Faculty and Associates

Tozun Bahcheli

Tozun Bahcheli

Professor Emeritus, Political Science, King's University College

Research Interests / Specializations: Turkish foreign policy issues, Greek-Turkish relations and Cypriot politics
Dale Ballucci

Dale Ballucci

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Criminology, the administration of the criminal justice system, police response to prolific high-risk offenders and sex crimes, legal regulation of children and youth, sociology of law, sociology of knowledge, the sociology of childhood, governance, risk technologies, and criminal justice policy.
SSC 5403
519-661-2111 ext. 85140
dballucc@uwo.ca

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Bob Barney

Bob Barney

Professor Emeritus, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: "Nation-bulding" through the Olympic Games; sport and social impact; sport for development and peace
Room 11-J, Alumni Hall
519 850-2340 x82340
rkbarney@uwo.ca

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Isaac Bayor

Isaac Bayor

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: peacebuilding, customary practices of justice
Greg Beckett

Greg Beckett

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Crisis, disaster, and trauma, responses to crisis, especially in forms of humanitarian intervention, Haiti
Dan Bousfield

Dan Bousfield

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Social movements, protest and critical political economy, with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, gender, technology, pedagogy and resistance
SSC 4084
519.661.2111 ext. 85114
dbousfie@uwo.ca

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Oana Branzei

Oana Branzei

Associate Professor, Ivey Business School

Research Interests / Specializations: Pro-social functions of business, from social enterprises and cross-sector partnerships to global NGOs and multinational conglomerates.
IVEY 1N54
519-661-4114 ext 84114
obranzei@ivey.ca

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Chi Carmody

Chi Carmody

Associate Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Public International Law, International Trade Law, Legal Theory and International Organizations
LB 107
519-661-2111 ext 88437
ccarmody@uwo.ca

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Michael Coyle

Michael Coyle

Associate Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Aboriginal justice, talking circles, and dispute resolution
LB 23
519-661-2111 ext 88453
mcoyle@uwo.ca

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Regna Darnell

Regna Darnell

Distinguished Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor”

Research Interests / Specializations: Linguistic, Symbolic and Humanistic Anthropology Anthropological Theory, Critical Theory, Indigenous Knowledge Qualitative and Collaborative Methods History of Anthropology and Linguistics; Ethnohistory Indigenous Peoples of North America (Cree, Ojibwe. Slave, Mohawk, Kwakwaka’wakw, Interior Salish) Sub-Saharan Africa Canadian Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and National Identity Ethnographic Theory; Poetics; Genres of Ethnographic Writing Medical Anthropology; Cultural Constructions of Health and Illness; Ecosystem Health; Public Health Contemporary Nomads; Urban Indians; Indigenous Health Documentary Editing; Archival Research Methods
Marta Dyczok

Marta Dyczok

Associate Professor, Political Science and History

Research Interests / Specializations: Media migration and post-communism in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and specifically Ukraine
SSC 4414
519-661-2111 ext 84982
mdyczok@uwo.ca

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Samar El-Masri

Samar El-Masri

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Transitional justice, civil society, women's human rights and Middle East politics
KUC DL311
519 433-3491 x4473
selmasr2@uwo.ca

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Julia Emberley

Julia Emberley

Professor, English

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous testimonial practices, Residential schools, Literary Criticism & Theory, Postcolonial, Women's Literature & Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
UC 382
519-661-2111 ext 85840
jemberle@uwo.ca

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Randa Farah

Randa Farah

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Oral history and memory among Palestinian refugees; generational and gender relations
SSC 3423A
519-661-2111 ext 85088
rfarah2@uwo.ca

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Jim Freedman

Jim Freedman

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Governance and poverty reduction in conflict-affected and fragile environments
Alain Goldschlager

Alain Goldschlager

Professor, French Literature

Research Interests / Specializations: Le roman du XXe siècle, Théories littéraires, Sémiotique, Analyse des discours, Littérature comparée, Littérature de l'holocauste.
AHB 2R08A
519 661-3820 x83820
agold@uwo.ca

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Amanda Grzyb

Amanda Grzyb

Professor, Information and Media Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Genocide and state violence (El Salvador, Rwanda, the Holocaust, Sudan); museums, memorials, and commemoration processes; media and the public interest; social movements; and community resistance to metallic mining.
NCB 443
519-661-2111 ext 88012
agrzyb@uwo.ca

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Bernie Hammond

Bernie Hammond

Professor Emeritus ~ Social Justice and Peace Studies/Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Social Justice locally and globally, inequality, poverty, politics and conflict around mining in Central and South America, participant in SSHRC funded project, “Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador”, director of project: Amanda Grzyb
KUC LH202
433-3491 ext 4380
bhammond@uwo.ca

Adam Harmes

Adam Harmes

Associate Professor, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: US and Canadian foreign policy, conservative and progressive movements, political strategy and communications techniques
SSC 4155
519-661-2111 ext 85173
aharmes@uwo.ca

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Michael Heine

Michael Heine

Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: Discourse analysis of Olympic spaces; economic processes and commodification in sports; Aboriginal Games documentation in sub-Arctic and Arctic Canada; sport and social impact
Rm. 335, HSB
519 661-2111 x84113
mheine@uwo.ca

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Ted Hewitt

Ted Hewitt

Professor, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Social movements and population health, local government, and international cooperation for urban development in Latin America
SSC 6242
519-661-2111 ext 83606
hewitt@uwo.ca

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David Howe

David Howe

Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: Sport, Development and Peace (SDP); human rights and disability as related to SDP
AHB 3R08A
519-661-2111 ext 84458
david.howe@uwo.ca

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Tracy Isaacs

Tracy Isaacs

Professor, Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Action theory, ethics, feminist ethics
UC 2230
519-661-2111 ext 85747
tisaacs@uwo.ca

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Shimelis Kene

Shimelis Kene

Assistant Professor (Limited-Term), Faculty of Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Public International law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Law and society, Postcolonial Theory
Law Building 100B
519-661-2111 x88598
skene@uwo.ca

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Susan Knabe

Susan Knabe

Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Information and Media Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Sexuality in relation to genocide and in relation to post-coloniality, trauma and memory
Lawson Hall 3235
519-661-2111 ext 85112
sknabe@uwo.ca

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Kate Korycki

Kate Korycki

Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research

Research Interests / Specializations: Identity politics, memory in transition (and amnesia in non-transition) societies, narratives and imaginaries of belonging, intersections of gender, class and race, French post-structuralism, communist feminism vs. anti-communist feminism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism
Rande Kostal

Rande Kostal

Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Legal reconstruction of Germany and Japan post-World War II
LB 113
519-661-2111 ext 88415
rwk@uwo.ca

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Erica Lawson

Erica Lawson

Associate Professor - Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Women as peacebuilders, SGBV, Liberian peace huts, feminist and critical race theories; grief and maternal activism
Lawson Hall 3234
519-661-2111 x86941
elawso3@uwo.ca

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Tracy Lemos

Tracy Lemos

Professor, Theology, Huron University College

Research Interests / Specializations: The comparative history of violence; recovery and healing from violence; genocide studies; personhood; masculinity; religion and violence.
Yadira  Lizama-Mué

Yadira Lizama-Mué

Postdoctoral Associate, The CulturePlex Lab

Research Interests / Specializations: Digital Peacebuilding, Children and Transitional Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science
UC3304
519-661-2111 x86886
ylizama@uwo.ca

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Ryan Liss

Ryan Liss

Assistant Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Public International Law, Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law
LB 13
519-661-2111 x88434
rliss@uwo.ca

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Michael Lynk

Michael Lynk

Emeritus Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: International and domestic human rights and humanitarian law, labour law
LB 101a
519-661-2111 ext 88436
mslynk@uwo.ca

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Margaret Martin

Margaret Martin

Associate Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Legal philosophy, international human rights
LB 20
519-661-2111 ext 81568
mmart2@uwo.ca

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Laura Misener

Laura Misener

Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: Social impact of sport and events
AHB 3R08B
519-661-2111 ext 86000
laura.misener@uwo.ca

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Nigmendra Narain

Nigmendra Narain

Lecturer, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist theory, India and Pakistan, South Asian women's organizations
SSC 4149
519-661-2111 ext 85108
nnarain@uwo.ca

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Andrew Nelson

Andrew Nelson

Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology, Human Skeletal Biology, Paleoradiology, Hominid Evolution, Paleopathology, Archaeometry, Mummy Studies - Peru (North Coast), Egypt
SSC 3410
519-661-2111 ext 85101
anelson@uwo.ca

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Sarah Nimigan

Sarah Nimigan

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: International Criminal Court, international criminal law
Sid Noel

Sid Noel

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Politics of power sharing in deeply divided societies, federalism and consociationalism, conditions conducive to the success or failure of constitutional accords
Valerie Oosterveld

Valerie Oosterveld

Professor, Faculty of Law and Director, TJ Centre

Research Interests / Specializations: International criminal accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes; sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict; gender-sensitive transitional justice; outer space law and armed conflict
LB 21
519-661-2111 ext 80037
vooster@uwo.ca

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Donna Pennee

Donna Pennee

Professor, English

Research Interests / Specializations: Cultural nationalism and policy in relation to globalization, critical race studies in Canadian literary history
Arts & Humanities Building 2G19A
519-661-2111 ext. 85825
dpennee@uwo.ca

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Joanna Quinn

Joanna Quinn

Professor, Political Science and Director, TJ Centre (Currently on leave)

Research Interests / Specializations: Role of acknowledgement in overcoming the effects of human rights abuses after conflict and in settler colonial societies; traditional justice practices in Uganda, Fiji; truth commissions in Uganda, Haiti
SSC 4158
519-661-2111 ext 85172
jquinn2@uwo.ca

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Felipe Quintanilla

Felipe Quintanilla

Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures

Research Interests / Specializations: Hispanic identity, belonging, and war; diasporic strategies of remembrance in post-war El Salvador; militarism and activism
UC 3313
519-661-2111 ext. 85865
fquinta@uwo.ca

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Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon

Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Canadian foreign policy-making, United Nations, human rights, women's rights, NGOs
Scott Schaffer

Scott Schaffer

Associate Professor, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary global social theory; xenosociology, social exclusion/inclusion, and social ethics; necroethics and conceptions and practices of human value.
SSC 5411
519-661-2111 ext 85122
sschaff2@uwo.ca

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Frank Schumacher

Frank Schumacher

Associate Professor, History

Research Interests / Specializations: Global history of mass violence, colonialism and empires, resistance and rescue in genocides, international and transnational history, globalization, the United States in world affairs
LH 2235
519-661-2111 ext 84987
fschuma@uwo.ca

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Megan Shore

Megan Shore

Associate Professor, Social Justice and Peace Studies, King's University College (Currently on Leave)

Research Interests / Specializations: Role of Religion in Post-Conflict Reconstruction
KUC FB109
519-433-3491 ext 4519
mshore2@uwo.ca

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Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

Professor, Information & Media Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Media and visual culture, political theory, human rights, and the social imaginary
FIMS & Nursing Building, Room Suite 2050
519-661-2111 ext 88473
ssliwins@uwo.ca

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Juan-Luis Suarez

Juan-Luis Suarez

Professor, Digital Humanities; Director, The Cultureplex Lab

Research Interests / Specializations: Digital Humanities; Cultural Networks; Analysis of Peace Agreements.
Glorieuse  Uwizeye

Glorieuse Uwizeye

Assistant Professor, Nursing

Research Interests / Specializations: Intergenerational health effects of exposure to socio-political and racial violence; health impacts of genocide against the Tutsi; epigenetic mechanisms linking prenatal exposure to genocide or genocidal rape and adulthood health outcomes.
Jonathan Vance

Jonathan Vance

Undergraduate Chair, Department of History

Research Interests / Specializations: Military history, Canadian history, social memory, First World War, Canadian culture, and prisoners of war
Lawson Hall 2247
519-661-2111 ext 84974
jvance@uwo.ca

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Robert Ventresca

Robert Ventresca

Professor of History at King's University College

Research Interests / Specializations: Religion in historical mass violence and genocide; Holocaust history and memory; transitional justice; post-conflict reconstruction; truth and reconciliation; war crimes trials; human rights
LH 202
519-433-3491 x4370
rventres@uwo.ca

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Kim Verwaayen

Kim Verwaayen

Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian women's literature and Indigenous women's writing; trauma and testimony studies; feminist theory, particularly feminist literay theory, postmoden, poststructuralist, postcolonial feminisms, global and Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous women's activism in Canada; intersubjectivity and (other) theories of relation; feminist pedagogy; internationalization
LwH 3236
519-661-2111 ext 84684
kjverwaa@uwo.ca

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Pauline Wakeham

Pauline Wakeham

Associate Professor, English

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous literary and cultural studies; Indigenous reparations movements; discourses of reconciliation and settler colonial critique
UC 381
519-661-2111 ext 85815
pwakeham@uwo.ca

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Karolina Werner

Karolina Werner

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous governance, peace, inclusion, UNDRIP, Africa
Jerry White

Jerry White

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous peoples’ well-being; Indigenous Education ; Truth and Reconciliation.
SSC 9438
519-661-2053
white@uwo.ca

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Carl Young

Carl Young

Associate Professor, History

Research Interests / Specializations: Religious social movements, nationalism, and imperialism in modern Asia, centering especially on Korea and Japan
Lawson Hall 2228
519-661-2111 ext. 84910
cyoung73@uwo.ca

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