Our faculty
Our faculty have established international reputations as researchers and creators.
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Full-time faculty
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Christiana Abraham
- Senior Lecturer, Communication Studies
Research areas: Black media and cultural Studies, critical race studies, post/de-colonial studies, media of the global South, Gender, Development and rural communications, gender visuality and culture, -
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 -
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Owen Chapman
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation -
Stella C. Chia
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Media effects on health beliefs and behavior, journalism and public opinion -
Mia Consalvo
- Professor and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, Communication Studies
Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture. -
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 -
Stefanie Duguay
- Associate Professor, Communication Studies
- Concordia University Research Chair
Research areas: Digital media, gender and sexuality, networked publics, digital research methods, social media, digital platforms and governance, science and technology studies, app studies, identity -
Sandra Gabriele
- Professor, Communication Studies
- Vice-Provost, Innovation in Teaching & Learning
- Board member, Media History Research Centre, Milieux Institute
Research areas: news forms (journalism studies); newsgames; media history; feminist media studies; game studies -
Monika Kin Gagnon
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics -
Antonia Hernández
- Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: poetics, research creation, governance, platforms, domesticity, contemplative studies, elemental media, environmental justice, money and finance, sex work, mysticism -
Brian Lewis
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Film Theory, Documentary Media, Documentary Production, Communication technology and Innovation, Communication networks, Minority rights and community vitality -
Krista Lynes
- Director, Feminist Media Studio
- Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies
- Professor, Communication Studies
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
- 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
Research areas: New media, environment, interactive documentary, VR, human rights, community based research, participatory documentary, feminist media, climate change, refugee youth, research-creation -
Stephen Monteiro
- Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
- Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: media and identity, interfaces, affordances, image practices, material culture, STS -
Alessandra Renzi
- Associate Professor, 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. -
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 -
Sanaz Sohrabi
- Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Political economy of images, artistic research, archival studies, postcolonial ecologies, visual cultures of resource extraction -
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. -
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
Limited term
Part-time
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Ken Briscoe
- Part-time faculty, Communication Studies
Research areas: Storytelling: dramatic structure and character development in scriptwriting for film, TV, and graphic novels. International myth and folk tales. -
Teresa Marie Connors
- Part-Time Faculty Electroacoustic Composition, Music
- Part-Time Faculty Intermedia Studies, Communication Studies
- Part-Time Faculty Film Sound, Cinema
Research areas: Data Sonification; Nonlinear audiovisual Installations; Improvisation; Dark Ecology -
Frank Sanna
- Part Time Faculty, Cinema
- Part Time Faculty, Communication Studies
Affiliates
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Ahmed Al-Rawi
- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Status: An affiliate position at Concordia UniversityResearch areas: Social media, news, popular culture, Middle East, global communication -
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Marc Steinberg
- Professor, Film Studies, Cinema
- Director, The Platform Lab, Cinema
Research areas: digital platforms, platform economics, media industries, media management, transmedia, animation, Japanese anime, digital culture, character merchandising, media studies, digital media, Internet history, media theory, visual culture, East Asia -
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
Emeriti
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William J. Buxton
- Professor , Communication Studies
Research areas: meda and cultural history, organizational communication, communication theory, international communications, cultural studies -
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Yasmin Jiwani
- Professor, Communication Studies
Research areas: Race; Gender;, Representations; News Media; Popular Television; Critical Race Theory; Colonialism/decoloniality; Youth Studies; Violence Against Women; Islam/Muslim representations; Girl Studies; Memorials; Virtual Graveyards -
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Lorna Roth
- Distinguished Professor Emerita, Communication Studies
Research areas: Indigenous & Alternative Media History; Multicultural & Multiracial Technology; Reconciliation Media; Skin Colour & Intelligent Media Design; International Media & Globaliz- ation; Transculturalism & Interculturalism; "Development" & Neo-colonialism. -
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