Faculty
Mary Ann Beavis Professor
Research Area(s): Christian Origins, Religion and Popular Culture, Women and Religion
Jennifer Briere Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): Child & Adult Development, Successful Aging, Digital Literacy & Technology Use, Memory & Forgetting, Exploring digital literacy in older adulthood
Lisa Broda Sessional Instructor
Research Area(s): Intimate and Domestic Violence, Child and Human Rights, Media Studies and Research, Social Control and Governmentality
Carie Buchanan Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): Social development in childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood, Peer relationships: positive interactions (e.g., friendship) and negative interactions (e.g., victimization)
Michael Cichon Associate Professor; Department Head, English
Research Area(s): Mediaeval Welsh language and literature, The blood feud, Arthurian literature, The Cult of Chivalry and the Religion of Love
Wilfrid Denis Emeritus Professor
Research Area(s): Minority relations, ethnic minorities, official language communities, theory, social inequality
Tania Duclos Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): 19th Century French novel, Intertextuality, Androgyny in Literature, Acadian Literature
Heidi Epstein Associate Professor
Research Area(s): Feminist and Queer Theologies, Women in Western Religions, Theories of Sacred Music in Western Religions, Religion and Pop Music, New Musicological Analysis of Biblical Texts Set to Music
Gerry Farthing Associate Professor; Department Head, Psychology
Research Area(s): Stress, coping and resiliency in children who are embroiled in custody disputes., Mood and eating disorders in children and adolescents., Friendships, romance and intimacy in adolescents.
Jan Gelech Sessional Instructor
Fachrizal A. Halim Lecturer
Research Area(s): Contemporary Islam, Islamic intellectual history, Islamic Law, Islamic Schools of Law, Islam, race, and ethnicity, Christian-Muslim Relations, Muslims’ interactions with non-Muslim polities and cultures, Islam and the modern states, Islam in Cyberspace
Chad Hammond Sessional Instructor
Sara Hayati Sessional Instructor
Kylee-Anne Hingston Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): Victorian literature, disability studies, children’s literature
Christopher Hrynkow Associate Professor; Department Head, Religion & Culture
Research Area(s): Religion and Science, Cultural and Social Sustainability, Religion and Ecology, Ecojustice, Peace and Social Justice, Nonviolent Activism, Catholic Social Teaching, Ecological Ethics, Transformative Learning, Catholic Studies, Cross-Cultural Education, Religion and Politics, Green Living
Paulette Hunter Associate Professor
Research Area(s): End of life issues in long-term care, Behavioural support in long-term care, Stigma and personhood in dementia, Psychological interventions to promote health and quality of life
Monica Hwang Associate Professor
Research Area(s): Racial and Ethnic Stratification, Immigration and Diversity, Political Sociology, Social Inequality, Social Capital, Education
Anthony Jenkins Sessional Instructor
Research Area(s): Logic, Philosophy and History of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, Philosophical Psychology/Anthropology, Bertrand Russell, Gotlob Frege, L. Wittgenstein, Aquinas and Aristotle
Ria Jenkins Assistant Professor; Department Head, Philosophy
Research Area(s): Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy, Ethics
Darlene Kelly Emeritus Professor
Research Area(s): Modern Catholic writers, Life writings, Comparative literature
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen Professor
Research Area(s): Oral history, ritual, vernacular culture, Diaspora, ethnicity, migration , Post-socialist transition, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Canada, Ukrainian Canadian culture, Community engaged scholarship
Sarah Knudson Associate Professor; Department Head, Sociology
Research Area(s): Families, family formation and couple formation, Intimate relationships and relationship advice, Representations of gender in popular culture, Self-help, experts and advice-seeking
Bohdan Kordan Professor
Research Area(s): Nationalism, Conflict, State Minority Relations, Canadian Foreign Policy, Historical Cartography of Eastern Europe, Contemporary Ukraine
Arul Kumaran Dean
Research Area(s): Early Modern English Pamphlets, Shakespeare, Renaissance Courtesy Literature
John Liptay Associate Professor
Research Area(s): Aquinas’ ethics and the Thomistic philosophical tradition, Theoretical and normative issues in moral philosophy, The philosophy of Bernard Lonergan
Tammy Marche Associate Dean
Research Area(s): Cognitive Development, Memory Development across the Lifespan, Memory Accuracy (Forgetting) and Memory Distortion (False Memory, Suggestibility), Psychology and Law (Eyewitness memory), Memory and Health (Children's Memory for Pain), Memory and Education (Improving Children's Memory and Academic Performance)
David McGrane Professor
Research Area(s): Saskatchewan Politics, Political Marketing, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Childcare Policy, Voters and Canadian Elections, The Federal NDP under the Leadership of Jack Layton and Thomas Mulcair, Canadian Political Theory, Canadian Political Parties
Stacey McHenry Sessional Instructor
Darrell McLaughlin Emeritus Professor
Research Area(s): The social relations involved in building and maintaining a solidarity food system locally and globally.
Emily Morris Sessional Instructor
Research Area(s): Victorian Women’s Writing, Victorian Feminisms, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Yonge
Saeed Moshiri Professor; Department Head, Economics
Research Area(s): Applied Economics, Energy Economics, Economic Growth, Development Economics
Alisha Pomazon Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): Modern Jewish Thought, Biblical Interpretation, Salvation Theology, Jewish-Christian Relations, Messianic Thought
Tom Porter Sessional Instructor
Sarah Powrie Associate Professor
Research Area(s): Chaucer's dream visions, Textual reception, Medieval and early modern science
Daniel Regnier Associate Professor; Department Head, Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
Research Area(s): Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy in the Islamic World (In particular the transmission of Greek thought into Arabic), Comparative Philosophy (in particular Greece and China), German Idealism, Philosophy of Music
Dr. Gertrude Rompré Ed.D. Director of Mission and Ministry
Research Area(s): Catholic identity/Catholic higher education leadership, Critical realist social theory , Spirituality and social justice, Social dimensions of reconciliation/Reconciling peoples
Lesya Sabada Sessional Instructor
Research Area(s): Religious Peacebuilding, Peace Theology of the World's Religions, Religious Peacebuilding and Environmental Ethics, Inter-religious and Intra-religious Peacebuilding, Practical Application of Byzantine Peace Theology
Zita Seshie Sessional Instructor
Charles Smith Associate Professor; Department Head, Political Studies
Research Area(s): Canadian and International political economy, Public law, Labour unions, Federal and provincial public policy
Cheryl Soulodre Emeritus Professor
Carl Still President
Research Area(s): Conscience – history of conscience; problem of mistaken conscience, Medieval philosophy and theology; Thomas Aquinas, Philosophy of religion – problem of knowing God; rationality of faith, Philosophy of mind – self-knowledge
Karen Todd Sessional Instructor
Cynthia Wallace Associate Professor
Research Area(s): Catholic writers, Postcolonial literature, Women writers and feminist theory, Religion and literature, Ethical theory
Sharon Wright Associate Professor; Department Head, History
Research Area(s): Medieval England 500 ce to 1500 ce, Conflict & Violence Studies, Crusades, Pre-Modern Women’s History, Medical History, The Middle Ages in Film, The Provenance of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Collections on the Canadian Prairies
Zachary Yuzwa Assistant Professor
Research Area(s): Late Antiquity, Latin Literature, Asceticism and Monasticism, Classical receptions in Christian literature, Literary form and genre in late antiquity, especially dialogue and epistolography
