York University,also known as YorkU or simply YU,is a public research university in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university,and it has approximately 55,700 students,7,000 faculty and staff,and over 325,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties,including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,Faculty of Science,Lassonde School of Engineering,Schulich School of Business,Osgoode Hall Law School,Glendon College,Faculty of Education,Faculty of Health,Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change,Faculty of Graduate Studies,School of the Arts,Media,Performance and Design,and 28 research centres.
Deborah P. Britzman is a professor and a practicing psychoanalyst at York University. Britzman's research connects psychoanalysis with contemporary pedagogy,teacher education,social inequality,problems of intolerance and historical crisis.
Lorraine Code is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at York University in Toronto,Ontario,Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her principal area of research is feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge.
Janine Marchessault is a professor of Cinema and Media Studies and Canada Research Chair (2003-2013) at York University in Toronto,Canada. Her main fields of research are Ecologies of Media and Mediation,(sub)urban cultures,the works of Marshall McLuhan,contemporary art exhibitions,Expo 67,artists' cultures,new media technologies,media archives,city and its sustainability issues. She is also a Trudeau Fellow.
Isabella C. Bakker is a Canadian political scientist,currently a Distinguished Research Professor and York Research Chair at York University. In 2009,Bakker became the first York University professor to earn a Trudeau Fellowship and was later elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
James P. Carley is a Canadian historian of English history and bibliographer,currently a Distinguished Research Professor at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He specializes in the history and provenance of medieval English manuscripts and the early Tudor period.
Dawn R. Bazely is a full professor in biology in the Faculty of Science,and the former Director of the Institute for Research Innovation in Sustainability,at York University in Canada. In 2015 she was awarded the title of University Professor for services to research,teaching,and the institution. Bazely has been a field biologist for forty years and her research specializes in plant-animal interactions in ecology. She has also been recognized for her science communication.
Rachel M. Koopmans is an American–Canadian academic and author specializing in medieval history. She is an associate professor of history at York University and a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. She was part of a research team that discovered that two stained glass panels at the Canterbury Cathedral,thought to be late Victorian panels,instead dated to the 1180s.
Wenona Mary Giles is a professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at York University. In 2018,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Through the university,Giles helped launch the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project which allowed people in refugee camps to earn degrees,diplomas and certificates from Moi and Kenyatta Universities in Kenya,and from York University and UBC in Canada.
Joan Judge is a Professor in the Department of History at York University. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018. Her academic focus is on Chinese history.
Leah F. Vosko is a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair at York University. Her research interests are focused on political economy,labour rights,gender studies,migration,and citizenship. In 2015,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Rebecca Rita Elizabeth Riddell (née Pillai) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a basic-behavioural scientist. She is a full professor at York University and Tier 2 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health.
Jonathan Charles Edmondson is a British-born historian. He holds Full Professor and Distinguished Research Professorship status at York University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Marcia Hampton Rioux was a Canadian legal scholar. She was a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Marlis Erica Schweitzer is a Canadian theatre and performance historian. She is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at York University.
Susan Lee McGrath is a Professor Emerita in the School of Social Work at York University and former director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies.
Jane Marie Heffernan is a Canadian mathematician. Her research focuses on understanding the spread and persistence of infectious diseases. She is a full professor at York University and a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Multi-Scale Quantitative Methods for Evidence-Based Health Policy. She is the director of the Centre for Disease Modelling,and is on the board of directors of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society.
Kristin Alexandra Andrews is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University and she holds the York Research Chair in Animal Minds.
Joel D. Katz is a Canadian psychologist and researcher. He is a Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Psychology at York University. He also serves as the research director of the pain research unit in the Department of Anesthesia and pain management at the Toronto General Hospital in addition to serving as a professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto.
Molly Madeleine Ladd-Taylor is a Canadian historian. Having moved to Canada during the 1990s,she is a professor of history at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focuses on the histories of women's health,maternal and child welfare policy,and eugenics in the United States.
