Faculty of Arts and Science

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: (416) 946-8825
Languages: English
Website
Email: shari.eli@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shawn Lehman

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Primate conservation

Office: +1 (416) 978-4003
Languages: English
Website
Email: shawn.lehman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sheena Josselyn

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Neuroscience

Office: 416-813-7654 Ext. 301824
Website
Email: sheena.josselyn@sickkids.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Shelby Riskin

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Areas of Expertise

• Conservation
• Ecology
• global change
• Tropical forests
• Water quality

Office: 416-978-2750
Mobile: 416-575-2250
Email: shelby.riskin@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email

Shiri M. Breznitz

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Entrepreneurship in general and students’ entrepreneurship in particular
• Higher education
• Incubators/accelerators
• Innovation and technology
• Intellectual property rights
• Regional economic development

Office: N/A
Website
Email: shiri.breznitz@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

Simon Coleman

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Cathedrals
• Pentecostalism
• Pilgrimage
• Religious Infrastructures
• Ritual

Office: 416-978-4788
Languages: English,Swedish
Website
Email: simon.coleman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Spencer C.H. Barrett

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Areas of Expertise

• Biology of plant invasions
• Ecological and evolutionary genetics
• Plant evolutionary biology, plant reproduction
• Plant reproductive biology
• Plants and human affairs

Office: 416-978-4151
Website
Email: spencer.barrett@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Stephen Morris

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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

Areas of Expertise

• Emergence of regular patterns in nature
• Icicles and ice formations
• Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
• Physics of complex self-organizing systems
• Physics of everyday life

Office: 416-978-6810
Languages: English
Website
Email: smorris@physics.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Steve Engels

Professor, Teaching Stream

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

Areas of Expertise

• Artificial intelligence
• Natural language processing
• Open data
• Technology education
• Video game design

Office: (416) 946-5454
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: steve.engels@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Steve M Easterbrook

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Climate modelling and simulation
• Computational modeling as a scientific research method
• Investigation of software failures
• Software engineering
• Software verification and validation
• Sustainable Cities and Urban Decision-Making
• Systems Analysis and Systems Thinking

Office: 416-978-6526
Website
Email: sme@cs.toronto.edu
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Suresh Sivanandam

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • David A. Dunlap Astronomy and Astrophysics

Areas of Expertise

• Adaptive optics
• Astronomical Instruments (spectrographs and spectroscopy)
• Astronomy
• Galaxies and galaxy clusters
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Optical/IR instrumentation.
• Telescopes and astronomical observatories

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-978-6550
Languages: English,Tamil
Website
Email: sivanandam@astro.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sverrir Steinsson

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Comparative politics
• How war transforms politics and society
• Institutional theory
• International relations
• Small states in world politics - asymmetric conflicts

Office: N/A
Languages: Icelandic,English,Swedish
Website
Email: sverrir.steinsson@utoronto.ca

T. Bence Viola

Associate Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Ancient DNA
• Central and North Asia
• Central and Northern Asia
• Central Europe
• Europe
• Evolutionary Anthropology
• Human evolution
• Modern Human Origins
• Neanderthals
• Palaeoanthropology

Office: N/A
Languages: English,French,German,Hungarian
Website
Email: bence.viola@utoronto.ca

Taryn Grieder

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Psychology

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Psychology
• Centres
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research

Areas of Expertise

• Addiction
• Behaviour
• Learning
• Neuroscience
• Stress

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-402-0630
Email: taryn.grieder@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email, Text
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Teresa Kramarz

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Environment and politics
• International Organizations (UN and World Bank especially)

Office: 416-946-8825
Languages: French,Spanish - Latin American,English
Website
Email: teresa.kramarz@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Thomas Anderson

PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Director, Psychedelic Studies Research Centre (PSRP)

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

Areas of Expertise

• Attention and mind-wandering
• Meditation and mindfulness
• Psychedelic microdosing
• Psychedelics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: metathomas.anderson@mail.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Thomas Wilson

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Economics
• Centres
  • Institute for Policy Analysis

Areas of Expertise

• Competition policy and regulatory policies
• Fiscal policy
• Taxation

Office: 416-978-4458
Home: 416-962-5018
Website
Email: twilson@chass.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Timothy Andrews Sayle

Associate Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Britain and Ireland
• Canada
• Canadian foreign and defence policy
• Conflict, Violence and Genocide
• Europe
• Intelligence and national security
• Intelligence history
• International relations
• Modern global security
• NATO
• Nuclear history
• Post-1945 history of international relations and grand strategy
• State, Politics, and Law
• The Iraq War
• U.S. foreign policy
• United States

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

Timothy Harrison

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Areas of Expertise

• Biblical archeology
• Near Eastern archeology

Office: 416-978-6600
Website
Email: tim.harrison@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tina J. Park

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Responsibility to Protect Project

Junior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Centres
  • Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History

Areas of Expertise

• Bilateral relationship between Canada and Korea
• Canadian foreign policy
• Canadian foreign policy post-COVID-19
• Canadian-Korean relations
• Feminism & diversity in the election race
• Inter-Korean relations & ROK-US relations
• NATO & Asia-Pacific security
• NATO & Ukraine
• North Korean nuclear programme & diplomacy & six party talks
• Responsibility to Protect
• South Korean politics & economy
• Syria
• UN

Office: 416-828-2361
Website
Email: park.tina@gmail.com
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Todd Foglesong

Senior Research Associate

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Criminal justice
• Global crime and violence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: todd.foglesong@utoronto.ca

Todd Lawson

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Areas of Expertise

• Islamic religion
• Islamic thought (theology, philosophy, mysticism)
• Mysticism
• Philosophy
• Qur'an commentary
• Shi'i Islam
• Sufism

Office: 514-885-6552
Website
Email: todd.lawson@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tom Kemeny

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Economic development policy
• Economic geography
• Economics of innovation and technical change
• Public policy
• Regional analysis and development
• Urban, rural and regional economics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tom.kemeny@utoronto.ca

Tracy Lemos

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Comparative history of violence
• Dehumanization
• Family and Kinship
• Gender and the Bible
• Genocide Studies
• Masculinity
• Religion and Violence (especially violence in the Bible)
• Sexual Violence
• Trauma and Healing

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tracy.lemos@utoronto.ca

Tyeshia Redden

Assistant Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Community Development and Housing
• Humanistic Inquiry and Popular Culture
• Inequalities and Spatial justice
• Mega-project Development
• Social Policy and Planning

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: ty.redden@utoronto.ca

Uzoma Esonwanne

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • English
• Centres
  • Centre for Comparative Literature

Areas of Expertise

• African literature
• Colonial discourse theory
• Literary theory

Office: 416-946-3917
Home: 416-780-0479
Mobile: 416-780-0479
Languages: Igbo
Website
Email: uzoma.esonwanne@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Vanessa van den Boogaard

Senior Research Associate

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Areas of Expertise

• Informal economy/ informal sector/ informality
• International aid/ future of aid/ financing for development
• Sierra Leone
• Tax: conflict and statebuilding
• Taxation in lower income countries

Office: 416-566-5348
Website
Email: v.vandenbogaard@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Vicki Zhang

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

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

Areas of Expertise

• Critical pedagogy in financial education
• Ethics in life and annuity product design and marketing
• History of US life insurance sector and market since 1960s
• Internationalization of education (with a focus on China)
• Narrative-based mathematics education
• Risk management and life insurance
• Teaching humanities and ethics as part of financial education
• Technology and software in life and annuity design and valuation

Office: N/A
Languages: Mandarin
Website
Email: vickijing.zhang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

W Richard Peltier

Professor

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

Areas of Expertise

• Earth Evolution and Climate

Office: 416-978-2938
Languages: English
Website
Email: peltier@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online