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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,
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    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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    Razan AlSalah
    • Lecturer, Communication Studies
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    Owen Chapman
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation
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    Stella C. Chia
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Media effects on health beliefs and behavior, journalism and public opinion
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    Mia Consalvo
    • Professor and Canada Research Chair In Game Studies & Design, Communication Studies
    Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Monika Kin Gagnon
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics
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    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
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    Brian Lewis
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Film Theory, Documentary Media, Documentary Production, Communication technology and Innovation, Communication networks, Minority rights and community vitality
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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
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    Sanaz Sohrabi
    • Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
    Research areas: Political economy of images, artistic research, archival studies, postcolonial ecologies, visual cultures of resource extraction
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    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.
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    Peter C. van Wyck
    • Professor, Communication Studies
    Status: Not accepting new graduate students
    Research 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.
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    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 University
    Research areas: Social media, news, popular culture, Middle East, global communication
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    Elena Razlogova
    • Associate Professor, History
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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
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    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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    Maurice Charland
    • Professor, Communication Studies
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    Rick Hancox
    • Associate Professor, Communication 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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    Andra McCartney
    • Associate professor, Communication Studies
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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.
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    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
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