Emeriti

Deborah Barndt is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Her research concentrates on: Embodied and non-western epistemologies; Local food movements; Community arts and popular communications in Latin America; Popular education and social movements; Food, women workers, and globalization; Photographic methods for research, education, and action; Curriculum diversity/equity

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama

Keywords:  Community-engaged and activist art; Agri-food sustainability and local/global food movements; Popular education for social and environmental justice; Diverse epistemologies and ways of knowing; Participatory methodologies; Transnational activism (especially in the Americas)

His research concentrates on international development thought, Western hemisphere studies, Canadian foreign policy, and regional conflict management in Central America and southern Africa.
Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Central America, Southern Africa

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Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Chile

Keywords: Psychoanalytic theory, social and political thought, and on issues of ideology, propaganda and argumentation in the mass media.

Margarita Feliciano is a poet, critic and literary translator of Italian-Argentinian origin, living in Canada and supporting the Hispanic community since 1969. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications throughout Europe and North America. Her poetic works were the subject of a doctoral thesis, soon to be published by McGill University. She is professor emerita in Hispanic Studies at York University’s Glendon campus, as well as director of CCIE (Celebración Cultural del Idioma Español), an organization that has promoted the Spanish language, cinema, arts and culture in Canada since 1992.

In 2005, Feliciano founded ANTARES, Canada’s first publishing house dedicated to the publication of literary works in Spanish and located on the Glendon campus. To date, she has translated seven books (six on poetry and one on the Hindu religion). Her research focuses on myths, poetry and translation.

Feliciano studied Romance Languages and Literature at the University of California’s Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses, and at the University of Florence in Italy. She has also specialized in Brazilian literature. Feliciano is the former coordinator of Glendon’s Certificate in Spanish/English Translation. A tireless volunteer and advocate for the community, her work includes being the coordinator of the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) and of the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University. She is past president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC), and founding member of INDIGO – a trilingual literary magazine dedicated to promoting Hispanic literary works. Feliciano sits on the Advisory Board of the Mariano Elia Chair of Italo-Canadian Studies and is the organizer of the Stong College Heritage Lecture Series at York University.

Honor Ford-Smith is an Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Arts in Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. In addition, she is a co-founder and artistic director of Sistren (Sisters), a theatre collective of mainly working-class Jamaican women that works in community theatre and popular education. Ford-Smith has also worked as a member of the Groundwork Theatre Company, created in 1980 as the repertory arm of the Jamaica School of Drama.

She researched, edited and contributed to Sistren’s book Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women, published in 1986 and re-issued, with a new afterword by Ford-Smith, in 2005. Among her many theatre projects have been the collectively created Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine , a dramatic adaptation of My Mother’s Last Dance, and Just Jazz, an adaptation of Jean Rhys’s Let Them Call It Jazz. Her most recent publication is 3 Jamaican plays: a postcolonial anthology (1977-1987) published by Paul Issa publicatons, Kingston, Jamaica in 2010.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Jamaica

Keywords: arts, performance, community, social movements, race, gender, colonialism and post-colonialism

His research concentrates on landscape analysis, environmental management, program implementation and evaluation, participatory development, mathematical modelling, and the use of multi-media techniques in teaching and research.  His current research, writing and documentary-film production reflect his passionate interest in the evolution of Caribbean landscapes.  Much of his work involves collaboration with Caribbean organizations.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: the Caribbean, East Africa, Indonesia

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Hellman is a Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Social Science at York University as has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, CLACS, at New York University (2001-2, 2006, and 2011-12). Her research concentrates on: Social impact of economic policies; Immigration; Rural development; Social movements; Peasant movements; Urban popular movements; Women in Latin America.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and Jamaica

Keywords: immigration; rural development; peasant, urban popular and women’s movements, oral History