Centre for the Study of the United States

Alan Ackerman

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

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
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Cinema Studies
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

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: maurice@utsc.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bonnie McElhinny

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Anthropology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Critiques of Settler-Colonialism
• Great Lakes
• Language politics
• Water and environmental justice

Office: 416-978-3297
Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dana Seitler

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jason Hackworth

Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

• American cities
• Detroit
• Urban decline

Office: N/A
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jooyoung Lee

Associate Professor of Sociology

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Sociology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark Solovey

Professor, Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts and Science

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Geography & Planning
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

• Environmental history
• Militarism and geopolitics
• The Cold War
• Urban culture

Office: 416-978-6671
Website
Email: farish@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Sammond

Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

Director, Centre for the Study of the United States

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Cinema Studies
• Centres
  • Centre for Drama, Theatre and Peformance Studies
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Cinema Studies Institute

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Anthropology
  • Religion
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies
  • Jackman Humanities Institute

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
  • Political Science
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

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
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Economics
  • History
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States

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
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • School of Graduate Studies
• Department
  • Sociology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Cinema Studies Institute

Areas of Expertise

• Advertising
• Art and society
• Cultural hierarchy
• Culture and inequality
• Food culture
• Media studies

Office: N/A
Email: shyon.baumann@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online