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