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Orlando Massacre

June 13, 2016

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on a vari­ety of issues relat­ed to the Orlan­do Mas­sacre.

David Ray­side, Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus with the Fac­ul­ty of Arts and Sci­ence
Exper­tise: LGBT rights in North Amer­i­ca, His­to­ry of vio­lence and hate against the com­mu­ni­ty
Tel: (416) 978‑8155, (647) 973‑8087
Email: david.rayside@utoronto.ca

Bren­da Coss­man, Pro­fes­sor at the Fac­ul­ty of Law
Exper­tise: LGBT tar­get­ed for hate crimes
Tel: (416) 978‑8103, (416) 819‑1921
Email: b.cossman@utoronto.ca

Arne Kislenko, Adjunct Pro­fes­sor at U of T’s Munk School of Glob­al Affairs
Exper­tise: Ter­ror­ism, Domes­tic ter­ror­ism
Tel: (416) 946‑8973
Email: arne.kislenko@utoronto.ca

Jooy­oung Lee, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Soci­ol­o­gy
Exper­tise: Gun vio­lence, Gun cul­ture, Mass shoot­ings
Tel: (416) 402‑5191
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca

Peter Loewen, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, Direc­tor of Cen­tre for the Study of the Unit­ed States
Exper­tise: Mass shoot­ings and Islam now part of US pres­i­den­tial race
Tel: (647) 232‑7335
Email: csus.director@utoronto.ca, peter.loewen@utoronto.ca