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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Governing Board Chair, Massey College

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Cannabis
• Crime
• Criminal justice
• Defunding police
• Drug policy
• Drugs
• Policing
• Protests and marches on both sides of the border
• Race and crime
• Race and ethnic relations
• Race and racism
• Racialized law enforcement
• Racism and criminal justice
• Rayshard Brooks
• Social policy

Office: 416-978-7124 ext.240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
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Ambarish Chandra

Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Rotman School of Management
• Department
  • Management

Areas of Expertise

• Advertising Markets
• Airlines
• Applied Econometrics
• Competition policy
• Cross-border economics
• Cross-border travel and shopping
• Industrial organization

Office: 416-978-7138
Email: ambarish.chandra@rotman.utoronto.ca
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Andrew McDougall

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at U of T Scarborough

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Aboriginal politics and the politics of the High North
• Canada’s relationship with Beijing
• Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations
• Canadian government & relationship with Royal Family
• Constitutional law
• Provincial politics

Office: 416-432-3813
Email: andrew.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
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Christopher Cochrane

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian politics and government
• Political behaviour and elections
• Political communications
• Political methodology
• Social sciences

Office: (416) 208-5121
Email: christopher.cochrane@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Dvorkin

Senior Fellow, Massey College

Former director, Journalism Program

• Campus
  • St. George

Areas of Expertise

• Changing role of media
• Disinformation & censorship
• Importance of trusted media sources
• Journalism ethics
• Media management and ethical decision-making
• Misinformation
• News ombudsmanship
• Significance of digital freedom & government accountability
• Social media and democratic practice
• Spread of misinformation
• The challenge of digital information
• The role of cameras in court rooms
• Youth vote reporting

Office: N/A
Home: 416-537-2892
Mobile: 647-401-5330
Languages (in addition to English): French, German, Hebrew
Email: jeffrey.dvorkin@utoronto.ca
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Kayla Preston

PhD Student

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Extremism
• Far-right
• Radicalization
• Right-wing extremism
• Social media

Office: N/A
Email: kayla.preston@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Kerry Bowman

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Artificial intelligence
• consumption of wild animals & diseases
• COVID-19 pandemic ethics
• Environmental/climate change ethics
• Ethical implications of vaccine mandates
• Ethics of organ donation law
• Ethics of quarantine
• Forest loss
• Gene editing/gene drive
• Genomic/genetic ethics
• Geoengineering
• Medical assistance in dying
• Physician assisted in dying/end of life
• Reproductive ethics
• Zoonosis

Office: 416-586-4800 Ext. 2163
Home: 416-532-4594
Website
Email: kerry.bowman@utoronto.ca
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Nelson Wiseman

Professor Emeritus

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Political Science

Areas of Expertise

• Canada & the monarchy
• Canadian foreign policy
• Canadian government and politics
• Elections
• Political parties and leaders
• Provincial politics
• Voting

Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
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Rafael Gomez

Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

Director, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

• Campus
  • St. George
• Centres
  • Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

Areas of Expertise

• Demographic issues related to the workplace and cross country growth
• Industrial/Employment Relations
• Labour market analysis
• Local employment and economic development
• The wage and pay structure impacts of unions on CEO and executive pay
• Union and non-union voice at work

Office: 416-939-9216
Languages (in addition to English): French and Spanish
Email: ralph.gomez@utoronto.ca
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