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Talena Atfield

Assistant Professor, History

Areas of Interest

Hodinohso:ni history and culture, Indigenous tangible and intangible cultures in Museums and Archives, Tekéni Teyohà:ke Kahswénhtake/Tehontatenenstsonterontahkwa (Two Row Wampum/Covenant Chain) research methodology, Culture and language regeneration, Community-based research, Beadwork, tufting, quillwork, leatherwork, regalia-making

Secil Dagtas

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Areas of Interest:

Secularism and religious difference, displacement, borders, and asylum, minority lives and archives, gender ideologies, Muslim lifeworlds, Anthropology of Turkey, Cyprus, the Middle East

Anna Drake

Associate Professor

Areas of specialization

Deliberative democracy, activism, structural justice, Feminist theory and practice, deliberative consociationalism.

Craig Fortier

Associate professor, Department Social Development Studies

Areas of Interest

Settler colonialism; social movements, abolitionist and decolonizing social work; popular culture and radical change; trans-disciplinary social justice pedagogy; urban memorialization; accounting history; Indigenous & settler relationships, colonization/decolonization; Indigenous theory; migrant justice movements; nationalism and sovereignty; queer, trans*, and non-binary participation in sport; and baseball history

Katy Fulfer

Associate Professor

Areas of interest

Reproductive Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Ecofeminisms, Transnational feminisms, Feminist appropriations of Hannah Arendt, Queer theory

Contact for GSJ student academic planning and advising at gsjadvis@uwaterloo.ca

Meg Gibson

Associate Professor, Social Development Studies and Social Work

Areas of Interest: 

2SLGBTQ communities and sexuality studies; Disability studies; Parenting and families; Critical social work practice; Feminist research methods; History and philosophy of healthcare and social services; Critical autism and neurodiversity studies.

Greta Kroeker

Associate Professor, Department of History; Cross-appointed to Gender & Social Justice

Areas of specialization

 Include early modern Europe, intellectual history, history of religion, religion, and violence, as well as early modern women. 

Jennifer Liu

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Areas of Specialization: 

Science and Technology Studies (STS) and global health, biomedical technologies, science and health governance and ethics, and food and water security.

Kim Hong Nguyen

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts

Areas of Interest

Political correctness or civility of a word, a trope, an expression, an analogy, or a cultural practice & white liberal feminism from a postcolonial and intersectional lens. Her work aims to explore the capacity in which marginalized peoples act or speak effectively and how they are conditioned by governing systems of power.

Uzma Rehman

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

The role of emotional avoidance in sexual communication, skills deficits or knowledge deficits, working models of intimacy and attachment needs and their influence.

Christina Vester

Associate Professor /Chair, Classical Studies

Areas of Interest:

Ancient Drama (esp. Euripides, Menander, Seneca), Greco-Roman Households, Ancient Identity, Historical Fiction.

Brianna Weins

Assistant Professor English

Areas of Interest:

Feminist media studies, Feminist and queer affect studies, Feminist new materialisms and posthumanisms, Digital activisms and networked social movements, Social media cultures, Rhetorics of design, Design equity, data feminism, and data justice, Critical approaches to technology. 

Nancy Worth

Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Areas of Interest:

Economic Geography; Social Geography; Feminist Geography; Social Justice; Identities and Belonging, housing vulnerability, housing coping strategies (co-residence, co-ops, flat sharing, AirBnB and the gig economy), generations and the lifecourse, care and unpaid work, GenY, home and well-being, geographies of intimate life, lived experiences of austerity, feminist theory (including relational autonomy, theorizations of interdependence, futurities), identities and the economic (gender, class, race, sexuality, disability, etc) and the geographies of children and youth.