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AREL, Dominique »

Chairholder, Chair of Ukrainian Studies
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1713)
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His research interests include political Violence and Human Rights, language politics, nationalism, and the politics of memory, politics in East Central Europe, Eurasia and Ukraine, and the politics of the census.

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ATTARAN, Amir »

Amir Attaran

Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Institute of Population Health

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2889)
Cell: 613-276-7687
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E-mail

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International development and foreign aid; international human rights law and particularly how it applies to the war in Afghanistan; global public health in the poorer countries.

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BERGERON, Vincent »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Cell: 613-851-7251
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I work primarily on the conceptual and methodological foundations of cognitive science. My current research projects are focused on three topics: the relationship between cognitive architecture and brain architecture; the relationship between animal and human cognition; and the contribution of cognitive science to our understanding of aesthetic experience.

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BOUCLIN, Suzanne »

Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Areas of research, collaborations and publication include: law and social media, feminist aesthetics, law and popular culture, the criminal regulation of vulnerable groups, law and poverty and social justice.

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BRUNET, Patrick J. »

Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Communication

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3834)
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Questions éthiques reliées aux pratiques de la communication (médias, multimédia). Philosophie de la communication. Langage de l'image. Communication et développement en Afrique subsaharienne.

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CHANDLER, Jennifer A. »

Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3286)
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The legal, social and political implications of science and technology. Recent work has addressed the regulation of new technologies, the judicial response to disputes involving new technologies, the theory of law and technology, and organ donation policies.

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COLLOBERT, Catherine »

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3686)
Home: 613-789-3075
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Ancient greek philosophy

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DE BEER, Jeremy F. »

Professor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Cell: 613-263-9155
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Professor deBeer's expertise centres on classic and intellectual property law. Recent work relates to agricultural biotechnology, patents, plant breeders' and other IP rights. Other ongoing research deals with copyright law, particularly in respect of music, entertainment and the Internet. He has also written about administrative law and the standard of review of federal administrative tribunals. He has taught tort law, property law and legal research and writing.

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EAST, Jocelyn »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Human Kinetics

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Office: 819-953-5184
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Sport ethics, doping, violence, abuse and harassment, governance issues, Long-term athlete development (LTAD) and ethics, fair-play, inclusion, racism, match-fixing, corruption, safety in sport, Canadian Sport Policy, sport history, unethical behaviors, education, concussion and head injuries, injury prevention, codes of conduct, Quebec history, institutionalization, discrimination.

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FIRESTONE, Bruce Murray »

Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Part-time professor
Telfer School of Management

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4725)
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Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship education, mentoring and research focused on self-capitalized enterprises using smart business models and guerrilla marketing.

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GINGRAS, François-Pierre »

François-Pierre Gingras

Dr.
Associate professor (retired)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Home: 819-568-6813
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Canadian Federal Elections, Québec Provincial Élections. Opinion Polls. Identity and Minority issues (Canada and comparative). Nationalism. Sociology of Religion.

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JUDGE, Elizabeth F. »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3316)
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Law and technology, including intellectual property, privacy, personality rights, the property of personal information, and technology and the courts. Intellectual property, including copyright, trade-marks, patents, and property rights in information. Privacy Law. Additional research areas include Evidence, Legal history, Jurisprudence, Law and Literature, and Animal rights.

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KARMIS, Dimitri »

Dr.
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1579)
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1) Citoyenneté, identités et pluralisme culturel et linguistique; 2) exclusion politique et sociale; 3) immigration et multiculturalisme; 4) éthique et politique; 5) fédéralisme, nationalisme et constitution; 6) politique canadienne et québécoise

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KERR, Ian R. »

Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3281)
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My areas of expertise lie at intersection between applied ethics, law and technology. Much of my work has focussed on anonymity, privacy, biomedical ethics, health policy, internet law, intellectual property, electronic commerce, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence.

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KITSIKIS, Dimitri »

Dimitri KITSIKIS

Honorary President, Dimitri Kitsikis Public Foundation /Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Emeritus professor
Faculty of Arts
History

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Office: 613-842-9175
Office: 613-562-5800 (1310)
Home: 613-842-9175
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Website (English and Greek)

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Fields of expertise: Balkans; Byzantium, China; Cyprus; Fascism; Geopolitics;Greece; International relations; Ideologies; Islam; Middle East;Orthodoxy (Christian); Ottoman Empire; Propaganda(International);Religion;Theology; Third World; Turkey.

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LALIBERTÉ, André »

professor
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8913)
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My research is on the issue of relations between state and religion in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Eats Asia, within the contexts of an analysis of social policy and welfare regimes, the study of identity politics and nationalism, and the examination of political change.

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LENARD, Patti Tamara »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8995)
Cell: 613-796-6647
Home: 613-796-6647
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I work in immigration, including temporary foreign workers, refugees, foreign students, permanent residents; multiculturalism, successes and failures of multicultural policies, trust among diverse communities; and immigrant integration, including strategies for inclusion, in Canada and western European states, immigrant political participation (including non-citizen voting rights).

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LETOCHA, Danièle »

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3668)
Home: 613-237-0980
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Rupture entre la Renaissance et la modernité, entre 1500 à 1700. Comment l'idéal de la raison scientifique abstraite et universelle a rejeté l'idéal concret de la vertu individualiste, concrète et active, qui faisait de la pensée un art.

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MATHEN, Carissima »

Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3282)
Cell: 613-668-2020
Home: 613-421-9870
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Constitutional and criminal law, issues relating to government, the courts, the Charter of Rights and civil liberties, crime and the criminal justice system, and women's issues.

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English and French , English is better than French.

MAYEDA, Graham »

Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2915)
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My main fields of research involve international law as it affects developing countries (including international trade and investment law), criminal law, and legal theory (theories about what judges do). I have also written about philosophy and ethics.

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MEUNIER, Martin »

Sociologue
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2045)
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Sociologie des religions, en particulier l'analyse du catholicisme au 20e siècle et des liens entre religions et les phénomènes modernes (laïcité, nouveaux groupes religieux, etc).Le cas québécois; son histoire et son devenir. Intellectuels québécois au 20e siècle.

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MOGGACH, Douglas »

University Research Chair in Political Thought
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5754
Office: 613-562-5800 (1714)
Home: 613-237-0105
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New forms of individualism and freedom. Nation, state, and market. Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought; aesthetics and politics.

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English and French , italien / Italian, allemand / German

PAPILLON, Martin »

Mr
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2657)
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Canadian politics, Quebec politics, Aboriginal peoples,federalism, intergovernmental relations, immigration, multiculturalism

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RAYNOR, David R. »

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3677)
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Ideas and philosophy in the 18th century.

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REID, Jeffrey »

Undergraduate Supervisor
Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3678
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Hegel's Ethics of Objective Discourse.

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RIOUX-BEAULNE, Mitia »

Dr.
Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1657)
Home: 819-771-1890
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E-mail

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I am mostly working on the French early modern philosophy, which means the thought of philosophers from the sixteenth (Montaigne), seventeenth (Descartes, Malebranche) and eighteenth (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot) centuries (enlightenment). The questions I work on are those related to imagination as a faculty of the mind, that is, surrounding knowledge (epistemology) and creativity (aesthetics) ; and those related to historical progress.

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ROBICHAUD, David »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3679)
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My research focuses mainly on the question of linguistic justice and confidence in pluricultural contexts. My research on linguistic justice aims to shed light on the reasons for which we need to recognize linguistic rights for certain minorities. My research on confidence aims to better understand the problem of defiance which we find in contexts marked by diversity.

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SAAVEDRA-VARGAS, Marcelo »

Professor
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
History

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Cell: 613-762-7822
Home: 613-837-0058
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Indigenous perspectives, indigenous cosmovisions, indigenous epistemologies, development, globalization, sustainable development, indigenous governance

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SANER, Marc »

Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP)
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2795)
Cell: 613 220 7688
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The governance of emerging technologies, including ethics, risk management and regulation.  I have worked on GMOs, nanotechnology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, and biofuels.  My core focus is the science/policy interface: how evidence is used in decisions and how values and facts get combined in policy and decision-making (in particular in the environmental and health fields). 

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SAURETTE, Paul »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1711)
Home: 613-730-6576
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Power and ethics in politics and contemporary society, in particular, political ethics in domestic and international issues. The rhetoric of 'common sense' in politics, as well as the increased use of practices of humiliation and shame in a variety of contexts. The importance of trust in politics and other public and private sectors.

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SIOUI, Georges »

Coordinator, Aboriginal Studies Program
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1165)
Cell: 819-639-1789
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Études autochtones, histoire amérindienne, histoire autochtone, culture, spiritualité, philosophie,éducation, peuples indigènes, peuples minoritaires, études canadiennes.

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SNEDDON, Andrew »

Andrew Sneddon

Dr.
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3668)
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Moral psychology: the study of the psychological processes that constitute moral agency. I have also written on such topics in applied ethics as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, genetic engineering, the acquisition of organs for transplantation, and advertising. I have theoretical interests in many topics, especially autonomy.

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STACEY, Dawn »

University Research Chair in Knowledge Translation to Patients
Associate professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing

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Office: 613-562-5800 (8419)
Office: (613)-737-8899 ext 73817
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In her role as scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, she leads the Patient Decision Aids Research Group. Her research is focused on using research findings to: a) support patients to be involved in making health decisions; b) guide policy makers with implementing patient decision aids and shared decision making in healthcare; c) help nurses provide telephone support to patients with cancer such that they are better able to manage their treatment side effects.

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TANGUAY, Daniel »

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3665 )
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Histoire des idées politiques; néoconservatisme; religion et politique.

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WESTHEIMER, Joel »

Joel Westheimer

University Research Chair
Full professor
Faculty of Education

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4161)
Cell: Contact Media team
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Relationship of schooling to society, social norms; education and democracy; teachers' workplace environment; civic education; service learning; politics and education; youth civic engagement and activism; different philosophies of education; testing, standards, and "accountability''.

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WILSON, Christopher »

Senior fellow
Telfer School of Management
Centre on Governance

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Office: 613-355-6505
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* Governance - private, public and civic governance * Private-public partnerships (P3s) * Community-based partnership * Collaboration and stewardship * e-Governance and mass collaboration * Regional economic development * Developmental evaluation For over 15 years, Mr. Wilson has worked with many public, private and civic partnerships either as a partner or as an evaluator while teaching collaboration and governance at the University.

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