Faculty and Adjunct Membership Directory

Interdisciplinary faculty members are dedicated teachers and active researchers. They are involved members of key local and provincial task forces, and partners in joint research projects with other universities.  Additional information about graduate faculty membership can be found on the Yeates School of Graduate Studies main faculty page.

GRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Angela Valeo, Ph.D (Interim)
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Field of specialization: educational inclusion of children with disabilities
avaleo@ryerson.ca

FACULTY

Sandeep Kumar Agrawal, Ph.D
Home unit: Urban & Regional Planning
Field of specialization:  planning in multicultural cities
sagrawal@ryerson.ca

Patrizia Albanese, Ph.D
Home unit: Sociology
Fields of specialization: immigrant families, child and family policies
palbanes@ryerson.ca

Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Field of specialization: immigrant children, youth, and families, teacher education, and research methods
maali@ryerson.ca

Alexandra Bal, Ph.D
Home unit: Image Arts
Fields of specialization:  web 2.0 , virtual informal communities, virtual worlds, peer to peer mode of knowledge production, socio-economy of university education
abal@ryerson.ca

Rachel Berman, Ph.D
Home unit:  Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: family well-being, mothering, and social research with children
rcberman@ryerson.ca

Judith K. Bernhard, Ph.D (on leave)
Home unit:  Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: equity, multi-local families, transformative literacy.
bernhard@ryerson.ca

Marni Binder, Ed.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of Specialization: multinodal and multiple literacies, transformative literacy, holistic and art education, and education in the inner-city
mbinder@ryerson.ca

Jean-Paul Boudreau, Ph.D
Home unit: Psychology
Fields of specialization: infant development, research methods
boudreau@ryerson.ca

Roma Chumak-Horbatsch, Ph.D
Home unit:  Early Childhood Education
Field of specialization: needs of minority language children
rchumak@ryerson.ca

Patricia Corson, Ed.D
Home unit:  Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: child development, socio-cultural context
pcorson@ryerson.ca

Aurelia Di Santo, Ph.D
Home unit:  Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: school readiness, quality early learning and child care environments, and teachers beliefs and practice
disanto@ryerson.ca

Elaine Frankel, Ed.D
Home unit:  Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: special needs, inclusive education
efrankel@ryerson.ca

Francis Hare, Ph.D
Home unit: Child & Youth Care
Fields of specialization: evaluation of programs for children and youth
fhare@ryerson.ca

Donna Koller, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization:
dkoller@ryerson.ca

Rachel Langford, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: early educator professional identities, preparation and careers, professional development, and critical and feminist pedagogy
rlangfor@ryerson.ca

Dan Mahoney, Ph.D
Home unit: Nutrition
Fields of specialization: health, sexuality, family relationships and qualitative research methods
dmahoney@ryerson.ca

Kenise Murphy Kilbride, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: immigrant families, children and youth
kilbride@ryerson.ca

Jason Nolan, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization:  adaptive design, privacy and online safety, technology, constructivist theory, web2.0, and narrative inquiry
jnolan@ryerson.ca

Melanie Panitch, Ph.D (on leave 2011/12)
Home unit: Disability Studies
Fields of specialization: disability studies, activist mothering, inclusive child care and social movements
mpanitch@ryerson.ca

Sejal Patel, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: programs and services for children and families, family-school-community partnerships, and equity in healthy child development
patel.sejal@ryerson.ca

Kathleen Peets, Ed.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: language and cognitive development, literacy and bilingualism
kpeets@ryerson.ca

Robert Rinkoff, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: children,wilderness and education
rrinkoff@ryerson.ca

Gloria Roberts-Fiati, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: immigrant settlement, immigrant youth
groberts@ryerson.ca

Arthur L. Ross, Ph.D
Home unit: Politics
Fields of specialization: immigration policy, community agency
alross@politics.ryerson.ca

Hyacinth Simpson, Ph.D
Home unit: English
Fields of specialization: migrant writing and diasporic literature
simpson@ryerson.ca

Kim Snow, Ph.D
Home unit: Child & Youth Care
Fields of specialization: services for children and youth, children's rights, children's and society/childwelfare
ksnow@ryerson.ca

Vappu Tyyskä, Ph.D
Home unit: Sociology
Fields of specialization: Families; Gender; Youth; Immigration; Social Policy.  See also: webpage
vtyyska@ryerson.ca  

Kathryn Underwood, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Fields of specialization: inclusive education, rights of children in educational settings, family-school relations and education policy
kunderwood@ryerson.ca

Angela Valeo, Ph.D
Home unit: Early Childhood Education
Field of specialization: educational inclusion of children with disabilities
avaleo@ryerson.ca

ADJUNCT

Martha Friendly
Founder and Executive Director,
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), Toronto
martha.friendly@ryerson.ca

Carol Stuart, Ph.D
Home unit: Child & Youth Care
Fields of specialization: standards for practice, resiliency
cstuart@ryerson.ca

Sylvia Solomon-Bereskin, Ph.D
Fields of specialization:
sylvia.bereskin@ryerson.ca