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AFFILIATED FACULTY

Social justice issues require a multidisciplinary perspective. Meet our affiliated faculty.

Business

Engineering and Computer Science

Fine Arts

  • Shira Avni
    • Associate Professor (Film Animation), Cinema
    Research areas: Neurodiversity, motherhood, animation, animated documentary, under camera animation, clay animation, direct animation, community based animation, autism, gender and neurodiversity, Down syndrome, maternal health, diversity, inclusion, social justice animation
  • 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
  • Bonnie Harnden
    • Associate Professor and practicum coordinator, Drama Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
    Research areas: Drama therapy, trauma, attachment, research-creation, performed autoethnography, psychoanalysis, ethnography, embodied knowledge, play therapy, family therapy, parenting, experimental theater, theater for social change, arts-based learning, risk factors/ protective factors, borderline personality disorder, child and youth care, suicide intervention, mental health, pedagogy
  • Kristina Huneault
    • Professor, Art History
    • Vice-Provost, Faculty Development and Inclusion
    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
  • 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
  • Jason Edward Lewis
    • 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
    • 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
    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
  • Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo
    • Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Visual Culture , Design and Computation Arts
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Design, Design and Computation Arts
    Research areas: Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Typography, Semiotics, Social Justice, Aesthetics, Editorial Design, Adversarial Design, Visual and Material Culture, Social Movements, Community Organizing, Relationality, Poetics, Commensality, Anti-racism
  • Maya Rae Oppenheimer
    • Assistant Professor (ETA), Studio Arts
    Research areas: paper-making, artist books and publishing, art and archives, creative writing, social engagement art, social justice and mutual aid in art, critical pedagogy, histories of social science and psychology, historiographies in art and design
  • 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
  • Guylaine Vaillancourt
    • Associate Professor, Music Therapy, Creative Arts Therapies
    Research areas: music therapy, arts-based research, participatory action research, qualitative methods, community music therapy, mental health, palliative care, pain management, guided imagery and music, social justice, leadership development, mentoring, professional network building
  • Heather McLaughlin
    • Art Therapy Graduate Program Director, Creative Arts Therapies
    • Assistant Professor, Creative Arts Therapies
    • Director, Concordia Arts in Health Centre, Creative Arts Therapies
    Research areas: art therapy, arts in health, couple and family therapy, systemic therapy, clinical supervision, climate justice, climate action, systemic social change, university-community partnerships, trauma informed practice, arts-based learning

Humanities

Sciences

  • Bengi Akbulut
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Economic Alternatives Political Ecology, Feminist Economics, Social Movements
  • 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.
  • Kristen Dunfield
    • Professor, Psychology
    • Interim Associate Dean, Graduate Student Academic Matters & Postdoctoral Studies, School of Graduate Studies
    Research areas: cognitive development, social cognition, comparative cognition, prosocial behaviour, trust, cooperation
  • Kevin A. Gould
    • Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Political ecology, historical and economic geographies of the Americas and particularly Guatemala, social theory, entanglements of development and militarization, politics of expertise, post-disaster reconstruction
  • Lisa Kakinami
    • Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
    • Research Member, School of Health
    • Affiliate, Department of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
    • Fellow, Science College
  • Nalini Mohabir
    • Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Indentured Labour; Postcolonialism, Caribbean Studies, Decolonization; Diaspora, Migration, and Transnationalism; Protest and Resistance
  • Norma M. Rantisi
    • Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring
  • Lisa Serbin
    • Professor, Psychology
  • Craig Townsend
    • Associate Professor and Chair, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Research areas: Transportation policy, projects and politics; built environment characteristics of Canada's metropolitan areas; urban sprawl and the effect of legally protecting non-urban land; urban planning in the developing world.

Social Sciences

  • Beverley Best
    • Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory
  • Elizabeth Bloodgood
    • Associate Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: International Relations & Nongovernmental Organizations
  • Erik Chevrier
    • Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
    • Part-Time Instructor, Geography, Planning and Environment
  • Harold Chorney
    • Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: Political Economy; Urbanization; Globalization; Macroeconomics
  • Nicole De Silva
    • Associate Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: global and regional institutions and law, human rights, international criminal justice
  • Effrosyni Diamantoudi
    • Professor, Economics
    • Dean, Graduate Studies
    Research areas: Game Theory, Coalition Formation, Cartel Stability Environmental Economics, International Environmental Agreements
  • Darla Fortune
    • Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences
    Research areas: aging, community engaged research, dementia, inclusion and belonging within leisure spaces; mental illness; qualitative research methods
  • Martin A. French
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Risk, Surveillance, Privacy and Social Justice
  • Xintong Han
    • Assistant Professor, Economics
    Status: Full time
    Research areas: Digital Economics, Empirical IO, Network Economics, Econometric Methodology
  • Tina Hilgers
    • Associate Professor , Political Science
    Research areas: Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Informal Politics; Subnational Politics; Urban Politics; Clientelism; Urban Violence; Developing Areas; Latin America; Caribbean; Brazil; Jamaica; Mexico
  • 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
  • Meghan Joy
    • Associate Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: Urban Politics; Public Policy; the Politics of Aging; the Nonprofit Sector
  • Anna Kruzynski
    • Professor, School of Community and Public Affairs
    Research areas: Community economies, Post-capitalism, Collective Autonomy, Anarchism, Social Justice, Contentious feminism, Participatory Action Research, Community Organizing, Activism
  • Marc Lalonde
    • Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Religions and Cultures
    Status: Senior Lectuer
    Research areas: Philosophy of Religion, Critical Theory, Jewish and Christian Thought, the philosophy and ethics of Charles Taylor
  • Ming Li
    • Professor, Economics
    • CIREQ research fellow
    • CIRANO research fellow
    Research areas: game theory; microeconomics; political economics
  • Kimberley Manning
    • Professor, Political Science
    • , Simone de Beauvoir Institute & Womens Studies
    Status: Professor
    Research areas: Gender and politics in the People's Republic of China; Parents of Trans Youth and their Families; and Feminist Leadership and Institutional Transformation
  • Jean François Mayer
    • Associate Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: Civil society organizations; social movements; resistance; precariousness; informal workplaces; chronic violence; urban periphery; marginalized/invisible people; labor politics; ethnography; Brazil; Mexico; Latin America.
  • Marguerite Mendell
    • Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Community and Public Affairs
    Research areas: Social finance; impact investing; co-construction of public policy; the commons; Karl Polanyi studies; the social and solidarity economy in Quebec and internationally
  • Szilvia Pápai
    • Associate Professor, Economics
    • CIREQ Research Fellow
    Research areas: Matching Theory, Market Design, Game Theory
  • Mireille Paquet
    • Professor, Political Science
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Politics of Immigration
    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.
  • Amy R. Poteete
    • Associate Professor, Political Science
    • Undergraduate Program Director, Political Science
    Research areas: Comparative Politics; Policy; Montreal; Africa; informal urban green spaces; commons and commoning; natural resources; (de)centralization; elections; social justice and inclusion; research design
  • Jason Keenan Prince
    • À temps partiel, School of Community and Public Affairs
    • Part-time Faculty, School of Community and Public Affairs
  • 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
  • Marlene K. Sokolon
    • Professor, Political Science
    Research areas: Ancient Political Thought; Political Emotions; Politics and Literature; Ethics and Justice; Ethics and Public Policy.
  • Amy Swiffen
    • Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
    Research areas: Sociolegal Studies, Social and Political Theory, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Criminology
  • Shawn Wilkinson
    • Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences
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