The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to announce the appointment of Adrian Smith, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, as the new Director of the GLRC. He will replace professor Luann Good Gingrich, whose term as Director is concluding. Professor Smith will begin his directorship on July 1, 2023 and he will lead the […]
Dr. Kael Reid (they/she) is a Postdoctoral researcher at York University in Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies in the Department of Humanities. The title of their research project is called, "Teaching my Story in my Voice: Using songwriting and recording with refugee children to develop culturally relevant resources for Ontario service providers and educators." Conducting […]
Marcello Musto is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and is the founding director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories at York University. His research lab explores critiques and alternatives to capitalism, with a global outlook that covers various subjects and political perspectives. A SSHRC Insight Development Grant funded project, The Laboratory for Alternative Theories brings together […]
Dr. Blair Fix is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics at York University, where he researches the connection between social hierarchy and income inequality. Blair has a PhD in environmental studies from York University and is a recipient of the 2021-2022 LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Blair uses large-scale computational models to simulate how […]
Professor Lily Cho is Associate Dean, Global & Community Engagement and an Associate Professor in the Department of English and at York University, where her research focuses on diasporic subjectivity within the fields of cultural studies, postcolonial literature and theory and Asian North American and Canadian literature. Recently, Lily Cho’s book Mass Capture: Chinese Head […]
Stephanie Jonsson is a PhD Candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women's studies at York University, where her research focuses on the intersections of aging, queerness, and new technologies. Stephanie’s research led to the creation of community-based pilot initiative, The Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN). After conducting a study on the barriers 2S-LGBTQ+ older […]
Dr. Arik Senderovich is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the School of Information Technologies (ITEC) at York University. He is also a Research Fellow at the TD-MDAL (Rotman School of Management) where he supervises student projects and organizes professional events. Arik’s research is mainly in the fields of artificial intelligence and process mining, where he […]
Dr. Leila Pourtavaf holds a PhD from the Department of History at the University of Toronto, and was most recently a visiting assistant professor at NYU's Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Since joining the History department at LA&PS in 2020, she has been awarded a Connection Grant for her project Cosmopolitan Harem which looks at the social, […]
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, workplaces in Canada and around the world closed facilities in response to emergency government requirements, and workers who could perform their duties from home, began to work remotely. As conditions evolved, workers experienced many transitions in policies and work practices. COVID-19 Impacts on Faculty and Staff: Changing the […]
Prof. Robert W. Gehl is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University and Ontario Research Chair in Digital Governance for Social Justice. He is an alumnus of the Fulbright Canada Research Chair program and his research focuses on network cultures and technologies, manipulative communication, alternative social media, and […]