Faculty Members
There are nearly 40 faculty members at Acadia who are involved in the Women's and Gender Studies program, either through teaching its courses, doing research in the area, or by participating in the committee work. These faculty are available to assist students in their studies related to women and gender depending on the faculty member's particular area of expertise.
claudine.bonner@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: African Diaspora migration and settlement within the Americas and Caribbean; Black Feminist Theory; Critical Race Theory; Postcolonial Theory; narrative analysis; the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality; diversity and equity issues in education; social justice and social change; qualitative and ethnographic inquiry.
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Saara Liinamaa
Cross-listed Faculty: Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology
902-585-1494
saara.liinamaa@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory; Urban Studies; Cultural Sociology; Work and Organizations; Visual Methodologies
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Department of Sociology
585-1273
zelda.abramson@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Health and healthcare, families, research methods, women's studies.
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Department of Politics
585-1451
cynthia.alexander@acadiau.ca
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School of Nutrition and Dietetics
585-1346
mailto: barb.anderson@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Barb Anderson has been involved in the Nova Scotia Food Security Research projects since 2001, to gather evidence to support changing policy to work towards food security for all Canadians. Community Nutrition, Adult Learning applied to nutrition and dietetic practice, Leadership in Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Health Promotion.
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Department of Physics
585-1341
svetlana.barkanova@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Subatomic theory, fundamental symmetries of nature, women in physics.
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Librarian for Women's and Gender Studies
mike.beazley@acadiau.ca
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Department of Sociology
585-1292
james.brittain@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching activities: Gender and Revolutionary Social Change, International Development, Latin America, Social Theory, Women in Guerrilla Movements
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Department of English and Theatre
BAC 430
585-1111
wanda.campbell@acadiau.ca
Research activities: Creative Writing; Writing by Women, particularly Nineteenth-Century Canadian.
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Research interests: Global Food Security and Sovereignty, Food Systems and Sustainability, Food Culture, Health Promotion and Policy, and Sports Nutrition
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Department of History and Classics
902-585-1377
michael.dennis@acadiau.ca
Research activities: The labour movement in the South and the United States in the late twentieth century; intellectual and cultural history of 20th century America, youth subcultures, and higher education.
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School of Business
585-1285
kelly.dye@acadiau.ca
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Research Interests: food studies, health inequity, family poverty, infant feeding, research methods.
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Research and teaching interests: John Guiney Yallop is a poet and poetic inquirer who teaches about literacy, sexual orientation and gender diversity issues in education, as well as arts-based and autoethnographic/autobiographic research methodologies.
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Department of History and Classics
585-1277
sonia.hewitt@acadiau.ca
Research activities: Sonia Hewitt is a Roman archaeologist, and her area of interest is the archaeology of daily life in Italy and the provinces, especially domestic architecture and baths. She has participated in excavations in Greece and Tunisia, and has conducted fieldwork at the Roman site Volubilis in Morocco. She is currently working on the neighborhood baths in urban and rural Roman Africa.
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Department of Physics
HSH 227
585-1274
anna.kiefte@acadiau.ca
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Department of Sociology
585-1210
heather.dahringer@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching activities: Feminist methodology, women and crime, social and discursive constructions of masculinity and femininity, body image and eating disorders, feminist theory, research ethics, sociology of deviance, and criminology.
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Department of History and Classics
Room 447, Beveridge Arts Centre
(902) 585-1243
je.macdonald@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Jennifer MacDonald researches and teaches on European history.
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School of Education
Emmerson Hall, # 305
585-1394
david.mackinnon@acadiau.ca
Research interests: Human sexuality, sex education, leadership for social justice, rural education and community development, interpretive and critical research methodologies, and critical pedagogy.
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Department of English and Theatre
BAC 429
585-1385
anna.migliarisi@acadiau.ca
Research interests: Anna Migliarisi's interests have been in women working in/for theatre (as performers, playwrights, directors and producers); the history of women in the theatre; gender and performance. Other research areas are the history, theory and practice of directing; Renaissance and Baroque theatre; theories of performance.
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Department of Sociology
542-1257
bmoore@acadiau.ca
Research interests and activities: Women and Development, Gender Inequality, Poverty and Inequality, Women and the Welfare State, Women in Cuba. Publications referring to the Montreal Massacre and its effect on women plus "Please Don't Bury Me: Nova Scotia Women's Response to the CHST". Union work includes being the current Co-Chair of the CUPE National Global Justice Committee.
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Department of English and Theatre
585-1251
lisa.narbeshuber@acadiau.ca
Research activities: American literature, especially modern American poetry; Sylvia Plath; Ernest Hemingway.
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Research Interests: Randy Lynn Newman has research interests in the area of reading and speech perception mechanisms, cognitive neuroscience. Reading involves the coordination of several processes including the encoding of an orthographic representation, the assignment of phonology to written text, and the integration of these processes with semantic representations. Understanding the dynamics of these processes is a central focus of cognitive science. One of the more contentious issues in reading research has to do with how skilled readers use the phonology of words during reading. For example, there is disagreement over whether skilled readers are able to rely solely on the orthography of familiar words when reading for meaning, thus ignoring phonology, or whether phonological representations are always activated during reading. My research objective is to delineate the circumstances and mechanisms by which skilled readers use phonology when reading single words as well as meaningful text. This goal is accomplished by using traditional behavioral paradigms such as masked priming, in combination with cutting edge brain imaging techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event related brain potentials (ERPs).
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Department of History and Classics
585-1289
gillian.poulter@acadiau.ca
Research interests: Gillian Poulter's areas of interest are 19th century Canadian culture, cultural nationalism, and Canadian women's history. Her publications include Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture & Identity in Montreal, 1840-85 (UBC 2009) which examines the construction of a Canadian national identity in Victorian Montreal through the appropriation of aboriginal cultural activities such as lacrosse, snowshoeing and tobogganing. Her current research looks at the customs and rituals attached to births, weddings and funerals in the Annapolis Valley in the late 19th and early 20th century, and the construction of family history through scrapbooks.
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Department of Sociology
585 -1107
apowers@acadiau.ca
Teaching and research interests: Ann Marie Powers teaches Women in the Modern World, Introduction to Women's Studies, Cross Cultural Belief Systems, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests are ingender and social organisation; symbolism (women and religion); Newfoundland and Atlantic Canada; intercultural communication and cultural diversity education.
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Department of Psychology
585-1196
lisa.price@acadiau.ca
Teaching and research interests: Lisa Price's current areas of research interest include attachment styles, support and well-being in couples and parent/adolescent relationships, violence in relationships and risky sexual behaviour. Her teaching interests include Human Sexuality, Violence in Relationships, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy for clinical graduate students.
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Department of English and Theatre
anne.quema@acadiau.ca
Teaching and research interests: My research is characterized by interdisciplinarity. Since publishing The Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis’s Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics in 1999, I have published articles on legal discourse and same-sex partnership, law and literature, historiography, Gothic fiction, fiction and the visual arts, and Canadian modernism. My book, Power and Legitimacy (2015), examines the relationship between power and language in the context of interdisciplinary analyses of jurisprudence, statutory law, and literature. My current research project explores practices of experimental poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on Nicole Brossard, Erín Moure, and Rachel Zolf.
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Comparative Religion - Department of History and Classics
585-1267
donna.seamone@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Ritual studies and performance studies; Cultural anthropology especially issues of representation, race ethnicity and gender: ethnography/fieldwork in the study of lived experience; relation of media and representation to lived religion; Health, illness, and religion & medical anthropology; New religious movement and emergent religion; Religion on the internet; Study of "liberation" movements; Life writing & gender: spiritual biography (western and contemporary), life history, and illness narratives; Nature-Body-Spirit relationships in religion and culture (ritual and ecology, ecofeminism)
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Department of English and Theatre
585-1138
andrea.schwenke.wylie@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Children's and Young Adult Literature, with a focus on first-person narration, the relation between words and pictures in picture books, and fairy-tale rewrites.
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Teaching interests: African Canadian history; primary research; urban history
Research interests: Both an archaeologist and an historian, Karolyn Smardz Frost conducts new research in African Canadian/American history of the 18th & 19th centuries. Her current research at Acadia's Planter Studies Centre celebrates the many contributions made by enslaved African Americans to the early development of Maritime Canada.
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Department of Languages and Literatures - Spanish
585-1258 or 585-1500
sonia.thon@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Women writers in contemporary Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
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Department of Economics
xiaoting.wang@acadiau.ca
Research activities: Industrial organization, antitrust economics
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Department of History and Classics
585-1119
leigh.whaley@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching interests: Leigh Whaley teaches courses in the History Western Civilization I and II on campus and with Open Acadia, as well as courses on European Women, European Men and Masculinity, Comparative Revolutions, and France. She has published Women's History as Science: A guide to the debates; Radicals: Politics and Republicanism in the French Revolution; and The Impact of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800-1815: An Annotated Bibliography. Her current research project is "The Family Fouquet: Philanthropy, Medicine and Charity: The Counter-Reformation at Work in France and the New World".
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Department of History and Classics
585-1814
jamie.whidden@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching activities: Jamie Whidden completed his doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he studied Egypt and North Africa. He has an interest in patriarchy, particularly as an aspect of Middle Eastern cultures. In all his courses, including Global, African, and Middle Eastern, an important component is the study of patriarchy and its impact upon gender relations.
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Department of Politics
BAC 215
585-1288
geoffrey.whitehall@acadiau.ca
Research and teaching activities: Geoffrey Whitehall's research interests are in Sovereignty and Preemption; and Aesthetics of International Politics. He teaches courses in Law, Politics and Government; Theoretical Approaches to International Politics; Pop Culture and World Politics; Politics of International Law; the Politics of New Global Technologies; and Human Rights.
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
585-1481
ying.zhang@acadiau.ca
Research activities: Time Series Analysis and Applied Statistics; Statistical Computing and Symbolic Algebra Computing; Statistical Consulting on Biostatistics, Survey and Research Design