Affiliate Faculty
Our Affiliate Faculty members hail from across the university and support the department in a myriad of ways. They teach, sit on committees, and supervise graduate and undergraduate students. They are an important part of our interdisciplinary community.
Faculty Name & Position | Areas or Research | |
Adams, Tracey Professor |
Sociology | Professions, gender and work. Her current SSHRC-funded research explores the regulation of professions in Canada, with a particular focus on alternate health professions. |
Adler, Melissa |
Information and Media Studies | Melissa is an interdisciplinary scholar working across the fields of library and information science, gender and sexuality studies, literary studies, and American studies. She grapples with the tensions between standardization and local control, institutionalization and personal experience, universals and particulars, and the various kinds of knowledges and relations of power in libraries and archives. |
Ballucci, Dale |
Sociology | Police Response to Sex Crimes (Provincially Funded); Police Response to Prolific/Chronic and High Risk Offenders (SSHRC Funded); Policing Child and Youth Sexual Victimization in Canada (SSHRC Funded); Risk Assessment Tools in Response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): The Strengths and Challenges from a Policing Perspective (SSHRC Funded); Working Toward the Development of a Sustainable and Evidence-informed Community-Police Strategy for Reducing Intimate Partner Violence in New Brunswick (SSHRC funded); The Legal Governance of Children: Legal Decision-Making in Unaccompanied Refugee Child Claimants (Internally funded) |
Barteet, Cody Associate Professor |
Visual Arts | Early Modern Art and Architecture in Latin America and Europe, with emphases on the relationships between the architecture and the urban form, maps and urban environments, and heraldic imagery and legislative materials |
Bassnett, Madeline Associate Professor |
English Studies | Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry and prose, modern women's writing, food studies, ecocriticism, and the early modern instructional manual, including recipe books (manuscript and print), and husbandry and military manuals |
Bishop, Pamela |
Faculty of Education | Leadership in high-poverty schools; ethical and moral leadership; and organizational culture and change |
Biswas Mellamphy, Nandita |
Political Science | Nietzsche Studies, post-structuralism and comtemporary french political theory (Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, Stiegler, Ranciere), political ideologies, (anarchism, fascism, synarchism), critical pedagogy, theories of subjectivity |
Bowlus, Audra Professor |
Economics | Applied labour economics including gender wage differentials, discrimination, displaced workers, long-run inequality and the economics of violence against women and children |
Burucua, Constanza Associate Professor |
Modern Languages and Literature | Latin American and Argentine cinemas; Film history; historical representations; film and historiography; Women's cinema and questions of gender representation; Documentary cinema- theoretical and critical approaches; Documentary filmmaking- researcher and producer |
Calcagno, Antonio Professor |
Philosophy, King's University College |
19th and 20th century Continental philosophy; contemporary social and political philosophy; feminist early phenomenology; and French and Italian feminist thought |
Calogero, Rachel |
Psychology | The effects of sexist ideologies and environments on women's lived experiences, how sexism stays entrenched, and how people resist these forces. Social appearance-based ideologies, sexual and self-objectification, benevolent and hostile sexism, gender roles and social stereotypes, weight stigma, motivated social cognition, values, prejudice and discrimination, collective action and resistance, and disordered eating and exercise through a sociocultural and resistance lens. |
Clark, Kim Professor |
Anthropology | Historical anthropology of gender and state formation in Latin America; gender, public health, and social policy |
Coates, Norma Associate Professor |
Information and Media Studies / Music | Popular music and gender, cultural theory, identity and subjectivity, media industries, theories of performativity and performance studies |
Cushing, Pamela Associate Professor |
Disability Studies, King's University | Pamela's research examines phenomena and approaches using anthropological foci like cultural systems, difference, change, and the relationship (or gap) between beliefs versus behaviours in these areas: Disability Studies; Social Inclusion; Care Systems; Ethics; Research Methods |
Davies, Lorraine Associate Professor |
Sociology | Gender inequality in family relations and the consequences for women's well-being, intimate partner violence, family structure and mothering |
Demeyere, Gillian Professor |
Faculty of Law | Contract Law and Employment Law with a particular focus on the relationship between the contract of employment and the principles of equality and inclusion given expression in Canadian Human Rights Law |
De Clercy, Cristine Associate Professor |
Political Science | Professor de Clercy studies political leadership using several discrete methodological approaches to understand leadership in different contexts, and across contexts. She specializes in the fields of Canadian politics, comparative politics, women and politics, the social economy, and political economy. |
DeViveiros, Genevieve Associate Professor |
French Studies |
Émile Zola and Naturalism, nineteenth century theater and adaptations; critical edition, women writers of the Belle Époque; correspondence. |
Emberley,Julia Professor |
English Studies | Arabic diasporic literatures; Feminist theory and criticism |
Fairbairn, Jordan |
Sociology at King's College | Feminist criminology, gender, violence, domestic homicide, media |
Gardiner, Rita Assistant Professor |
Faculty of Education | Authentic leadership, organizational structures, and gender |
Granadillo, Tania |
Anthropology | Endangered languages, language revitalization, language documentation and description, language shift and maintenance, language ideologies, language policy, discourse, storytelling, verbal art, linguistic typology, writing systems, phonology, morphosyntax, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language and culture, bi/multilingualism, language acquisition/socialization |
Greene, Elizabeth Associate Professor |
Classical Studies | Roman Archaeology and social history, women in Roman society, Roman army, family in the Roman military community, Roman imperialism and provincial studies |
Grzyb, Amanda Associate Professor |
Information & Media Studies | Holocaust and genocide studies, social movements, social justice, African-American studies, homelessness |
Heap, David Associate professor |
French Studies | French and Romance linguistics, morphology, language variation, dialectology |
Hibbert, Kathryn Professor |
Faculty of Education and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry |
Teacher Education (Assessment, Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion); curriculum assessment, pedagogies and learning by design; Health professions' education; understanding diversity through interdisciplinary education; scholarship of teaching and learning with multiple ‘texts’ including mobile and digital; qualitative research methodologies |
Isaacs, Tracy |
Philosophy | Feminist ethics, globalizing feminism, feminism and race, and feminist epistemology |
Katzman, Erika |
Disability Studies at King's College | The work people do to organize and manage support services; the material and working conditions of people who do support work; support worker education; invisible, hidden and relational forms of work; expanding conceptions of accessibility; critical qualitative research methodology; applications for disability studies perspectives in health professional education and practice; critical and anti-oppressive pedagogical approaches |
Keep, Christopher Associate Professor |
English Studies | the relationship of technology to cultural practice; the discursive construction of gender, race, and sexual orientation, especially in the nineteenth century; the post-human, queer subjectivities, virtual environments, networked communities |
Konrad, Alison Professor |
Richard Ivey School of Business | Gender and diversity in organizations; gender effects on earnings; Affirmative Action programs; gender effects on earnings; and gender differences in job attribute preferences |
Lee, Alison Associate Professor |
English Studies | Literary and feminist theory |
Lemos, Tracy |
Theology, Huron | A scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Tracy Lemos is a social and cultural historian specializing in ancient Israel and early Judaism. |
Margolis, Rachel Associate Professor |
Sociology | Fertility and parenthood, gender and aging, health disparities |
Martino, Wayne Professor |
Faculty of Education | queer, trans and feminist studies in education, critical policy analysis, minority underachievement in urban schools, impact of high stakes testing on minority and disadvantaged students; addressing inequities faced by LGBTQ youth, investigating the perspectives and experiences of minority students and teachers in urban schools |
McKenzie, Pamela Professor |
Information & Media Studies | Unwaged work, everyday life, mothering, information seeking, documentation/recordkeeping, qualitative methodologies |
McLeod, Carolyn Professor |
Philosophy |
Feminist philosophy, moral philosophy and reproductive ethics |
Nolan, Catherine Professor |
Music Research and Composition | Gender and musical modernism, feminist criticism and music theory |
Olson, Kelly Professor |
Classical Studies | Women, gender, sexuality and the family in Roman Antiquity |
Oosterveld, Valerie Professor |
Faculty of Law | gender issues within international criminal justice systems |
Orchard, Treena Associate Professor |
Health Studies | HIV/AIDS, sexuality, gender, health, youth, community-based research, and 'marginalized populations' (i.e., gay men, Aboriginal peoples, sex workers) |
Osinubi, Taiwo (Tunji) |
English Studies | Forms of the novel, auto/biography, and speculative narratives as it relates to the circulation of narrative genres among Caribbean, African, and British writers; science fiction film and sexuality studies |
Pennee, Donna Professor |
English Studies | Canadian Literatures in English; Postcolonialism, Cultural Nationalism and Globalization in relation to Literary and Cultural Studies; History of Disciplines; Intersectional Gender Studies |
Quinn, Joanna Professor |
Political Science | Prof. Quinn has written widely on the truth commissions in Uganda, Haiti, and elsewhere, and on the role of customary practices of acknowledgement and justice in transitional justice in Uganda and in Fiji and Solomon Islands. Her current work concerns the uptake of sympathetic engagement in the acknowledgement process, and how by-standers and outsiders might be effectively engaged. |
Reid-Maroney, Nina |
History at Huron College | American Enlightenment; feminist histories of American women and religion; intellectual history of antislavery movements in the US and Canada |
Rezai-Rashti, Goli Professor |
Faculty of Education | Anti-racism and feminism, postcolonial studies and feminism, women in muslin societies, women and education, race, class, gender and sexuality |
Rothbauer, Paulette Associate Professor |
Information and Media Studies | the modes and methods of access to reading materials as well as social and cultural barriers to such access, an exploration of the roles that libraries, bookstores and information communication technologies play in the reading lives of potentially marginalized young people |
Rudman, Deborah Associate Professor |
Occupational Therapy | Women and aging; women, later life work and retirement, critical and cultural studies, social determinants of health, women's occupational lives |
Schneider, Angela Professor |
Kinesiology | Women, sport and embodiment |
Schuurman, Anne |
English and Writing Studies | Middle English literature; affect theory and emotion history; medieval mysticism; and medieval economic thought |
Schwerdtner, Karin Associate Professor |
French Studies | Twentieth-century and contemporary literatures (in particular the french novel and francophone women's writings), the concepts of alterity, errancy (errance) and endurance, representations of women, literary postmodernism, identity, literary theories |
Sinel, Zoë |
Western Law | Private law and legal theory, with a particular focus on civil remedies for private wrongdoing; a proposed monograph on private law’s treatment of fear, spite, and grief; a SSHRC-funded collaborative endeavor to design a feminist casebook on the law of torts |
Shire, Laurel Associate Professor |
History | The United States in the nineteenth century, especially the relationship between race, gender, and U.S. expansion; the intersection between scholarship on North American borderlands, Western and Southern U.S. history, the Atlantic world, Native and African American studies; women’s history. |
Smith-Fullerton,Romayne Professor |
Information and Media Studies | Gender and media, journalism ethics with a particular emphasis on diversity and representational issues |
Solga, Kim Professor |
English Studies | Gender, sex and the body in early modern and contemporary theatre in English, feminist performance theory, performance as social activismhttp://publish.uwo.ca/~ksolga |
Sprengler, Christine Professor |
Visual Arts | Contemporary art, new media, cultural memory and nostalgia, contemporary American cinema |
Suksi, Aara Associate Professor |
Classical Studies | Gender in ancient Greek literature, mythology and drama, gender and textuality |
Toswell, Jane Professor |
English Studies | Feminist science fiction and fantasy, feminist medieval studies and feminist institutional history |
Viczko, Melody |
Faculty of Education | Areas of policy analysis, organizational theory, educational leadership, global governance, and educational change both in K-12 settings and higher education institutions. |
Wathen, Nadine Professor |
Information and Media Studies | Women's health decision-making, including intervention research in the area of violence against women and children |
Weststar, Johanna |
Management and Organizational Studies | Industrial and labour relations, union renewal, project-based work, digital and cultural labour, representation and citizenship at work, pension board governance, underemployment, workplace learning |