U.S. Presidential Election
Eric Merkley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian politics
- Elections
- Fake news & misinformation
- News media & politics
- Polarization
- Public opinion
- Social media toxicity
- U.S. politics
Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Felix Cheung
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- A Satisfying Life
- Global Affairs and Happiness
- Happiness
- Income inequality, income redistribution, and income mobility
- Lifespan development.
- Measurement of subjective well-being
- Multilevel modeling
- Open science.
- Population determinants of a satisfying
- Public Policy and Happiness
- Purposeful, and engaging life
- Replication
- Social unrest, terrorism, and civil war
- Subjective well-being
- Well-being
Office: N/A
Languages (in addition to English): Cantonese
Website
Email: f.cheung@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Gail E. Robinson
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Abuse by authority figures
- Boundary violations
- Infertility
- Postpartum disorders
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy loss
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Violence against women
- Women's mental health
Office: 416-480-5766
Home: 416-944-0154
Mobile: 416-944-0154
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: gail.robinson@uhn.ca
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Larry LeDuc
Professor Emeritus/Emerita

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-0957
Email: leduc@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Megan Boler
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- 2024 US election
- Digital activism and social media
- digital propaganda and emotions
- Media representation of gender and women
- online hate and disinformation targeting 2SLGBTQ communities
- polarization and social media
- Post-truth politics
- racism and rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in U.S. and Canada
- social justice education
- weaponization of emotions in politics and digital media
Office: (416) 978-1231
Website
Email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michael Donnelly
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian views on immigration and refugees
- Ethnic Politics
- European politics
- Immigration
- Public opinion
- Social policy
Office: 1 416-978-0344
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: mj.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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Nelson Wiseman
Professor Emeritus

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada in the world
- Canada’s political parties and leaders
- Canadian politics and policy
- Elections and Voting
- Provincial politics
Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Renan Levine
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 208-2651
Home: 416-848-1871
Website
Email: renan.levine@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Robert Bothwell
Professor Emeritus/Emerita

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Atomic history
- Canada-US relations
- Canadian foreign relations
- Canadian politics and political history
Office: 416-946-8948 Ext. 68948
Languages (in addition to English): English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: bothwell@chass.utoronto.ca
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Ruth Marshall
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Citizenship, state politics and violence in Nigeria & Cote d’Ivoire
- Continental philosophy of religion
- Continental political philosophy
- Pentecostalism, radical reformist Islam and religious revival in the Global South
- Post-colonial theory, African Studies
- Religion, politics and public life
- Religious conflict and violence
- Secularism and democratic theory
- United States Politics - the Religious Right since the 1970s, the rise of the alt-right, the MAGA movement, QAnon, the Trump years and party politics
- United States Religion - evangelicals and race, White Christian nationalism, theocracy, dominionism, reconstructionism, Christian cults, QAnon and its Christian roots and networks
Office: 416-978-0241
Mobile: 416-839-9295
Website
Email: ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ryan Hurl
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- American political development
- American political thought
- Comparative constitutional law
- History of Political Thought
- Judicial politics
Office: 416-978-3334
Website
Email: ryan.hurl@utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 946-8825
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Steve Joordens
Professor

- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Anxiety
- Attention
- Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Connecting psychology to world events
- Consciousness
- Educational Psychology
- Family and interpersonal relationships
- How epidemics affect those with anxiety
- How physical distancing will forever change the ways we interact
- Memory
- Mental well-being
- Perception
- Skill Development and Measurement
- Social pressure, Managing boundaries
- Trauma
Office: (416) 287-7469
Website
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online