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This directory includes Cultural Studies MA and PHD students and our affiliated faculty. Use the "Filter by" drop-down menu to search only for Faculty, PhD Students or MA Students. The filter can also be used to view students by cohort, based on the year they joined the program.

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Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: media art; art and feminism; animation history and theory; experimental music; magic and the occult; speculative futurisms; human-animal relationships. 

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

Kinesiology & Health Studies

Keywords: poverty; food; the body; health; childhood; qualitative research methods.

Director of Collections & Public Programs

Aga Khan Museum

Keywords: cultural diplomacy; museums; art history and archaeology, especially Chinese art and archaeology; posthumanism.

Assistant Professor

Geography & Planning

Keywords: global urban infrastructure; social reproduction; bioeconomies; urban political ecology; critical development studies; health sociology; critical race feminist geographies.

Associate Professor

Classics

Keywords: cultural relations between Roman soldiers and Indigenous peoples; religious practices of Roman soldiers; Nabataean religion and culture; ancient bath-houses and bathing technology; petroglyphs and graffiti from all cultures; history of archaeology and attitudes towards cultural heritage.

Assistant Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: music theatre and opera in Canada & US; musicology; performance studies;  historiography; popular culture; memory theory; intermediality.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: scenography; theatre production design; interaction of architecture, sound, and performance design. 

Associate Professor

French Studies

Keywords: Haitian literature and history; Black diaspora and anticolonialism; Black/Indigenous relations; Haitian solidarity and community with the Taíno, Indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola; Spanish colonialism; national narratives and mythologies.

MA student

Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

Art History

Keywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art with a focus on public art, sound art, and text-based work; sound studies; social arts practice; sensory studies; practice-based research in the arts.

Assistant Professor

Film & Media

Keywords: Canadian film industry; urban film cultures; film festivals; event cinema and new modes of film distribution; cinema and intermediality.

Professor

Drama & Music

Keywords: histories, reconstructions, and new performances of late 20th century electronic and experimental music; electroacoustic composition practices including field recording, studio recording, synthesis, processing and mixing; building sensor-based instruments and controllers; sound and intermedia installation work; pop music recording and production.

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

PhD student

Cultural Studies

MA Student

Cultural Studies

PhD Student

Cultural Studies

Assistant Professor

Global Development Studies

Keywords: twentieth century Canadian social movements in a transnational context; histories of global development; settler colonialism; race, gender, and decolonization; anticolonial and decolonial Indigenous social movements.