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Faculty of Arts and Science

Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture

Faculty profiles

Overview

Humanities PhD students are able to draw on the expertise and creative excellence of outstanding scholars and artists at Concordia. Students create their own path and pursue unique interdisciplinary projects of research or research-creation (which combines creative practice with scholarly investigation) under the mentorship of an advisory committee of three faculty members: a Major field supervisor (usually in the same discipline as the student’s MA or MFA) and two Minor field advisors.

Applicants to the Humanities program are required to approach Concordia faculty members who could serve on their advisory committee, and upload confirmations from them as part of their application. Consult the guide on how to approach potential advisors. For any questions, please get in touch with the Humanities director at gpdhumanities@concordia.ca.

Faculty

The CISSC collaborates with full-time faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences departments within the Faculty of Arts and Science, while also partnering with faculty members in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

  • Nayrouz Abu Hatoum
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: visual anthropology; urban ethnography; visual art and politics; liberation; sovereignty; settler-colonialism; resistance; the everyday; Palestine; South West Asia; queer politics.
  • Erin Barker
    • Full Professor, Psychology
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Psychology
    Research areas: Lifespan Developmental Psychology; Transition to Adulthood; Well_Being and Mental Health; Stress and Coping
  • Beverley Best
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory
  • Maria-Carolina Cambre
    • Professor, Education
    Research areas: Qualitative Methods | Image Studies| Visual Sociology Critical Policy Studies|Curriculum Theory & Design| Semiotics
  • Lynda Clarke
    • Professor, Religions and Cultures
    Research areas: Shiism, Sunni-Shiite relations,Women and Islam,Islamic Law, Islam in the West
  • Ann-Louise Davidson
    • Professor, Education
    • Strategic Advisor, Innovation, Faculty of Arts and Science
    • Director, Innovation Lab
  • Valérie De Courville Nicol
    • Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: emotions, self and subjectivity, fear, insecurity, anxiety, desire, self-help, psychology, book reading, emotional-discourse theory and analysis
  • Silvano De la Llata
    • Associate Professor - Co-Director of Next Generation Cities Institute’s Cluster of Design, Art and Culture , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: public space, urban design, social movements, collaborative community planning, open-source cities, planning theory, urban environmental psychology, subaltern urbanisms and insurgent planning/design.
  • Kregg Hetherington
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography
    Research areas: Environment and Infrastructure, Politics, Bureaucracy, Paraguay, Montreal, Water
  • David Howes
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Anthropology of the Senses, Sensory Ethnography, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics
  • Chris Hurl
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Labour Studies, Urban Governance, Political Economy, Social Movements
  • Satoshi Ikeda
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Food and Sustainability, Social Economy, World-System Studies
  • Oceane Jasor
    • Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
  • Christine Jourdan
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Creolization, Language and Culture, Food
  • Natalie Kouri-Towe
    • Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
    Research areas: gender, race, sexuality, social movements, solidarity, transnational feminism, queer theory, masculinities, securitization, war, gender-based violence, refugees and migration, affect studies, digital media, gender & sexuality pedagogy and curriculum
  • Marc Lafrance
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Self, Body, Gender, Sexuality, Popular Media, Cultural Theory
  • Warren S. Linds
    • Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences
    Research areas: Arts based research and Wellbeing of Indigenous Youth Ethical Considerations of Arts Based Research Creative Practices in Teaching in Higher Education Facilitation Skills Ethical Know How
  • Gada Mahrouse
    • Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
  • Nalini Mohabir
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Indentured Labour; Postcolonialism, Caribbean Studies, Decolonization; Diaspora, Migration, and Transnationalism; Protest and Resistance
  • Viviane Namaste
    • Full Professor , Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
  • Katja Grötzner Neves
    • Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    • Professeure titulaire, Sociology and Anthropology
    Status: Tenured Professor since 2009
    Research areas: Transdisciplinary Research; Socio-environmental Sustainability; Biodiversity Conservation Governance; Decolonization
  • Mireille Paquet
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Politics of Immigration
    • Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: Immigration, Public Policy, Public Policy and Canadian politics.
  • Stephanie Paterson
    • Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: Feminist and Critical Policy Studies; Feminist Governance, State Feminism and Gender Mainstreaming; Reproductive Politics.
  • Julie A. Podmore
    • Affiliate Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: queer urbanism/suburbanism, neighbourhood formation, gentrification and neighbourhood change, municipal policy diffusion, urban place-making,
  • Geneviève Rail
    • Distinguished Professor Emerita, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
    Research areas: Feminist Cultural Studies of Health
  • Norma M. Rantisi
    • Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring
  • Ted Rutland
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Urban politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada.
  • Daniel Salée
    • Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
    • Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: The politic of citizenship; Aboriginal peoples; ethnocultural diversity; nationalism; Quebec and Canadian politics
  • Steven Shaw
    • Professor, Education
  • Anna Sheftel
    • Principal, School of Community and Public Affairs
    • Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
    Research areas: Oral history; Holocaust; genocide; memory studies; memory activism; immigration; ethics; methodology; community-based research
  • Bart Simon
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    • Director
    Research areas: Digital Culture, Science and Technology, Social Theory
  • Amy Swiffen
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Socio-Legal Studies, Political and Legal Theory, Constitutional and Aboriginal Law, Criminalisation and Justice
  • 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
  • Jean-Philippe Warren
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Quebec, Social Movements, Politics, Popular Culture
  • Mark K. Watson
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Indigenous Studies, Ethnography, Participatory Research

  • Charles R. Acland
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries
  • Emilia Angelova
    • Associate Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: 20th C Continental Philosophy (esp. Heidegger, Derrida, French Feminism), 19th C Continental Philosophy (Hegel, Kant)
  • Jesse Arseneault
    Research areas: African literature & culture / animal studies / cultural studies / posthumanism / postcolonial studies / queer theory
  • Rachel Berger
    • Associate Professor, History
    • Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Development , School of Graduate Studies
    Research areas: South Asian history, food history, Colonialism/Imperialism, health histories, history of the body, Queer studies in Canada
  • Danielle Bobker
    • Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: 17th & 18thC literature & culture, critical humour studies, gender & sexuality studies, pedagogy
  • Stephanie Bolster
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: creative writing / poetry / the long & the serial poem / ekphrasis / "ruin porn"
  • Pier-Pascale Boulanger
    • Professeure titulaire, Études françaises
    Research areas: Discours financier en traduction dans la presse canadienne
  • Nathan Brown
    • Director, Centre for Expanded Poetics, English
    • Professor, English
    • Graduate Program Director, English
    Research areas: Poetry and Poetics; Modern Philosophy and Critical Theory; Modernism
  • Owen Chapman
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation
  • Máirtín Coilféir
    • Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies
    Research areas: Modern Irish literature, translation, ethics, humour, violence, critical theory
  • Mia Consalvo
    • Graduate Program Director - PhD, Communication Studies
    • Director, Concordia Centre for Technoculture, Art and Games
    • Professor and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, Communication Studies
    Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.
  • Jill Didur
    • Professor, English & Associate Dean Faculty Affairs and Inclusion, FAS, English
    Research areas: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, plant studies, digital humanities, memory studies, Anthropocene studies, critical posthumanism, media studies, travel writing, disasporic studies, South Asian literature
  • Arseli Dokumaci
    • Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies
    • Director, Access in the Making (AIM) Lab
    • Associate Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: critical disability studies, performance studies, research-creation, medical anthropology, environmental humanities
  • Rasha ElHawari
    • Teaching Professor, Coordinator Semitic Languages Program, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
    Research areas: Second Language acquisition - Arabic as a Heritage Language - Arabic identity, and culture.
  • Ariela Freedman
    • Professor, Liberal Arts College
  • Matthias Fritsch
    • Professor, Philosophy
    Research areas: Contemporary European Philosophy (in particular Critical Theory, Deconstruction); Social and Political Philosophy; Ethics; Environmental Philosophy
  • Andre Ondino Furlani
    • Full Professor, English
    • Fellow, School of Irish Studies
    Research areas: modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / literary pedestrianism
  • José Antonio Giménez Micó
    • Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
    • Professeur associé, U. Laval (2011-2019)
    • Professor Emeritus, Hispanic and Latin American Studies
    • Adjunct Professor, The U of Calgary (2000-2022)
    • Secondary Positions:
    Status: Professor Emeritus / Professeur émérite / Catedrático emérito
  • Steven High
    • Professor, History
    • Founding Member, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
    Research areas: deindustrialization, oral history, populism, forced migration, capitalism, genocide, urban change.
  • Mikhail Iossel
    • Associate Professor, English
    Research areas: creative writing / international literature
  • Christine Jamieson
    • Undergraduate & Certificate Program Advisor and Associate Professor, Theological Studies
    Research areas: Indigenous Spirituality, Ethical deliberation, Frameworks for ethical deliberation, Bioethics, Medical ethics, Christian ethics, Lonergan,
  • Erica Lehrer
    • Professor, History
    Research areas: Memory/Heritage/Museums, Jewish-Polish Heritage, Decolonial Museology in East Central Europe
  • Barbara Lorenzkowski
    • Associate Professor, History
  • Krista Lynes
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    • Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
    • Director, Feminist Media Studio
    Research areas: feminist media studies; contemporary art and activism; queer theory; migration studies; globalization; border theory; feminist STS; infrastructure studies; critical race studies; affect; research-creation; environmental humanities
  • Fenwick McKelvey
    • MA Graduate Program Director, Communication Studies
    • Associate Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Algorithmic Media, Critical Approaches to Social Media and Big Data, Internet Policy, Digital Political Communication, Network Neutrality
  • Elizabeth (Liz) Miller
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Status: Not accepting PhD students at this time
    Research areas: Media & Environment, interactive documentary, immersive documentary, VR, human rights, community based research, participatory documentary, feminist media, climate change, research-creation
  • David Morris
    • Chair & Professor, Philosophy
    Status: On sabbatical July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
    Research areas: Phenomenology (esp. Merleau-Ponty); Philosophy of Mind, Body and Nature; Hegel
  • Françoise Naudillon
    • Full Professor, Études françaises
  • Emer O'Toole
    • Performance Studies, School of Irish Studies
    Research areas: Ireland, Performance, Theatre, Film, Performance Lectures, Activism, Aesthetics, Performativity, Interculturalism, Gender, Race, Class, Horror, The Uncanny, Postcolonialism, Feminism
  • Kevin Pask
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: Renaissance literature / Shakespeare / nationalism / fantasy / literary publics / popular literature
  • VK Preston
    • Associate Professor, History
  • Sina Queyras
    • Professor, English
    Research areas: writing across genres / climate change / eco-poetics / feminism utopian & dystopian narratives
  • Elena Razlogova
    • Associate Professor, History
  • Norman Ravvin
    • Past Chair, Canadian Jewish Studies, Religions and Cultures
    Status: Professor
    Research areas: Canadian Jewish Studies, North American Literature, Holocaust Studies, Eastern Europe, Yiddish literature, Creative Writing
  • Nicolas Renaud
  • Alessandra Renzi
    • Associate Professor, Communication Studies
    • Graduate Diploma Director, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Social Movements Media, Data Justice, Collaborative and Participatory Media, Art and Activism, Surveillance, gentrification and housing rights, algorithmic governance, Media Democracy, co-research and co-design, data activism.
  • Stephen Ross
    • Associate Professor, English
    Research areas: Poetry and poetics, modernism, comparative literature
  • Alison Rowley
    • Professor, History
  • 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
  • Tim Schwab
    • Professor , Communication Studies
    Research areas: Documentary production, still photography, Middle East, art and politics, human rights, environment and restorative ecology.
  • Sherry Simon
    • Distinguished University Research Professor, Études françaises
    Status: Professeure titulaire
  • 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 Program
    Research 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.
  • Gavin Taylor
    • Sr. Lecturer and Associate Chair, History
  • Sigwan Thivierge
    • Assistant Professor, First Peoples Studies, School of Community and Public Affairs
    • Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
    Research areas: Language reclamation, theoretical linguistics
  • Darren Wershler
    • Professor, English
    • Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    Research areas: media history / video game studies / communication studies / contemporary literature / avant-garde poetics

  • Luigi Allemano
    • Associate Professor, Film Animation Undergraduate Program, Cinema
    Research areas: animation, drawing, music making, improvisation, sound, cinema, sound design, visual music, music composition, film scores, film/media production, abstraction in visual art, sound effects, media arts, animation theory, pre-cinematic animation, experimental animation, transdisciplinarity, animation studies, aleatoric music
  • Pippin Barr
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    • Department Chair, Design and Computation Arts
    Research areas: digital games, experimental game design, critical design, playfulness, video games, game studies and design, interactivity, speculative design, interaction design, human-computer interaction, indigenous futures, contemporary art, interface design, independent games, interactive narrative, digital technologies
  • Meghan Moe Beitiks
    • Assistant Professor, Theatre
    Research areas: Performance, Ecology, Sustainable Design, Trauma Theory, Equity, Intersectionality, Remediation, Studio Arts
  • 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 Bowen
    • Associate Professor, Intersectional Feminist and Decolonial 2-D-4D Image Making, Studio Arts
    Research areas: Photography, Experimental Film & Video, Media Art history, Performance, Installation, Interventions, Sculpture, Archives, Autoethnography, Afro-Indigeneity, White Supremacy, Decolonial and Abolitionist Pedagogies.
  • Luca Caminati
    • Professor (Film Studies), Cinema
    Research areas: postcolonial theory, orientalism, cultural studies, globalization, transnationalism, documentary film, cultural histories of cinema, travel films, Italian cinema.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Daniel Cross
    • Professor (Film Production), Cinema
  • Cynthia Imogen Hammond
    • Professor, Art History
    Status: On sabbatical from 1 January-30 June 2026
  • Shauna Janssen
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism (2018-2023), Fine Arts
    • Associate Professor, Theatre
    • Associate Dean, Academic Programs & Pedagogy, Fine Arts
    • CO-Investigator Hexagram, Fine Arts
    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; Biodesign; Waste Infrastructures; Art-Science Practices; Urban Futures; Bio-Inspired Design; Critical Design; Design for Sustainability; Biocomposites; Biomaterials; Active Materials;
  • 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, 2025
    Research areas: contemporary art, new media, contemporary Asian art, Asian Canadian, diaspora, ethnocultural art histories, migration, mobility, global art, critical curatorial studies
  • Cael Marcas Keegan
    • Associate Professor, Fine Arts
    Research areas: transgender/queer phenomenologies, transgender/queer theories, trans/queer moving images, trans/queer media analysis, LGBTQ+ media histories, LGBTQ+ cultural production, popular screen cultures, cultural studies, affect studies, video game studies
  • Rilla Khaled
    • Associate Director of Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    • Strategic Hire in Digital Media, Learning, and Games
    Research areas: game studies and design, critical design, persuasive design, cultural differences, interaction design, serious games, participatory design, experimental game design, gamification, third wave HCI, digital games, speculative design, human-computer interaction, qualitative methods, ethnography, design thinking, user experience, interface design, indigenous futures, cross-cultural psychology
  • Jonathan Lessard
    • Primary Investigator (LabLabLab)
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    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
  • Erin Manning
    • Professor, Studio Arts
    • Professor , Cinema
    Status: Professor
    Research 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
  • Aaron McIntosh
    • Associate Professor, Fibres & Material Practices, Studio Arts
  • Lília Mestre
    • Co-director LePARC - Performing Arts Research Cluster within MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology, Concordia University, Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology
    • Assistant Professor, Contemporary Dance
    Research areas: expanded choreography, transdisplinarity, performativity, community, collectivity, bio politics, co-learning, scores.
  • 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
  • Gabrielle Moser
    • Program Advisor, Certificate in Curatorial Studies, Art History
    • Research Chair and Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
    • Associate Professor, Art History
    Research areas: photography history, curatorial studies, aesthetic theory, art criticism, archives, critical public pedagogy, citizenship studies, colonialism, feminist theory, research-creation
  • 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) Lab
    Research 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
  • Peter Rist
    • Professor (Film Studies) , Cinema
  • 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
  • Balbir K Singh
    • Assistant Professor, Art History
    • Canada Research Chair in Art and Racial Justice
    • Director, Dark Opacities Lab
    Status: Faculty Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute
    Research areas: Critical ethnic studies, Visual culture, Asian and Arab Diasporic Cultural Studies, Surveillance studies, Fashion, Race and religion, Policing, Contemporary art, Resistance
  • 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
  • Miranda Smitheram
    • Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
    • Co-investigator, Hexagram-Concordia
    • Co-director, Textile and Materiality Research Cluster, Milieux Institute
    • Director, MaSH Lab, Milieux Institute
    Research areas: biocomposites,bioplastics,collaborative ecosystem design,decolonizing matter/land,design for sustainability,embodiment,hybrid matter,Indigenous methodologies,land guardianship,material futures,materiality,motion capture,ontologies and aesthetics of materiality,post-digital aesthetics,posthumanism,relationality,remediation,research-creation,textiles
  • Steven Stowell
    • Associate Professor, Art History
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Art History
    Research areas: Italian Renaissance Art, Medieval Art, Sacred and Devotional Art, Anthropology and Art, Art and Ritual, Gender and Sexuality, Early Modern Art Theory, Materiality, Art and Language
  • 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
  • Ishita Tiwary
    • Assistant Professor, Cinema
    • Canada Research Chair, Media and Migration, Cinema
    Research areas: video cultures, video platforms, media infrastructures, migration, informal media practices
  • 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
  • Chih-Chien Wang
    • Associate Professor, Photography, Studio Arts
    Research areas: everydayness, perception, perception, presence, fiction/reality, photography, ritual, memory, identity, affect, representation, media arts, installation, documenting, found objects, intimacy, collecting, text/image interactions, temporality, storytelling, collective experience
  • Angélique Willkie
    • Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance
    • Artist in Residence, USINE C | Centre de création et de diffusion
    • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
    • 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
    Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies

Interdisciplinary Teams

Through their advisory committee, Humanities students gain access to Concordia’s many outstanding interdisciplinary teams. Learn more about these teams below:

 
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