TVO is sponsoring a competition to find best lecturer in Canadian universities. Today we look at Social sciences:
| 2009 | Department of Sociology - Ryerson University |
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Anton Lawrence Allahar
Professor Allahar’s principal areas of interest are economic development, the politics of globalization & democracy, and ethnicity, nationalism and racial relations, as these apply to the Caribbean and Latin America. His books include:The Sugar Planters of Colonial Cuba (1982); Is there Life after Debt? The Latin American Debt Crisis (1993); Richer and Poorer: the Structure of Inequality in Canada (1998); and Ivory Tower Blues: a university system in crisis (2007). Professor Allahar has won 6 major awards for excellence in teaching, including the University of Western Ontario’s USC/Bank of Nova Scotia award in 1996 and again in 2002. He is the only person ever to have won this award twice. Before this Anton was honoured with the UWO’s Gold Medal and Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1986 and more recently he won 3 major awards for excellence in university teaching: the province-wide OCUFA in 2004, the national 3M award in 2005, and the Government of Ontario’s LIFT award in 2007. Based on his combined scholarly publications and awards of excellence in teaching, also in July 2007, Dr. Allahar was named Faculty Scholar at The University of Western Ontario. Dr. Allahar is currently President of the prestigious Caribbean Studies Association, whose membership is drawn from over 200 universities and 60 countries internationally. In this capacity he was invited to accompany Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a recent trip to the Caribbean, where the PM met with a group of Caribbean prime ministers to discuss challenges to the region. What the students say: Oren Amitay
Dr. Amitay brings a dynamic teaching style to his classes — in which many difficult, interesting and controversial themes are covered — and tries to motivate students to want to learn more about and to better understand the complexities of the human condition, including their own lives. What the students say: “Professor Oren Amitay’s lectures are always a great learning experience. He does not simply teach the required course material and leave it at that, but teaches students to think critically about the information presented, and to be smart consumers of science.” “Dr. Oren Amitay’s passion for psychology is evident in his lectures, but his beliefs do not bias or detract from his teachings; instead, he encourages students to think critically about the clinical, theoretical and experimental material we cover. In all three courses I’ve taken with Dr. Amitay, there’s virtually perfect attendance for each lecture, something I’ve never seen elsewhere. This is due to his ability to engage students, to convey information effectively, to demonstrate his knowledge and expertise in a non-arrogant manner, and to encourage us to apply what we learn to many other aspects of life outside the classroom.”
Greg Andres
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Claudio Colaguori2009 | Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies - York University | Claudio Colaguori (PhD York) is a sociologist who is passionate about getting people to think outside-the-box regarding human behaviour and social life. Sometimes controversial and sometimes illuminating, Professor Colaguori’s lectures make social concepts relevant to students by helping them critically understand the world around them. The main theme of his sociology is that we humans construct our own social world and therefore we can make it a better one. His teaching has been very well received and has ranged from small seminars to large 900 student classes. He has twice earned the John O’Neill Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Colaguori presently lectures in sociology, criminology and social science. His research interests are varied and include the sociology of conflict, competition and violence, human rights issues concerning wrongful convictions within the criminal justice system, and the popularity of television crime programs and their relation to authoritarian attitude formation. He has published on topics such as ‘mass incarceration within the American prison-industrial-complex’, and ‘agonistic configurations of power in the project of empire’. He is presently working on an introduction to the sociology of violence. What the students say:
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2009 | Department of Sociology - University of Western Ontario |Anton Allahar was born in Trinidad, West Indies and completed his graduate studies in Political & Economic Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is currently a Full Professor of Sociology at The University of Western Ontario (Canada).
2009 | Department of Psychology - University of Toronto (Scarborough) | As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Amitay has balanced his clinical work assessing and treating clients with an active academic career, having taught 20 different courses over the past eight years, for which he received Teaching Excellence awards for both Ryerson University and York University/Glendon College in 2005/2006. Oren’s research interests have focused mostly on depression and its correlates with parent-child dynamics, interpersonal relationships, social support, emotional intelligence and particular personality styles. Clinically, he works with clients coping with an extremely wide variety of issues and also conducts Parenting Capacity Assessments for different Children’s Aid agencies across Ontario.
2009 | Department of Philosophy - University of Waterloo | Greg Andres received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario in 2007. He currently lectures at UWO and at the University of Waterloo.
2009 | Department of Psychology - University of Toronto (Scarborough) | Gerald Cupchik is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He is past president of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA,1992-94), Division 10 of the American Psychological Association: Psychology and the Arts (1996-97), and of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL,1998-2000). His interests encompass aesthetics, design and the psychology of emotion. In aesthetics, he studies both acts of creation and reception using diverse materials and methods, ranging from experiments to semi-structured interviews. In the area of emotion, his goal is to build bridges between two seemingly incompatible views, the behavioural/cognitive and the phenomenological/psychodynamic.
2009 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology - Carleton University | Darryl T. Davies completed his high school education at the Kamsack Collegiate Institute in Kamsack Saskatchewan. After graduation he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and then attended the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College) where he obtained his MPHIL Degree in Criminology. He has held a variety of positions in the criminal justice system including: Research Consultant, Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan; Lecturer in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan; Director Public Participation, Correctional Service of Canada; Criminologist, Canadian Criminal Justice Association; Probation/Parole Officer, Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services; Senior Policy Analyst, Police and Law Enforcement Directorate, Ministry of the Solicitor General; Senior Communications Officer on Firearms, Communications Branch, Department of Justice.
2009 | Department of Psychology - University of Toronto (Scarborough) | Born and raised in Montreal, Marc A. Fournier received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in 2002. Marc’s doctoral dissertation research received numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Gold Medal from McGill University, the Prize of Excellence from l’Académie des Grands Montréalais, and the J. S. Tanaka Dissertation Award from the Association for Research in Personality.
2009 | Department of Psychology - Carleton University | At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Holahan contributed to a program of research uncovering the neural substrates of addiction at both the pharmacological and molecular levels. While at McGill University for his PhD work, he studied the impact of conditioned fear on memory storage processes. At the University of Toronto, he studied neural systems interactions underlying the processing of spatial information. As a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the USA, Dr. Holahan studied the development of the hippocampus in rats and transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Currently at Carleton University in his third year as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Holahan studies the workings of the brain at multiple levels including behavioral, anatomical, pharmacological and molecular to understand brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, phobias and addiction.
2009 | Department of Geography - University of Ottawa | Jennifer Kasper is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. Jennifer has been fascinated with cold region phenomena since she was an undergraduate student. Summers in the late 1980’s spent researching glacier hydrological processes in the Yukon for her Master’s research provided her with one of her main areas of interest, but she then went on to study permafrost features, particularly ice wedge growth and decay as indications of climate change for her PhD at Université Laval. These two different areas of interest gave her a better understanding of cold regions processes and the north. More recent research interests include the dynamics of river ice covers connected with changing winter temperature regimes.
2009 | Department of Psychology - Carleton University | Guy Lacroixis an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. Guy obtained his Ph. D. in Psychology from the Université de Montréal in 2001 and his B.A from McGill University in 1995. His research focuses on fundamental and applied questions in cognitive psychology. More specifically, he was been working on theoretical and empirical aspects of learning, attention, and categorization; cognitive factors that are related to child and adult literacy skills; and pedagogical issues in literacy and mathematics.
2009 | Department of Psychology - Lakehead University | Susan Sajna Hebert is a Continuing Contract Lecturer of Psychology at Lakehead University. She received her B.A., (1985) HBA (1987) and M.A. in Clinical Psychology (1993) from Lakehead University. She was among the first instructors at Lakehead University to design, develop, and deliver courses through distance education in 1989.
2009 | Department of Psychology - Carleton University | John Stead is an Associate Professor within the Institute of Neuroscience (Department of Psychology) at Carleton University.
2009 | Department of Psychology - University of Toronto (Mississauga) | Dr. Dax Urbszat began his post-secondary education by attaining a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto with a Specialist in Psychology and a Major in Crime and Deviance. This undergraduate training led to a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School followed by a Master’s and Doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Toronto. Dax’s research interests are in the areas of Personality, Social, and Forensic Psychology and he is also published in the area of Abnormal Psychology.
2009 | Department of Psychology - Carleton University | Dr. Michael Wohl is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton University. He was hired at Carleton University in 2003 after completing is PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Alberta. Wohl is the past Chair of the Personality and Social Psychology Division of the Canadian Psychological Association. In 2008, he was the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award from the Carleton University Students’ Association as well as a Research Achievement Award for outstanding research activity at Carleton University.
