ANTHROPOLOGY

Sara Komarnisky, Adjunct Professor

Areas of Research: Social and cultural anthropology of North America, Colonialism, Globalization, Health, Material culture, Migration, Mobility, Transnationalism, Ethnography, Qualitative methods

Kathleen Lowrey, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Lowland South American anthropology, South American ethnohistory, comparative ethnohistory of South and North America, economic anthropology, disability studies, feminism, and the relationship of historical and contemporary evolutionary theory to anthropology
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/klowrey

Helen Vallianatos, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Anthropology of food, gender, body, health, mobilities & immigration, anthropology of the senses
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/helen-vallianatos

ART & DESIGN

Helen Gerritzen, Academic Staff
Areas of Research: Symbol and myth, visual metaphors relating to the body, the dualistic relationship of desire/transformation and power/gender, the body as a product of language and knowledge, the physical mortal body
https://www.helengerritzen.com/

Robert Lederer, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Industrial design, medical design
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/robert-lederer.html

Lianne McTavish, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Early modern French visual culture, images of health, healing, childbirth and anatomical dissection, history of museums, critical museum theory
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/lianne-mctavish.html

Brad Necyk, Contract Instructor
Areas of Research: Art + Medicine
https://www.bradnecyk.com/

Marilène Oliver, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Studio art with a focus in printmaking, sculpture, video and intermedia, digital medical imaging and contemporary art
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/marilene-oliver

Aidan Rowe, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Visual communication design, interactive new media, human computer interaction, design for health, design education, design theory, critical design, design futures, systemic design, information design, curatorial practice
https://www.ualberta.ca/art-design/people/teachingfaculty/aidan-rowe.html


ECONOMICS

Pinar Gunes, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Labor economics, development economics, health economics
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/gunes

Christopher McCabe, Adjunct Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Economic evaluation, CEA modelling, economic evaluation, health policy, methods of eco, reimbursement, VoI, Value Engineered Translation
https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/about/people/christopher-mccabe

Mesbah Sharaf, Full Teaching Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Development, health, population economics
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/sharaf

ENGLISH & FILM STUDIES

Cecily Devereux, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: The representation and circulation of images and ideologies of femininity and the maternal body in popular cultural (especially Anglo-imperial contexts after 1850), imperial motherhood, colonial girlhood, eugenic feminism, the figure of the white slave, the imperial idea of the "Indian maiden," hysteria, erotic dancers, Anne of Green Gables, feminist theory in Canada, femininity and comics, and chick lit
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/devereux

Megan Farnel, Ph.D. Student
Research: Loving Labour Online, affective materialism and digital labour

Lucinda Rasmussen, Associate Lecturer
Areas of Teaching and Research: Auto/biographical representations of women, literature and popular culture in twentieth and twenty-first century America, postfeminism, breast cancer memoirs, the figure of the ageing woman in literature and visual culture, the problem of white feminism, misogyny and midlife ageism in prestige television
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/lmr4

 

HISTORY & CLASSICS

Lech Lebiedowski, Assistant Lecturer
Areas of Teaching and Research: Science, technology and medicine in Russia, Eastern Europe and the former USSR
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/lech

Liza Piper, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Coal mining in Alberta, the Canadian state's involvement in food and diet in the North, the ecology of epidemic Polio
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/epiper
 

Dagmar Wujastyk, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: History & literature of classical Indian medicine (Ayurveda) and iatrochemistry (rasaśāstra), and South Asian history
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/dagmar-wujastyk

Dominik Wujastyk, Professor & Saroj and Prem Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
Areas of Teaching and Research: History and culture of pre-modern India, Sanskrit language and literature, Indian knowledge systems: āyurveda (medicine), yoga, vyākaraṇa (linguistics), manuscript studies, Indian textual criticism and editorial technique, history of science in South Asia
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/dominik-wujastyk

MODERN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES

Reisa Klein, Lecturer
Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminist media studies and theory, Fdigital cultures and tattooing practices, mastectomies
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/reisa

Daniel Laforest, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Health and medical humanities, Quebec and Canadian literatures, French and francophone studies, literature and philosophy, literary and critical theory, media, film and image studies, cultural studies
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/dlafores

Megan Perram, Postdoctoral Fellow
Research: Understanding the diseasing of deviant femininity through the pathology of individuals with hyperandrogenism
https://www.ualberta.ca/womens-gender-studies/people/graduates/gsj/megan-perram.html

MUSIC

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://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/michaelf


PHILOSOPHY

Ingo Brigandt, Professor and CRC
Areas of Teaching and Research: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/  

 

Edwin Etieyibo, Adjunct Professor (University of the Witwatersrand)
Areas of Teaching and Research:  Ethics, Disability Studies, Social and Political Philosophy, African Philosophy
https://www.ualberta.ca/philosophy/people/other-academics.html
 
Derek Sellman, Adjunct Professor (Nursing, University of Alberta)
Areas of Teaching and Research: Philosophy of Nursing, Nursing Ethics, Virtue Ethics
https://www.ualberta.ca/philosophy/people/other-academics.html
 
Jennifer Welchman, Professor 
Areas of Teaching and Research:  Environmental Ethics, Ethics, History of Ethics, Aesthetics,Bioethics
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jennifer-welchman
 

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE

John Church, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Health care, health policy, the way in which contexts, ideas, interests and institutions interact in public policy formulation
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/churchj

Cressida J. Heyes, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/cheyes

PSYCHOLOGY

Cor Baerveldt, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Self, Emotion, Culture
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/cor
 

Jeff Bisanz, Professor Emeritus
Areas of Research: Cognitive development in children with a focus on mathematical thinking and instruction
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jbisanz

Mike Dawson, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Biological computation, foundations of cognitive science
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/mdawson

Ben Dyson, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Decision-making in competitive environments, behavioural and electrophysiological measures
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/bjdyson  

Nancy Galambos, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Mental health trajectories in the transition to adulthood
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/galambos  

Dana A. Hayward, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cognitive neuroscience, spatial attention
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/dana1

Wendy Hoglund, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: How social, cultural and individual processes affect the social and emotional development of vulnerable children and adolescents
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/hoglund

Sheree Kwong See, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cognitive changes in aging, age stereotyping in children, ageism in health care
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/kwongsee

Taka Masuda, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cultural variations in cognition, emotion, and motivation, multiculturalism, bilingualism, acculturation, language acquisition, socialization processes of cultural practices
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/tmasuda

Weimin Mou, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Spatial cognition, spatial memories, immersive virtual environments
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~wmou/lab/members/Mou.html

Kyle Nash, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Basic neural, motivational and emotional mechanisms in personal convictions, social decisions and intergroup behaviours
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/knash

Kim Noels, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Cultural & Social Psychology, Applied and Sociolinguistics, Communication science
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/~knoels/personal/

Jennifer Passey, Teaching Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Social and Cultural Psychology
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~jpassey/

David Rast III, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Social psychology of leadership and influence, the role of social identity processes in shaping group and organizational behavior
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/rastiii

Jeff Schimel, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Psychological function of beliefs about self and world, including self-esteem & cultural worldviews/beliefs about reality
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jschimel

Thomas Spalding, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Learning, comprehension, conceptualization, inference
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/spalding

Yao Zheng, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Influences of family & peer processes shaping developmental trajectories of problem behaviors
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/zheng13


SOCIOLOGY

Zohreh BayatRizi, Associate Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: history of sociology, knowledge and power, law and society, sociology of death and dying, sociology of Iran, interconnections of sociological research and social policy.
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/bayatriz

Alison Dunwoody, Full Teaching Lecturer
Areas of Teaching and Research: Health and illness
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/dunwoody

Nicole Eshkakogan, Ph.D. Student
Areas of Research: Indigenous social epidemiology, health equity and anti-oppression praxis, Indigenous Ways of Knowing and scientific methodologies, evidence based decision making, health and well-being of Indigenous people in Canada

Jana Grekul, Assistant Professor and Director of Criminology Program
Areas of Teaching and Research: Eugenics and sterilization in Alberta
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/jgrekul

Leslie Hayduk, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Social psychology's connection to physiology, neurons, genetics and neuroscience
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/lhayduk

Amy Kaler, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Sexual and reproductive health in Sub-Saharan Africa, the cultural, social and institutional dimensions of public health interventions
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/akaler

Robyn Lee, Assistant Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Health, contemporary philosophies of bodies and embodiment, feminist philosophy and theory, care work and human reproduction, environments and health
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/robyn5

Herbert C. Northcott, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Population studies, health, medicine and aging
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/hnorthco

Lisa Strohschein, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Sociology of health and illness, sociology of mental health
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/las5

Frank Trovato, Professor
Areas of Teaching and Research: Fertility patterns and differentials, health and mortality conditions of migrant populations
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/ftrovato
 

WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES

Professor Susanne Luhman
Areas of Teaching and Research: Trauma and Cultural Memory, Queer and feminist pedagogy, Sexuality Studies
https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/luhmann