Please join me in welcoming our Visiting scholars for the 2023-2024 academic year at Massey College. I know you will enjoy getting to know them and their work.
The welcome reception for these scholars will be on Thursday, September 21 in the Junior Common Room. All are welcome! RSVP
Keith Bresnahan – OCAD University
Keith Bresnahan is Associate Professor of design history and theory at OCAD University in Toronto, specializing in the histories of architecture, urbanism, visual communication and typography. His research explores the politics of architectural destruction and reconstruction, symbols and visual signs in communication, and histories of emotion in design and urbanism. During the sabbatical year 2023-24, he is completing a book manuscript on emotion and the reconstruction of Paris after the 1871 Commune.
Nicole Collins – OCAD University
Nicole Collins’ extensive body of artwork reflects on time, memory, grief, accumulation, force, and heat on visceral and ephemeral materials, especially through painting with encaustic, the application of molten, pigment-infused wax. Her oeuvre also includes performative drawing, digital reproduction, installation, intervention, video, and sound. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at The Koffler Gallery, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The University of Waterloo Art Gallery, The Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, and many group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. Her work has been featured in articles and interviews in The Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, Canadian Art Magazine, the major survey Abstract Painting in Canada (Roald Nasgaard), the 3rd edition of A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Dennis Reid), Carte Blanche, Volume 2: Painting, and The Donovan Collection Catalogue. Collins lives in Toronto and is an award-winning educator and Associate Professor of Material and Visual Culture in the Drawing & Painting program at the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCADU).
Laura Kwak – York University
Laura Kwak is Associate Professor in Socio-legal Studies and Sociology, York University. Professor Kwak is also appointed to graduate programs in Socio-Legal Studies, Sociology, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Her interdisciplinary socio-legal research focuses on the intersections of race, law, and the politics of representation. As a critical race scholar, she draws from her training in sociology, equity studies, and gender studies to investigate questions about how discourses of racial progress operate to sustain racial hierarchies.
Danielle Lamb – Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Danielle Lamb is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management department of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. Danielle’s research focuses on employment and earnings disparities among historically marginalized workers in Canada. Dr. Lamb’s doctoral research was an empirical examination of earnings, employment and education among Indigenous groups in Canada. She also explores issues related to immigrant earnings and union wage premia. While Danielle continues to research Indigenous labour market outcomes, her most recent line of work focuses on non-standard forms of employment with a lens to exploring how such work arrangements may create or exacerbate economic inequalities.
Asmaa Malik – Toronto Metropolitan University
TMU Associate Professor Asmaa Malik’s research and teaching interests focus on journalism innovation, equity in media and collaborative approaches to graduate supervision. With her research partner, Gavin Adamson, she is the co-recipient of 2020 Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge funding to develop an AI-powered tool that assesses news sourcing and along with her colleague Sonya Fatah she is working on a SSHRC-funded project to create a diversity survey for Canadian newsrooms. She is also the Velma Rogers Research Co-Chair at the School of Journalism. She has held several editorial leadership roles at the Montreal Gazette and Toronto Star and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Walrus and Toronto Star. During her time at Massey, she will be completing her work on equity in Canadian newsrooms and researching the experiences of racialized journalists who have long fought for rightful representation in media institutions across North America.
Ruth Panofsky – Toronto Metropolitan University
Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she teaches Canadian Literatures and Holocaust Literature. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from SSHRC, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Bibliographical Society of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council. She received the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award in 2017 and the Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award for outstanding contribution to knowledge or artistic creativity in 2016. Dr. Panofsky is also a Fellow of the Royal Society. Currently, she is working on a SSHRC-funded study of publisher Anna Porter and Key Porter Books.
Gillian Parekh – York University
Dr. Gillian Parekh is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Disability Studies in Education within the Faculty of Education at York. Gillian is cross-appointed with York’s graduate program in Critical Disability studies. As a previous teacher in special education and research coordinator with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Gillian has conducted extensive system and school-based research in Toronto in the areas of structural equity, special education, and academic streaming. In particular, her work explores how schools construct and respond to disability as well as how students are organized across programs and systems.
Cindy Poremba – OCAD University
Cindy Poremba is an Associate Professor in Digital Futures at OCAD University (Tkaranto/Toronto), and Co-Director of OCAD’s game:play Lab. They have maintained a scholarly, experimental gamemaking, and curatorial practice for almost two decades with a particular interest in captured media practices, and emerging technologies. Cindy has published and presented extensively on topics relating to game art, postmedia, and interactive documentary. Their award-winning game, curation, and “New Arcade” work (independently and as a member of kokoromi collective), has been featured in both game and digital art exhibitions.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Senior Fellow Mel Cappe writes about access to information solutions in the Globe and Mail.
Alumni Marc Desormeaux comments in the Financial Post. Read it here.
Senior Fellow Colleen Flood talks about federal dental support for children across Canada.
Senior Fellow Nurjehan Mawani has recently accepted the role of Vice-Chair of the Governing Board of the International Development Research Centre (IRDC).
Quadrangle Society Member Akaash Maharaj interviewed onTVO’s The Agenda
Senior Fellow Joan Simalchik was interviewed on camera for a Global National story about the unequal coverage of the Submersible tragedy and the ongoing deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean.
Alum Anjum Sultana has a recent Op-Ed in the Toronto Star, here and was interviewed on CBC news.
I hope to see you at the Alumni BBQ on Saturday. Everyone from the community is welcome!
Nathalie
