Graduate Supervisors

2011-2012

Faculty Name & Position		Areas or Research

Abada, T. Associate Professor	Sociology	Gender and immigration, children of immigrants, ethnicity and social demography

Agocs, C. Professor Emerita	Sociology	Gender and racial discrimination in employment, equality policy, organizational change, local government administration

Bauer, G Associate Professor	Epidemiology & Biostatistics	LGBT health, public health ethics, community-based epidemiology, validity issues in observational studies, aetiology of vertical and horizontal STI transmission, methodologic and ethical issues in studying hidden populations

Belanger, D. Associate Professor	Sociology	Population and gender, feminist demography, critique of population studies from a feminist perspective, international politics around fertility and female bodies, abortion, reproductive health, women migrants

Bowlus, A. Professor	Economics	Applied labour economics including gender wage differentials, discrimination, displaced workers, long-run inequality and the economics of violence against women and children

Brennan, S. Professor	Philosophy	Feminist ethics and political philosophy, research expertise in family justice and children's rights, as well as in issues relating to sexual justice

Bruhm, S. Professor	English	Queer studies, gothic sexuality, dance and gender

Calcagno, A. Associate 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

Clark, K. Associate Professor	Anthropology	Historical anthropology of gender and state formation in Latin America; gender, public health, and social policy

Coates, N. Assistant Professor	Information and Media Studies / Music	Popular music and gender, cultural theory, identity and subjectivity, media industries, theories of performativity and performance studies

Connidis, I. Professor	Sociology	Gender, aging and the family relations

Coulter, R. Professor	Education	Gender and education; history of the Canadian women's movement; feminist activism; feminist pedagogies

Darnell, R. Professor	Anthropology	First Nations, cross-cultural and cultural studies; ecosystem health; critical theory

Davies, L. Associate Professor	Sociology	Gender inequality in family relations and the consequences for women's well-being, intimate partner violence, family structure and mothering

Elliott, B. Professor	Visual Arts	Gendering of artistic production and theory

Emberley, J. Professor	English	Arabic diasporic literatures; Feminist theory and criticism

Farber, C. Associate Professor	Information & Media Studies	Feminist and critical theory, cross-cultural understanding between India and Canada, ethnographic approaches to software companies and the 3d virtual reality industries, pedagogical effectiveness of 3d immersion learning environments and museum/cultural industries

Fielding, H. Associate Professor	Philosophy/ Women's Studies	Twentieth-century continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, phenomenology

Greene, E. Assistant 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, A. Assistant Professor	FIMS	Holocaust and genocide studies, social movements, social justice, African-American studies, homelessness

Halpern, M. Associate Professor	History	19^th and 20^th Century Canadian and American women's history, Jewish history, social history

Herbert, C. Professor	Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry	Women's health, clinical health promotion, aboriginal health, and participatory research methodology

Hibbert, K Assistant Professor	Faculty of Education Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry	Scholarship of teaching and learning; the pedagogy of Multiliteracies; communities of professional practice; virtual learning environments; narrative inquiry; and participatory encounters with learners/patients.

Isaacs, T. Associate Professor	Philosophy/ Women's Studies	Feminist ethics, globalizing feminism, feminism and race, and feminist epistemology

Kellow, M. Associate Professor	History	History of women and American antislavery, and slavery and abolition in the Atlantic World

Knabe, S. Assistant Professor	Women's Studies/ Information and Media Studies	Queer and Feminist Theory especially epistemology; critical and cultural studies; culture of medicine; media studies; queer cultural production in relation to AIDS; genocide, subjectivity, memory affect and embodiment

Lawson, E. Assistant Professor	Women's Studies	Black feminist studies, critical ethnography, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist research methodologies

Lee, A. Associate Professor	English	Literary and feminist theory

Leipert, B. Associate Professor	Family Medicine/ Nursing	Qualitative approaches to women's health, rural and environmental issues

MacLachlan, B. Associate Professor	Classical Studies	Women's roles in ancient Greece and Rome, the poet Sappho and her successors

Magalhaes, L. Assistant Professor	Occupational Therapy	Critical qualitative approaches with vulnerable and invisible populations with specific foci on gender, diversity, immigration, occupational justice, and culture; anti oppressive strategies to overcome social and health inequities

McKenna, K. Associate Professor	History/ Women's Studies	Women's and gender history, violence against women and children, international development

McKenzie, P. Associate Professor	FIMS	Unwaged work, everyday life, mothering, information seeking, documentation/recordkeeping, qualitative methodologies

McLeod, C. Associate Professor	Philosophy	Feminist philosophy, moral philosophy and reproductive ethics

McMullin, J. Professor	Sociology	Structural inequality in paid work and families by class, age, gender, ethnicity, and race

Mellamphy, N. Associate Professor	Political Science	Post-structuralism, post-humanism, social and political thought; critical political theories, and philosophies of biotechnology

Nolan, C Professor	Music Research and Composition	Gender and musical modernism, feminist criticism and music theory

Okruhlik, K. Associate Professor	Philosophy	History and philosophy of science

Olson, K. Associate Professor	Classical Studies	Women, gender, sexuality and the family in Roman Antiquity

Orchard, T. Assistant Professor	Health Studies	HIV/AIDS, sexuality, gender, health, youth, community-based research, and 'marginalized populations' (i.e., gay men, Aboriginal peoples, sex workers)

Pearson, W. Assistant Professor	Women's Studies	Sexuality studies and queer theory; feminist and post-colonial theory; intersectionality, neoliberalism, and normativity; contemporary Canadian queer culture; gender and sexuality in science fiction; Indigenous film and questions of representation.

Pennee, D. Professor	English	Canadian Literatures in English; Postcolonialism, Cultural Nationalism and Globalization in relation to Literary and Cultural Studies; History of Disciplines; Intersectional Gender Studies

Polzer, J. Assistant Professor	Women's Studies/Health Sciences	Critical perspectives on health, gender and the body; biotechnology and women's health; medicalization, risk and governmentality; feminism and Foucault; social determinants of health; qualitative research methodologies

Randall, M. Professor	French	Nineteenth century Québécois women's history

Ratcliffe, M. Associate Professsor	Modern Languages and Literatures	Women in Spain especially in the medieval period, Spanish women's literature, particularity 18th Century colonial Mexico and the 19th Century novel.

Rezai-Rashti, G. Associate Professor	Education	Anti-racism and feminism, postcolonial studies and feminism, women in muslin societies, women and education, race, class, gender and sexuality

Roulston, C. Associate Professor	French/ Women's Studies	Queer theory, feminist theory, history of sexuality, eighteenth-century french and english novel, marriage and women's friendship in the eighteenth century

Rudman, D. 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, A. Associate Professor	Kinesiology	Women, sport and embodiment

Schwerdtner, K. Assistant Professor	French	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

Smith-Fullerton, R. Associate Professor	Information and Media Studies	Gender and media, journalism ethics with a particular emphasis on diversity and representational issues

Solga, K. Associate Professor	English	Gender, sex and the body in early modern and contemporary theatre in English, feminist performance theory, performance as social activism http://publish.uwo.ca/~ksolga

Sprengler, C. Assistant Professor	Visual Arts	Contemporary art, new media, cultural memory and nostalgia, contemporary American cinema

Suksi, A. Associate Professor	Classical Studies	Gender in ancient Greek literature, mythology and drama, gender and textuality

Toswell, J. Associate Professor	English	Feminist science fiction and fantasy, feminist medieval studies and feminist institutional history

Vainio-Mattila, A. Associate Professor	Global Studies, Huron University College	Civil society, gender and participation in international development, community-based management of natural resources, international development interventions

Varpalotai, A. Professor	Education	Gender, sexuality and feminism in education, physical and health education, rural/agricultural issues, youth organizations

Verwaayen, K. Assistant Professor	Women's Studies	Feminist theory, particularly feminist literary theory and autobiography, feminist poststructuralism

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2011-2012