Faculty and Staff
Migration and Diaspora Studies faculty associates are drawn from 25 different academic units in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Public Affairs, and the Sprott School of Business.
The Migration and Diaspora Studies administration provides administrative support for the MDS program. Academic programs in Migration and Diaspora Studies are based in Kroeger College in the Faculty of Public Affairs. Migration and Diaspora Studies is managed by a Steering Committee drawn from the colleagues from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Public Affairs.
Faculty Associates
Aboubakar Sanogo
- Film Studies — African and Afro-diasporic cinemas; documentary film theory; transnational and world cinemas; colonial cinema
Alexandra Arraiz Matute
- The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies — Racialized immigrant families in Canada and its intersections with education, identity, and transnationalism
Amrita Hari
- Women’s and Gender Studies — Global migrations; transnationalisms diasporic formations and citizenship; gendered division of labor and Indian hi-tech migration
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Anne Trépanier
- School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies — Canadian identity politics and narratives; strategies for intercultural mediation; French language, culture, and identity in North America
Audra A. Diptee
- Department of History — Trans-Atlantic history of slavery and abolitionism; Caribbean and African Diaspora history
Azar Masoumi
- Sociology — State-controlled refugee protection; gender, sexuality and migration; sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugees; Diaspora studies
Beatriz Juárez Rodríguez
- Anthropology — Political anthropology; race and racialization; ethno-racial social movements and the state in Latin America; African diaspora studies
Betina Appel Kuzmarov
- Law and Legal Studies — Interdisciplinary approaches to cultural property law; transnational aspects of cultural property law; interdisciplinary approaches to public international law; international law theory
Birgit Hopfener
- Art History/Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture — Contemporary Chinese art; global art history; transcultural historiography
Blair Rutherford
- Sociology and Anthropology — Politics and possibilities of international development, civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; anthropology of citizenship, gender, state and globalization; colonialism and post-colonialism; migration
Bruce S. Elliott
- Department of History — 18th and 19th century social and immigration history; history of eastern Ontario and western Quebec
Candace Clare Sobers
- Department of History — History of international relations; empire and decolonization; transnational networks; American and African political cultures
Carieta Thomas
- Sociology and Anthropology — Care work; immigrant surveillance; Black immigrants; socio-legal studies
Carolyn Ramzy
- Music — Music and religion, globalization, and conflict; Egyptian Christian popular music in Egypt and Diaspora
Catherine Khordoc
- Department of French — Contemporary Québécois literature treating issues of personal and collective identity in relation to immigration; multiculturalism (or interculturalism); exile and integration
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Cati Coe
- Political Science — Transnational migration; Care; Aging; Social Protection Policy; West Africa
Christina Gabriel
- Political Science — Politics of international labor migration; citizenship and migration; gender and politics; multiculturalism
Christine Duff
- Department of French — Caribbean literature in French; African literature in French; Postcolonial literary theory
Christopher Worswick
- Economics — Economics of immigration; economics of education; development economics; labour economics
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Cristina Rojas
- Political Science — Citizenship studies; comparative politics Latin America; development
Daiva Stasiulis
- Sociology and Anthropology — Sociology of international migration; issues of citizenship, race and gender; migrant women and domestic work; lived citizenship among the Lebanese diaspora
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Dane Rowlands
- The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — International finance and conflict economics; multilateral financial institutions; migration and remittances;
David Carment
- The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — Canadian foreign policy; mediation and negotiation; fragile states and diaspora politics
Deidre Butler
- Religion — Modern Judaism; contemporary Jewish women; gender and the Holocaust
Dominique Marshall
- Department of History — Social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children’s rights and humanitarian aid in transnational perspectives perspective; 19th-20th c. Quebec
Franny Nudelman
- English Language and Literature — United States culture, 19th and 20th century; War and Peace Studies; Documentary Studies; African American culture
Gülay Kilicaslan
- Law and Legal Studies — Forced migration and displacement in the Middle East; refugee law and politics of citizenship and resettlement; state and border violence; resistance and social movements; diaspora mobilizations
Hassan Bashir
- Bachelor of Global and International Studies — Political theory and International Relations.
Ilyan Ferrer
- School of Social Work — Aging among racialized immigrants in Canada; Digital storytelling as methodology; Transformative and community education
Jaffer Sheyholislami
- School of Linguistics and Language Studies — Language in diaspora; language policy and planning; critical discourse studies; Kurdish linguistics
James Milner
- Political Science — Global refugee regimes; global refugee policy; politics of asylum in the global south
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James Casteel
- European, Russian and Eurasian Studies/Global and International Studies — European history; transnational and global history; migration, diaspora, and memory
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Jean-Michel Landry
- Sociology and Anthropology — Political Anthropology; critical theory; postcolonial studies; Religion; migration; the Middle East
Jeff Sahadeo
- European, Russian and Eurasian Studies/Political Science — History of Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus; history of migration from Central Asia to the Soviet Union; politics of race in the Soviet Union; post-Soviet diasporas
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Karim H. Karim
- Journalism & Communication — Cultural Studies; political communication; postcolonial theory and diaspora, race, religion and media
Lama Mourad
- The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — Politics of the Middle East; migration and borders; local governance
Laura Macdonald
- Political Science — Latin American politics; Mexican politics; North American politics; Canadian foreign policy; democracy and civil society
Laura Madokoro
- Department of History — History of migration, refugees and humanitarianism; settler colonialism; 19th and 20th century; Pacific World
Louise de la Gorgendiere
- Sociology and Anthropology — Diaspora; transnationalism; development and underdevelopment; Sub-Saharan Africa
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Luciara Nardon
- Business — International business; multiculturalism and the role of culture in management cross-cultural communication
Malini Guha
- Film Studies — women cinema; migration and spatiality in cinema; postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement, and settlement in cinema
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Martin Geiger
- Political Science/European, Russian and Eurasian Studies — Politics of borders and international migration management; international organizations and migration; global competition for STEM labor; European Union and migration
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Matthew Kurtz
- Geography and Environmental Studies — Economic geography; historical geography; research methodology
Megan Gaucher
- Law and Legal Studies — Canadian immigration and refugee law; citizenship, family law and politics
Melanie Adrian
- Law and Legal Studies — Intersections of multiculturalism, nationalism, religion and the law
Ming Tiampo
- Art History/Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture — Transnational and global art history; transnational modernism in postwar Japan; art and decolonization in France; curatorial studies
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Mira Sucharov
- Department of Political Science — Israeli-Palestinian relations; Jewish politics; emotions & international relations; pedagogy; narrative writing; op-ed writing and social media engagement
Nduka Otiono
- Institute of African Studies
Nimo Bokore
- School of Social Work — Poverty and social policy; resettlement and integration; forced migration and refugee studies
Randall Gess
- School of Linguistics and Language Studies — Phonological theory; historical phonology; second language phonology
Sandra Fahy
- Bachelor of Global and International Studies — East Asia; migration; oral history
Sarah Casteel
- English/Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture — Postcolonial literature; Caribbean literature; Black-Jewish literary relations; Black Holocaust fiction
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Shireen Hassim
- Institute of African Studies — Gender and African Politics
Stanley L. Winer
- Public Policy and Administration — Fiscal systems in Canada and in the world; political institutions and policy processes; interregional and international migration and Canadian public policy
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Stephen White
- Political Science — Canadian public opinion and elections; political participation; immigrant political attitudes and behaviour
Stephen Saideman
- The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — Civil-military relations; NATO; ethnic conflict, and foreign policy analysis
Umut Özsu
- Law and Legal Studies — International law and population transfers; international refugee law and human rights law; international law of decolonization
Vivian Solana
- Sociology and Anthropology — Political anthropology; feminist anthropology; transnational activism; postcolonial theory; Western Sahara; Spain
William Walters
- Political Science — Political sociology of migration, border studies, and citizenship
Xiaobei Chen
- Sociology and Anthropology — Theorizing of citizenship, governance, identity, and cultural politics in Canadian and Chinese national and transnational contexts; the child and the construction of modernity; diaspora studies