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Mirna E. Carranza

Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Amerindians Arts-based Research Methods Citizenship Studies Community Based Research Critical Race Theory Critical social work Decolonization Gender violence Immigration Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Social Justice

Janice Chaplin

BSW Field Education Coordinator and Associate Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Field Education Health Care Interprofessional Practice

Gary Dumbrill

Associate Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Anti Oppression Arts-based Research Methods Arts-informed social work Child Welfare Critical Race Theory Critical social work Decolonization Qualitative Methods Race Religion and the Social Sciences Social Inequality Social Justice Social Work Practices Theory

Bonnie Freeman

Associate Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Aboriginal Aboriginal Health Health Movements Social Work Practices

Ann Fudge Schormans

Associate Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Arts-based Research Methods Care and disability Critical Disability Studies Critical social work Disability Disability, Space and place Ethics Homelessness Parenting Social Justice Social Work Practices

Saara Greene

Professor | Director

Faculty
School of Social Work


Women, ART and the Criminalization of HIV (WATCH HIV)

Area(s) of Interest:  Feminist Theories Participatory Arts-Based Research Methodologies Sexual and Gender Based Violence Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Justice Socio-legal Perspectives Women and HIV

Randy Jackson

Associate Professor (on leave)

Faculty
School of Social Work

Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society

Area(s) of Interest:  Aboriginal Health

Ameil Joseph

Holder, Faculty of Social Sciences Professorship in Equity, Identity and Transformation | Academic Director, Community Engaged Research and Relationships, Office of Community Engagement | Associate Professor | Graduate Chair

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Confluence Critical Disability Studies Critical Race Theory Ethics Historiography Mental Health Postcolonial Theory Race Social Justice Violence

Tara La Rose

Associate Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Aging Arts-informed social work Art, Media, and Mediation Community Based Research Critical social work Digital Technology Digital Literacy Gender and Sexualities Inclusive leadership Labour Issues Multi-Modal Discourse Analysis Older Adults Public Policy Qualitative Methods Social Media Social Welfare

Jennifer Ma

Assistant Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Anti-colonial, anti-racist, and liberatory approaches to social work research and practice Child welfare decision-making and systemic discrimination Critical approaches to quantitative research Forcibly Displaced Populations Nature-based approaches to healing Racialized Communities Solidarity among Black, Indigenous, and racialized people Transnationalism, migration, and diaspora

Christina Sinding

Professor

Faculty
School of Social Work

Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society

Area(s) of Interest:  Arts-informed social work Caregiving Critical social work Health Health Care Health Equity Institutional ethnography Patient involvement in healthcare Qualitative data analysis Social Class Social Work Practices

Jennie Vengris

MSW Field Education Coordinator, BSW Field Education Development and Associate Professor, Undergraduate Chair

Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Field Education Housing and Homelessness Poverty Public Policy Social Justice Social Policy

CLA

Arij Elmi

CLA
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Race and Gender Religion and Culture Violence

Mary Vaccaro

CLA

CLA
School of Social Work

Sessional Faculty

Madison Brockbank

Sessional Faculty

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Marlene Dei-Amoah

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Ruth Greenspan

Sessional Faculty

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Yee Ling (Elene) Lam

Sessional Faculty

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Rochelle Maurice

Sessional Faculty

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Salomeh Mohajer

Sessional Faculty

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Laura O'Neill

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Anna Marie Pietrantonio

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Kristin Roe

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Alisha Stubbs

Sessional Faculty

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Jenny Thibeau

Sessional Faculty
School of Social Work

Associate Members

Karen A. Balcom

Associate Professor

Associate Members
School of Social Work

James Gillett

Associate Professor (on leave)

Associate Members
School of Social Work

Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program

Associate Members
Department of Sociology

Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society

Area(s) of Interest:  Health Media Social Psychology Sport and Physical Activity

Amanda Grenier

Professor | Gilbrea Chair in Aging & Mental Health | Director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging (on leave)

Associate Members
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Aging Caregiving Disability Gender and Sexuality Health Mental Health Poverty Public Policy Qualitative Methods

Robert Wilton

Associate Professor | Associate Director of School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Associate Members
School of Social Work

Associate Members
Geography & Earth Sciences

Adjunct Faculty

Adrienne Chambon

Professor Emeritus

Adjunct Faculty
School of Social Work

Allyson Ion

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Adjunct Faculty
School of Social Work


Women, ART and the Criminalization of HIV (WATCH HIV)

Ken Moffatt

Adjunct Faculty
School of Social Work

Sue Phipps

Adjunct Faculty
School of Social Work

Emeritus Faculty

Jane Aronson

Professor

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Care, gender & aging Feminist Social Work Health and Health Care Social & Health Policy Social Inequality Social Justice Social Welfare

Stephanie Baker Collins

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Gender Homelessness Poverty Social Policy Social Welfare

Ralph Brown

Professor

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Roy Cain

Professor

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Health HIV AIDS Mental Health

Jim Gladstone

Professor Emeritus

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Aging Care Giving Child Welfare Ethics Mental Health Social Work Practices

Sally Palmer

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

James J. Rice

Professor

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Sheila Sammon

Professor

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Area(s) of Interest:  Social Work Practices

Susan Watt

Professor

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Michael Wheeler

Emeritus Faculty
School of Social Work

Retired Faculty

Sandra Preston

Assistant Professor

Retired Faculty
School of Social Work

Graduate Students

Aven Armstrong-Sutton

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Alexe Bernier

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Elizabeth Birchall

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Jeffrey Black

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Susan Cape

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Nicholas Carveth

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Dianne Fierheller

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Russell Ford

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Charles Furlotte

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

William Gooding

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Renata Hall

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Shaila Kumbhare

MSW, BSW

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Erin Kuri

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Janet (Ciceley) Lawson

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Aaron Li

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Christina Luzius-Vanin

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Lydia Pandian

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Michael Potvin

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Janice Robinson

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Marufa Shinwari

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Lauren Van Camp

PhD Student

Graduate Students
School of Social Work

Staff

Tammy Maikawa

Academic Department Manager, School of Social Work

Staff
School of Social Work

Lorna O'Connell

Undergraduate Admissions and Field Education Administrative Assistant

Staff
School of Social Work

Darlene Savoy

Director's/Graduate Administrative Assistant

Staff
School of Social Work

Danielle Schumacher

Administrative Assistant

Staff
School of Social Work

Staff
Department of Religious Studies

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

Laurie Sherry-Kirk

Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Pre-Doctoral Fellows
School of Social Work