Over 50 University of Toronto faculty members are affiliated with CIDEC, offering our students and the centre a wide range of research interests, methods, and regional foci. Several of our faculty are also involved in the Initial Teacher Education program at OISE.
Former CIDE Director Dr. Karen Mundy served a four-year term on the CIES Board. Four of our faculty members, including the late Dr. David Wilson and Dr. Joe Farrell were presidents of CIES.
* Names appearing with an asterisk represent CIDE/C Steering Committee Members
Stephen Anderson, Professor Emeritus, LHAE
ELP; Implementation of education policy and program change; school improvement and teacher development; program evaluation
Nina Bascia, Professor, Chair, LHAE
ELP; Policy analysis; teachers’ organizations
Abigail Bakan, Professor, SJE
Anti-oppression politics; intersections of gender, race, class, political economy and citizenship
Jeff Bale*, Associate Professor, CTL
LLE; Language diversity; second language learning
Kathy Bickmore*, Professor, CTL
C&P; Education for democracy; peacebuilding, and conflict resolution in comparative perspective
Megan Boler, Professor, SJE
Philosophy of technology; post-structuralism
Jennifer Brant, Assistant Professor, CTL
C&P; Indigenous pedagogies for cultural identity development, healing and wellness
Elizabeth Buckner*, Assistant Professor, LHAE
HE; Globalization and neoliberalism effects on higher education and citizenship
Alexandre Cavalcante, Assistant Professor, CTL
C&P; Numeracy education; Formal and informal education
Anna (Katyn) Chmielewski*, Associate Professor, LHAE
ELP; National educational and social policies and income inequality
George J. Sefa Dei, Professor, SJE
Anti-racism and domination studies; sociology of race, ethnicity; international development
Diane Farmer, Associate Professor, SJE,
CREFO; Francophone minority studies; education studies; childhood social studies
Joseph Flessa, Professor, LHAE
ELP; Urban education; schooling and poverty
Antoinette Gagné*, Associate Professor, CTL
LLE; ESL issues; teaching strategies for diversity
Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez, Associate Professor, CTL
C&P; Arts education; curriculum.
Diane Gérin-Lajoie, Professor Emerita, CTL
C&P; CREFO, Teacher and student identity; teaching in minority settings
Wanja Gitari, Associate Professor, CTL
C&P; Indigenous cultures; science learning and equity
Ruth E. S. Hayhoe*, Professor, LHAE
HE; Comparative higher education; international academic relations; higher education in Asia
Monica Heller, Professor, SJE
Franco-Ontario studies; social inequality
Glen Jones, Dean of OISE, Professor, LHAE
HE; Policy and politics of higher education
Reva Joshee, Associate Professor, LHAE
ELP; Democratic approaches to policy; diversity and social justice policies
Julie Kerekes*, Associate Professor, CTL
LLE; Second language acquisition; linguistics
Jane Knight, Adjunct Professor, LHAE
HE; Internationalization of higher education
Normand Labrie, Acting Dean, Professor, CTL
LLE; Des langues, des politiques linguistiques et des minorités linguistiques, notamment francophones
Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman*, Assistant Professor, CTL
LLE; inclusion of minority (migrant & indigenous) pupils
Caroline (Carly) Manion*, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, LHAE
ELP; Comparative and international education; Sociology of education; equity; gender; faith-based schooling; governance; policy analysis
Vandra Masemann, Adjunct Associate Professor (retired)
Comparative and international education; anthropology of education; critical ethnography
Lance T. McCready, Associate Professor, LHAE
AECD; Education, health and well-being of gay Black urban youth; access to higher education
Kiran Mirchandani, Professor, LHAE
AECD; Transnational service work
Gavin Moodie, Adjunct Professor, LHAE
HE; Access to higher ed; structures of tertiary, vocational and higher education
Cecilia Morgan, Professor, CTL
C&P; Gender; colonialism; imperialism
Shahrzad Mojab, Professor, LHAE
AECD; Globalization; feminism and women’s education; women and war in the Middle East
Karen Mundy*, Professor, LHAE
ELP; Educational policy and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa; the role of civil society organizations in educational change
Sarfaroz Niyozov*, Associate Professor, CTL
C&P; Global education; international and comparative curriculum studies/education
Fikile Nxumalo, Assistant Professor, CTL
C&P; Place-based and environmental education; Black feminism; Black and children’s geographies
Enrica Piccardo, Associate Professor, CTL
LLE; French as a second and foreign language; teacher development, evaluation
John Portelli, Professor, SJE
Democratic values; student engagement.
Claudia Diaz Rios*, Assistant Professor, LHAE
ELP; interaction between global dynamics, domestic policies, and school change; education governance
Creso Sá, Professor, LHAE
HE; public policy
Peter Sawchuk, Professor, LHAE
AECD; Adult Learning Theory; Labour Studies Social Movement Studies
Sandra Styres, Assistant Professor, CTL
C&P; Indigenous language, literacy and education, land centred approaches to language
Vannina Sztainbok, Assistant Professor, SJE
Anti-racist feminism, Afro-Latin American race and gender studies, psychoanalysis, race and space
Miglena Todorova*, Assistant Professor, SJE
Transnational feminisms, feminist media, culture and hegemony, women in post-socialism, violence against women
Harold Troper, Professor, CTL
C&P; Immigrant, ethnic and minority group history
Njoki Wane, Professor, SJE.
Gender, colonialism and development; anti-racism education
Jennifer Wemigwans, Assistant Professor, LHAE
AECD; Indigenous Knowledge Education
Leesa Wheelahan Professor, LHAE
HE; Social justice and education outcomes; vocational education
Yomna Awad, Lecturer, CTL
Democratic Citizen Education: Comparative International Perspectives
Stephen Bahry, Lecturer, CTL
Quality education; stakeholder perspectives; linguistic /cultural diversity; place-based education; EQAO; Afghanistan, Central Eurasia, China, Ukraine, GTA
Valerie Damasco, Lecturer, LHAE
Community Development: Innovative Models; Gender and Race at Work
Mary Drinkwater, Lecturer, CTL
Comparative, International, and Development Education
Patrick Finnessy, Lecturer, CTL
Language, Culture, and Identity: Using the Literary Text in Teacher Development
Mona Ghali, Lecturer, LHAE
Comparative, International, and Development Education
Dejan Ivkovic, Lecturer, CTL
Literacies Education in Multilingual Contexts
Rainos Moyo Mutamba, Lecturer, LHAE
Community Development: Innovative Models
Yecid Ortega, Lecturer, CTL
Social Justice, Peacebuilding, Immigration, Language Issues
Grace Karram Stephenson, Assistant Professor, LHAE
Comparative Higher Education
Elena Toukan, Lecturer, CTL
Education and Social Development