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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

Aboubakar Sanogo

  • Film Studies — African and Afro-diasporic cinemas; documentary film theory; transnational and world cinemas; colonial cinema
Alexandra Arraiz Matute

Alexandra Arraiz Matute

  • The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies — Racialized immigrant families in Canada and its intersections with education, identity, and transnationalism
Amrita Hari

Amrita Hari

Anne Trépanier

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

Audra A. Diptee

  • Department of History — Trans-Atlantic history of slavery and abolitionism; Caribbean and African Diaspora history
Azar Masoumi

Azar Masoumi

  • Sociology — State-controlled refugee protection; gender, sexuality and migration; sexual orientation and gender identity and expression refugees; Diaspora studies
Beatriz Juárez Rodríguez

Beatriz Juárez Rodríguez

  • Anthropology — Political anthropology; race and racialization; ethno-racial social movements and the state in Latin America; African diaspora studies
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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

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

Bruce S. Elliott

  • Department of History — 18th and 19th century social and immigration history; history of eastern Ontario and western Quebec
Candace Clare Sobers

Candace Clare Sobers

  • Department of History — History of international relations; empire and decolonization; transnational networks; American and African political cultures
Carieta Thomas

Carieta Thomas

  • Sociology and Anthropology — Care work; immigrant surveillance; Black immigrants; socio-legal studies
Carolyn Ramzy

Carolyn Ramzy

  • Music — Music and religion, globalization, and conflict; Egyptian Christian popular music in Egypt and Diaspora
Catherine Khordoc

Catherine Khordoc

Cati Coe

Cati Coe

  • Political Science — Transnational migration; Care; Aging; Social Protection Policy; West Africa
Christina Gabriel

Christina Gabriel

  • Political Science — Politics of international labor migration; citizenship and migration; gender and politics; multiculturalism
Christine Duff

Christine Duff

  • Department of French — Caribbean literature in French; African literature in French; Postcolonial literary theory
Christopher Worswick

Christopher Worswick

Cristina Rojas

Cristina Rojas

  • Political Science — Citizenship studies; comparative politics Latin America; development
Daiva Stasiulis

Daiva Stasiulis

Dane Rowlands

Dane Rowlands

  • The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — International finance and conflict economics; multilateral financial institutions; migration and remittances;
David Carment

David Carment

  • The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — Canadian foreign policy; mediation and negotiation; fragile states and diaspora politics
Deidre Butler

Deidre Butler

  • Religion — Modern Judaism; contemporary Jewish women; gender and the Holocaust
Dominique Marshall

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

Franny Nudelman

  • English Language and Literature — United States culture, 19th and 20th century; War and Peace Studies; Documentary Studies; African American culture
Gülay Kilicaslan

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

Jaffer Sheyholislami

  • School of Linguistics and Language Studies — Language in diaspora; language policy and planning; critical discourse studies; Kurdish linguistics
James Milner

James Milner

James Casteel

Jean-Michel Landry

Jean-Michel Landry

  • Sociology and Anthropology — Political Anthropology; critical theory; postcolonial studies; Religion; migration; the Middle East
Jeff Sahadeo

Jeff Sahadeo

Karim H. Karim

Karim H. Karim

  • Journalism & Communication — Cultural Studies; political communication; postcolonial theory and diaspora, race, religion and media
Lama Mourad

Lama Mourad

  • The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — Politics of the Middle East; migration and borders; local governance
Laura Macdonald

Laura Macdonald

  • Political Science — Latin American politics; Mexican politics; North American politics; Canadian foreign policy; democracy and civil society
Laura Madokoro

Laura Madokoro

  • Department of History — History of migration, refugees and humanitarianism; settler colonialism; 19th and 20th century; Pacific World
Louise de la Gorgendière

Louise de la Gorgendiere

Luciara Nardon

Luciara Nardon

  • Business — International business; multiculturalism and the role of culture in management cross-cultural communication
Malini Guha

Malini Guha

Martin Geiger

Martin Geiger

Matthew Kurtz

Matthew Kurtz

  • Geography and Environmental Studies — Economic geography; historical geography; research methodology
Megan Gaucher

Megan Gaucher

  • Law and Legal Studies — Canadian immigration and refugee law; citizenship, family law and politics
Melanie Adrian

Melanie Adrian

  • Law and Legal Studies — Intersections of multiculturalism, nationalism, religion and the law
Michael J. A. Wohl

Michael J. A. Wohl

Ming Tiampo

Ming Tiampo

Mira Sucharov

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

Nduka Otiono

  • Institute of African Studies
Nimo Bokore

Nimo Bokore

  • School of Social Work — Poverty and social policy; resettlement and integration; forced migration and refugee studies
Randall Gess

Randall Gess

  • School of Linguistics and Language Studies — Phonological theory; historical phonology; second language phonology
Sandra Fahy

Sandra Fahy

  • Bachelor of Global and International Studies — East Asia; migration; oral history
Sarah Casteel

Sarah Casteel

Shireen Hassim

Shireen Hassim

  • Institute of African Studies — Gender and African Politics
Stanley L. Winer

Stanley L. Winer

Stephen White

Stephen White

  • Political Science — Canadian public opinion and elections; political participation; immigrant political attitudes and behaviour
Stephen Saideman

Stephen Saideman

  • The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — Civil-military relations; NATO; ethnic conflict, and foreign policy analysis
Umut Özsu

Umut Özsu

  • Law and Legal Studies — International law and population transfers; international refugee law and human rights law; international law of decolonization
Vivian Solana

Vivian Solana

  • Sociology and Anthropology — Political anthropology; feminist anthropology; transnational activism; postcolonial theory; Western Sahara; Spain
William Walters

William Walters

  • Political Science — Political sociology of migration, border studies, and citizenship

Wisdom Tettey

Xiaobei Shen

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

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