Faculty

Tania Li 

Professor at Anthorpology Department, University of Toronto

Research fields: land, labour, class, capitalism, resources and indigeneity in relation to the broad theme of rural development in Indonesia

Contribution to University Worlds: overall coordination, students engagement, research in university as an employer

Mark Hunter 

Professor of Geography Department, U of T’s Scarborough campus.

Research fields: history of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa, history of the segregation and desegregation of South Africa’s schooling system

Contribution to University Worlds: research paper “Why Students Drop Out of UTSC.”

Natalie Rothman 

Associate Professor of History and the Chair of the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at UTSC.

Research fields: history of cultural mediation, genealogies of Orientalism, and the relationship between translation and empire.

Contribution to University Worlds: archives, research in digital scholarship methods

Mariana Valverde

Professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Research fields: sociolegal theory, historical sociology, sexuality studies, and urban governance and law.

Contribution to University Worlds: research in “University as a Financial Actor”

Girish Daswani 

Associate Professor at Anthorpology Department, UTSC

Research fields: religion, ethics, transnationalism, corruption and activism in Ghana

Contribution to University Worlds: research in University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) students experience, transnationalism, and concept of home

Anne Emanuelle Birn

Professor of Critical Development Studies (UTSC) and of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) at UT St George.

Research fields: history, politics, and political economy of international/global health

Contribution to University Worlds: research in ethical responsibility of universities and other health-harming corporate sources

Deborah Cowen

Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at UT St George

Research fields: the intersections of infrastructure, race and urban space.

Contribution to University Worlds: research in activism on and off campus on issues of race, equity and diversity

Alissa Trotz 

Professor of Caribbean Studies and Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Research fields: Caribbean and foreground neoliberalisation, social reproduction, labour flexibilization, transnational migration, diaspora, and extractivism.

Contribution to University Worlds: research in histories and practices of campus community activism

Gavin Smith

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto; and Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 

Research fields: ethnographic work in South America and Western Europe

Contribution to University Worlds: track experiments in novel forms of higher education in Europe

Paul Hamel 

Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology in the faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Contribution to University Worlds: research in university as a financial actor

Beatrice Jauregui 

Assistant Professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, U of T

Research fields: anthropology of police and security

Contribution to University Worlds: research on Campus Police

Leslie Chan

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, and Associate Director of the Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough.

Research fields: the role of openness in the design of inclusive knowledge infrastructure

Contribution to University Worlds: research on transparency and security of learning system management and international students experience