Faculty Promotions

 

Vojislav Latinovic

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

N.V. Latinovic received his engineering diploma from the University of Belgrade in 1959 and went on to work in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Palanka before embarking on a teaching career in 1961 at the University of Belgrade.

After a short stint at the State University of New York in the early 1980s, Dr. Latinovic began his career at Concordia University. He won the 1993 Outstanding Contribution Award and the 1994 Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Teacher in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering.

Dr. Latinovic, a fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), is an expert in machining technology, deep hole machining in particular. During his 22 years at Concordia, he was responsible to a large extent for consolidating and teaching courses in the design areas.

He has just retired from the university, and we wish him well.

Fine Arts

 

Stefan Anastasiu
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Born in 1950 in Sibiu, Transylvania, Stefan Anastasiu attended the Fine Arts Lyceum and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania, in 1974.

His animated films won awards at international animation film festivals, and he worked as graphic designer in Lausanne before coming to Montreal.

In the 1980s, he was a freelance director and animator at the National Film Board of Canada. Two of his animated films, Chameleon and Kaspar, won awards. He collaborated as co-scriptwriter, animator, artistic counsellor and character designer on many other productions, and directed and animated advertising for various clients.

Since 1988 he has taught full-time teaching in the film animation program, and continues to work on productions in the area, such L'aventure de l'ecriture (Write Around the World), of which he has directed 140 episodes, and Automania (I and II), 100 dessins dessus,
He has worked on multimedia presentations for museums, and continues to develop personal projects, and do illustrations for magazines and book covers. He is working towards a retrospective solo exhibition called Still Images from Impossible Motion Pictures.

   

Brian Foss
Art History

Brian Foss is Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs in the Faculty of Fine Arts. He has a BA (Hons) from the University of Winnipeg, an MA from Concordia (1985), and a PhD in art history from University College London, U.K. (1991).

He teaches courses in Canadian art, ancient Roman art and architecture, and art theory, and has supervised many MA and PhD theses in historical and contemporary Canadian painting, sculpture, graphic art, art criticism, and art collecting.

His books include War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-45 (Yale University Press, at press), and The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (in preparation), with co-editors Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky, (Toronto: Oxford University Press).

He has most recently curated, with Rosalind Pepall, Edwin Holgate: Maître de la figure humaine (Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), which opens in May 2005 and then tours five cities across Canada.

He has received funding from SSHRC, the McConnell Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada for his work, and has been associate editor of the Journal of Canadian Art History and editor of RACAR (Revue d’art canadien/Canadian Art Review).

Trevor Gould
Studio Arts

Trevor Gould is an installation artist in the Studio Arts
Department and is a member of one of the research groups in Hexagram, the Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies.

He has been active in the sculpture program at Concordia since joining the university in 1988.

In 2002, he was appointed Karl Freiderich Stiftungs Professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany, in order to develop new work with 3D rapid prototyping arising out of research in Hexagram.

Working out from the perspective of zoos, botanical gardens, and world exhibitions as representations of "a geography of exhibiting,” Gould explores their relationship with the contemporary art museum through the significance of their related display practices.

Gould builds on the idea that sculpture is a form of social material and that producing exhibitions is an aspect of cultural research. His work is exhibited widely across Canada and Europe.

Christopher Hinton
Cinema

A graduate of Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, Christopher Hinton teaches at Concordia's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. He is also an independent producer, director and writer of animated short films.

He directs and animates commercials as well as films for the National Film Board, CBC, and Sesame Street. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, for Black Fly (1991) and Nibbles (2004).

He has been invited to join the jury for festivals in China, Argentina, Germany, France, USA and Canada.

He is currently working with American comedian Drew Carey, animating sequences for his show.

Loren Lerner
Art History

Loren Lerner is chair of the Department of Art History. She has been Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, and Director of Research, both in the Faculty of Fine Arts.

She completed her PhD in communication at the Université de Montréal in 1997 and also has a MLS from McGill University and a MA from the University of Michigan.

Her recent research has concentrated on the ethnic, diasporic and ethical consciousness of Canadian artists of European origin.

Memories and Testimonies / Memoires et Témoignages (Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2002) was a product of this research, as was Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Art (Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, 2000). A book based on the latter won a 2004 Canadian Jewish Book Award.

She has a three-year grant from the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture to examining pictures of children from the 1860s to 1940s as indications of social, cultural and political change in Canada over 80 years. She is also curator of a Sam Borenstein retrospective scheduled for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in June 2005.

François Morelli
Studio Arts

François Morelli completed a BFA at Concordia in 1975 and was awarded the Alfred Pinsky Medal.
He received an MFA in 1983 from the Mason Gross School for the Arts of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and worked in New York from 1983 to 1991. He taught as adjunct professor at Rutgers from 1983 to 1991, and the State University of New York and the City University of New York in Manhattan from 1985 to 1990.
He taught at the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières from 1991 to 1996. He has been at Concordia University since 1996, working in the Studio Arts Department and the Open Media MFA program.
He exhibited at the Christiane Chassay Gallery in Montreal from 1991 to 2004 and at the Horodner Rommley Gallery in New York City from 1993 to 1996. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has received many grants and awards. He has been active on several national and provincial consultation committees defining cultural policies.
His intermedia works include drawing, sculpture, event-actions-performance, print media, book works and installations.

Marielle Nitoslawska
Cinema

Marielle Nitoslawska joined the full-time faculty of the Film Production program at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 1989. Her research and studio practice are centred on new approaches to documentary, on the relationship of production structures and technologies to cinematic discourse, and on cinematography as a determinant mode of authorship.

Her extensive filmography, produced in Poland, Mexico and in Canada, includes numerous films about art and cultural expression. Her recent documentaries Sky Bones and Bad Girl explore the undercurrents of our relationship to nature, mortality and sexuality.

She has served as an administrator at the School of Cinema, she is currently graduate program director of Film Production within the MFA in Studio Arts.

Peter Rist
Cinema

Peter Rist was born in Croydon, England, in 1943. He studied mechanical engineering with the Ford Motor Company, and in 1965 he emigrated to Canada.

For four years in the 1970s, he worked with CUSO in the Leeward Islands at the St. Vincent Technical College, teaching mathematics. On his return he studied film at Concordia and in 1977 went to New York University, were he got his PhD. He got his “dream job” in Film Studies at Concordia when he was hired in 1989.

Rist became seriously interested in African-based cultures during his stay in the Caribbean, and while at NYU, he studied Brazilian and Third World cinema under Robert Stam. His other research interest at this time was American silent film.

He loves teaching, and has developed curriculum in history areas, including Chinese, Cuban, Brazilian and Canadian film. His career has been dedicated to the history of film style.

Recently, his research interests have shifted to East Asian cinemas. He has had articles published in the journals Cinemaya, CineAction, Séquences, and on-line at www.offscreen.com, and he has read papers on Asian cinema at conferences in North America and Asia. He recently contributed two essays on Korean films to the Japan/Korean volume in the British book series, 24 Frames.

He was chair of the School of Cinema for six years during the period when the Department of Cinema became the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and moved into the Faubourg Tower (1993-1996, 1997-2000).

Catherine Russell
Cinema

Catherine Russell was hired as an assistant professor at Concordia in 1990 after teaching for two years at Queen’s University. She received her PhD in cinema studies from New York University in 1990.

She is the author of Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure and New Wave Cinemas (University of Minnesota Press, 1985), and Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999), and has co-edited a forthcoming anthology Le cinématographe, nouvelle technologie du 20e siècle / The Cinema, A New Technology for the 20th Century.

She has received funding from SSHRC, the Japan Foundation, FCAR and FQRSC for various projects, including her work on Japanese film director Naruse Mikio, and a conference held at Concordia in May, Women and the Silent Screen.

Since 1998, she has been the book review editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and she sits on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal and Cinémas. Since 1993, she has been a member of the GRAFICS research team, dedicated to the study of early cinema.
Since 1998, she has been responsible for the Methods in Film Studies core courses of the MA in Film Studies program, which she helped establish. Since 2002, she has been director of the PhD in Humanities program.

John Molson School of Business

Fassil Nebebe
Decision Sciences / MIS

Fassil Nebebe joined Concordia University in 1986 and has been an associate professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Management of Information Systems since 1992. He received his BSc in statistics from Addis Ababa University (formerly, Haile Selassie I University), his MSc from Southampton University, and his PhD from Queen’s University.

His current research interests are in the areas of data modeling via Bayes and empirical Bayes methods, small area estimation, resampling techniques, and statistical software applications in business.

His papers have appeared in Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Journal of Statistical Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Survey Methodology, Communications in Statistics, Canadian Journal of Statistics, as well as several other scientific journals.

He has made numerous presentations at many national and international conferences on subjects related to statistical techniques in data analysis.

Nebebe has also served as a research consultant for the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada and Bell Canada. He is the founding president of the Statistical Society of Ethiopians in North America (SSENA), and has been international advisory board member of SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science, and of the Ethiopian Statistical Association, since 1997.

Kamal Argheyd
Management

Kamal Argheyd has served as chair of the Management Department in the John Molson School of Business since 1997.

He has also served as the director of the Executive MBA Program (1994-1997) and before that as the director of the Canada-China Management Program (1985-1989).

He has made many presentations at such conferences as the annual meetings of the Academy of Management and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC).

He has published in numerous refereed and practitioner-oriented publications such as The Journal of Business Ethics, Politica Iternazionale, and Ivey Business Journal (formerly Business Quarterly).

He has written several book chapters and has co-authored a very successful business policy text with A.B. Ibrahim.
Argheyd holds a doctorate in business administration from theHarvard Business School.

Rick Molz
Management

 

Rick Molz has published two books, six book chapters and 14 refereed journal articles, many in notable journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, International Management, Journal of Business Research, Columbia Journal of World Business and Management International Review.

He has supervised two PhD students and three MSc stustudents to completion. He has also served on 17 PhD committees, and is currently supervising one PhD student and two MSc students.

He has held visiting research or instructional positions at the Indian Institute of Management (Lucknow), the Czech Management Center, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany), the Warsaw School of
Economics, Hautes Études Commerciales (Montreal) and the African Development Bank.

He was chair of the Department of Management between 1995 and 1997