![Maria Bakardjieva](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2021-04/Photo-Maria-profie-2021.jpg?itok=oFIPudoM)
Maria Bakardjieva
PhD (Communication) Simon Fraser University; PhD (Sociology) Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Research interests
- Computer mediated communication
- Internet use
- Media and democracy
- New media and society
- Social aspects of communication technology
![Lee Carruthers](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Lee%20Carruthers.jpg?itok=lAbmSlBX)
Lee Carruthers
PhD (Film Studies) University of Chicago
Research interests
- Cinematic time
- Classical and contemporary cinema
- European art cinema
- Film history
- Film theory
- Philosophical hermeneutics
![Julia Chan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-10/Julia%20Chan.jpg?itok=gEefoy3y)
Julia Chan
PhD (Cultural Studies) Queen's University,
Research interests
- Digital Media
- Media, Race, and Gender
- Surveillance and Culture
- Visual Culture
- Horror Film
- Research Creation
![Matthew Croombs](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-09/matt_croombs.jpg?h=dfd81c4f&itok=cW8FszZF)
Matthew Croombs
Research interests
- Documentary film
- Transnational cinema
- Critical communications studies
- Film and media theory
![Charlene Elliott](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/charlene_elliott.jpg?itok=5LnKw938)
Charlene Elliott
PhD (Communication) Carleton
Research interests
- Food marketing/branding
- Obesity and public health
- Taste and communication
- Communication theory
- Children and media studies
- Sensorial communication
- Food Studies
![Marcia Epstein](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Marcia%20Epstein.jpg?itok=UKR0ZQF3)
Marcia Epstein
PhD (Medieval Studies / Musicology) University of Toronto
Research interests
- Acoustic ecology
- History and sociology of music
- Musical rhetoric
- Music therapy
![Ronald Glasberg](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Ronald%20Glasberg.jpg?itok=7jiWM8tY)
Ronald Glasberg
PhD (History) University of Toronto
Research interests
- History of ideas
- Interdisciplinary theory
- Knowledge unification strategies
- Popular culture
- World history
![Maria Victoria Guglietti](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-08/mariagugletti.jpg?itok=ujZ28c39)
Maria Victoria Guglietti
Research interests
- Journalism studies
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Indigenous new media in Canada
- Transnationalism and postcolonial theory
![Dawn Johnston](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/dawn_johnston.jpg?itok=Tcd7DXR8)
Dawn Johnston
PhD (Communications Studies) University of Calgary
Research interests
- Food culture
- Gender and sexuality in popular culture
- Social activism
- Television and film
![Ali Karimi](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-01/Ali%20Karimi%20-%202022.jpg?itok=FJkAkR1y)
Ali Karimi
PhD McGill University
Research interests
- Critical Information Studies
- Surveillance
- Data Justice
- Privacy
- Media History
- Global Communication
![Jessalynn Keller](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Jessalynn%20Keller.jpg?itok=LtRsmqiK)
Jessalynn Keller
PhD - Media Studies University of Texas-Austin
Research interests
- Digital media cultures
- Feminist theory and methods, including critical race and queer theories
- Popular and celebrity culture
- Girls' media and cultures
- Historical and contemporary feminisms
- Social activism and media
![Ryan Pierson](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Ryan%20Pierson.png?itok=73qFtqye)
Ryan Pierson
PhD (English) University of Pittsburg
Research interests
- Animation
- Digital media
- Classical film theory
- Film and perception
- History of science
![Annie Rudd](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Annie%20Rudd.jpg?itok=taq117Tc)
Annie Rudd
PhD (Communications) Columbia University
Research interests
- Critical media studies
- History and theory of photography, particularly the histories of vernacular photographies
- Photojournalism and documentary photography
- History of journalism
- North American and British cultural and intellectual history from 1800 to the present
- History of philosophy
- Cultural theory
![Tamara Shepherd](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Tamara%20Shepherd.png?itok=7GudMmVe)
Tamara Shepherd
PhD (Communication Studies) Concordia University
Research interests
- Feminist political economy
- Digital culture
- New media policy and internet regulation
- Social media and digital games labour
- Mobile technologies
- Youth cultural production and digital literacy
- Privacy and intellectual property online
![Tania Smith](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-09/Tania-2017-Mar-Headonly.jpg?itok=0dPEcJqe)
Tania Smith
PhD (English) Ohio State University
Research interests
- Rhetorical communication
- New media and society
- Internet communities and culture
- Rhetorical history
- Professional communication
![Paul Stortz Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-08/Stortz.jpg?itok=nJnS5cpc)
Paul Stortz
Ph.D. (History of higher education) University of Toronto
Research interests
- Cultural, Social, Political, Ethnic, Gender, and Intellectual History of Education and Universities
- Theories of Interdisciplinarity, Intellectual Culture, and Knowledge Construction
- Postcolonial historical and educational theories
- Canadian Immigration History and Policy
- History of Refugee Academic Emigres and Researchers In Canada
![Lisa Stowe](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Lisa%20Stowe.jpg?itok=HqBO498U)
Lisa Stowe
PhD (Adult Learning) University of Calgary
Research interests
- Lifelong learning
- Food studies
- Rhetorical communication
- Multidimensional learning
- Sport and identity
![Gregory Taylor](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Gregory%20Taylor.png?itok=3ECFtvmR)
Gregory Taylor
PhD (Communication Studies) McGill University
Research interests
- Broadcasting policy
- Spectrum
- Infrastructure studies
- Telecommunications policy
- Canadian media history
![Charles Tepperman](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-05/Charles%20Tepperman.png?itok=Ksa5fqsK)
Charles Tepperman
PhD (Film Studies) University of Chicago
Research interests
- Amateur media
- Fan cultures and new media
- History of motion pictures
- Home movies
- Media archive and film preservation
- Motion picture technology and audiences
- Canadian cinema
![Samantha Thrift](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-08/dherold-3532.jpg?h=2cb01050&itok=0tqlop_d)
Samantha Thrift
Research interests
- Feminist cultural studies
- Digital media activism
- Political communication
- Race and representation