Appointments

We are pleased to welcome the following faculty, instructors and librarians who have been appointed to full-time preliminary or tenure track positions between July 2, 2018 and July 1, 2019.

Alexandra Arraiz-Matute, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Katharine Bausch, Instructor II, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies
Ari Black, Instructor I, Linguistics and Language Studies
Celine Bonnotte-Hoover, Instructor I, French
Mayurika Chakravorty, Instructor I, English Language and Literature; Interdisciplinary Studies
Morgan Currie, Instructor II, Studies in Art and Culture
Ann Cvetkovich, Full Professor and Director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies
Shawna Dolansky, Associate Professor, College of the Humanities
Erica Fraser, Assistant Professor, History
Khaled Hamdan, Instructor II, Geography and Environmental Studies
Shireen Hassim, Full Professor, African Studies; Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics
John Higney, Instructor II, Studies in Art and Culture
Karen Jesney, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Language Studies
Gul Kale, Assistant Professor, Studies in Art and Culture
Geraldine King, Lecturer, Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Jean-Michel Landry, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Laura Madokoro, Associate Professor, History
Peter Pulsifer, Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
Julia Sinclair-Palm, Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Vivian Solana, Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Tamara Sorenson Duncan, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Language Studies
Julie-Ann Tomiak, Associate Professor, Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Ellen Waterman, Full Professor, Studies in Art and Culture; Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music
Paul Williams, Instructor II, Geography and Environmental Studies

Faculty of Engineering and Design

Mohamed Atia, Assistant Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering
Zachary Colbert, Assistant Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Chiara Del Gaudio, Assistant Professor, Industrial Design
Paulo Garcia, Assistant Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering
Jerry Hacker, Assistant Professor, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Hamzeh Hajiloo, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Reza Kholghy, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Larry Kostiuk, Full Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Design
Shichao Liu, Assistant Professor, Electronics
Ravi Prakash, Assistant Professor, Electronics
Vahid Sadeghian, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Shoeleh Shams, Instructor I, Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Sprague, Instructor II, Information Technology
Mostafa Taha, Assistant Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering
Karen Taylor, Instructor I, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
David Thue, Assistant Professor, Information Technology

Faculty of Public Affairs

Vincent Andrisani, Instructor I, Journalism and Communication
Robert Barsky, Full Professor, Law and Legal Studies; Canada Research Chair in Autonomous Space Robotics and Mechatronics
Louis-Philippe Beland, Assistant Professor, Economics
Logan Cochrane, Assistant Professor, Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs
Carolina Czastkiewicz, Instructor I, Economics
Aaron Ettinger, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Sarah Everts, Associate Professor, Journalism and Communication; CTV Chair in Digital Science Journalism
Katie Graham, Instructor I, Journalism and Communication
Emily Hiltz, Instructor I, Journalism and Communication
David Hornsby, Full Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs; Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning)
Michael Manulak, Assistant Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Katherine Minich, Lecturer, Public Policy and Administration
Leah West, Lecturer, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs
Liam Young, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Communication
Ania Zbyszewska, Assistant Professor, Law and Legal Studies

Faculty of Science

AbdelRahman Abdou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Argel Aguilar Valles, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Ahmed Almaskut, Instructor I, Mathematics and Statistics
David Barrera, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Catherine Cullingham, Assistant Professor, Biology
Roslyn Dakin, Assistant Professor, Biology
Francine Darroch, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences
Matthew Holden, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Charles Macdonald, Full Professor, Chemistry; Dean, Faculty of Science
David McKenney, Instructor I, Computer Science
Elizabeth Stobert, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Lianying Zhao, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Sprott School of Business

Dana Brown, Full Professor and Dean
Patrick Callery, Assistant Professor
Rick Colbourne, Assistant Professor
Samira Farivar, Assistant Professor
Daniel Gulanowski, Assistant Professor
Leanne Keddie, Assistant Professor
Shi Li, Assistant Professor

MacOdrum Library

Jennifer Browning, Librarian II
Matthew Gertler, Librarian II

Meritorious Appointments

Appointment to the Rank of Chancellor’s Professor

This appointment recognizes professors whose scholarly activities have been, and continue to be, of outstanding merit with substantial international impact. This designation honours individual professors and increases awareness of the excellent scholarly work undertaken at Carleton.

Lenore Fahrig (Biology)

Prof. Lenore Fahrig joined Carleton’s Department of Biology in the Faculty of Science in 1991.

Fahrig, who has supervised dozens of graduate research projects and mentored many post-doctoral students throughout her career, researches landscape spatial patterning and its effects on wildlife.

Fahrig is a highly respected researcher who has published over 40 papers and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Current Landscape Ecology Reports journal over the last five years.

In 2016, the Royal Society of Canada named her a Fellow and in 2018 awarded her the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal for her contributions towards the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems.

“I am incredibly pleased with this honour,” said Fahrig. “It is very rewarding to know that my work is being noticed. Carleton has been a great place to build my research career.”

Shikharesh Majumdar (Systems and Computer Engineering)

Shikaresh Majumdar — Prof. Shikharesh Majumdar

Prof. Shikharesh Majumdar joined Carleton’s Department of Systems and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Design in 1989.

Majumdar’s current research centers on resource management in the context of cloud computing, sensor-based smart systems and big data analytics platforms.

His research has had a profound impact on his field. In the last five years, he has published over 45 papers in reputed journals and international conferences and has delivered several keynote addresses and invited presentations around the world. He has also served as the area editor for Elsevier’s Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory journal for eight years.

“I am grateful for this recognition of my research activities and the impact it is making on the outside world,” said Majumdar. “I would like to continue serving the research community and Carleton in making further contributions to the research excellence of the university.”

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Appointment to the Rank of Distinguished Research Professor

This appointment recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments and contributions of a retired full professor during their career at Carleton and their significant ongoing research activities at the University.

Jean-Guy Godin, Biology
Moses Kiggundu, Sprott School of Business
Douglas King, Geography and Environmental Studies
Gerald Oakham, Physics
John Shepherd, Sociology and Anthropology; Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture; Studies in Art and Culture

More in this Section

Celebrating our Academic Staff – Awards
Celebrating our Academic Staff – Tenure, Confirmation and Promotion