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Full professor
Faculty of Arts
History

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1289)
Cell: 514-261-5265
E-mail: panctil@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

Office Telephone

Research information:

My research bears on the different aspects of Canadian identity and on the emergence of a field of research specifically dealing with Canada. I am also interested on ethnicity in Canada, issues on a Quebec and national level, election results in Quebec and Canada, on the Jewish community of Canada and Montréal, and more precisely on antisemitism, securalism, linguistic integration and racism in Canadian society. I also specialize on Canadian Yiddish literature and Canadian Yiddish culture.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology
• Canadian history
• Ethnicity
• French-Canadian culture
• Immigration
• Religion
• Translation and interpretation
• Urban anthropology

Language preference:

English and French , Yiddish

Lecturer
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Home: 613-231-4261
E-mail: lucieduf@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

Home Telephone, E-mail

Research information:

Bases symboliques et traditionelles des croyances et comportements culturels d'aujourd'hui. Essor vers une spiritualité personelle vécue de façon quotidienne, surtout chez les femmes nord-américaines (culte de la déesse, écoféminisme, etc). Spiritualités amérindiennes traditionnelles et compteporaines.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology
• Classics and religious studies

Language preference:

English and French

Assistant Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2988)
Home: 613-845-0092
E-mail: audrey.giles@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Home Telephone, Office Telephone

Research information:

Dr. Giles' research examines Aboriginal people's (though especially women's) participation in physical activity, sport, and recreation in the NWT, Nunavut, and Northern Alberta. Her expertise pertains to traditional games, gender, "tradition," and drowning prevention. Sport for development in Aboriginal communities.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology
• Feminist politics and theory
• Health research
• Human kinetics
• Human kinetics
• Physical activity
• Population health
• Postcolonial studies
• Sport
• Women and development
• Women and health
• Women’s health

Language preference:

English only, Intermediate/Advanced French

Dr.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (6134)
Home: 450-229-4571
E-mail: julie.laplante@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

My main domain of research is on biomedical, indigenous and humanitarian medicines; more specifically on the processes of elaboration of medicines (pharmaceuticals and 'traditional'), within other processes those of clinical trials. The point of view stems from medical anthropology and science and technology studies. I have mainly worked in Brazilian Amazonia, South Africa and northern America.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology

Language preference:

English and French , portugais

Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (4421)
E-mail: jramisch@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

Food security, agriculture, food policy, food aid, peasant farming, globalization, international development, development project management, African environmental issues, African social change, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, NGOs in Africa.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology
• Climate change
• Colonization
• Ecology
• Globalization
• International development and globalization
• International trade and environment
• Postcolonial studies
• Project management
• Social change
• Soils
• Women and development

Language preference:

English and French

Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Linguistics

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1759)
E-mail: kaitire@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

Office Telephone

Research information:

My research concentrates on the grammatical structure of the indigenous languages spoken in the lowlands of South America, in particular that of Mebengokre, spoken by approximately 10.000 people in central Brazil.

More broadly, I'm interested in Eastern Brazil and the Chaco as cultural areas, in their ethnographic, historical, archaeological and linguistic aspects.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology
• Archives
• Bilingualism
• Dialects
• Ethnicity
• Minority languages
• Modern languages and literatures
• Native teacher education

Language preference:

English and French , Espagnol/Spanish, Portugais/Portuguese, Mebengokre

School of International Development and Global Studies /École de développement international et mondialisation
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1363)
E-mail: ssimon@uOttawa.ca

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E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

I specialize in the study of political economy. I do research on questions of economic development in Taiwan, including female entrepreneurship and development in the indigenous Austronesian communities of the island. I also work on questions of ethnic identity and nationalism, issues that are crucial to understanding relations between Taiwan and China. 

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Anthropology
• Culture
• Ethnicity
• Women and development

Language preference:

English and French , mandarin, japonais, Allemand / Mandarin, Japanese, German