How many senses are there? How are the senses shaped by culture? What is the future of the senses in our increasingly technologized world?
David Howes
- Professor
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- Director
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
- Co-Director
- Centre for Sensory Studies
- Graduate Program Director:
- Interdisciplinary PhD in Humanities
- sensory studies17
- law and society20
- human body26
- senses11
- perception19
- aesthetics25
- cross-cultural consumption
- cross-cultural jurisprudence
- cultural studies29
- social justice47
- cultural identity19
- museum collections9
- commodities8
- marketing strategy9
- constitutional studies
- legal history4
- social anthropology
- sensory history
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Eric H. Reiter
law and society, Quebec Civil Law, legal history
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Bianca Grohmann
multisensory marketing, perception, branding
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Christopher Salter
performance art, responsive environments, wireless sensor networks
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Anthony Synnott
masculinities, senses, gender and sexuality
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Aaron Johnson
human vision, perception, eye movements
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Martin French
risk, surveillance, social justice
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Erin Manning
relational art, participatory art, painting
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Matthew Unger
law and society, contemporary accusatory practices, aesthetics
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Walter Wittich
human vision, vision impairment, hearing impairment
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Shannon McSheffrey
civic culture, Middle Ages, gender and sexuality
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Elena Benelli
migrant literature, immigration to Italy, Italian history and culture
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Donato Totaro
moving image studies, temporality, horror genre
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Océane Jasor
gender and sexuality, gender politics, decolonization
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Philip Szporer
perception, embodiment, movement
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Ingrid Bachmann
contingent, activities of daily living, embodiment
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Stephanie Bolster
ekphrasis, the lyric, poetry
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Beverley Best
capitalism, political economy, globalization
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Matt Soar
research-creation, cities, material culture
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Sarah Ghabrial
Maghreb, French Empire, interactions with Islam
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David Morris
phenomenology, Hegel, movement
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Rosemary Mountain
aesthetics, music composition, musical analysis
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Roberto Viereck Salinas
colonialism, Latin America, contemporary poetry
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Audrey-Anne Bouchard
design for the theatre, lighting design, drama/performance
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Genevieve Renard Painter
Indigenous-Settler relations, law, language
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Marc Lafrance
masculinities, skin, human body
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David Graham
advent of printing, allegory, fables
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Mary Esteve
American literature, post-WWII, literary realism
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Frances M. Shaver
sex industry, health and safety, gender and sexuality
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Martha Langford
photography history, photography theory, Canadian art history
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Andra McCartney
sound art, listening/hearing, soundwalks
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Jessica Bardill
Indigenous literatures, Indigenous knowledges, storytelling
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May Chew
immersion, interactivity, cultural studies
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Richard Hancox
personal cinema, experimental cinema, autobiography
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Arseli Dokumaci
critical disability studies, performance studies, micro-activist affordances
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Anne Whitelaw
Canadian art history, museology, collecting
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Masha Salazkina
transnationalism, criticism, Marxist theory
