Interdisciplinary Programs Contact Us
Department of Interdisciplinary Programs
Our department offices are located in the MacKinnon Building (MCKN), MacKinnon Extension (MCKN EXT), Massey Hall (Massey), Reynolds Building (REYN), Zavitz Hall, Johnston Hall, Macdonald Stewart Hall, Alexander Hall (ALEX), Blackwood Hall, and Macdonald Hall. Operating hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Department Director
The department Director oversees all academic and administrative activities within the department. Contact Jade Ferguson (preferably by email) for inquiries related to departmental policies, strategic planning, faculty matters, or if you need high-level guidance on academic programs and departmental initiatives.
Jade Ferguson
- Office: MCKN 415
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56726
- Email: jfergu05@uoguelph.ca
Administrative Assistant to the Director
The Administrative Assistant to the Director is the main point of contact for scheduling meetings with the School Director, handling day-to-day administrative tasks, and assisting with departmental documentation. Contact Marie Ann O'Neill for assistance with administrative forms, meeting requests, or general inquiries about the department’s operations.
Marie Ann O'Neill
- Office: MCKN 128
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54388
- Email: artsidp@uoguelph.ca
Academic Programs Assistant
The Academic Programs Assistant supports students with questions regarding degree requirements, course enrollment, and academic policies for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Reach out to Marie Ann O'Neill for assistance with navigating course selection, understanding program prerequisites, or resolving enrollment issues.
Marie Ann O'Neill
- Office: MCKN 128
- Email: artsidp@uoguelph.ca
Faculty Advisors
These advisors support undergraduate students, providing guidance on course selection, program requirements, and academic resources available to Interdisciplinary majors. For assistance with your undergraduate program, reach out to your respective advisor.
Culture and Technology Studies:
Susan Brown
- Office: MCKN 412
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53266
- Email: sbrown@uoguelph.ca
Paul Barrett (Co-op)
Associate Professor, School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing
- Office: MCKN 447
- Email: barrettp@uoguelph.ca
Sexualities, Genders and Social Change
Adam Davies
- Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts and Music
- Office: MCKN 040
- Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 58749
- Email: SXGNAdvisors@uoguelph.ca
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Program Counsellor:
Sarah Bradley
- Office: MCKN 128
- Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56385
- Email: bas@uoguelph.ca
Faculty
Reach out to faculty members for course-related questions, research inquiries, and mentorship opportunities. They are experts in their fields and can provide insights into specific academic topics, research methodologies, and professional development.
Culture and Technology Studies:
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| Full Name | Department and College(s) | Contact | Areas of Research |
| School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts | Office: MCKN 412 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53266 Email: sbrown@uoguelph.ca |
Digital humanities, critical infrastructure studies, linked open data, Victorian writing, feminist theory, and literary history. | |
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Department of History, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN EXT 1003 Email: kmarti20@uoguelph.ca |
Serendipity in digital environments, linked open data, inclusive makerspaces, digital history pedagogy, digital humanities | |
| School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 447 Email: barrettp@uoguelph.ca |
Digital humanities, Canadian literature, critical race theory.
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Affiliated Faculty |
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| Full Name | Department and College(s) | Contact | Areas of Research |
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Department of Philosophy, College of Arts |
Office: Deans Office Suite, MCKN EXT Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53301 Email: sjbrennan@uoguelph.ca |
Moral theory, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, feminist ethics. | |
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School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 044 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52656 Email: don.bruce@uoguelph.ca |
19th-century French literature, cultural theory, interface between scientific and non-scientific discourses. | |
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School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 129 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54344 Email: kfranc02@uoguelph.ca |
Feminist musicology, Nadia Boulanger studies, 19th- and 20th-century French music, medicine and music, occultism, and religion. | |
| School of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences | Office: REYN 3323 Email: dgillis@uoguelph.ca |
Transdisciplinary pedagogy, risk assessment, community-engaged software design, bridging the digital divide. | |
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School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54341 Email: pkuling@uoguelph.ca |
Early modern theatre history, Canadian literature and theatre, performance studies, digital multimedia, video games, devising, dramaturgy/playwriting. | |
| School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts | Office: Zavitz Hall 407 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56854 Email: kristie.macdonald@uoguelph.ca |
Visual art, contemporary art, copies and multiples, archives and collections, printmaking, photography. | |
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School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 275 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54989 Email: sparmegi@uoguelph.ca |
Anglo-Italian relations in 18th-century literature and journalism, contemporary Italian literature, digital humanities. | |
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Department of Philosophy, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 336 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56464 Email: skorburg@uoguelph.ca |
Applied ethics related to data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning. | |
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School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts |
Office: Johnston Hall 113 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 54985 Email: awoods08@uoguelph.ca |
Race and gender representations in music, music as storytelling, music theory, socio-cultural analysis. | |
Sexualities, Genders and Social Change:
| Core Faculty | |||
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| Full Name | Department and College(s) | Contact | Areas of Research |
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Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences |
Office: Macdonald Stewart Hall 326 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52421 Email: adam.davies@uoguelph.ca |
Early childhood education and care, queer theory, critical disability studies, masculinities studies, poststructural theory, inclusion, feminist theory, LGBTQ+ identity, sexuality education, K-12 schooling, queer and trans theory, sociology of childhood and youth. | |
| Interdisciplinary Programs, College of Arts | Office: MCKN 415 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56726 Email: jfergu05@uoguelph.ca |
19th to mid-20th-century Canadian literature, Civil Rights Movement literature and photography, New Southern Studies, critical race theory, gender and sexuality. | |
| School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts | Office: MCKN 258 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53648 Email: jolive18@uoguelph.ca |
French literature, queer theory, LGBTQ+ studies, gender studies, French cultural studies. | |
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Affiliated Faculty |
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Psychology, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences |
Applied social psychology, women's health and well-being, sexual assault and violence. | ||
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School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts |
Ecology and feminism, modern and postmodern art, climate change. | ||
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School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts |
Office: Alexander Hall 374
Email: dborsato@uoguelph.ca |
Extended practices in art, social and interventionist practices, interdisciplinary and extended art. | |
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Department of Philosophy, College of Arts |
Contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, feminist philosophy, women's fitness. | ||
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School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Digital history, digital humanities, gender and technology. | ||
| School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Email: jcairnie@uoguelph.ca
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Southern African literature, land crisis and the crisis of childhood in Zimbabwean literature, Canadian Indigenous-Settler relationships, postcolonial sport. | |
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Department of History, College of Arts |
Gender history, food history, history of health and medicine, alcohol and drug history. | ||
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School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts |
Literary translation theory and practice, autofiction and contemporary women's writing, writings of Chloé Delaume. | ||
| School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts | Feminist musicology, French music from 1800-1970, Nadia Boulanger, history of music pedagogy, occultism, medicine and music. | ||
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School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Scenographic/performance design, installation art, art history, architecture and theatre design, themes of wonder, immersion, spectatorship, intermediality. | ||
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School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts |
Women's writing, 20th-century French women, women in early colonial Canadian history. | ||
| School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Office: Massey 103
Email: liptonm@uoguelph.ca |
Digital knowledge production, activism, educational technology, social inclusion, digital storytelling, social justice, confronting sexism, health, wellness, privacy, surveillance, bio-hacking, bio-art, performance, identity, queer theory, LGBTQ+ youth, camp. |
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Department of History, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN EXT 1003
Email: kmarti20@uoguelph.ca |
Serendipity in historical research, digital history, digital humanities, gender and technology, role of makerspaces in academia. | |
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Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences |
Activist art, art and social justice, body image and eating disorders, social inclusion. | ||
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Department of Management, Gordon S. Lang School of Business |
Diversity and inclusion, work-life interface, leadership development, precarious and marginalized work and workers, workplace victimization and conflict, occupational health and well-being, corporate social responsibility, continuing education, development, and training, scholarship of teaching and learning. | ||
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Department of Philosophy, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 335
Email: pmsherid@uoguelph.ca |
Women thinkers of the early modern period, virtue in Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Anne Conway, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, as well as in John Locke. | |
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Department of History, College of Arts |
Modern China, Chinese women's history, Manchuria. | ||
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School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts |
Eighteenth-century satirical art, the long eighteenth century, art curation, European Age of Exploration. | ||
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School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts |
Transgender identities in classical Rome, Alexander the Great, gender, heroism, masculinity and the feminine in antiquity, Greek notions of sexuality. | ||
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School of Fine Art and Music, College of Arts |
Popular music, especially race, gender, and politics in hip-hop music and culture. |
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Karyn Freedman |
Department of Philosophy, College of Arts | Office: MCKN 354 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53232 Email: karynf@uoguelph.ca |
Feminist epistemology, trauma and gender inequality, violence against women. |
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Sally Hickson |
School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing, College of Arts |
Office: MCKN 273 Email: shickson@uoguelph.ca |
Women and friendship in Renaissance Italy, 20th-century Canadian women artists, studies on Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
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Ania Wroblewski |
School of Languages and Literatures, College of Arts | Email: awroblew@uoguelph.ca | Feminist art history, contemporary art, women artists, art criticism, intersection of art and feminism. |
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences:
| Joint Faculty | |||
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| Full Name | Department and College(s) | Contact | Areas of Research |
| Psychology, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences | Office: MCKN EXT 3009 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 58247 Email: barclayp@uoguelph.ca |
Social and evolutionary psychology, cooperation, altruism. | |
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Emeritus |
Office: MCKN 044 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 52656 Email: don.bruce@uoguelph.ca |
French literature and culture, Enlightenment studies. | |
| Department of Philosophy, College of Arts | Office: MCKN 334 Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56367 Email: mgolden@uoguelph.ca |
Philosophy of science, bioethics, healthcare policy. | |
| Department of History, College of Arts | Office: MCKN 2004 Email: asouchen@uoguelph.ca |
Military history, environmental history, munitions disposal. | |
Black Canadian Studies:
Deirdre McCorkindale
Associate Professor, Department of History
- Office: 1001 MacKinnon Extension
- Email: dmccorki@uoguelph.ca
Core Faculty:
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Deirdre McCorkindale
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Department of History |
Office: 1001 MacKinnon EXT Email: dmccorki@uoguelph.ca |
Black settlement in Southwestern Ontario, Jim Crow era in United States and Canada, Scientific racism / White supremacy in North America, Underground Railroad / Black activism in North America, American Slavery and Abolition Movements |
| Rhonda C. George | Department of Sociology & Anthropology | Office: MCKN 606 Email: rcgeorge@uoguelph.ca |
Critical Race Studies, Black Studies, Intersectionality, Social Reproduction, Caribbean Diaspora, Sociology of Sport, Medical Sociology, Sociology of Education, Black Girlhood Studies, Black Popular Culture |
| Jade Ferguson | Interdisciplinary Programs, Assistant Vice President, Academic Equity & Inclusion | Office: MCKN 415 Email: jfergu05@uoguelph.ca |
19th to mid-20th century Canadian literature, Civil Rights Movement literature and photography, New Southern Studies, Critical Race Theory. |