Concordia University

Balbir K. Singh

Assistant Professor

◦ Asian and Arab diasporic cultural studies
◦ Race, affect, and aesthetics
◦ Visual and material cultures
◦ Anti-colonial methods
◦ Surveillance studies
◦ Race, religion, empire
◦ Fashion and the body 

Elaine Cheasley Paterson

Associate Professor

◦ Theory and History of Craft, Decorative Arts, and Design
◦ 19th-Century Arts and Crafts Movement
◦ Women’s Art and Social History
◦ 18th-21st-Century Material Culture and Design History
◦ Studio Craft, Indie Craft, DIY and Craftivist Movements
◦ Critical Craft Theory
◦ Craft and the Museum, Curating Craft 

May Chew

Assistant Professor

◦ Visual and material cultures
◦ Interactivity and immersion
◦ Public art and social engagement
◦ Haunting and spectrality
◦ Museums and archives
◦ Culture and technology
◦ Cultural studies
◦ Settler and postcolonial studies 

Rebecca Taylor Duclos

Professor

◦ Contemporary Art
◦ Radical Pedagogy, Art and Design Education
◦ Canadian Art History
◦ Museology and Curatorial Practices
◦ Cultural Studies, Material Culture
◦ Transdisciplinarity

Cynthia Imogen Hammond

Professor

◦ History and theory of architecture, landscape architecture and the city
◦ Cultural landscapes
◦ Gender and space
◦ Feminist and posthumanist theory
◦ Research-creation and interdisciplinary practice
◦ Community-engaged scholarship and creative work 

Kristina Huneault

Professor

◦ Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture
◦ Canadian Art
◦ Art-Historical Method
◦ Women Artists
◦ Art and Philosophy
◦ Art and Subjectivity
◦ Art and Colonialism 

Heather Igloliorte

Associate Professor

◦ Inuit Arts and Cultural History
◦ Contemporary Inuit, First Nations, and Métis art in Canada
◦ Native North American and Circumpolar Arts
◦ Indigenous Exhibition and Collecting Histories
◦ Curatorial Theory and Practice
◦ Decolonizing Methodologies
◦ Issues of Representation and Self-Representation
◦ Colonization, Sovereignty, Resilience and Self-Determination in Art
◦ Indigenous Film, Performance and New Media Practices 

Joana Joachim

Assistant Professor

◦ Black diasporic art histories
◦ Art and Black Feminisms
◦ Black Canadian art history
◦ Canada and the Black Atlantic ◦ Black Canadian studies
◦ Critical museum and archive studies
◦ Canadian slavery studies

Martha Langford

Professor

◦ Photographic History and Theory
◦ Canadian Photographic Historiography
◦ Twentieth-Century Canadian Art
◦ Visual Culture
◦ Photographic Experience (Memory and Imagination)
◦ Institutional Theory

Michelle McGeough

Assistant Professor

◦ Indigenous Art and Art Histories
◦ Indigenous Constructions of Gender, Sexuality
◦ Indigenous Artistic / Cultural Production
◦ LGBTQ2spirit Queer
◦ Indigenous Feminism(s)
◦ Indigenous Sovereignty
◦ Indigenous Curatorial Methods
◦ Contemporary Art
◦ Decolonization

Alice Ming Wai Jim

Professor

◦ Contemporary Art
◦ Media Art
◦ Contemporary Asian Art
◦ Asian Canadian Art
◦ Theories of Representation
◦ Ethnocultural Art Histories
◦ Mobility and Migration
◦ Global Art Histories and Curatorial Studies 

Nicola Pezolet

Associate Professor

◦ History of Architecture and the Built Environment in Europe and North America (19th-20th Century)
◦ Modern Art and Architecture Theory
◦ Abstraction and the “Synthesis of the Arts”
◦ 20th Century Catholic Architecture and Art
◦ Architecture, Media and Print Culture
◦ Critical Historiography and Social History

John Potvin

Professor

◦ The cultures of modernism in art, design and fashion
◦ Histories and theories of the interior
◦ Sexuality, gender and design
◦ Material and visual cultures of masculinity
◦ Queer theory and feminism
◦ The design and visual cultures of Orientalism
◦ The bodies, space and time of design
◦ Fashion, legacy and the spaces of display
◦ Fashion and tailoring in the age of globalization

Johanne Sloan

Professor

◦ Contemporary Art
◦ Canadian Art since the 1960s
◦ Landscape Art and Aesthetics
◦ Visual Culture
◦ Urban Art and Culture 

Steven Stowell

Associate Professor

◦ Art and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy
◦ Early Modern European Art (Late Middle Ages to Baroque)
◦ Sacred Art
◦ Early Modern Art Theory
◦ Anthropology and Art History
◦ Histories of Sex and Gender