In considering potential chief supervisors, students should be careful to determine that the faculty member of choice has the appropriate supervisory status.
Dr. Robert Babe
- political economy; economics and the environment; Canadian communication thought
Dr. Tim Blackmore
- popular culture; war studies; industrial culture
Dr. Jacquelyn Burkell
- information use; human-computer interface design
Dr. Jonathan Burston
- political economy; popular music; entertainment studies
Dr. Grant Campbell
- information organization; resource description and classification
Dr. Norma Coates
- popular music studies; media and cultural studies; television studies; U.S. media history; gender theory
Dr. Edward Comor
- political economy of communication and culture; medium theory; international studies
Dr. James Compton
- political economy of news media; popular culture; the spectacular
Dr. Nick Dyer-Witheford
- political economy of information; cyber-Marxism; video-gaming
Dr. Carole Farber
- computer-mediated communication; learning/virtual world technologies; critical theory
Dr. Bernd Frohmann
- political economy of information; social studies of information
Dr. Amanda Grzyb
- activism, social justice, and media studies; Holocaust and genocide studies; American and African-American literature and cultural studies; interdisciplinary approaches to homelessness; theory and criticism
Dr. Alison Hearn
- media and cultural studies; visual/televisual culture; technology and cultural form; aesthetics and politics; feminist theory
Dr. Keir Keightley
- popular music and film studies; masculinity, taste and celebrity culture
Dr. Susan Knabe
- gender and sexuality studies; critical theory and cultural studies; medicalization and the media; popular culture
Dr. Lynne McKechnie
- children, media (including children's literature), public libraries and reading; qualitative research methods
Dr. Ajit Pyati
- information/knowledge society; information policy; critical globalization and development studies
Dr. Anabel Quan-Haase
- Internet studies; information use; computer-mediated communication
Dr. Daniel Robinson
- advertising; alcohol and tobacco marketing; opinion polling; political communication
Dr. Catherine Ross
- reading experience; information practices
Dr. Kamran Sedig
- Human-information interaction; learning and cognitive technologies; interactive games; information visualization; interface design; information artifacts
Dr. Sharon Sliwinski
- visual culture; psychoanalysis; history and theory of photography; human rights and humanitarianism
Dr. Sandra Smeltzer
- political economy of international communication and culture; politics and rhetoric of development communication (focus area: Malaysia); technology and "progress"
Dr. Romayne Smith Fullerton
- media ethics; media and gender
Prof. Daniela Sneppova
- multimedia theory and production; visual art
Dr. David Spencer
- newspaper and broadcast history in Canada; political cartooning; communications theory
Dr. Matt Stahl
- cultural labour; copyright; contract and employment; popular music; animation
Dr. Sasha Torres
- television and film studies; critical race studies; cultural studies
Dr. Samuel Trosow
- information law and policy
Dr. Liwen Vaughan
- Webometrics; Web data mining; information systems