Centre for the Study of the United States
Alan Ackerman
Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- American drama
- American literature
- Cold war culture
- Literature and the environment
- Modern drama
- New York intellectuals
- Privacy and free-speech debates
Office: 416-946-3455
Email: alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Alice Maurice
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Documentary film
- Early U.S. Cinema
- Film theory
- Race and cinema
- Turn of the Century American Literature and Culture
Office: 416-287-7180
Email: alice.maurice@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Bonnie McElhinny
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-3297
Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dana Seitler
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural studies of science
- Feminist theory
- LGBTQ
- Nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature and culture
- Queer theory and sexuality studies
- visual culture
Office: 416-946-3496
Email: d.seitler@utoronto.ca
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Jason Hackworth
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
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Jooyoung Lee
Associate Professor of Sociology

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Crime victims
- Gangs
- Gun Violence
- Guns
- Hip Hop
- Mixed martial arts
- Murder
- Police reform
- Racism
- RCMP’s treatment of Indigenous people
- Serial killers
Office: n/a
Website
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Marga Vicedo
Professor, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- History of autism
- History of evolution and genetics
- History of instincts
- Science and society
- Science of mother love and maternal care
Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish
Website
Email: marga.vicedo@utoronto.ca
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Mark Solovey
Professor, Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cold War America
- Psychology and society
- Research funding
- Science and values
- Social science and society
Office: 416-978-6280
Website
Email: mark.solovey@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matthew Farish
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6671
Website
Email: farish@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Nicholas Sammond
Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
Director, Centre for the Study of the United States

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- American studies
- Animation
- Children and movies
- Early animation
- Ethnicity and media
- Gender and sexuality in vernacular media
- Media and social/cultural practice
- Media effects
- Race
Office: 416-978-7271
Website
Email: nic.sammond@utoronto.ca
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Pamela Klassen
Professor & Chair, Department for the Study of Religion, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 20th & 21st century Christianity; missionary/Indigenous relations
- Canada’s treaty responsibilities in relation to religion/spirituality
- Religion
- Religion and medicine
- Religion in the public sphere
- Religion; colonialism in Canada
- ritual and healing
- Women and religion
Office: 416-585-4573
Website
Email: p.klassen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Peter Loewen
Professor, Political Science
Director, Munk School
Associate Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for AI and Society

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
- Future of democratic societies
- Policy; elections and representation
- Political polarization
Office: 416-978-5120
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
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Shari Eli
Professor, Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science
Cross-appointed, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy; History Department
Affiliated with National Bureau of Economic Research; Visiting Faculty, Economics, Yale University
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- 20th century labor history in the U.S.
- Canadian economic history
- Cash transfer programs
- Intergenerational mobility and inequality
- Pension systems
- Research using family trees (genealogy)
- U.S. social welfare history
- Universal basic income
- Welfare
Office: 416-946-7630
Mobile: 437-239-1159
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Shyon Baumann
Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: shyon.baumann@utoronto.ca
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