Fine Arts
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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 -
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
- Associate Dean, Faculty Relations & Inclusion, Fine Arts
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, 2025Research areas: contemporary art, new media, contemporary Asian art, Asian Canadian, diaspora, ethnocultural art histories, migration, mobility, global art, critical curatorial studies -
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 -
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