Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to the following faculty members, who were named Full Professor, effective June 1, 2004. Promotions in the other three faculties will be listed in CTR on Oct. 21.

 

Martin Allor
Communications Studies

Martin Allor joined Concordiain 1984.

He has supervised 18 PhD dissertations and 29 MA theses, has been chair of the Department, and a graduate program director.

He has been vice-president of the International Communication Association and sat on the editorial boards of nine academic journals.
His research interests include analysis of cultural policies, the politics of cultural citizenship, and the influence of new media genres on public knowledge.

He did his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently he is a researcher at Hexagram, the Centre interuniversitaire in
arts médiatiques.

 

Joyce Barakett
Education

Joyce Barakett has been at Concordia for 27 years, during which she was director of the PhD Humanities and the MA in Educational Studies programs, among others.

She is the author of articles on sociological theory, education and social change, critical pedagogy, the social implications of computers in the classroom and the use of narratives in the classroom.

She was the co-author of Sociology of Education: An Introductory View from Canada, the leading textbook in this field. She has an MA from McGill in sociology, and a PhD from the Université de
Montréal.

   

Dennis Dicks
Education

Dennis Dicks studied biopsychology at Carleton University and the University of Chicago, completing a doctorate in communications psychology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1972.

He did communications research in electrical engineering at Queen’s University before joining the Educational Tech-nology program at Concordia University in 1974.

He has served as department chair, vice-dean curriculum and administration, and director of academic appraisals in Arts and Science.

As director of the Centre for Instructional Technology and e-learning consultant for the John Molson School of Business, he led a multidisciplinary team developing teaching technologies for the laptop-based Global Aviation MBA and the videoconference-based Investment Management MBA.

He has published work on animal behaviour, technology assessment, human resources, higher education, as well as in his current research areas - the integration of teaching technologies, design science, and applications of topic maps.

Muriel Herrington
Biology

Muriel Herrington has a BSc from McGill and a PhD from McMaster University.

She joined Concordia in 1975, obtained a tenure-track position in 1978 and was named associate professor in 1987. 

She has taught courses primarily in genetics and microbiology.

Her research explores folate metabolism in the model organism Escherchia coli. As part of her research, she has supervised two PhD students, six MSc students and many undergraduates. She has published 21 papers and presented at numerous conferences.

Currently undergraduate program director in Biology, she has served on many committees and contributed to a successful proposal for a PhD in Biology.

Homa Hoodfar
Sociology and Anthropology

Homa Hoodfar has a BA in economics and business studies from the University of Tehran (1976), an MA from the Univer-sity of Manchester (1981), and a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Kent (1989).

Her research is focused on refugee and internally displaced communities, notably the millions of Afghan women and children now living as refugees in Iran and Pakistan. She also studies how masculine assumption of citizenship and the codification of Muslim laws have affected Iranian women.

Her books include The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates, Sajida Alvi, Homa Hoodfar and Sheila McDonough, eds, Building Civil Societies: A Guide for Social and Political Participation, France), and, with Nelofer Pazira, Women Living Under Muslim Laws.

Christine Jourdan
Sociology and Anthropology

Christine Jourdan has a MSc in linguistic anthropology from the Université de Montréal and a PhD in the same field from the Australian National University.

Her research interests focus primarily on the Pacific region and she has written extensively on the linguistic practices and the processes of creolization and urbanization in the Solomon Islands. She is the author of Solomon Islands Pijin: A trilingual cultural dictionary.

Dr. Jourdan is also a participant, along with a team of researchers from around the world, in the creation of Encyclopedie Culturelle Hypermedia de l’Océanie, a web-based encyclopedia for which she received the prize MIM d’or in 2001.

Recently, she has been studying the changing eating habits in Quebec and doing a historical ethnography of the French village of Labastide-Murat.

Bluma Litner
Applied Human Sciences

Bluma Litner joined the Applied Social Science Department in 1989. She had been one of the principal consultants of the Department’s Centre for Human Relations and Com-munity Studies.

She had served as Assistant Dean of Students from 1975 to 1981 and was responsible for the program development portfolio.

For her teaching, Dr. Litner received the Concordia Council on Student Life Award, a national 3M Teaching Fellowship and the Concordia University Alumni Award, plus a certificate of merit from the YWCA’s Women of Distinction Awards Program for advancing women in education.

She has conducted funded research on the empowerment of students with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyper-activity disorder.

Sheila Mason
Philosophy

Sheila Mason got her BA from McGill University in 1965, and her PhD from Purdue University in 1972. She has taught in the Philosophy Department at Con-cordia since 1969. Her main area of research is ethics. She has focused on the importance of narrative in the acquisition of moral understanding and on the ethics of care.

She has developed interesting connections between ethics and psychology and worked on problems of health care funding with members of the Department of Accountancy. She has presented numerous papers on the teaching of ethics, as well.

She is currently working on the way in which people learn to care about the environment, the wellbeing of people in developing countries and the suffering of animals, that is, in the kind of experience that leads people beyond immediate self-interest to a broader set of concerns.

Enn Raudsepp
Journalism

Enn Raudsepp is the director of the Journalism Department, where he has taught since 1978. Prior to that, he spent 10 years as a reporter and copy editor at the (Toronto) Telegram, the Montreal Star and The Globe and Mail.

He did his undergraduate studies at McGill University, followed by a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York in 1966. He completed a doctorate in Canadian literature at McGill in 1977.

His research interests in journalism ethics and history and in the Native press in Canada have given rise to chapters in two books and articles in several academic journals. He is also an expert on media ownership issues.

He has served as Vice-Dean of Administrative Affairs for the Faculty of Arts and Science. He was elected president of the Concordia University Faculty Association in 1991 and served as chief negotiator for CUFA in two successive rounds of collective bargaining.

William Sims
Economics

William Sims came to Concordia in 1976 and completed his PhD in economics at the University of Toronto two years later. He has taught a variety of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels including courses in Microeconomic Theory, the Economics of Regulation, Environmental Economics and the Economics of Professional Sports.

Presently, he is chair of the Economics Department, having served as Graduate Program Director, Director of the Institute of Applied Economic Research, and Director of the Undergraduate Program.

Dr. Sim’s research is primarily in the area of applied microeconomics. His papers on environmental policy, inter-provincial trade, the taxation of alcoholic beverages and welfare change measures, have been published in Canadian and international economics journals.

He has also undertaken research studies for a number of government agencies, including the Economic Council of Canada, the Treasury Board (Office of the Comptroller General), Revenue Canada, the Canadian Bureau for International Education and Health Canada.

Patricia Thornton
Geography

Patricia Thornton received her MA and PhD from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, but she was brought to Canada by her doctoral research on the evolution and sustainability of coastal communities in Newfoundland and Labrador funded by the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Development.

She came to Concordia in 1978 to pioneer an undergraduate program in human environment relationships, which has subsequently become the orientation of all geography BA programs.

She became an associate professor in 1984, served as chair of the department from 1996-2002, and is active on numerous university administrative bodies.

Her research has been consistently funded by SSHRC since 1985. She has published extensively and presented papers at more than 50 conferences on the out-migration from Canada during the second half of the 19th century, and on infant mortality and environmental justice in Montreal.

Her most recent research on the demography and social geography of the French Canadian, Irish Catholic and Anglo-Protestant communities is being brought together in a book entitled Culture Matters: The Anatomy of Life and Death in 19th-century Montreal.