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.
Two of our faculty members have served as presidents of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada (CIESC): Drs. Vandra Masemann and the late David Wilson. Five of our faculty members have served as presidents of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) – the US affiliate of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): Drs. Ruth Hayhoe, Vandra Masemann, Karen Mundy, and the late David Wilson and Joe Farrell. Vandra Masemann has served as the President of the WCCES.
* 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, Emeritus, 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
Katherine E. Entigar, Assistant Professor, LHAE
AECD; Migrant rights, justice, and contributions in adult education; critical applied linguistics, multilingual education and new language acquisition; feminist and dialogical pedagogies and methodologies; sociocultural theory
Beyhan Farhadi, Assistant Professor, LHAE
ELP; Critical policy studies; technology, surveillance, and society; educational justice and equity; qualitative research; transnational education
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
Whitneé Garrett-Walker, Assistant Professor, LHAE
Educational leadership, critical race theory in education, urban education, Black women in school leadership, school leadership preparation and continued development for educational justice.
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
Soudeh Oladi Ghadikolaei, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, SJE
SJE; race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration and race
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
Arlo Kempf, Assistant Professor, CTL
Race and education, whiteness, white supremacy, antiracism, teachers’ work, ant-colonialism, Canadian education
Julie Kerekes*, Associate Professor, CTL
LLE; Second language acquisition; linguistics
Jane Knight, Adjunct Professor, LHAE
HE; Internationalization of higher education
Hye-Su Kuk, Assistant Professor, LHAE
AECD; Democracy and citizenship learning; social movement learning
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
Ann Lopez, Professor, Teaching Stream, LHAE
Decolonizing education, equity anti-oppression education, school leadership across contexts with focus on the global south, educational leadership
Caroline (Carly) Manion*, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, LHAE/ELP
Sociology of education; equity; inclusive education, gender; education governance; education policy
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
Francine Menashy, Associate Professor, LHAE
Global education policy; education in emergencies; aid to education; international organizations; power asymmetries in global education governance and policy
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.
Katherine Rehner, Professor, CTL
LLE; Second language learning; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; French as a first or second language
Claudia Diaz Rios*, Assistant Professor, LHAE
ELP; interaction between global dynamics, domestic policies, and school change; education governance
Creso Sá, Professor, Chair, 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
Derya Tarhan, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, LHAE
AECD; Social and Solidarity Economy; community renewable energy; just and democratic transitions; social movement learning
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
Stephanie Tuters, Assistant Professor, LHAE
ELP; K-12 and higher education teaching; leadership, and policies in the pursuit of social justice
Njoki Wane, Professor, SJE.
Gender, colonialism and development; anti-racism education
Zhaozhe Wang, Assistant Professor, CTL.
Second language writing; writing studies; translingualism; rhetoric; digital media
Jennifer Wemigwans, Assistant Professor, LHAE
AECD; Indigenous Knowledge Education
Leesa Wheelahan Professor, LHAE
HE; Social justice and education outcomes; vocational education
Jennifer Ajandi, Lecturer, LHAE
Focus on pedagogy and research emphasizes access, equity and social justice in education, Madness and Neurodivergence across the lifespan.
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
Rose Fine-Meyer, Lecturer, CTL
Special Topics in Teaching: Engendering Local Stories, Public History, and Digital Media
Patrick Finnessy, Lecturer, CTL
Language, Culture, and Identity: Using the Literary Text in Teacher Development
Mona Ghali, Lecturer, LHAE
Comparative, International, and Development Education
Leigh-Anne Ingram, Lecturer, CTL
Dejan Ivkovic, Lecturer, CTL
Literacies Education in Multilingual Contexts
Ahmed Salehin Kaderi, Lecturer, CTL
Rainos Moyo Mutamba, Lecturer, LHAE
Community Development: Innovative Models
Raphael Camargo Penteado, Post-doc Lecturer, CTL
Postcolonial education; Postcolonial epistemology; Postcolonial assessment and evaluation; Critical organizational theory; Inclusive education practices
Emma Sabzalieva, Course Instructor, LHAE
Comparative and international higher education, geopolitics, international academic relations, governance, Central Asia/former Soviet space
Grace Karram Stephenson, Assistant Professor, LHAE
Comparative Higher Education
Norin Taj, Lecturer, LHAE
Social & Cultural Contexts of Educational Policy & Practice: Education and International Development
Elena Toukan, Lecturer, CTL
Education and Social Development