Regular Graduate Faculty are tenured and tenure stream faculty at Trent University
Contractually-limited appointments are not included in this category — see Adjunct graduate faculty/Adjunct graduate and research faculty and Special Graduate Faculty
IDSR Appointed Regular Faculty
| Department | Faculty Name | Research |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology and Archaeology | James Conolly BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (University College London) ResearchGate |
Landscape archaeology; historical ecology; geoinfomatics; radiocarbon modelling; lithic raw materials and technologies; Great Lakes |
| Anthropology and Archaeology | Laure Dubreuil BSc, MSc (Aix-Marseille), DEA, PhD (Bordeaux I) ResearchGate |
Prehistory of Southwest Asia, Mongolia; Epipaleolithic, Natufian, Mesolithic, Neolithization process; Neolithization of Europe; material culture analysis; ground-stone tools; use-wear studies; functional analysis; technology; experimental archaeology |
| Anthropology and Archaeology | Gyles Iannone BA (Simon Fraser), MA (Trent), PhD (University College London) Google Scholar |
Early state formations and urbanism (especially in the tropics); settlement archaeology; resilience theory; archaeology of climate change, natural disasters, human impact on ancient environments, and collapse; Mesoamerica (especially Maya); South and Southeast Asia (especially Myanmar and Vietnam) |
| Anthropology and Archaeology | Eugène Morin BSc, MSc (Montréal), DEA (Paris-X Nanterre), PhD (Michigan) Google Scholar |
Archaeology; paleolithic of Europe; methods and theory in faunal analysis; human behavioural change during the late Pleistocene; prehistory of Northeastern North America |
| Biology | Holly Bates BSc (Ottawa), PhD (Toronto) |
Understanding the processes that regulate the production of heat from brown adipose tissue and how these can be harnessed for the generation of anti-obesity therapeutics |
| Biology and Trent School of the Environment | David Beresford BSc (Trent), MSc (Queen's), PhD (Trent) Beresford Lab |
Role of dispersal in insect and mite populations; stable flies as pests of dairy and beef farms, and insect diversity in the Hudson Bay lowlands; insects that colonize corpses, such as blow flies and carrion beetles |
| Biology (Kinesiology) | Sarah West BPHE, MSc, PhD (Toronto) |
Exercise and bone health in various populations, including in those with chronic disease; effectiveness of exercise interventions on multiple outcomes (bone quantity, bone microarchitecture, fracture risk, muscle function, physical function, metabolic health, and quality of life); bone and muscle health throughout the lifespan; development of preventative and lifestyle management exercise-based interventions for aging adults with and without chronic disease |
| Biomaterials | Suresh Narine BSc, MSc (Trent), PhD (Guelph) Google Scholar |
Development and utilization of agricultural, geographical, environmental and commercial impacts of biomaterials |
| Business | Amina Malik MBA (Toronto Metro), PhD (York) |
Cultural minorities’ socialization in the workplace, perceptions of organizational trust and justice, strategic human resource management, and other emerging issues in human resources management |
| Business | Yi Liu BSc (Northeastern, China), MSc (Southampton), PhD (McMaster) ResearchGate |
Financial and managerial accounting; corporate finance; bank financial reporting, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) |
| Business | Jie Zhang BEng (Jiangxi University of Science and Technology), MSc, PhD (Concordia) ResearchGate |
Empirical corporate finance; investment; financial institutions; international finance; market microstructure |
| Business | Asaf Zohar BA, MES, PhD (York) ResearchGate |
Sustainability and strategic management; the management of change; emergent order and organization theory |
| Chemistry; Forensic Science | Shannon Accettone BSc (Ontario Tech), PhD (Western Ontario) |
Curriculum design for interdisciplinary authentic learning practices in analytical and forensic chemistry; pedagogical strategies in small and large scale analytical and forensic chemistry classes; best practices for student assessment in analytical and forensic chemistry |
| Child and Youth Studies | Christine Goodwin-De Faria BA, MA (Brock), PhD (Ryerson) |
Youth justice; child rights; adolescent development and risk-taking |
| Child and Youth Studies | Nour Hammami BSc, MSc (American University of Beirut), PhD (Waterloo) |
Public health; social epidemiology; social, health, and gender inequalities; marginalized populations; quantitative analyses; health equity; child and youth studies; multilevel analyses |
| Criminology | Erick Laming BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (Toronto) |
Policing; police use of force; police oversight and accountability; corrections; criminal justice policy and reform; comparative criminal justice; race and the criminal justice system |
| Economics | Bruce Cater BA, MA (Toronto), PhD (York) ResearchGate |
Contract theory; economic history; applied econometrics; pedagogical technology |
| Economics | Zafar Kayani BA (Karachi), MSc (Islamabad), PhD (Washington State) ResearchGate |
Macroeconomics; statistics; Islamic finance and economics; risk management and insurance |
| Economics | Byron Lew BSc, MBA (Alberta), PhD (Queen's) |
Economic history of Canada/ North America; international economics; diffusion of agricultural technology; trade and technology |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Nicole Bell BA (Trent), BEd, MEd (Queen’s), PhD (Trent) |
Indigenous culture-based education; infusion of Indigenous knowledge into public schooling and teacher education; decolonization and healing; Indigenous research theory and methodology |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Cathy Bruce BA, BEd (York), MA, PhD (Toronto) Google Scholar |
Teacher self-efficacy and student self-efficacy; technological-pedagogical interactions and impact; mathematics education; assessing models of professional development; mathematics for young children; fractions, algebra and spatial reasoning |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Denise Handlarski BA (Trent), BEd (Queen's), MA (Wilfrid Laurier), PhD (York) The A-Z of Intermarriage at Google Books |
Social justice in education; ground teaching and learning in pedagogical theory; theories of diversity, equity, and anti-oppression |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Luigi Iannacci BA, BEd (York), MEd, PhD (Western) ResearchGate |
First and second language and literacy learning, critical multiculturalism; critical dis/ability studies; early childhood education; critical narrative research and ethics |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Blair Niblett BA, BOR, BEd, MEd, PhD (Lakehead) ResearchGate |
Activism in education; experiential learning; outdoor and environmental education; social justice pedagogy |
| School of Education and Department of Gender and Social Justice | Karleen Pendleton Jiménez BA (Berkeley), MFA (San Diego), PhD (York) Google Scholar |
Sociocultural influences on learning; creative writing research methodologies; Latina community and writing; LGBTTQI2S experiences in education; gender transgression in schools |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Sarah Twomey BEd, MEd (Queen's), PhD (British Columbia) |
Social justice pedagogies; teacher learning; transformative practices of research and teaching |
| School of Education and Professional Learning | Kelly Young BA, BEd, MEd, PhD (York) |
Language and literacy; curriculum theorizing; eco-justice education; arts-informed writing pedagogies |
| Trent School of the Environment | Stephen Hill BSc, BA (Queen’s), PhD (Calgary), PEng Google Scholar |
Energy science. technology and policy; social responses to renewable energy technology; climate change policy and management; environmental risk management and policy, particularly within organizations |
| Trent School of the Environment | Roger Picton BA (Trent), MA (Carleton), PhD (Toronto) ResearchGate |
Fieldwork and experiential learning; planning and urban waterfronts; brewpubs and post-industrial redevelopment; critical and practical perspectives on urban life |
| Trent School of the Environment | Stephanie Rutherford BA (Toronto), MSc (Guelph), PhD (York) stephanierutherfordphd.com |
Animal studies; nature and nation; political theory and the environment; environmental justice; human-animal relations |
| Trent School of the Environment | Mark Skinner BA (Laurier), MA (Guelph), PhD (Queen’s) Google Scholar |
Health, rural and social geography; qualitative methods and community-based research; rural aging and rural gerontology; aging rural communities |
| Trent School of the Environment | Karen Thompson BSc (Western Ontario), PhD (Guelph) Agricultural Soil Health (ASH) Lab |
The role of soil microbial communities in ecosystem functioning, including SOM stability and GHG fluxes; microbial measures as biological indicators of soil health; functional resilience and recovery of soil microbial C- and N-cycling communities to agricultural management, industrial disturbance, climate change, and land use change |
| Gender and Social Justice | Nael Bhanji BA (Queen’s), MA (Toronto), PhD (York) Google Scholar |
Race and racialization; necropolitics; biopolitics; trans theory; affect; emotion; psychoanalysis; queer theory; masculinities; memory and memorialization; diaspora; transnationalism; political economies of violence; surveillance; social justice |
| Gender and Social Justice |
May Chazan |
Decolonial, queer, anti-racist, and intersectional feminist praxis; critical aging studies; intergenerational storytelling methodologies; settler colonial home, activist solidarities, and heteronormative intergenerationality |
| Gender and Social Justice | Sally Chivers BA (Calgary), PhD (McGill) Google Scholar |
The interplay between aging and disability in the public sphere, with a focus on care narratives in the context of austerity; Canadian literature, film, and how artistic forms contribute to critical thought and social movements |
| Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies and Trent School of the Environment | Chris Furgal BSc (Western), MSc, PhD (Waterloo) Google Scholar |
Environmental health risk assessment, management and communication in cooperation with Indigenous populations; rapidly changing natural environments; coastal and Arctic ecosystems |
| Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies | Robin Quantick BA (Trent), MEd (Queen's), PhD (Trent) Google Books |
Prisons and prison education; Indigenization in the academy with particular emphasis on the application and efficacy of Indigenous Knowledge and decolonizing approaches in curriculum design and delivery |
| Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing | Ellen Buck-McFadyen RN, BScN (Queen’s), MScN (York), PhD (McMaster) ResearchGate |
Rural health; social capital; community health and the social determinants of health |
| Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing | Michele McIntosh RN, BScN, MScN (Toronto), PhD (Alberta) academia.edu |
Critical, feminist, qualitative research methods; women's health; maternal/ infant health; breastfeeding; sexuality; violence; ethics |
| Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing | Abeer Omar RN, BSN, MSN (Alexandria), PhD (Case Western Reserve) ResearchGate |
Activity restriction and bed rest; rehabilitation; health services research; and nursing best practices |
| Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing |
Kim Ritchie |
Caring for older adults who are living with mental illness and dementia; PTSD/trauma/moral injury in healthcare professional; public safety personnel; Veterans |
| Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing | Rasha Wahid RN, BScN (York), MScN (Alexandria), PhD (Manchester) |
Concept-based pedagogy; curriculum development and implementation; qualitative research; mental health; human Trafficking; trauma informed; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
| Trent/ Fleming School of Nursing | Kirsten Woodend RN, MSc (Ottawa), PhD (Toronto) ResearchGate |
Aging persons; chronic disease management and self-management; health systems |
| Policing and Community Well-Being | Nick Cristiano BA, MA (Guelph), PhD (York) |
Criminology, criminal justice, and public policy, specializing in the areas of illicit substance use, addiction, harm reduction, drug law enforcement, and research methods |
| Political Studies | Nadine Changfoot BA (York), MA (Carleton), PhD (York) Google Scholar |
Canadian politics; political theory; gender; women; critical disability; sustainability studies |
| Political Studies | Bharati Sethi BA, MSW, PhD (Wilfrid Laurier) |
Race and ethnicity; immigrant aging; economic, social, cultural, religious, and political factors related to migration and resettlement; arts-based methods, and knowledge mobilization |
| Psychology | Karen Blair BA (Guelph), MA (Acadia), PhD (Queen's) Google Scholar |
Social determinants of health; interactions between developmental, social, LGBTQ, and health psychology |
| Psychology | Terry Humphreys MA (Laurier), PhD (Guelph) ResearchGate |
Human sexuality and social psychology; sexual consent/ negotiating sexual interactions; cognitive and behavioural aspects of first sexual experiences; sexuality and technology; and sexual resourcefulness |
| Psychology | Fergal O’Hagan BSc, (Saskatchewan), MSc, PhD (McMaster) Google Scholar |
Occupational adaptation following the onset of chronic illness and/ or disabling injury; the role of illness representations in recovery from occupational injury, health trajectories and coping as injured workers with permanent impairments |
| Psychology | James Parker BA (Simon Fraser), MA, PhD (York) Google Scholar |
The development of affect regulation and the consequences for personality development, psychopathology and wellness; psychometric tools for assessing alexithymia and emotional intelligence |
| Psychology | Elizabeth Russell BA, MSc, PhD (Memorial) ResearchGate |
Sustainability of rural age-friendly communities programming; experiences of aging in small, rural and remote communities |
| Psychology |
Raheleh Saryazdi |
How sensory, cognitive, and social factors interact to influence everyday activities of both healthy and clinical populations |
| Social Work | Kimberly Calderwood BA (Waterloo), MSW (Wilfrid Laurier), PhD (Toronto) ResearchGate |
De-colonizing re-search methods, curriculums, pedagogy, and direct social work practice |
| Social Work | David Firang BA (Ghana), MA (Saskatchewan), MSW, PhD (Toronto) ResearchGate |
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI); anti-oppressive child welfare; environmental sustainability; immigrant transnationalism and settlement; housing and homelessness social policy; community development and Afro-Canadian issues |
| Social Work | Else Marie Knudsen BSc, MSW (Toronto), MSc, PhD (London School of Economics) Google Scholar |
Criminal justice policy; penology; punishment & society; critical criminology; social policy; welfare state; social security; children of prisoners; the ‘collateral consequences’ of mass incarceration; sociology of childhood |
| Social Work | Marina Morgenshtern BSW, MSW (Tel-Aviv), PhD (Laurier) ResearchGate |
Feminist intersectional analysis of oppression; immigrant families, couples and communities; diversity issues in academic classrooms; critical social work practice |
| Sociology | Nadiya Ali BA (Toronto), MA (Carleton), PhD (York) nadiyaa.com |
Race, racialization, cultural production, and community-action research |
| Sociology | Peri Ballantyne BA, MA (Western), PhD (Toronto) ResearchGate |
Sociology of health and the ‘social determinants of health’; poverty, food security, work and employment; medicines access/use/outcomes; qualitative methods, including grounded theory, ethnography, institutional ethnography |
| Sociology | Kristy Buccieri BSocSc (Ottawa), MA (Carleton), PhD (York) Google Scholar |
Intersections between health and homelessness, with special focus on youth homelessness, social and spatial dimensions, and systems integration |
| Sociology | Mary Jean Hande BA (Saskatchewan), MA (York), PhD (Toronto) |
Care policy, work, and politics; aging, disability, and mad studies; im/migrant and precarious work; critical consciousness/social movement learning; community-engaged research and learning; critical theory and qualitative methods |
| Sociology | Eugena Kwon BA, MA, PhD (Western Ontario) |
International migration (e.g., post-migration integration and settlement experiences of immigrants and international students); sociology of work and occupations; gender and professions; and population health and well-being |
| Sociology | Naomi Nichols Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Community-Partnered Social Justice BA (Trent), BEd (Queen's), MA, PhD (York) Google Scholar |
Youth inequality, poverty and homelessness; the social, institutional and policy systems that produce conditions of inequity in the public sphere; effective research and development activities in equitable social transformation (Canada’s non-profit social innovation sector) |
| Sociology | Adwoa Onuora BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (OISE/ Toronto) |
The myriad ways in which structures and systems (healthcare, education, and the legal system) reproduce the social exclusion of Black women, children and Black 2SLGBTQ+ citizens |
| Sociology | Momin Rahman BA, PhD (Strathclyde) Google Scholar |
LGBT identities and politics; racialization and systemic racism; postcolonialism; Islamophobia |
| Sociology | Deborah White BA (Ryerson), MA (Toronto), PhD (Carleton) ResearchGate |
Feminist perspective at the intersection of science, medicine and law; institutional and technological responses to sexual violence, particularly medico-legal interventions; the role and nature of forensic technologies, evidence and experts in criminal justice systems (e.g., forensic medical examinations, rape kits) and anti-rape technologies |