Alexandra Boutros
Associate Professor
- Critical race theory
- Diaspora and globalization
- Critical cultural theory
- Religion and media
- Digital media, social media, alternative media
- Social movements
- Popular culture
- Ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, augmented reality
Colleen Kim Daniher
Assistant Professor
- Communication Arts
- Feminist and decolonial media studies
- Theatre and performance studies
Greig de Peuter
Associate Professor
- Political economy of communication
- Autonomist Marxism
- Labour, employment, and workers’ organizations in the creative industries
- Political economy of video games
- Alternative economies
Jonathan Finn
Associate Professor
- Visual culture
- Visual communication
- Visual evidence
- Mediated sport
- Surveillance
- History and theory of photography
Jenna Hennebry
Associate Professor
Director, International Migration Research Centre
- International migration
- Mobility, transnationalism
- Labour migration and temporary foreign worker programs
- Immigration policies and migration governance
- Migration flows and trends
- Migrant rights, health and social protection
- Remittances, ICTs and development
- Political economy of migration
- Regional expertise: Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Spain
Andrew Herman
Associate Professor
- Social theory/media theory/cultural theory
- Qualitative research methodologies of the Internet and digital media
- Mobile media and the mobile Internet
- Materialist media studies
- Critical Internet studies
- Cultures of production, creativity, and innovation in the digital economy
Jeremy Hunsinger
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator
- Internet research
- Internet politics and policy
- Internet theory and culture
- Infrastructures and their governance
- Interpretive methods
- Online and computer games
- Social media and social software
- Virtual reality and virtual world
Penelope Ironstone
Associate Professor
- Health and risk communication
- Cultural studies of science and medicine
- Pandemics and culture
- Popular culture
- Queer media studies
- Governmentality and communication
Barbara Jenkins
Professor
- Cultural economy
- The Creative City
- Cultural policy
- Design discourses
- Critical museum studies
- Psychoanalytic theory
Sara Matthews
Associate Professor
- War
- Memory
- Contemporary art
- Psychoanalysis
- Social conflict
- Museums
- Public pedagogy
- Drone warfare
Jade Miller
Assistant Professor
- Global media flows
- Media industries
- Media capitals
- Global cities
- Urban and regional agglomeration in creative production
- Global networks in media industries
- Distribution studies
Judith Nicholson
Associate Professor
- Mediated mobilities
- Smart mobbing
- Flash mobbing
- Lynching imagery
H. F. Pimlott
Associate Professor
- Political communication (Canada, U.K.)
- Alternative and radical media
- Social movements and media (including social media)
- Journalism and print communication (versus digital media)
- Postsecondary issues (Canada, U.K.)
Nathan Rambukkana
Assistant Professor
- Discourse analysis
- Queer theory
- Cultural studies
- Critical intimacy theory
- Digital intimacies
- Public sphere theory
- Representation of non-monogamies (e.g., polyamory, polygamy, adultery)
- Hybridities and diasporic identities
- Mixed-race identities in the media
- Digital intimacies
- Hashtags and hashtag publics
Ian Roderick
Associate Professor
- Technology and society
- Visual discourse analysis
- Visual communication and disciplinary vision
- Multimodal discourse analysis
- Critical military studies
Karen Stote
Assistant Professor
- Intersectional feminism(s)
- Reproductive rights and justice
- Coerced sterilization
- Colonialism, Indigenous-settler relations and decolonization
- Environmental (in) justice
- Genocide studies and eugenics in Canada
Peter Urquhart
Associate Professor
Chair, Communication Studies
- Canadian film and television industries
- Documentary film and television
- Cultural policy
- Contemporary Canadian, British and American popular culture