Meet new faculty members through a brief Q&A showcasing them and why they chose U of T Scarborough. 5Q - Desirée Leverenz, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Theatre and Performance i am forever curious how to create art sustainably: sustainable both for the Land, and for ourselves. how can we learn 5Q - Donald Butler, Assistant Professor, Anthropology When I was in elementary school, an archaeologist taught us about First Nations history. I’ll never forget the finely 5Q - Nicole Bernhardt, Assistant Professor, Political Science I have worked with the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Anti-Racism Directorate. My time spent as a public servant 5Q - Eyal Gruntman, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Recording responses from fly neurons is quite challenging. There are many steps, which need to align perfectly for the 5Q - Alison Mountz, Professor, Human Geography The desire to belong, to find safe haven, to create refuge, to understand barriers to inclusion — these are fundamental 5Q - Tosen Nwadei, Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour I’d like to extend my work to religious contexts and dating as well, as these are settings where the expression of racial 5Q - Cody Ross, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Environmental Science I am fascinated by how water moves and its role in mobilizing and transporting pollutants. While deliberate considerations 5Q - Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie, Assistant Professor, Anthropology There are no restaurants or transportation services in the communities where I work. The only way to get there is to hitch 5Q - Shohini Bhattasali, Assistant Professor, Language Studies I’ve always been fascinated by how we humans understand language. In graduate school, I was exploring different ways we 5Q - Chad Cowie, Assistant Professor, Political Science Currently, my two areas of research focus is relating to Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Nation and community history and 5Q - Xue Pan, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences First and foremost, U of T Scarborough is an innovation hub filled with amazing researchers and incredible discoveries. My 5Q - Keith Colaco, Assistant Professor, Health & Society I like to facilitate knowledge translation and exchange activities by adapting ways of communicating science and research 5Q - Patrick Cruz, Assistant Professor, Arts, Culture & Media I am currently watching a lot of exorcism videos by faith healers from the Philippines on YouTube. 5Q - Stuart Livingstone, Assistant Professor, Physical & Environmental Sciences I’m really interested in scholarship that addresses the science-policy interface as it relates to biodiversity 5Q - Julie Mah, Assistant Professor, Human Geography Everyone should have access to decent, affordable housing, as housing stability affects so many important aspects of a 5Q - Robyn Maynard, Assistant Professor, Historical & Cultural Studies Black feminisms is a vibrant and growing field and I believe that expanding this, from a curricular perspective, has the 5Q - Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, English I like to imagine my project as both historiographic and theoretical despite making situated claims about film and media
