Network Directory

Title University Affiliation Department / Program Specific Area of Research
Abeles, Francine - History Kean University OTHER History History of Mathematics/Computing Interface; logic; linear algebra
Abraham, Tara - History University of Guelph History History history of cybernetics history of brain and mind sciences scientific practice
Adl, Sina - Dalhousie University Biology Department, Dalhousie University Soil ecology, biology of decomposition, sustainable agriculture, soil nutrients. I have used soil microcosms, green-house experiments, field experiments, commercial agriculture fields to study the effect of field management and experimental treatments on community structure and soil food webs.
Akbari, Suzanne - English University of Toronto OTHER English optics, geography/cartography, medicine, mathematics, astronomy/astrology history of biology (climate theory), history of medicine (astrology), history of technology (optics), history of mathematics (mechanistic and calculators)
Albert, Mathieu - Sociology University of Toronto OTHER Sociology interdisciplinary research; power relationship in science; scienfic fields; medicine; epistemology; science policy
Anderson, Katharine - History York University Science and Technology Studies, York History OBSERVATION, OCEANOGRAPHY, VISUALIIZATION, EXPLORATION NARRATIVES, SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGIES
Andrews, Kristin - Psychology York University Philosophy Psychology developmental and comparative cognition and folk psychology
Archibald, Tom - History Simon Fraser University OTHER History transmission of mathematical knowledge between research communities; research community formation; mathematical values and their relation to broader cultural values
Arthur, Richard - Philosophy McMaster University OTHER Philosophy Early Modern Philosophy (especially Leibniz); Philosophy of Time and Space; History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics; History of Materialism
Atkinson-Grosjean, Janet - Sociology University of British Columbia OTHER Sociology I study researchers and research organizations that cross boundaries (public/private; basic/applied; science/commerce; geographic; institutional; disciplinary). Translational Science.
Bailey, Steve - Humanities York University OTHER Humanities examination of issues of subjectivity, popular culture, and technology using a variety of philosophical, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches
Balka, Ellen - Women's Studies Simon Fraser University OTHER Women's Studies Design, Implementation and Use of Health Information Technologies; Gender and the Design of Technological Systems; Gender, Technology and Communication; Impacts of Technological Change on Women and Minorities; Participatory Design and Participatory Ergonomics; Public Participation in Technology Assessments; Technology and Public Policy; Use of Computer Networks for Social Change; User Participation in Design of Technological Systems; Women
Baltus, Christopher - History SUNY (Oswego) OTHER History History of mathematics, continued fractions, algebra, analysis, geometry
Barney, Darin - McGill University OTHER
Batt, Sharon - Dalhousie University Sharon's dissertation research uses theories and methods from anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) to examine practices and ethical debates within Canada's breast cancer movement about funding from the pharmaceutical industry. Particular areas of interest within STS are patient groups and health movements, lay knowledges and public participation in science, feminist STS, and pharmaceuticals as sites of political struggle.
Baylis, Françoise - Dalhousie University novel technologies, assisted human reproduction, research involving women, stem cell research, women's health, public health, and feminist ethics.
Benson, Keith R. - History University of British Columbia OTHER History 19th-20th c history of biology, history of marine biology, history of oceangraphy, and natural history
Benzaquen, Adriana - History Mount Saint Vincent University History History the "science of childhood" in early modern and Enlightenment Europe; the rise of the medical practitioner as family advisor
Bergeron, Vincent - Philosophy University of Ottawa Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of art
Berryman, Sylvia - Philosophy University of British Columbia OTHER Philosophy Ancient Greek natural Philosophy and Ancient Greek Science
Bielawksi, Joseph - Dalhousie University Biology Department, Dalhousie University His research program is organized around two related themes: (1) microbial genomics and eco-genomics, and (2) statistical modeling of molecular evolution. The themes are tightly connected by his interest in reconciling functional divergence at the gene level with the evolution of complex microbial phenotypes.
Boantza, Victor - History/ Philosophy McGill University History History/ Philosophy Scientific Revolution; Early Modern Alchemy, Chemistry and Matter Theories; Science, Religion and Patronage; European Intellectual History, especially 17th and 18th centuries; Early Modern Philosophy; Chemical Revolution; Enlightenment Science
Bocking, Stephen - History/ Philosophy Trent University OTHER History/ Philosophy Understanding the roles of science in environmental politics both historically and through contemporary case studies. Current projects include a study of the history of environmental science in northern Canada.
Borck, Cornelius - History McGill University OTHER Historical Epistemology; Neurosciences between media theory and neurophilosophy; Cultures of Biomedical Visualization; The Infra-ordinary in Art & Science
Borda-Rodriguez, Alexander - Dalhousie University ethnography of aid, the political economy of development aid and healthcare (e.g. vaccines) and how scientific knowledge is regulated and legitimized by international organizations in the global south.
Borgerson, Kirsten - Philosophy Dalhousie University Philosophy Philosophy philosophy of medicine, bioethics, social epistemology, feminist philosophy
Bowden, Gary - Sociology University of New Brunswick OTHER Sociology 1) Contemporary Canadian and American Energy and Environmental Issues and Policy 2) The development of ecological sociology -- an integration of ecology and sociology -- through the application of complex adaptive systems theory to understand long term environment-society interaction, particularly in relation to fundamental macro-level changes (e.g., the collapse of societies, the emergence of modern economic growth)
Brigandt, Ingo - Philosophy University of Alberta Philosophy Philosophy The nature, possibility, and limits of intellectual integration across different biological disciplines; non-reduction and the nature of biological explanation; theories of concepts; the rationality of semantic change in the history of biology; how the context-sensitive use of scientific terms supports successful practice; evolutionary developmental biology and its 19th and 20th century roots
Broughton, Peter - History Unaffiliated OTHER History History of astronomy in Canada
Brown, Bryson - Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy Logical and epistemological foundations of science, Philosophical logic, Philosophy of science (including philosophy of geology, philosophy of biology, some philosophy of physics, philosophy of mathematics), epistemology
Brown, James Robert - Philosophy University of Toronto Philosophy Philosophy Mathematics, physics, science and society
Burfoot, Annette - Sociology Queen's University OTHER Sociology 18th century wax anatomical models, cross-cultural comparison of treatment of obstetrical pain, gender and textile technologies in Lucca, Italy.
Burrow, Sylvia - Philosophy University of Cape Breton Philosophy Dr. Burrow's research connects emotions and attitudes (particularly self-trust and self-confidence) to the moral concept of autonomy. Her recent research argues that pressures to use technological interventions during labour and childbirth compromise women's autonomy through undermining self-trust and self-confidence.
Butler, Alison - History St. Francis Xavier University History History Victorian occultism; western esotericism
Cambrosio, Alberto - Sociology McGill University OTHER Sociology Sociology of biomedical innovation at the laboratory-clinical interface; Genomics and cancer; Biomedical regulation; Biomedical networks; Immunological imagery
Campbell, Richmond - Philosophy Dalhousie University Philosophy Philosophy origin of morals and in particular moral reasons (intersection of biology and moral philosophy)
Carstairs, Catherine - History University of Guelph History History History of Illegal Drug Use, History of Food and Nutrition, Alternative Health, Fluoridation,
Castle, David - Philosophy University of Ottawa Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on evolutionary biology and ecology, environmental philosophy and the ethical implications posed by biotechnology.
Cavanaugh, Ted - Dalhousie University
Choby, Alexandra - Anthropology University of Alberta Science, Technology, and Society Anthropology diagnosis and diagnostic technologies, neurology and psychiatry, knowledge practices, biomedicine, feminism, gender
Chrisman, Nicholas - Geography Université Laval OTHER Geography geographic information systems (many applications); also NCE networks; STS of geographic information technologies
Corbett, Ken - History/ Philosophy Dalhousie University History/ Philosophy Ken's MA thesis traces the relationship between railway and telegraph networks and the culture of time in late nineteenth-century British periodicals. His other research interests include the origins of the philosophical arguments of British Phrenologists, the development of physics in the nineteenth century, and the philosophy of time.
Cormack, Lesley - History Simon Fraser University History History History of geography, cartography and mathematics in early modern England
Court, John - History University of Toronto OTHER History History of medicine, psychiatry and of medical-psychiatric academies & institutions
Creelman, Douglas - Psychology University of Toronto OTHER Psychology history of psychology, human perception, research instruments
Creeman, Douglas - History University of Toronto OTHER History 19th and 20th century apparatus
Cuffaro, Michael - History/ Philosophy University of Western Ontario Philosophy History/ Philosophy History and Philosophy of Science, Kant.
Curtis, Bruce - Sociology Carleton University OTHER Sociology state formation, statistics, education politics, politics schooling and insurrection in colonial canada; historical sociology of music
Dea, Shannon - Philosophy University of Waterloo Philosophy Philosophy Early modern philosophy; classic pragmatism (especially Peirce).
Delisle, Richard - Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy