Faculty of Information

Alan Galey

Associate Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Centres
  • Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Program

Areas of Expertise

• Digital humanities
• History of books
• History of information
• History of media
• Publishing and reading

Office: N/A
Website
Email: alan.galey@utoronto.ca
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Andrew Clement

Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information

Areas of Expertise

• Identity documentation and systems
• Information infrastructure
• information/communications technologies
• Internet
• Net neutrality
• Privacy
• Social implications of new media

Office: 416-978-3111
Home: 416-922-0251
Website
Email: andrew.clement@utoronto.ca
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Brett Caraway

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Centres
  • Institute of Communication and Culture (UTM)

Areas of Expertise

• Copyright and intellectual property law
• Electronic commerce and media economics
• Fake news
• Internet history
• Internet law and communication policy
• Online social media
• Social movements

Office: 905-569-4503
Mobile: 416-561-2501
Email: brett.caraway@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Cara Krmpotich

Associate Professor, Faculty of Information

Director, Museum Studies Program

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Information

Areas of Expertise

• Collections management
• Museum – Indigenous relations
• Museum studies
• Repatriation

Office: 416-978-7802
Website
Email: cara.krmpotich@utoronto.ca
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Cosmin Munteanu

Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Institute of Communication and Culture (UTM)

Areas of Expertise

• Digital marginalization
• Ethics
• Health and assistive technologies
• Mobile technologies
• Technologies for older adults
• UX design
• Voice interaction

Office: 905-569-4294
Website
Email: cosmin.munteanu@utoronto.ca
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Irina D. Mihalache

Assistant Professor, Department of Museum Studies, Faculty of Information

Assistant Professor, Culinaria Research Center, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Campus
  • St. George
  • U of T Scarborough
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Museum Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Curatorial practice
• Domestic kitchens and material culture
• Food and museums
• Food media
• Historic culinary ephemera (cookbooks and menus)
• Museum interpretation
• Museums and migrants
• Restaurant cultures

Office: 416-946-5364
Languages: Romanian, French
Website
Email: irina.mihalache@utoronto.ca
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Kelly Lyons

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

Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Computer Science
• Centres
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Collaborative systems
• Information systems
• Service science
• Social media
• Women in technology

Office: 416-946-3839
Mobile: 416-518-3937
Website
Email: kelly.lyons@utoronto.ca
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Leslie Shade

Assistant Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Information

Areas of Expertise

• Canadian media and digital policy
• Gender and media
• Privacy and social media
• Youth and media

Office: 416-978-7110
Website
Email: leslie.shade@utoronto.ca
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Lynne Howarth

Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Information
• Centres
  • Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
  • Institute for Life Course and Aging

Areas of Expertise

• Alzheimer's disease and memory recall strategies
• Categorizing
• Cultural objects and community-building
• Hand-crafted indigenous artifacts from residential schools
• Mild dementia and memory recall strategies
• sorting

Office: 416-978-4666
Mobile: 416-346-7260
Website
Email: lynne.howarth@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Brower

Assistant Professor, Department of Museum Studies, Faculty of Information

Director, Department of Museum Studies, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Museum Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Animal studies
• Contemporary art
• Museum exhibitions
• Photography

Office: 416-978-3035
Website
Email: matthew.brower@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Ratto

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information

Areas of Expertise

• 3D printing (medical and industrial use)
• Critical making
• New technologies and prosthetics and orthotics
• Social impact of machine learning
• STS (Science Technology Studies)

Office: 416-946-5415
Mobile: 416-666-4981
Website
Email: matt.ratto@utoronto.ca
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Nadia Caidi

Associate Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information

Areas of Expertise

• Culture and production
• Information policy
• Information practices of ethno-cultural communities; Information seeking behaviour of marginal communities
• New media and policy: access
• Post 9/11 information environment
• Privacy
• Social impacts of technology
• use of information and its technologies

Office: 416-978-4664
Languages: French
Website
Email: nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca
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Paolo Granata

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Information, McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Centres
  • McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology

Areas of Expertise

• Harold Innis
• Italian politics
• Marshall McLuhan
• Media ecology
• Philosophy of technology
• The Toronto School of Communication
• Toronto Creative City

Office: 416 978 7026
Mobile: 647 550 6513
Website
Email: paolo.granata@utoronto.ca
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Patrick Keilty

Assistant Professor, Department of Information, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Information
• Centres
  • Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

Areas of Expertise

• Databases
• Digital studies
• Gender
• Human-computer interaction
• Media theory
• Pornography
• Race and technology
• Sexuality
• Visual criticism

Office: 416-946-3809
Website
Email: p.keilty@utoronto.ca
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Periklis Andritsos

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information

Areas of Expertise

• Big Data analytics
• Cluster analysis
• Data management
• Data mining

Office: 416-978-1773
Languages: Greek, Italian
Website
Email: periklis.andritsos@utoronto.ca
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Peter Pennefather

Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
  • Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Pharmacology
  • Physiology
• Centres
  • Centre for the Study of Pain
  • Institute of Medical Science
  • Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)

Areas of Expertise

• Biophysics
• Digital health
• Global health
• Information
• Knowledge design

Office: 416-978-6607
Home: 416-461-0606
Mobile: 647-773-3987
Languages: French
Website
Email: p.pennefather@utoronto.ca
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Sara Grimes

Associate Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information

Areas of Expertise

• Children and digital culture
• Children and digital media
• Children and media
• Children's literature and controversy
• Digital games/videogames

Office: N/A
Website
Email: sara.grimes@utoronto.ca
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Seamus Ross

Professor, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information

Areas of Expertise

• Authenticity and provenance of data and digital materials
• Data science and curation
• Databases
• Digital humanities
• Digital preservation and curation
• Information use
• Multimedia

Office: 416 978 5763
Mobile: 416 561 3063
Website
Email: seamus.ross@utoronto.ca
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Victoria McArthur

Professor

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Centres
  • Institute of Communication and Culture (UTM)

Areas of Expertise

• Gender and representation in video games
• Gender and technology
• Massively-multiplayer online games

Office: TBA
Website
Email: victoria.mcarthur@utoronto.ca
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Wendy Duff

Professor, Faculty of Information

Dean, Faculty of Information

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Information
• Department
  • Information

Areas of Expertise

• Archival access
• Archives
• Digital curation
• Records management

Office: 416-978-3202
Website
Email: wendy.duff@utoronto.ca
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