The following is a list of University of Toronto experts who can comment on a variety of issues related to World Refugee Day, coming up June 20, 2012.
Gender and global culture
Gender and social policy
History, memory and social trauma/conflict
Immigration and refugee policy, practice
International human rights and justice
Torture and psychosocial trauma, genocide
Women, citizenship, migration, refugees
Joan Simalchik
Coordinator and Professor
U of T Mississauga Campus
Department of Women & Gender Studies
Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies
Office: 905-569-4491
Cell: 416-988-7953
joan.simalchik@utoronto.ca
Feminism and law
Immigration, refugee and citizenship law
International human rights
Multiculturalism and law
Audrey Macklin
Associate Professor
St. George Campus
Faculty of Law
Office: 416-946-7493
Cell: 647-403-5170
audrey.macklin@utoronto.ca
History
Immigration
International relations
National security, terrorism
Southeast Asia
United Nations
United States foreign policy
Arne Kislenko
Adjunct Professor
St. George Campus
Trinity College
Munk School of Global Affairs
Office: 416-946-8973, 416-979-5000 ext. 6206
Cell: 647-378-8710
arne.kislenko@utoronto.ca
www.kislenko.com
International migration and immigrant incorporation
Comparative ethnic and race relations
Globalization and transnationalism
Patricia Landolt
Associate Professor
Scarborough Campus
Department of Sociology
Office: 416-287-7156
Alt: 416-454-2048
landolt@utsc.utoronto.ca
International law
Middle East conflicts
NATO and strategic issues
Russia/post-Soviet states/ East Europe — politics
Strategic studies, conflict resolution
Aurel Braun
Professor
St. George Campus
Trinity College
Department of Political Science
Office: 416-946-8952, 905-828-3923
Home: 416-787-3702
Cell: 416-844-5367
abraun@chass.utoronto.ca
Languages: French, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian
Democracy promotion
Democratization
Great power rivalries
Refugee issues associated with Russia and the former Soviet Union
US foreign policy
Vsevolod Gunitskiy
Assistant Professor of Political Science
St. George Campus
Munk School of Global Affairs
Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Office: 416-978-3346
Mobile: 603-583-2222
v.gunitskiy@utoronto.ca
Languages: Russian
http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/
Integration and second-generation radicalization among visible minorities in Canada/Europe
Military history, particularly the morality of war
Multiculturalism and social integration
Post-war immigration in Canada, Germany, U.K., France
Randall Hansen
Canada Research Chair in Immigration and Governance
St. George Campus
Munk School of Global Affairs
Department of Political Science
Office: 416-978-3291
r.hansen@utoronto.ca
*NOTE: Currently in Berlin – only available via email
Canadian Commission to UNESCO
Education as uplifting the human spirit
Holistic education
Intercultural harmony
Language, culture and identity in schooling
Multicultural literacy programs for immigrants, refugee education
Multicultural, multilingual issues in education
Grace Feuerverger
Professor
St. George Campus
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Office: 416-978-0229
gfeuerverger@oise.utoronto.ca
Languages: French, Italian, German, Hebrew, Yiddish
*NOTE: Currently in Greece – only available via email
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416-978-0100
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