The regulations for Graduate Faculty designation are outlined in the Senate Policy on Graduate Faculty Designation.
To become designated as a Graduate Faculty member, a Graduate Faculty Application form must be completed.
Review a list of current graduate faculty members.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Possession of a PhD. or equivalent (another degree, formal training, experience).
- Scholarly or creative activity as demonstrated by refereed publication or its equivalent for the discipline of the field (performance of an artistic work, juried exhibition). A total of two such works are required over the preceding four-year period.
- A record of successful involvement in graduate teaching and/or supervision, or the prospect of such activities, typically over the preceding five years.
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Tenured or tenure-track, full-time faculty members and Professors Emeriti may be appointed as Full Graduate provided they meet the eligibility criteria.
- Only members of the Full Graduate Faculty may solely supervise Graduate Student research.
- Only members of the Full Graduate Faculty may teach graduate courses, with exceptions being allowed upon the permission of the Faculty Dean.
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Adjunct faculty, Limited-term Appointees and Ancillary Academic Staff may be appointed as Affiliate Graduate faculty provided they meet the eligibility criteria.
- The role of Adjunct faculty members and Ancillary Academic Staff will be limited to participation on Master’s and Doctoral committees in the following capacities: co-supervisor; internal department reader; outside department reader.
- The role of Limited-term appointees will be limited to participation on Master’s committees only, and in the following capacities: co-supervisor; internal department reader; outside department reader.
Application Procedures:
Submissions for designation as Graduate Faculty may be made at any time using the Graduate Faculty Application form.
- Application by faculty members or recommendation by the AAU to an appropriate committee of the AAU (i.e. the Appointments or Graduate committees).
- Review by the AAU committee of applications received.
- Forwarding to Dean of Faculty by AAU committee of applications approved along with articulation of how criteria were applied.
- Review by committee of the Faculty and forwarding of approved applications with recommendations to the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Graduate Faculty Members - by Faculty
- Communication, Media and Film
- Creative Arts (School of)
- English
- History
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Social Work
- Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
Communication, Media and Film
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Asquith, Kyle
- Brown, Brian A.
- Engle, Karen (cross-appointed)
- Manzerolle, Vincent
- Rodney, Lee (cross-appointed)
- Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Valerie
- Stasko, Michael
- Virdi, Jyotika
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
Lau, Ka Leung Tony - until June 30, 2022
School of Creative Arts
FMA= Film and Media Arts program
VA= Visual Arts program
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Bae, Sung Min - FMA
- Bick, Sally - MFA
- Engle, Karen - VA
- Heard, Catherine - VA
- Hector, Nicholas - MFA
- Kotowich, Bruce - MFA
- Lee, Brent - VA and FMA
- Nelson, Kim - MFA
- Papador, Nick - MFA
- Rodney, Lee - VA
- Torinus, Sigi – VA and FMA
- Willet, Jennifer - VA
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Meloche, Jaclyn - until June 30, 2023 - VA
- Sando, Julie - until June 30, 2024
- Séoane, José Hernandez
English
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Cabri, Louis
- Davison, Carol Margaret
- Dilworth, Thomas
- Douglass-Chin, Richard
- Holbrook, Susan
- Jacobs, Dale
- Jirgens, Karl
- Johnston, Mark
- Markotic, Nicole
- Muse, Sandra
- Pender, Stephen
- Quinsey, Katherine
History
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Burr, Christina
- Huffaker, Shauna
- Lazure, Guy
- Nelson, Robert
- Palmer, Steven
- Teasdale, Guillaume
- Wright, Miriam
Affiliate Status:
- Phipps, Pauline
- Way, Peter (retired)
Philosophy
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Blair, John Anthony
- Guarini, Marcello
- Hansen, Hans
- Hundleby, Catherine
- Neculau, Radu
- Noonan, Jeffrey
- Rose, Philip
- Sullivan-Clarke, Andrea
- Tindale, Christopher
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Boulos, Pierre until June 30, 2021
Political Science
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Amore, Roy
- Anderson, William
- Brooks, Stephen
- Collier, Cheryl
- Essex, Jamey
- Lanoszka, Anna
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Major, Rebecca
- Maltseva, Elena
- Miljan, Lydia
- Najem, Tom
- Ovadia, Jesse
- Richez, Emmanuelle
- Richter, Andrew
- Soderlund, Walter
- Sutcliffe, John
- Wittebols, Jim
Psychology
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Abeare, Christopher
- Biss, Renee
- Boroughs, Michael
- Boucher, Chantal
- Buchanan, Lori
- Casey, Joseph
- Chung-Yan, Gregory
- Cohen, Jerome
- Cramer, Kenneth
- Erdodi, Laszio
- Fritz, Patti
- Hakim-Larson, Julie
- Jackson, Dennis
- Jarry, Josee
- Kichler, Jessica
- Kuo, Ben
- Kustra, Erika
- Kwantes, Catherine
- LaBelle, Onawa
- Lafreniere, Kathryn
- Langton, Calvin
- Menard, Dana
- Menna, Rosanne
- Miller, Carlin
- Pascual-Leone, Antonio
- Rappaport, Lance
- Romero, Kristoffer
- Senn, Charlene
- Soucie, Kendall
- Singleton-Jackson, Jill
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Freer, John - until June 30, 2024
- Jeffrey, Nicole – until June 30, 2023
- Ledgerwood, David - until June 30, 2021
Social Work
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Ambrose-Miller, Wayne
- Carter, M. Irene
- Guta, Adrian
- Damianakis, Thecla
- Donnelly, Elizabeth
- Duarte, Filipe
- Gorey, Kevin
- Grant, Jill
- Habibov, Nazim
- Mohanty, Jayashree
- Kvarfordt, Connie
- Levin, Dana
- Lwin, Kristin
- Nikolova, Kristina
- Park, Wansoo
- Selmi, Patrick
- Stirbys, Cynthia
- Voronka, Jijian
- Wright, Robin
- Yun, Sung Hyun
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Adam, Barry
- Albanese, John
- Basok, Tanya
- Cradock, Gerald
- Datta, Ronjon Paul
- Delia Deckard, Natalie
- Feldman, Gregory
- Fitzgerald, Amy
- George, Glynis
- Harney, Nickolas
- Ku, Jane
- Lippert, Randy
- Maticka- Tyndale, Eleanor
- McMurphy, Suzanne
- Nakhaie, M. Reza
- Omorodion, Francisca
- Rudhramoorthy, Cheran
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Aleks, Rachel
- Al-Hayale, Talal
- An, Yunbi
- Aneja, Yash
- Baki, Mohammed
- Bhandari, Gokul
- Bussière, David
- Elsaid, Eahab
- Fredette, Christopher
- Ganzin, Max
- Guo, Xiaolei
- Kerr, Gerry
- Lan, George
- Li, Wu (Kevin)
- Ma, Zhenzhong
- Mahajan , Ashish - until April 30, 2022.
- Mohebshahedin , Mahmood
- Ong, Audra
- Pandher, Gurupdesh
- Richardson, Alan
- Robson, Karen
- Samnani, Al- Karim
- Schlosser, Francine
- Snowdon, Anne
- Sterling, Maureen
- Ursel, Nancy
- Voyer, Peter
- Walker, Kent
- Zhong, Ligang
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Allen, Andrew
- Bakali, Naved
- Beckford, Clinton
- Cherian, Finney - until April 30, 2022
- Cobb, Cam
- Correa, Priscila
- Daniel, Yvette
- Egbo, Benedicta
- Ezeife, Anthony
- Glassford, Larry
- Greig, Christopher
- Holloway, Susan
- Jaber, Lindsey
- Martinovic, Dragana
- Montgomery, Kenneth
- Oloo, James
- Parker, Lana
- Rideout, Glenn
- Salinitri, Geri
- Sefton, Terry Gay
- Smith, Clayton
- Smith Kara
- Stanley, Darren
- Stewart, Bonnie
- Vanderkooy, Christine
- Vanner, Catherine
- Xu, Shijing
- Zhang, Zuochen
- Zhou, Guoqiang
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Freer, John - until June 30, 2026
- Kustra, Erika - until June 30, 2025
- Sirek, Danielle - until June 30, 2026
- Wiebe, Natasha - until June 30, 2025
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civ = Civil Engineering Programs
Env = Environmental Engineering Programs
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Asfour, Abdui-Fattah (Env)
- Balachandar, Ram (Civ)
- Biswas, Niharendu (Env)
- Bolisetti,Tirupati (Civ)
- Das, Sreekanta (Civ)
- Carriveau, Rupp (Civ)
- Cheng, Shaohong (Civ)
- Ghrib, Faouzi (Civ)
- Henshaw, Paul (Env)
- Kim, Yong Hoon (Civ)
- Lalman, Jerald (Env)
- Lee, Chris (Civ)
- Maoh, Hanna (Civ)
- Ruparathna, Rajeev (Civ)
- Seth, Rajesh (Env)
- Tam, Edwin (Env)
- Van Engelen, Niel (Civ)
- Xu, Xiaohong (Env)
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Ghaednia, Hossein (Civ) – until Sept. 30, 2026
- Jasim, Saad (Env.) - until April 30, 2026
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Abdel-Raheem, Esam
- Ahmadi, Majid
- Azzouz, Maher
- Balasingham, Balakumar
- Emadi, Arezoo
- Chen, Xiang
- Chen, Chunhong
- Chowdhury, Sazzadur
- Erfani, Shervin
- Kar, Narayan
- Khalid, Mohammed
- Kwan, H.K. (Peter)
- Maev, Roman - cross-appointed
- Mirhassani, Mitra
- Muscedere, Roberto
- Sakr, Ahmed Hamdi
- Saif, Mehrdad
- Shahrrava, Behnam
- Tepe, Kemal
- Wu, Huapeng
- Wu, Jonathan
- Zhang, Ning
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Ahmadi, Arash - until June 30, 2026
- Anderson, William - until June 30, 2021 -cross-appointed
- Awad, Ahmed – until June 30, 2027
- Biondi, Francesco – until June 30, 2021 - cross-appointed
- Hassanzadeh, Mohammad - until April 30, 2023
- Iyer, Lakshmi Varaha - until Dec. 31, 2026
- Nazri, Gholam-Abbas - until Aug. 31, 2023
- Rashidzadeh, Rashid – until September 1, 2021
- Razavi-Far, Roozbeh
- Toulabi, Mohammad Sedigh - until April 30, 2023
- Zhou, Bill - until May 31, 2023 - cross-appointed
Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering
Full Graduate Faculty:
Mech= Mechanical Engineering programs
Mat= Materials Engineering programs
Ind= MASc Industrial Engineering and PhD Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering programs
- Abdul-Kader, Walid (Mech/Ind)
- Ahamed, Mohammed Jalal
- Alpas, Ahmet (Mech/Mat)
- Altenhof, William (Mech/Mat)
- Azab, Ahmed (Mech/Ind)
- Baki, Fazle - cross-appointed (Ind) - until December 31, 2023
- Balachandar, Ram - cross-appointed – until December 31, 2026
- Bowers, Randy (Mat) - until April 30, 2022
- Caron, Richard (IMSE PhD) - cross-appointed (perpetuity)
- Cherniaev, Aleksandr (Mech)
- Defoe, Jeffrey (Mech)
- Eaves, Nicholas (Mech)
- Edrisy, Afsaneh (Mat/Mech)
- ElMaraghy, Hoda (Ind)
- ElMaraghy, Waguih (Mech/Ind)
- Fartaj, Amir (Mech)
- Green, Daniel (Mech/Mat)
- Hu, Henry (Mat)
- Jianu, Ofelia (Mech)
- Johrendt, Jennifer (Mech)
- Kim, Eunsik (Mech/Ind)
- Lashkari, Reza (Ind)
- Minaker, Bruce (Mech)
- Nie, Xueyuan (Mat)
- Northwood, Derek (Mat)
- Novak, Colin (Mech)
- Oriet, Leo (Mech/Ind)
- Pasek, Zbigniew (Ind)
- Rahimi, Afshin (Mech)
- Rankin, Gary (Mech)
- Reader, Graham (Mech)
- Riahi, Reza (Mat)
- Roussinova, Vesselina (Mech)
- Schuelke-Leech, Beth-Anne (Mech/Ind)
- Sobiesiak, Andrzej (Mech)
- Stoilov, Vesselin (Mech/Mat)
- Tam, Edwin (Mech) - cross-appointed (perpetuity)
- Ting, David (Mech)
- Urbanic, Jill (Mech/Ind)
- Wang, Hunglin (Michael) (Mech/Ind)
- Zamani, Nader (Mech)
- Zhang, Guoqing (Mech/Ind)
- Zheng, Ming (Mech)
- Zhou, Biao (Mech)
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Barron, Ronald (mech)- until June 30, 2027
- Damodaran, Vijay (Mech) - until July 31, 2023
- Etemadi, Majed (Mech) - until July 23, 2023
- Han, Xiaoye (Mech) - until December 31, 2022
- Kabir, Golam (Ind) – until December 31, 2021
- Miller-Branovacki, Lindsay (Mech/Ind) - until August 31, 2024
- Naderi, Bahman (Mech)- until April 30, 2022
- Nasif, Ghassan (Mech) - until Aug. 31, 2027
-
Olivares Aguila, Jessica (Ind) – until June 30, 2025
- Stagner, Jacqueline (Mech/Ind)
- Tjong, Jimi (Mech)- until October 31, 2021
- Yu, Xiao (Mech)- until July 31, 2023
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Andrews, Dave
- Azar, Nadia
- Bain, Anthony
- Biondi, Francesco
- Cort, Joel
- Chandler, Krista
- Dixon, Jess C.
- Eddy, Terence
- Gee, Sarah
- Greenham, Craig
- Horton, Sean
- Krause, Matthew
- Loughead, Todd
- Martyn, Scott
- McGowan, Cheri
- McNevin, Nancy
- Millar, Patricia (Patti)
- Milne, Kevin
- Paraschak, Victoria
- Scharoun, Sara
- van Wyk, Paula
- Weir, Patti
- Woodruff, Sarah
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Crawley, Jamie
- Cruz, Edward
- de Witt, Lorna
- Fox, Susan
- Freeman, Michelle
- Freeman, Laurie
- Giannotti, Natalie
- Kane, Debbie
- Kemplin. Kate
- Mirza, Noeman
- Morrell, Sherry
- Patrick, Linda
- Pittman, Gina
- Pfaff, Kathryn
- Rajacich, Dale
- Ralph, Jody
- Tanlaka, Eric
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Bahdi, Reem
- Berryman, Jeffrey
- Chapdelaine, Pascale
- Conklin, William
- Galvano Ferreira, Patricia
- Irish, Maureen
- Jacobs, Beverly
- Jacobs, Laverne
- Kalajdzic, Jasminka
- Kianieff, Muharem
- Macfarlane, Julie
- Moon, Richard
- Mummé, Claire
- Ocheje, Paul
- Semple, Noel
- Sheldon, C. Tess
- Smit, Anneke
- Smyth, Gemma
- Tanovich, David
- Tawfik, Myra
- Venkatesh, Vasanthi
- Waters, Christopher
- Wharton, Sara
- Xavier, Sujith
- Biological Sciences
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Computer Science
- Earth Sciences
- Economics
- Environmental Science
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Physics
Biological Sciences graduate programs
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Bain, Anthony - cross-appointed (until February 13, 2027)
- Buchanan, Lori - cross-appointed (until January 2027)
- Crawford, Michael J.
- Crosby, William L.
- Dason, Jeffrey
- Doucet, Stéphanie
- Febria, Catherine
- Haffner, G. Douglas
- Heath, Daniel
- Higgs, Dennis M.
- Hubberstey, Andrew V.
- Hudson, John W.
- Hussey, Nigel
- Karpowicz, Phillip
- Love, Oliver P.
- Mennill, Daniel
- Pitcher, Trevor E.l
- Porter, Lisa A.
- Rahim, Mir Munir
- Semeniuk, Christina A.D.
- Swan, Andrew
- VanLaerhoven, Sherah
- Zhang, Huiming
- Zielinski, Barbara
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Fidalgo da Silva, Elizabeth – until February 28, 2026
- Cavallo-Medved, Dora
- Hennin, Holly - until January 31, 2026
- Turko, Andy – until February 28, 2027
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Ananvoranich, Sirinart
- Carmichael, Tricia B.
- Drover, Marcus
- Eichhorn, S. Holger
- Gauld, James W.
- Green, James R.
- Johnson Samuel A.
- Loeb, Stephen J.
- Marquardt, Drew
- Mundle, Scott
- Mutus, Bulent
- Ng, Kenneth
- Pandey, Siyaram
- Rondeau-Gagné, Simon
- Rawson, Jeremy M.
- Taylor, Keith E.
- Trant, John
- Vacratsis, Panayiotis, O.
- Vukotic, Vedran (Nick)
- Wang, Jichang
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Amtul, Zareen
- Chandrasekera, Charu – until December 31, 2023
- Schurko, Rob - until August 31, 2022
Computer Science
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Ahmad, Imran
- Alhadidi, Dima
- Bandyopadhyay, Subir (emeritus)
- Biniaz, Ahmad
- Boufama, Boubakeur
- Bright, Curtis
- Chen, Xiao, Jun (Jessica)
- Ezeife, Christie, H.
- Fani, Hossein
- Frost, Richard (emeritus)
- Gras, Robin
- Jaekel, Arunita
- Kobti, Ziad
- Lu, Jianguo
- Mir, Usama
- Moradian Zadeh, Pooya
- Mukhopadhyay, Asish
- Ngom, Alioune
- Rueda, Luis
- Saad Ahmed, Sherif
- Saini, Ikjot
- Samet, Saeed
- Tsin, Yung H. (Peter)
- Wu, Dan
- Yuan, Xiaobu
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Abusitta, Adel - until April 30, 2024
- Afshar, Majid- until November 30, 2024
- Alkhateeb, Abedalrhman - until April 30, 2023
- Bose, Prosenjit - until Sept. 2025
- Cheluvasai Ranga, Prashanth - until June 30, 2023
- Firoozjaei, Mahdi – until June 30, 2023
- Jiang, Shaoquan – until April 30, 2023
- Kargar, Mehdi - until July 31, 2021
- Khan, Shafaq Naheed – until December 31, 2023
- Ksantini, Riadh - until July 31, 2021
- Mir, Usama – until June 30, 2023
- Rahman, Md Zamilur – until September 30, 2024
- Selvarajah, Kalyani – until April 30, 2023
- Syrotkina, Olena - until April 30, 2024
- Yacoub, Aznam – until June 30, 2023
Earth Sciences
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Al-Aasm, Ihsan
- Cioppa, Maria
- Drouillard, Ken G.
- Fisk, Aaron
- Gagnon, Joel
- Gordon, Robert
- Houser, Christopher
- MacIsaac, Hugh J.
- McKay, Robert Michael
- Mundle, Scott - cross-appointed until January 31, 2025
- Polat, Ali
- Proctor, Cameron
- Samson, Iain
- Weisener, Christopher
- Yang, Jianwen
Economics
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Arbex, Marcelo
- Li, Dingding
- Rhee, Hyuk-jae
- Suh, Sang-Chul
- Trudeau, Christian
- Turdaliev, Nurlan
- Xu, Chenyang
- Wang, YunTong
- Zhang, Yahong
Environmental Science
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Drouillard, Ken
- Fisk, Aaron
- Fryer, Brian
- Gagnon, Joel
- Haffner, Doug
- Heath, Daniel
- Love, Oliver
- MacIsaac, Hugh
- McKay, Robert Michael
- Mundle, Scott
- Pitcher, Trevor
- Semeniuk, Christina
- Weisener, Christopher
- Zielinski, Barbara
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Droppo, Ian – until June 30, 2027
- Phillips, Lori – until Feb. 28, 2027
- Pope, James - until June 30, 2027
- Stammler, Katie - until Sept. 30, 2027
Mathematics and Statistics
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Alfakih, Abdo Y.
- Barron, Ronald
- Belalia, Mohamed
- Borisov, Dennis
- Caron, Richard J.
- Hlynka, Myron
- Hu, Zhiguo - until April 30, 2022
- Hussein, Abdulkadir
- Monfared-Sangani, Mehdi
- Nkurunziza, Sévérien
- Paul, Sudhir R
- Shapiro, Ilya
- Yang, Dilian
- Yee, Wai Ling
- Zahariuc, Adrian
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Ahmed, Ejaz - until June 30, 2022
- Brill, Percy - until Dec. 31, 2022
Physics
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Drake, Gordon W.F.
- Hammond, Thomas J.
- Maev, Roman G.
- Maeva, Elena Yu
- Kedzierski, Wladyslaw
- Kim, Eugene Hubert
- Rangan, Chitra
- Rehse, Steven J.
- Rau, Jeffrey
- Xiao, Dan
Affiliate Graduate Faculty:
- Pan, Ming - until April 30, 2022
Full Graduate Faculty:
- Collet-Najem, Tanja
- Jacobs, Heidi
- Rossini, Antonio
- Sevillano Canicio, Victor
- Stevens Abbitt, Erica
- Waldron, Janice
- Walsh, Lionel