Centre for the Study of the United States

Alan Ackerman

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and 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
Website
Email: alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bonnie McElhinny

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• 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: +1 (416) 978-3297
Languages: English
Website
Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Dana Seitler

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Aesthetics
• 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
Website
Email: d.seitler@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jason Hackworth

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• American cities
• Detroit
• Urban decline

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

Jooyoung Lee

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and 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

Louis Kaplan

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Visual Studies
• Centres
  • Centre for Jewish Studies
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• 20th and 21st century art and visual culture
• Contemporary Jewish art and visual culture
• Deconstruction
• Film and media culture
• Humour studies
• New media art practices (especially augmented reality)
• Photography studies

Office: 905-828-5411
Mobile: 905-569-4646
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: louis.kaplan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Marga Vicedo Castello

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Institute for the 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

• History of autism
• History of evolution and genetics
• History of instincts
• Science and society
• Science of mother love and maternal care

Office: 416-978-1500
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: marga.vicedo@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mark Solovey

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Institute for the 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
• Veganism
• Vegetarianism

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 and Science
• Department
  • Geography and 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: matt.farish@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nicholas Sammond

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Cinema Studies Institute
• 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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • 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

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • 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
Languages: English
Website
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shari Eli

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Economic History
• Health economics

Office: 437-239-1159
Languages: English
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shyon Baumann

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Sociology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Cinema Studies Institute

Areas of Expertise

• Aesthetic evaluation
• Cultural classification
• Cultural consumption
• Food studies
• Media studies
• Symbolic boundaries

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