Faculty Associates
Faculty Associates with teaching and research interests in Migration and Diaspora Studies
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
- Email Amrita
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
- Email Catherine
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
- Email Christopher
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
- Email Daiva
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
- Email James
James Casteel
- European, Russian and Eurasian Studies/Global and International Studies — European history; transnational and global history; migration, diaspora, and memory
- Email James
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
- Email Jeff
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
- Email Louise
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
- Email Malini
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
- Email Martin
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
- Email Ming
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
- Email Sarah
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
- Email Stanley L.
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