| Name | Research Interests |
| Jo-Anne Andre
| - Composition theory and pedagogy
- especially rhetoric of science.
- including writing in the disciplines and in non-academic settings
- Theory and practice of rhetoric
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| Caesar Apentiik | - Environmental management
- ethics and politics
- indigenous knowledge and community development
- research methodologies in the context of intercultural communications with particular focus on Africa and North America
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| Chloe Atkins
| - Applied political
- feminist and legal theory
- First person narratives
- International comparisons of human rights and antidiscrimination legislation with regard to gender
- Medical legal and ethical issues
- sexuality and disability
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| Maria Bakardjieva
| - computer mediated communication
- Internet use
- media and democracy
- New media and society
- Social aspects of communication technology
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| Doug Brent
| - post-secondary educational practices
- rhetoric and composition
- Writing in the disciplines
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| Lee Carruthers | - cinematic time
- classical and contemporary cinema
- European art cinema
- film history
- Film theory
- philosophical hermeneutics
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| Regina Cochrane | - Adorno-postmodernism/poststructuralism debate
- feminist/environmental activism in the global justice movement
- Feminist/green political theory
- globalization and social/global justice
- Populism/fascism and the New Right
- Science/Enlightenment/
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| Geoff Cragg
| - Composition and Education History and Theory
- Canadian Wilderness Writers.
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| Edna Einsiedel
| - Biotechnology
- genomics and nano-biotechnology applications
- public participation on technological issues
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| Charlene Elliott | - children and media studies
- food marketing/branding
- intellectual property
- Obesity and public health
- sensorial communication
- taste and communication
|
 | Marcia Epstein
| - acoustic ecology
- History and sociology of music
- musical rhetoric
- music therapy
|
| Lorry Felske
| - coal mining disasters
- cultural history of the Calgary Stampede Parade
- heritage practices and interpretation
- historical development of coal mining communities
- history of coal mining technology above and below ground
- western Canadian urban culture
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| Patrick Feng
| - health informatics and health policy
- philosophy of technology
- Science and technology policy; politics of international standards-setting
- social innovation
- technological governance
|
| Max Foran
| - Alberta and the Great Depression
- History of Western Canadian agriculture with a major focus on the Alberta cattle industry
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| Ron Glasberg
| - history of ideas
- Interdisciplinary theory
- knowledge unification strategies
- popular culture
- world history
|
| Richard Hawkins
| - Science technology and innovation policy
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| Margo Husby Scheelar
| - hermeneutics and ethics in post-secondary teaching
- History and theory of rhetoric
- history of ideas
- medieval mystics
- myth and popular culture
- women's roles in Christianity
|
| Dawn Johnston | - Food Culture
- Television and Film
- Social Activism
- Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture
|
| Michael Keren
| - Knowledge and Power
- Political communication
- political literature
|
| George Melnyk
| - Canadian film and literary history
- peace studies
- Western Canadian identity
|
| David Mitchell - Department Head
| - broadband networks and community development
- communications policy
- Communication theory
- social context of information and communications technology
|
| Aradhana Parmar
| - Development studies with a focus on gender
- gender race and ethnicity
- immigrant women in Canada
- South Asia
- women and India
|
| Lynne Perras
| - Canadian animation
- Canadian humour
- hockey history and culture
|
| Brian Rusted
| - Ethnography
- organizational culture
- performance studies
- visual culture
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| Barbara Schneider
| - Communication theory
- Ethnomethodology and discourse analysis
- organizational communication (particularly writing and decision making in organizations)
- research methods
|
| Lloyd Sciban
| - Confucian ethics
- East Asian culture
- Influence of Chinese culture in Canada
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| Tamara Seiler
| - Alberta history
- Canadian literature
- history and representation of immigrant experience
- multiculturalism
- North American cultural history
- the West in North America
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| Tania Smith
| - Contemporary rhetorical theory and practice
- rhetorical education
- rhetorical history
- higher education innovation and leadership
- professional communication
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| Lisa Stowe | - Food Studies
- Paralympic Sport and Identity
- Rhetorical Communication
- Transformative Education and Travel Study
|
| David Taras
| - effects of new information technologies on politics and society
- news and journalism
- Political communication
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| Charles Tepperman | - amateur media
- fan cultures and new media
- History of motion pictures
- home movies
- media archive and film preservation
- motion picture technology and audiences
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