Athletics and Recreation
Todd Warriner graduated from Blenheim District High School in 1993 after completing his Grade 13 year. That fall, he joined the Canadian Men’s National Hockey Team and played in European tournaments and exhibition games leading into the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, where he lost to Sweden in the Gold medal game.
Faculty of Engineering
Dr. Mehdi Najafi is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Windsor. Prior to joining Windsor, he worked at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Ted Rogers School of Management as a Research Professional in Operations and Supply Chain Analytics. His research focuses on optimization, data analytics, and AI-driven methods for decision-making in logistics and supply chain management, healthcare systems, and other complex operational systems. His work combines operations research and data-driven approaches to address challenging real-world problems.
Faculty of Law
Basema Al-Alami joins us in the Faculty of Law from Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, where she is completing her doctorate degree. Basema’s research focuses on Canadian national security and anti-terrorism law, with particular interests in security intelligence, counterterrorism investigations, terrorism prosecutions, and entrapment. She has presented her work at national and international conferences, including as part of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee delegation visit to Canada.
Terra Duchene is joining Windsor Law from the Windsor Law Centre for Cities and practice in environmental and municipal law, prior to which she completed her LL.M. with the University of California, Los Angeles (2021), where she specialized in Public Interest Law and worked with the Food Law and Policy Clinic. Her research orients around critical environmental, local government, and food law, and how relationships between humans and land shape law and policy. Her research engages Law and Political Economy, Third World Approaches to International Law, de-colonial practices, and praxis, including through clinical and experiential learning.
Dr. Mic Liu (they/them) joins us from the University of Ottawa as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law. Mic’s doctoral research focused on how the engineering profession’s statutory public interest mandate should respond when engineering decisions create or reinforce existing inequities. Mic is a lawyer and professional engineer with practice experience in family law, human rights law, environmental law, and project management in energy and construction sectors. As a Queer, Trans, non-binary, racialized, and neuroatypical academic, Mic is keen on leveraging their lived experience to conduct research that advances social justice.
Dr. Yukiko Kobayashi Lui joins us from Henry NR Jackman Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her areas of research are family law and social assistance law. Her work focuses on poor people’s experiences of law’s regulation.
Mary McPherson is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law. Her research interests examine the intersections of Anishinaabe philosophical and legal revitalization, constitutionalism, self-determination, and arts-based legal research creation. Mary's current research focuses on the role of Anishinaabe philosophical revitalization as refusal of hegemonic narratives and politics of recognition.
Faculty of Nursing
Rebecca Balassa is joining the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Nursing as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. She completed her PhD with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She is a child health equity scholar. Her research program focuses on advancing equity-oriented pediatric health and social systems, and strengthening community-led knowledge and civic leadership for equity.
Dr. Candace Ryan is a recent graduate of Wayne State University and joins the Faculty of Nursing as an Assistant Professor. She is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and nurse researcher with a translational research program focused on understanding individual differences in age-related cognitive decline and their impact on chronic disease self-management. Her research specifically examines how cognitive changes influence medication adherence among diverse, community-dwelling adults. Through her work, Dr. Ryan aims to advance the understanding of factors that affect chronic disease management and inform interventions that promote improved health outcomes among aging populationsre.
Professor Madison Broadbent is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Windsor, where she has been pursuing her doctoral studies since 2023. Her research focuses on women’s health and health equity, with particular attention to women’s experiences of gender-based violence and childbirth. Using interpretive description, she aims to understand women’s lived experiences and generate knowledge that can inform more equitable, responsive, and person-centred healthcare.
Office of the Provost
Dr. Barbara Crow joins UWindsor from Queen’s University, where she served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, one of Canada’s largest academic faculties. Prior to Queen’s, she held several senior roles at York University, including dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and associate vice-president graduate, associate dean research and director of the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Throughout her career, Dr. Crow championed initiatives to strengthen graduate education, expand student supports and professional development and grow access to national research funding. She was a successful fundraiser, raising millions of dollars for scholarships, research professorships and Indigenous initiatives, including an outdoor land-based learning space. She also served as chair of the Graduate Deans at the Council of Ontario Universities. Dr. Crow brings to the role of Provost and Vice-President, Academic a distinguished record of senior academic leadership, a research career focused on gender, technology and communication and a sustained commitment to graduate education and student success. As the University’s chief academic officer, Dr. Crow will provide leadership across teaching and learning, research, student experience, strategic enrolment management, international development, library sciences and the academic support systems that serve students, faculty and staff.
School of Social Work
Clarissa Campigotto rejoins us from the University of Windsor as a Field Learning Specialist in the School of Social Work. Clarissa has previously supported students in her role as academic advisor, sessional instructor and student counsellor. Clarissa is excited to continue her journey in academia, supporting students in their field experience.
Dr. Ann De Shalit joins us as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. Previously, she served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School as well as an Assistant Professor at Trent University. Her primary research uses labour and migrant justice approaches to expose the broadly defined impacts of anti-trafficking policy, discourse, and practice. She is also involved in community-based research advocating for improved conditions for precarious workers, drug-related harm reduction, and prison health.
Katka Hrncic-Lipovic, MSW, RSW, PhD(c) is a Field Learning Specialist in the School of Social Work. Effective January 1st, 2027, she will begin her new role as the On Campus Field Coordinator at the School of Social Work. Her scholarly and research interests include social work field education, decolonizing social work education and practice, identity, belonging and transnational experiences of immigrants and refugees, and gerontology.
Milena Sanson has recently shifted into a permanence-track role at the University of Windsor as a Field Learning Specialist in the School of Social Work. Milena previously held the role of Field Learning Specialist with the MSW for Working Professionals program for the last 6 years. She has also supported students as a sessional instructor. Milena looks forward to continuing to work with social work students to support them in their social work learning journeys.