Among the finest anywhere, York’s Faculties introduce students to a broad perspective of the world that results in original thought and theory. Our flexible cross-discipline programming, innovative course design, and diverse experiential learning provides students with an amazing variety of academic opportunities where learning and debate are not only valued; they are encouraged.
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| Name | Stream | Department | Areas of Expertise | |
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 | Ope Akanbi | Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Law and communication; regulation of digital work; privacy and the political economy of digital media. |
 | Gene Allen | Technology in Practice | Journalism (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Media history; the history of journalism; the evolution of news; news agencies; news and national identity; the popularization of history in film and television. |
 | Shana Almeida | Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Empire; colonialism and communication policy; political communications; race; ethnicity and media; representation; identity and culture. |
 | Natalie Alvarez | Media & Culture | School of Performance (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Immersive performance in the public sphere; performance and scenario-based pedagogy; contemporary performance; Latina/o-Canadian theatre; performance activism; and performance theory. |
 | Sedef Arat-Koç | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Immigration policy and citizenship, especially as they affect immigrant women; transnational feminism; politics of imperialism; racialization and the politics of racism; and reconfiguration of social and political identities under neoliberal globalization. |
B | ||||
 | Steve Bailey | Media & Culture | Humanities (York University) | Cinema; critical theory; cultural studies; philosophy of technology. |
 | Deborah Jean Barndt (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Environmental Studies (York University) | Popular education and social movements; media analysis; photographic methods for participatory research/education/action; cultural production; community development; women, globalization, and food. |
 | Ben Barry | Media & Culture | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Fashion; women's studies; women's fashion; men's fashion; modelling; advertising; fashion advertising; marketing; fashion imagery; body image; policy; cross-cultural consumer attitudes. |
 | Tuna Baskoy | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Research methods; statistics and computer applications; comparative public policy and administration (especially competition/antitrust and telecommunication policies); theories of capitalist market competition; political economy of European integration; e-government; e-democracy. |
 | Shannon M Bell | Politics & Policy; Technology in Practice | Politics (York University) | Extremes in art (especially bio- and hybrid-art); shooting theory (videoing-imagining philosophical concept such as Heidegger's stillness, Husserl’s epoché, Bataille's waste, Weil's attention, Deleuze's deterritorialization, Virilio's vision machine and accident). |
 | Kelly Bergstrom | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Gender Issues; communications; game studies; feminist media studies; social media. | |
 | Jody D. Berland | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Humanities (York University) | Cultural theory; Canadian communication theory; cultural studies of nature; science; technology and the environment; music and the media; space and place. |
 | Art Blake | Media & Culture | History (Toronto Metropolitan University) | North America; U.S. 20th-century cultural history; urban history; sound studies. |
 | Alan Blum (Member Emeriti & Senior Scholar) | Media & Culture | Sociology (York University) | Medical humanities; culture of the city; sociology of knowledge; theorizing everyday life; the imaginary, symbolic, and real registers of social life and phenomena. |
 | Marusya Bociurkiw | Media & Culture | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Canadian television; affect theory; nationalist discourses; community cable; media activism; sexuality & gender studies. |
 | Robert M J Bowman | Media & Culture | Music (York University) | Popular music studies; history of popular music; writer; broadcaster; and performer in many musical genres. |
 | Jason Boyd | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Digital humanities; Game studies; LGBTQ communications and queer theory and media studies; New media; Sexuality, gender and media |
 | Jean Bruce | Media & Culture | Communication and Design (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Advertising; cinema; feminism; visual culture; television; melodrama; ethnography. |
 | Burcu Bulgurcu | Technology in Practice | Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Privacy; visual communication; cyber security; human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence; information privacy; social media and business analytics; data visualization |
 | Jennifer Burwell | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Contemporary feminist science fiction; utopian writing and thought—from feminist theory to postmodern theory to critical Marxism; “bio-art”; biosemiotics. |
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 | Rebecca Caines | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | AMPD (York University) | Accessibility; Communication, community and creativity; Creative, ICT and cultural industries; Digital humanities; Digital life; Media arts; Music studies; New media; Philosophy of technology; Youth, children and media culture; Performance studies |
 | Darcey Callison | Media & Culture | Dance (York University) | Choreography; dance dramaturgy; popular culture and dance; performance studies and gender (masculinity). |
 | Miranda Campbell | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Children and youth; Communications, community and creativity; Creative, ICT and cultural industries; Education |
 | John Caruana | Media & Culture | Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Phenomenology; Frankfurt school; psychoanalysis; post-structuralism; European cinema; theories of the sacred. |
 | Mark J. Cauchi | Media & Culture | Humanities (York University) | 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy and social theory; intersections of religious and secular thought and culture; theories of the secular and postsecular; intersections of philosophy and the arts (literature, visual art, and film). |
 | David Cecchetto | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Humanities (York University) | Communication and media theory; Critical theory; Cultura studies; digital humanities; digital life; media arts; media ecology; media philosophy; musc studies; new media; philosophy of technology; sound studies. |
 | Eliza Chandler | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Disability Studies (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Accessibility; embodiment; representation; identity and culture; research-creation and media practices; visual culture. |
 | Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati | Politics and Policy; Media and Culture | International Studies (York University) | International law; human rights; children and youth; entertainment industry; girl child; feminist legal theory; semiotics of law. |
 | Sibo Chen | Media & Culture | School of Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Environmental and energy communication; Global media and international communication; Intercultural communication; New media; Political communications; Political economy of communications; Professional communications; Social media and society |
 | David Ciavatta | Media & Culture | Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Kant and 19th-century continental philosophy (especially Hegel and Marx); phenomenology and existentialism; social and political philosophy; philosophy of action. |
 | Dave Colangelo | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication and media theory; Communications, community and creativity; Cultural studies; Global media and international communication; Media activism and social movements; Media arts; Visual communication; Visual culture |
 | Rosemary J. Coombe | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Anthropology; Social Science (York University) | Intellectual property; Indigenous peoples; cultural and biological diversity; publics; public domains and public sphere; human rights; cultural rights; postcolonial theory; theories of information; civil society; transnationalism; neoliberalism; informational capital. |
 | Natalie H. Coulter | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York Universiy) | Communication and media theory; Children and youth; Communication ethics; Cultural studies; Digital humanities; Digital life; Feminism; Feminist scholarship; Gender studies; Media and communication history; Media arts; Sexuality, gender and media; Visual culture |
 | Wendy Cukier | Technology in Practice | Entrepreneurship & Strategy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Technology strategy and decision making; regulation and policy; vertical market applications (especially government, policing, health, education, non-profits); technology enabled learning; government relations; advocacy and social marketing and the role of IT; critical theory and IT; gender; diversity and IT. |
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 | Michael Darroch | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema and Media Arts (York University) | Communication and Media Theory; Libraries, Archives, and Documentation; Media and Communication History; Media Arts; Media Ecology; Research-Creation and Media Practices; Translation Studies; Visual Culture |
 | Raju Das | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Environmental & Urban Change (York University) | Activism and academia; Children and youth; Media activism and social movements; Philosophy of technology; Policy; Political economy of communications; Work, labour and class in communication |
 | Patricio Davila | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Cinema and Media Arts (York University) | Critical visualization practice; material semiotics; research-creation; data visualization; new media; visual design; interactive installation; public participation. |
 | Charles Davis | Politics & Policy; Technology in Practice | Communication and Design (Toronto Metropolitan University) | IT; media, and creative industries; new firm formation; internationalization, and product and service innovation practices; innovation and industrial policy; consumer behaviour with respect to digital technologies and services; work practices and occupations in creative industries; management practices in media industries. |
 | Nancy Viva Davis Halifax | Media & Culture | Health Policy & Management (York University) | Disability; education healthcare; social exclusion; structural violence; homelessness; public and community spaces; and arts-based research. |
 | Desiree de Jesus | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Communications; children and youth; black cultural and feminist studies; videographic criticism; community-based research; decolonial approaches to cinema and media. | |
 | Colleen Derkatch | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical theory; cultural studies; science and technology studies; rhetoric. |
 | Kevin Leslie Dowler (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Cultural policy in Canada and Europe; art and the city; aesthetics and popular culture; history of communications. |
 | Daniel Drache (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Political Science (York University) | The political economy of integration and social exclusion; borders and identity; North American integration; global cultural commons and microactivism; public goods theory and the theory of the public good; the thought and influence of Harold Innis, Jürgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt. |
 | Susan Driver | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Feminist and queer theory, youth culture, affect theory, posthumanism and new materialism. |
 | Louis-Étienne Dubois | Media & Culture | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Collaborative and innovation processes; management practices in the creative industries; gaming and performance arts industries. |
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 | Brandee Easter | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Writing (York University) | Critical theory; Digital humanities; Feminism; Gender studies; Media arts; New media; Rhetoric; Science and technology studies |
 | Jake Okechukwu Effoduh | Technology in Practice | Lincoln Alexander School of Law (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication Policy & Technology; Critical African Studies; Development Communication; ICTs, Big data, and Society; International Development; Law; Postcolonialism; Privacy |
 | R. Bruce Elder (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice | Film Studies (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Cinema; cultural studies; embodiment; philosophy of technology; visual culture. |
 | Greg Elmer | Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication and media theory; Media activism and social movements; Political communications; Political economy of communications; Research-creation and media practices; Social media and society; Surveillance studies |
 | Barbara Evans | Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | Documentary; film; women; history; politics. |
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 | Seth Feldman (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice | Film (York University) | Film; radio. |
 | Deborah Fels | Technology in Practice | Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Inclusive design; inclusive media; accessibility; human-computer interaction; digital media; people with disabilities; inclusive gaming; design for older people. |
 | Caitlin Fisher | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | Augmented reality; digital storytelling; hypermedia fiction and documentary; feminist theory; archives and collecting; locative media. |
 | Jennifer Fisher | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York University) | Contemporary art; curatorial practice; display culture; the aesthetics of the non-visual senses. |
 | Laura Fisher | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Nineteenth - and twentieth-century American literature with focus on race, gender, and urban culture; social reform institutions and the production, mediation, and reception of American literature around the turn of the twentieth century; settlement houses and working girls’ clubs across New York City. |
 | Blake Fitzpatrick | Technology in Practice | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Photographic representation of the nuclear era; visual responses to contemporary militarism; disaster in contemporary landscape photography. |
 | Frederick James Fletcher (Member Emeriti) | Politics and Policy | Politics (York University) | Political communication; social advocacy; communication and public policy; communication policy. |
 | Sarah Flicker | Politics & Policy | Environmental Studies (York University) | Adolescent health; community based participatory research; HIV/AIDS; Community Development. |
 | Mary Fogarty | Media & Culture | Dance (York University) | Dance; music; popular culture. |
 | Estee Fresco | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Age, ageism and technology; Archives and collections; Embodiment; Indigenous media studies; Postcolonialism; Public relations, marketing and advertising; Representation, identity and culture |
 | May Friedman | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Social Work (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Embodiment; feminism; new media; women's studies; fat studies; motherhood studies. |
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 | Irene Gammel | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Modernism; modern literature and culture; avant-garde; visual culture; life writing and auto/biography; Dada and Surrealism; New York Modern; theories of urban space; ecocriticism; curating; performance art; feminist theory; gender and sexuality theory; body theory; salon culture and theory; digital archiving; World War I; trauma narratives. |
 | David Gauntlett | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Creative processes; self-initiated everyday creativity; cultures of making and exchanging. |
 | Robert Gehl | Media & Culture | Communications & Media Studies (York University) | New media; Social media and society; Alternative social media |
 | Wendy Geniusz | Media & Culture | Sociology (York University) | Archives and collections; Cultural studies; Education; Empire, colonialism and communication; Linguistics; Race, ethnicity and media; Representation, identity and culture; Sociology |
 | Donald J. Gillies (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | The Toronto School of Communication; Marshall McLuhan; history of media and communications; history of telecommunications; the communications industry; communications policy; international communications and development; media ecology; media ecology in Gaelic culture. |
 | Jacqui Gingras | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Activism and Academia; Social Justice Activism |
 | Rob Goodman | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History; policy; rhetoric. |
 | Jay Goulding | Media & Culture | Equity Studies (York University) | Communication and media studies; Critical theory; Cultural studies; Intercultural communication; Media philosophy |
 | Michael Greyeyes | Media & Culture | Theatre Studies (York University) | Theatre; physical performance; devised theatre; practiced-based research to create live performance; exploring dance; opera; music, design and the spoken word. |
 | Anatoliy Gruzd | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Ted Rogers School of Management - Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | ICTs; big data and society; new media; public relations, marketing and advertising; social media and society. |
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 | Ratiba Hadj-Moussa | Media & Culture | Sociology (York University) | Activism and academia; Anthropology; Archives and collections; Communication and media theory; Cinema; Comics and graphic novels; Critical theory; Cultural studies; Digital humanities; Documentary; Empire, colonialism and communication; Feminism; Feminist scholarship; Gender studies; Global media and international communication; History; Intersectional knowledge practices; Media activism and social movements; Media history; Media philosophy; Political communications; Postcolonialism; Race, ethnicity and media; Representation, identity and culture; Semiotics; Sexuality, gender and media; Social media and society; Visual culture; Women's studies; Youth, children and media culture |
 | Jan Hadlaw | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Design (York University) | Communication and media history; cultural history of telephony; the design and representation of technology; technologies and the social imaginaries of time and space; media and everyday life; advertising and consumer society; modern design and Canadian nationalism. |
 | Alison Harvey | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Communication (York University) | Feminism; Feminist scholarship; Game studies; Gender studies; New media; Political economy of communications; Representation, identity and culture; Science and technology studies; Sexuality, gender and media; Social media and society; Women's studies; Work, labour and class in communication |
 | Mark Hayward | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Archives and collections; Communication and media theory; Cultural studies; History; Media History; Media materialities and infrastructure studies; Media philosophy; Race, ethnicity and media |
 | Robert J. Heynen | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Surveillance studies; visual culture; media history (esp. photography and film); Marxist cultural theory; critical theories of race and gender; aesthetics and politics. |
 | Shelley Hornstein (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York University) | Architecture; place; urban culture; 19th and 20th century cultures; contemporary visual culture. |
 | Anna Hudson | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York University) | Postcolonial art of the Americas; contemporary art of the Arctic; museology; the art market and the business of culture; sex and gender in the representation of beauty and the social order; humanism in 20th century Canadian art. |
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 | Susan Ingram | Media & Culture | Humanities (York University) | European film; fashion; biography and autobiography; comparative literature; translation studies. |
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 | Jenna Jacobson | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Retail Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | New media; privacy; social media; influencers; gender; branding. |
 | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; cultural studies; digital humanities; gender studies; visual culture. |
 | Craig Jennex | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Cultural Studies; Feminist Theory; Music Studies; Popular Culture; Queer Theory; Resistance and Protest; Sexuality Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies |
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 | Carolyn Kane | Media & Culture | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Media and communication history; Media arts; Media ecology; Media history; Media philosophy; Philosophy of technology; Science and technology studies; Visual communication |
 | Andreas Kitzmann | Media & Culture | Humanities (York University) | Culture and technology; new media and society; digital culture; critical theory; cultural studies. |
 | Mustafa Koç | Politics & Policy | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Food studies; food writing; food on the web; food and films; cook books and national cuisines; ethnic and diasporic food cultures and identity; policy studies; food and agricultural policy; immigration policy; cultural studies; globalization and impacts of restructuring; global population movements and diasporas. |
 | Ruth Koleszar-Green | Media & Culture | Social Work (York University) | Onkwehonwe (the Mohawk word for "original people") knowledges; approaches and world views; Indigenous education and social issues that impact Indigenous communities; anti-racist education; income security reform. |
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 | Richard Lachman | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Digital Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Convergent media; digital documentary; collaborative work, and new forms of storytelling; interactive art; animation; virtual environments; digital culture. |
 | Ganaele M. Langlois | Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Critical theory; digital life; philosophy of technology; science and technology studies; semiotics. |
 | Robert E. Latham | Politics & Policy | Political Science (York University) | Politics of environmental knowledge and large-scale monitoring systems; security and IT; technologies of border surveillance; critical theories of sovereignty; transnational relations; migration; multiculturalism and international communication politics; human security; global governance. |
 | Nathaniel Laywine | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Communication and media theory; Critical theory; Cultural studies; Education; Global media and international communication; Intercultural communication; Media activism and social movements; Media materialities and infrastructure studies; Public relations, marketing and advertising; Representation, identity and culture |
 | Anne-Marie Lee-Loy | Politics & Policy | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Postcolonial studies; representations of minority diasporic populations in relation to the construction of cultural identities; postcolonial identities; diaspora; transnationalism; Chinese Caribbean experience; Caribbean Studies; Asians in the Americas; Yellow Peril discourse; hemispheric Asian American studies; overseas Chinese. |
 | Bruno Lessard | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Asian Studies; Cinema; Critical Theory; Documentary; Film and Media Studies; Game Studies; Music, Audio, Radio, and Sound; Research-Creation and Media Practices |
 | Laura Levin | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Theatre (York University) | Embodiment; gender studies; new media; visual culture; performance Studies. |
 | Muyang Li | Media & Culture | Sociology (York University) | Cultural studies; ICT's, big data and society; Media, cultural and ICT policy, law and regulation; New media; Political communications, Social media and society; Sociology |
 | Evan Light | Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Translation (York University) | Surveillance and privacy; communication and telecommunications policy and infrastructure; participatory democracy; community and independent media; social movements and institutional accountability and transparency practices. |
 | William Kenneth Little | Media & Culture | Anthropology (York University) | Analysis of society as spectacle; visual culture; popular cultural performance in both Euro-North American and post-colonial cultures; circus and the politics and poetics of spectacle. |
 | Brenda Longfellow | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | Feminist film theory; gender and national identity; women and cinema; film-making; women and culture, environmentalism, globalization. |
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 | Anne F. MacLennan | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Archives and collections; Audience studies and media ethnographies; Communication and media theory; Communication ethics; Communications, community and creativity; Cultural studies; Empire, colonialism and communication; Feminist scholarship; Health communication; History; Intercultural communication; Journalism and news; Media activism and social movements; Media and communication history; Media history; Music studies; Policy; Political communications; Public relations, marketing and advertising; Race, ethnicity and media; Representation, identity and culture; Research-creation and media practices; Semiotics; Visual communication; Visual culture; Women's studies; Work, labour and class in communication; Communications , Canadian Studies, Media, Popular culture, Broadcasting, media history, radio, sound, audio identity, audience/community, advertising, consumption, social welfare, poverty, labour and methodology |
 | Janine Marchessault | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | Cities and cinema; stereoscopic 3D cinema; future cinema architectures; feminist/post-colonial media; social media and activism; Marshall McLuhan and the Explorations Group; World Fairs; film festivals and utopias; micro-cinemas; curatorial studies; process philosophy; theories of spectatorship; phenomenology and affect; experimental cinema. |
 | Jean Mason (Member Emeriti) | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | Communication Theory (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Health communication, writing media and technologies, and personal narrative. |
 | Alison Matthews David | Media & Culture | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History of fashion; material culture. |
 | Alexandra (Ali) Mazalek | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Design and application of emerging physical sensing and digital media technologies to areas such as narrative expression, abstract thinking, and scientific modeling, as well as the study and use of embodied cognition as a framework for tangible and embodied interaction design. |
 | Patricia A Mazepa (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Critical political economy of communication (commodification, structuration, spatialization, hegemony, ideology); Canadian media history; social movement media. |
 | John McCullough | Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | North American film and television; media labour and globalization; representation of spatial, class and racial relations. |
 | Casey Mecija | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Sound Studies; Diaspora Studies; Performance Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Filipinx Studies; Transnational Feminisms. |
 | Catherine Middleton | Technology in Practice | Information Technology Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Telecommunications; policy; usage; internet; broadband; mobile; wireless; infrastructure; next generation networks; information society; digital economy. |
 | Colin Mooers (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Politics and Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | The political economy of capitalism; political theory; social movements; theories of citizenship; and the public sphere. |
 | Paul S. Moore | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Research methodologies; cultural and social theories; media history; historiography; history of technology; material culture; governmentality & social regulation; publics and counterpublics; regional and mass market consumption; popular screen cultures & practices; popular print cultures & practices; ephemera; collecting; the archive and nostalgia; film industries in Canada; film exhibition and screen practices; the newspaper & its supplements. |
 | Gabrielle Moser | Media & Culture | Education (York University) | Aesthetics; Archives and Collections; Education; Empire, Colonialism, and Communication; Feminist Theory; Libraries, Archives, and Documentation; Research-Creation and Media Practices; Visual Culture |
 | Jessica Mudry | Politics & Poicy; Technology in Practice | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | History of nutrition; Public health policy; Science communication; Technology and science studies. |
 | Stephen Muzzatti | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Political Economy; Animals, Crime and Transgression, Death, Motorcycles |
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 | Nima Naghibi | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Postcolonial and diasporic theories; human rights; memory; trauma; life narratives/memoir. |
 | Jeff Nagy | Media & Culture | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Communication and media theory; Critical theory; History; ICTs, big data and society; Media history; New media; Science and technology studies; Social media and society; Surveillance studies; Disability Theory |
 | Nicole Neverson | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Representation of subjectivities in the mass media; socio-cultural aspects of sport and gender; use of force technologies and policing; the social construction of 'risk' and risk narratives; alternative media perspectives of Canadian Caribbean disaspora. |
 | Emilia Nielsen | Media & Culture | Social Science; Health & Society Program (York University) | Accessibility; Activism and academia; Comics and graphic novels; Communications, community and creativity; Critical theory; Cultural studies; Embodiment; Feminist scholarship; Gender studies; Health communication; Intersectional knowledge practices; 2SLGTBQIA+ communications and queer theory and media studies; Representation, identity and culture; Research-creation and media practices; Sexuality, gender and media; Visual culture |
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 | Jonathan Obar | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Information policy; communication policy; big data and privacy; network neutrality and digital activism. |
 | Mona Oikawa | Politics & Policy | Equity Studies (York University) | Sociology; gender issues; critical race studies; cultural studies. |
 | Tokunbo Ojo | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Political economy; journalism studies; global media; ICT4D; media industries. |
 | Andrew O'Malley | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Children's literature and culture; popular culture; historical popular culture; comics and graphic novels; eighteenth century; robinsonades. |
 | Dana Osborne | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Anthropology; cultural studies; linguistics; postcolonialism; semiotics. |
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 | Ruth Panofsky | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; copyright; feminism; history; women's studies. |
 | Sarah Parsons | Media & Culture | Art History and Visual Culture (York University) | Archives and collections; Empire, colonialism and communication; Gender studies; History; Media arts; Media history; Privacy; Surveillance studies; Visual culture |
 | Jamin Pelkey | Media & Culture | Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Aesthetics; Anthropology; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Embodiment Linguistics; Semiotics |
 | Nalini Persram | Media & Culture | Social Science (York University) | Cinema; critical theory; documentary; political economy; postcolonialism. |
 | Lila Pine | Technology in Practice; Media & Culture | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Storytelling and new media; media and communication. |
 | Elizabeth Podnieks (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Life writing; modernism; Women's studies; mothering; popular culture; celebrity culture; scholarly editing; digital humanities. |
 | Chris Powell | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical theory; science and technology studies; sociology. |
 | Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof | Technology in Practice | Image Arts (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and Collections; Cultural Studies; Embodiment; Film and Media Studies; Media Arts; Media Ecology; Philosophy of Technology; Research-Creation and Media Practices |
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 | Osmund Rahman | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Age, Ageism, and Technology; Asian Studies; Environmental Studies; Fashion; Game Studies; International, Intercultural, and Cross-cultural Communication; Popular Culture; Representation, Identity, and Culture |
 | Rai Reece | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Canadian Black feminism; critical race theory; anti-Black racism; punishment and misogynoir; critical feminist criminology; community-based ethnography; prison health; equity as social praxis; and abolition and activism. |
 | Markus Reisenleitner | Media & Culture | Humanities (York University) | Communication and media theory; Cinema; Communication ethics; Copyright; Creative, ICT and cultural industries; Critical theory; Cultural studies; Digital humanities; Empire, colonialism and communication; Fashion; History; ICTs, big data and society; Media history; Media materialities and infrastructure studies; New media; Postcolonialism; Representation, identity and culture; Visual communication; Visual culture |
 | Danielle Robinson | Media & Culture | Dance (York University) | Dance ethnography; cultural studies; dance history; critical race theory; social dance reconstruction; multicultural dance education; popular dance practices; African diaspora within the Americas; Latin American dance cultures. |
 | Shirley Roburn | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Indigenous sovereignty movements; activism; traditional knowledge; climate change policy; oral tradition; research methodology; documentary films. |
 | Wade Rowland (Member Emeriti) | Politics and Policy; Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Communication; ethics; critical realism; technology. |
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 | Leslie Sanders | Media & Culture | Humanities (York University) | African American and black Canadian literature and culture; literatures of the African diaspora. |
 | Catriona Sandilands | Media & Culture | Environmental Studies (York University) | Environmental humanities and ecocriticism; queer, multispecies & feminist ecologies; critical plant studies; public humanities and cultures; creative writing practice; biopolitics. |
 | Carmen Schifellite (Member Emeriti) | Politics & Policy | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Science and technology studies; popular culture; sociology of knowledge; graduate methodologies. |
 | Catherine Schryer (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Socializing students in medicine, optometry, and Social Work. |
 | Megan Scribe | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan Univeristy) | Indigenous Studies; Indigenous; Theories/Practices; Queer Theory; Women’s and Gender Studies |
 | Alan Sears | Media & Culture | Sociology (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Sexuality; theory; social movements; work; education. |
 | Mitu Sengupta | Politics & Policy | Politics & Public Administration (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Indian market liberalization and development; labour and migration; the politics of sporting and cultural events. More recent work focuses on human rights and development; global justice; and development ethics. |
 | Abigail Shabtay | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy; Technology in Practice | Humanities (York University) | Children and youth; Education; Performing arts |
 | Khatereh Sheibani | Media & Culture | Languages, Literatures & Linguistics (York University) | Audience studies and media ethnographies; Cinema; Cultural studies; Empire, colonialism and communication; Fashion; Feminism; History; Intercultural communication; Linguistics; Media and communication history; Media arts; Media history; New media; Postcolonialism; Race, ethnicity and media; Sexuality, gender and media; Social media and society; Visual communication; Visual culture; Women's studies |
 | John Shiga | Politics & Policy | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication and media theory; Empire, colonialism and communication; Environmental and energy communication; Media history; Media materialities and infrastructure studies; Media philosophy; Research-creation and media practices; Science and technology studies |
 | Jeremy Shtern | Politics & Policy | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Internet governance; media policy; communication rights; globalization and communication; political economy of social media advertising; emerging media; creative labour; and research methods. |
 | Hyacinth Simpson | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Caribbean and postcolonial literatures; migration, diaspora, and transnational studies; short fiction studies; orality. |
 | Yvonne Singer | Media & Culture | Visual Art & Art History (York University) | Memory; history; identity; perception; psychoanalysis. |
 | Rianka Singh | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Communications; media; feminist media studies; platform studies; race and technology. | |
 | David Skinner | Politics & Policy | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Political economy of communication; media and communications policy; alternative and community media; media democracy. |
 | Donna Smith | Politics & Policy | Retail Management (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Social media research; consumer behaviour; retailer-vendor strategic partnerships in the context of Commitment-Trust. |
| Karen Soldatic | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Canada Excellence Research Chair - Health Equity & Community Wellbeing (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Disability Studies; Embodiment; Gender Studies; Health Communication; ICTs, Big Data, and Society Intersectionality; Policy; Sociology |
 | Afsoon Soudi | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | RTA School of Media (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Environment, Science & Risk Communication; Environmental and Energy Communication; ICTs, Big Data ad Society; Media Audiences; Media Sector Development; Science and Technology Studies; Technology and New Media; Information retrieval and society, recommender systems |
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 | Nick Taylor | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Communication & Media Studies (York University) | Audience studies and media ethnographies; Communication and media theory; Cultural studies; Education; Embodiment; Feminism; Game studies; Gender studies; Media and communication history; Science and technology studies; Social media and society; Surveillance studies |
 | Mark Terry | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | Communications & Media Studies (York University) | Activism and academia; Communication and media theory; Children and youth; Cinema; Comics and graphic novels; Communication ethics; Communications, community and creativity; Digital humanities; Documentary; Environmental and energy communication; Global media and international communication; Indigenous media studies; Intercultural communication; Journalism and news; Media activism and social movements; Media and communication history; Media arts; Media ecology; Media history; Media materialities and infrastructure studies; New media; Professional communications; Public relations, marketing and advertising; Social media and society; Visual communication; Visual culture; Youth, children and media culture |
 | Tatyana Terzopoulos | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | RTA Media/The Creative School (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication and Media Theory; Education; Feminism; Game Studies; Media Education Research; Representation, Identity, and Culture; Research-Creation and Media Practices; Youth, Children, and Media Culture |
 | Philippe Theophanidis | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Global Communication & Culture (York University) | Communication and media theory; Critical theory; Media philosophy; Philosophy of technology; Visual culture |
 | Sophie Thomas | Media & Culture | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; cultural studies; visual culture; material culture, literature. |
 | Cheryl Thompson | Media & Culture | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Archives and collections; Black communication and media studies; Communications, community and creativity; History; Music studies; Representation, identity and culture; Visual culture; Theatre and performance |
 | Matthew Tiessen | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | School of Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Digital humanities; embodiment; philosophy of technology; visual communication; finance; power, propaganda. |
 | Temenuga Trifonova | Technology in Practice | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | European cinema; screenwriting; film theory; philosophy of film; film remakes and sequels; film adaptations; film criticism; contemporary American cinema; psychopathology and film; migrant and diasporic cinema; film/video production; creative writing; photography; aesthetic theory; 20th century American literature; existentialism. |
 | Elizabeth (Betty) Trott (Member Emeriti) | Media & Culture | Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Canadian philosophy; philosophy of education; philosophy of art and design; multiculturalism; metaphysics; culture. |
 | Monique Tschofen | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice | English (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communication and Media Theory; Digital Humanities; Feminism; Media Philosophy; Research-Creation and Media Practices; Visual Culture |
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 | Livy Visano | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Equity Studies (York University) | Ontology; critical legal studies; social justice; human rights; youth; critical criminology and ethnographies. |
 | Leah Vosko | Politics & Policy | Political Science (York University) | Gender studies; political economy; policy; labour studies; citizenship & migration. |
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 | Kimberly Wahl | Media & Culture | Fashion (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Intersections between academic feminism and the histories and theories of fashion; visual culture and the body; fashioning feminism: women, clothing, art and power in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century British culture. |
 | Charlie Wall-Andrews | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Creative Industries (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Communications, community and creativity; gender studies; music studies; policy; representation, identity and culture |
 | Stéphanie Walsh Matthews | Media & Culture | Languages, Literatures & Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Language; postcolonialism; postmodernity; post-war cultural theories; semiotics; French Caribbean literature; translation; Franco-Canadian literature and culture; magical realism. |
 | Wendy Siuyi Wong | Technology in Practice | Design (York University) | Design culture; Chinese graphic design history; poster design; Chinese comics art history. |
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 | Hongbing Yu | Media & Culture | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Toronto Metropolitan Univeristy) | Critical theory; Cultural studies; Education; History; Intercultural communication; Linguistics; Representation, identity and culture; Semiotics |
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 | Frauke Zeller | Media & Culture | Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Human-Computer Interaction/Human-Robot Interaction; digital communication, and method development for digital research analyses. |
 | Joyce Zemans (Member Emeriti) | Politics and Policy | Visual Art & Art History (York University) | Twentieth century Canadian art with a special focus on the art of women; cultural policy (Canadian and comparative); curatorial practice and arts administration. |
 | Tracy Ying Zhang | Media & Culture; Technology in Practice; Politics & Policy | Communications & Media Studies (York University) | Cultural studies; Embodiment; Feminist scholarship; Global media and international communication; Media materialities and infrastructure studies; Political communications; Political economy of communications; Race, ethnicity and media; Research-creation and media practices; Work, labour and class in communication |
 | Zhixi Zhuang | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | School of Urban and Regional Planning (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Critical Race Theories; Ethnic Studies; Intersectionality; Policy; Visual Communication |
 | Michael Zryd | Media & Culture | Cinema & Media Arts (York University) | Experimental / avant-garde cinema; documentary film theory; history of cinema and media studies; American populism in film and media; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Hollis Frampton; Su Friedrich; Philip Hoffman; Ruth Ozeki. |
 | Detlev Zwick | Media & Culture; Politics & Policy | Schulich School of Business (York University) | Marketing practices in the context of the Attention Economy; strategic innovation of new marketing forms. |
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