Social Sciences (UTSC)

Anne-Emanuelle Birn

Professor of Critical Development Studies and of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Dalla Lana School of Public Health
• Department
  • Public Health Sciences
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • Global Health Consortium
  • Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Global Health Politics
• History of Health Activism
• History of international health
• History of public health in Latin America (Mexico and Uruguay)
• Philanthrocapitalism and Health
• Societal determinants of health

Office: 416-287-7322
Home: 416-924-7803
Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan
Website
Email: ae.birn@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Silver

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural policy
• Local amenities and urban development
• Social Theory
• Urban Sociology

Office: 416-208-2698
Email: dsilver@utsc.utoronto.ca
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John Miron

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)

Areas of Expertise

• Locational competition

Office: 416-287-7311
Home: 905-509-7188
Email: miron@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Kathy Liddle

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Feminist bookstores
• lesbian culture
• LGBTQ
• Media and music
• Sociology of culture

Office: 416-287-7345
Email: kathy.liddle@utoronto.ca
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Leslie Chan

Senior Lecturer

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Access to knowledge
• Bridging digital and knowledge divide
• Electronic publishing
• Impact of new media on social practices
• Learning with new technologies
• Open access to scholarly literature
• teaching

Office: 416-287-7511
Mobile: 416-414-0288
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin
Website
Email: chan@utsc.utoronto.ca
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Lucan Way

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)

Areas of Expertise

• Authoritarianism
• Democratization
• Russian/post-communist politics

Office: 416-946-8945
Home: 416-805-0579
Email: lucan.way@utoronto.ca
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Ping-Chun Hsiung

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • Asian Institute
  • Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Family and social change in East Asia
• Feminist theories
• Gender issues in Chinese societies
• Gender relations and social change in Asia
• NGOs and civil society in China; Taiwan
• State
• Taiwan

Office: 416-287-7291
Home: 416-222-5283
Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese
Email: pc.hsiung@utoronto.ca
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Stephen Rockel

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Historical and Cultural Studies (UTSC)
  • History
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)

Areas of Expertise

• African social and economic history
• African urbanization
• Colonialism and imperialism in Africa
• History of labour and slavery in Africa
• History of modern Africa
• Tanzanian and East African history
• War and society in modern Africa

Office: 416-287-7145
Mobile: 647-262-4386
Email: stephen.rockel@utoronto.ca
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Waldemar Skrobacki

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Social Sciences (UTSC)
• Centres
  • Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Areas of Expertise

• European and Polish politics
• European Union

Office: 416-208-4756
Home: 416-219-1863
Languages: Polish
Email: w.skrobacki@utoronto.ca
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