Challenging Authority
Mass media now provides virtually immediate access to every vendor in the market place of ideas about science and technology. As well as increasing the uptake of new discoveries and innovations, mass media also provides a means for the general public to comment, question, and debate their significance. It has also sharpened public concerns about which voices are authoritative for public policy decisions about research, development, and deployment. Revelations about the influence of corporate funding and the lack of diversity in institutions conducting research raise legitimate doubts about their impartiality. But dissent and denial of institutionally recognized expertise can also be motivated by bias and self-interest. What constitutes responsible criticism of science and technology? How have similar crises of confidence been managed in the past? Are the lessons learned applicable to our situation today?
RESEARCHERS BY DEPARTMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY
Kisha Supernant, Associate Professor, Director Institute of Prairie and Indigenous ArchaeologyAreas of Teaching and Research: Archaeological mapping, Northwest Coast archaeology, indigenous archaeology, landscape archaeology
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~supernan/
ART & DESIGN
Natalie Loveless, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Visual and Performance Studies; Psychoanalysis; Literary, Feminist and Queer Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Radical and Critical Pedagogy; Feminist Art; New Genres; Intervention; Performance and Action Art; Art as Social Practice; Practice-Led Research and Research-Creation
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/natalie-loveless
Lianne McTavish, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: History of early modern visual culture, history of medicine, history of the body, critical museum theory, cultural studies, Early modern French visual culture with a specialization in images of health, healing, childbirth and anatomical dissection; history of museums with a specialization in critical museum theory
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/lianne-mctavish
Gavin Renwick, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Visual Thinking and Communication; Participatory Design; Practice-led Research; Sustainable Design; Cold Climate Design; Inter-Disciplinarity; Post-Colonial Aesthetics; Visual Culture; Indigenous Cultural Policy; Indigenous and Euro-Canadian Knowledge Parity; Circumpolar Studies; The Role of Art, Design and Architecture in Cultural and Political Self-Determination
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/gavin-renwick
DRAMA
Selena Couture, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Canadian Indigenous Theatre, Performance and Decolonizing practices; Land, Place Names and Performance; Indigenous Language Revitalization Practices; Colonial Performance and the Construction of Whiteness; Archival Practices; Resource Extraction and Refusal; Theoretical Approaches to Theatre and Performance; Canadian Theatre; Canadian Indigenous Performance; Theatre and Colonial Modernity; Decolonizing Research Methodologies in Performance Studies and Settler Responsibilities
https://www.ualberta.ca/drama/our-people/faculty Donia Mounsef, Professor Areas of Teaching and Research: Modern & Contemporary French/Francophone Theatre, Politics, Gender & Performance, Intermediality & Adaption theory, Performance as research.
https://www.ualberta.ca/drama/our-people/faculty/dr-donia-mounsef
ENGLISH & FILM STUDIES
Jordan Abel, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Creative Writing, Indigenous Literatures, Indigenous poetry and poetics, Intergenerational Trauma and Residential School narratives, Digital Humanities (text analysis), and Research Creation
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jordan-abel Jaimie Baron, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Film and Media Theory, Audiovisual Appropriation, Experimental Film and Video, Documentary Film and Video, the History of Technology and the Mediation of Human Experience, Digital Media, Critical Race Studies, Media and Criminal Justice, Remix Culture
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jaimie-baron Marie Carrière, Professor, Director of the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne, Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminism in Canadian, Indigenous and Québécois literature, with a focus on writings of crisis (social, planetary, or personal), intersectionality, affect, and feminist ethics of care in contemporary criticism
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/marie-carriere Jonathan Cohn, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Digital Culture and History, Critical Internet Studies, Film and Media, Postfeminist and Postracial discourses
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jonathan-cohn Danielle Fuller, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Reading Communities and Cultures of Reading in the USA, Canada and UK, Making Digital Things – Building as Reading Research, Atlantic Canadian Literary Culture, Mixed Methods Research and Feminist Epistemology
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/danielle-fuller Susan Hamilton, Professor, Associate Vice President Research (Social Sciences and Humanities)Areas of Teaching and Research: Media history of 19thC Animal Welfare Campaigns, and the Work of Seriality in Creating and Maintaining communities of action, History of 19
th Century Press and Feminism
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/susan-hamilton Louise Harrington, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Postcolonial and South Asian literatures, representations of war and ethno-religious-national conflict in the 20th and 21st centuries, literary and cinematic mediations of 20th century partitions mapping spaces of conflict
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/louise-harrington Sarah Krotz, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Canadian literature, especially 19
th-century, Literary Cartography, Geopoetics, Geocriticism, Natural Writing, Ecocriticism, Colonialism, Settlement; Treaty Relationships
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/sarah-krotz
Michael Litwack, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Comparative Media Theory; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Digital Studies; Screen Cultures; Genealogies of Media and Mediation; Transnational U.S. American Studies; Feminist and Queer Studies; Critical Theory (Black Cultural Theory, Technology, Post/humanisms
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/michael-litwack Onookome Okome, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Race and literature, colonialism and 20th century Africa, African literature, African cinema, postcolonial literature and theory
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/onookome-okome
Teresa Zackodnik, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Black feminisms, Print Culture and circulation, the Black Press, periodical studies, Race and Cultural Theory, Black feminist internationalism, feminist Black nationalism
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/teresa-zackodnik
HISTORY & CLASSICS
Crystal Fraser, Phd student,
Research: ‘Making Them Into Nice White Kids’: Residential Institutions, Education, and Indigenous Resistance in the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, 1950s to 1996
https://www.ualberta.ca/history-classics/people/graduate-students
Beverly Lemire, Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Areas of Teaching and Research: Economic, social, and gendered impacts of changes in material culture, 1600 to 1850 (the advent of the early global era and first industrial era) and impact of Asian trade on world societies
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/beverly-lemire Francois Pageau, PhD student,Research: From Turlupins to Vaudois: Heresy and Witchcraft in Arras, 1420-1460
https://www.ualberta.ca/history-classics/people/graduate-students Liza Piper, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Histories of environmental activism, natural resources and energy, health, and Climate in Northern & Western Canada
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/liza-piper
MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES
Chris Reyns, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Cultural Studies; Comics Studies; French & Francophone Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; 20th and 21st Century Studies; Transcultural Studies; Children's Literature; European Studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/modern-languages-and-cultural-studies/people/professors Victoria Ruetalo, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Cultural Studies; Film, Media, and Image Studies; Literary & Critical Theory; Spanish & Latin American
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/victoria-ruetalo Carrie Smith, Chair, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Digital Feminisms, Feminist Media Studies, Performance Art, Popfeminism, Scholar-activism and Feminist Leadership
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/carrie-smith
MUSIC
Mark Hannesson, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Acoustic Composition, Electroacoustic Composition, Human-Computer Interaction, Improvisation, Visual Representation of Music
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/mark-hannesson Scott Smallwood, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Sound Art / Installation, Field Recording, Acoustic Ecology, Phonography, Solarsonics, Interactive Technologies & Games
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/scott-smallwood Michael Frishkopf, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Music and Global health; Social Network Theory; Digital Music Repositories; Music Information Retrieval; Music in Cyberworlds
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/michael-frishkopf
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Laurie Adkin, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Political Economy, Gender And Sexuality Studies, Petrocultures, Greening Production, European Studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/laurie-adkin Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Comparative Indigenous politics, gender and indigeneity, Indigenous feminism and resistance, resource extraction, bodies and consent
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/isabel-altamirano-jimenez Cressida J Heyes, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/cressida-j-heyes Fiona Nicoll, Associate Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Critical Gambling Studies, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Indigenous knowledges and STS, theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/fiona-nicoll
SOCIOLOGY
Stephen Kent, Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: controversial sects, cults, and alternative religions, sociology of religion; social psychology, religious sectarianism; fundamentalism, and the sociology of deviance and conformity
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/stephen-kent Sourayan Mookerjea, Associate Professor, Director, Intermedia Research Studio, Areas of Teaching and Research: Commons Theory, Decolonizing Critical Theory, Intermedia Research Creation
Development Dispossession
Temitope Oriola, Associate Professor,Areas of Teaching and Research: Resource conflicts and concomitant “governmental crimes”; use of force and weaponization of the police, and terrorism studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/temitope-oriola
WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES
Tracy Bear, Assistant Professor, Areas of Teaching and Research: Indigenous methodological approaches to education, decolonialism, outreach
https://www.ualberta.ca/native-studies/about-us/contact-us-people/faculty/tracy-bear
Beth Capper, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research: History and Theory of Feminist Media and Performance in relation to Labour, Social movements, and the Politics of Aesthetics
https://www.ualberta.ca/womens-gender-studies/people/post-docs Michelle Meagher, Associate Professor and Chair, Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminist Art and Art History (esp. late 20th century North American) Body studies; Feminist Cultural Studies; Ageing and Art; Feminist generational politics; and the Feminist seventies.
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/michelle-meagher
