic,cantastoria, political circus, parades, pageantry, collective creation, festival, pedagogy -
MJ Thompson
- Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Practices, Art Education
Research areas: performance studies, dance studies, writing and writing pedagogies, performing arts, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, movement, the body, embodiment, theories of everyday life, art and climate change, art and the environment -
Kathleen Vaughan
- Professor, Art Education
- Concordia University Research Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures (Tier 1)
- Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
- Undergraduate Program Director, Art Education
- Coordinator of the Community Art Education (BFA Major) program, Art Education
Research areas: socially engaged art, public pedagogies, place, posthumanism, environmental justice, human-animal ethics,interdisciplinarity, science-art collaborations, museum education, research-creation, oral histories, mapping, walking, hand-based and digital textiles, photography, collage, audio walks, urban futures, community arts, St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Iceland -
Haidee Wasson
- Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Inclusion, Fine Arts
- Distinguished University Research Professor, Cinema
Research areas: muselogy, feminism, moving image technologies, portable film technologies, cultural histories of cinema, moving image studies, film/media historiography, women and film/media, film/media theory, cultural studies, history of media arts, cinema, sound, television, web videos, critical curatorial studies, emergent media -
Angélique Willkie
- Chair of the Concordia University Task Force on Anti-Black Racism
- Special Advisor to the Provost, Black Integration & Knowledges
- Concordia University Research Chair in Ecologies of B/black Performance
- Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance
Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies
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Jordan LeBel
- Professor, Marketing
Research areas: Sensory Design; Governance and Public Health, Food and Foodservice Marketing, Consumer Education, Communication Strategies, Food and Foodservice Innovation