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AREL, Dominique »

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

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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

Full Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2889)
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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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BANYONGEN, Serge »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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BEAUREGARD, Devin »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-858-2314
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My research program focuses on cultural and creative industries policies. In particular, I am interested in digital culture and the role of the cultural industries in creating and promoting a sense of identity and place.

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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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BERNIER, Marc-François »

Marc-François Bernier

Full professor (retired)
Faculty of Arts
Communication

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3828)
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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. »

Jennifer A. Chandler

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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COLÓN, Raúl »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
School of Translation and Interpretation

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Cell: 613-818-2755
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Raúl Ernesto Colón Rodríguez is a PhD in Translation Studies and Part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. He had worked (French-Spanish and English-French) in editorial, cinematographic, Canadian Francophonie and United Nations translation areas in Canada (2007-2019). He completed in 2011 a Master’s degree in TS at the University of Ottawa, and since 2011 he had published chapters, articles, translations and book reviews in American, Canadian, Spanish, Colombian, Polish and Brazilian publications. His PhD Thesis with Complexity Theory as theoretical approach, was about Collaborative Activist Translation 2.0 in Canada and he successfully defended his thesis in 2018. He also does research on the links between Translation, Exiles and Migrations of Latin-Americans in North America, and take part in the actual public discussion on Academic freedoms.

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EAST, Jocelyn »

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

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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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EBANDA DE B'BERI, Boulou »

Research Director (AMLAC&S)
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Communication

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Office: 6135625800#3826
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Questions of intercultural communication, medias' representation of ethnic minorities; cultural identity, racism, racialization, and cultural history in Canada and in Black Africa.

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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 »

Dimitri Karmis

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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LALIBERTÉ, André »

André Laliberté

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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LAUER, Dean William »

Yes
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Home: 613.789-5227
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I teach business ethics and specialize in the philosophy of Heidegger, Scandinavian studies as well as environmental issues related to business, science, and ethics.

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LENARD, Patti Tamara »

Full 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
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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)
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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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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
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2045)
Cell: 613-606-3011
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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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MILLAR, Jason »

Postdoctoral fellow
Faculty of Law

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I research emerging issues in the ethics and governance of robotics and artificial intelligence. My focus is on autonomous (driverless) cars, military drones (lethal autonomous weapons, and social robotics.

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MOGGACH, Douglas »

Douglas MOGGACH

Distinguished Professor
Emeritus professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Home: 613-237-0105
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State and economy; history of political thought; Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought, aesthetics and politics.

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English and French , italien / Italian, allemand / German

PETTIPIECE, Timothy »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

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Office: 8199628507
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My research focuses on religion in the ancient world, particularly in the Roman and Persian empires. I work primarily on Gnostic and Manichaean texts.

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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 »

Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Hegel, German Idealism, Early German Romanticism, Continental Philosophy, general philosophical questions (ethical, political, history, art, metaphysics, religion, language...).

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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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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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ROSS-TREMBLAY, Pierrot »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts

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Dr. Ross-Tremblay is an indigenous (Innu) expert with over 20 years of experience on issues related to First Peoples. He has advanced expertise in complex problem solving, institutional design, conflict management and diplomacy. His current research focuses on cultural memory and oblivion, intellectual traditions and indigenous narratives, and practices of self-determination.

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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 »

Marc Saner

Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1061)
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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SNEDDON, Andrew »

Andrew Sneddon

Native speaker
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Philosophy

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Office: x3668
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I study ethics, which is to say that I study right and wrong. I study applied ethics (e.g., medical ethics, euthanasia, offense), theoretical ethics (e.g., consequentialism, history of moral philosophy), and moral psychology (i.e., the psychological capacities responsible for moral agency).

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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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STRAEHLE, Christine »

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

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4592)
Cell: 343-209-5252
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I work in applied ethics in two areas. The first is on questions of migration like TFWP in Canada, Live-in-Care-Givers in Canada, and vulnerability of migrants (in particular women and sponsored spouses). I also work on questions of public health ethics and bioethics, in particular access to care and distribution of health resources in Canada and globally.

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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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VELLOSO, Joao »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section

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My research focuses on penal policies and use of mixed legal regimes in the governance of deviance and security. Domestically, I work on the uses of criminal law, immigration law and regulatory regimes in the control of protesters, immigration and street gangs. Internationally, I focus on criminal justice in adversarial and inquisitorial systems (more specifically in Brazil, France and Canada). I collaborate with Brazilian colleagues in the areas of politics, criminal justice, policing and security policies.

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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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