ICASP Research Team (2007–2013)

Ajay Heble is the Founding Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University…

Dr. Manderson holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse (Tier I) in the Faculty of Law at McGill. He is the author of Songs Without Music: Aesthetic dimensions…

Dr. Straw explores the question of whether new technologies move us forward in cultural terms, or whether they slow down a sense of innovation and progress by providing ever more…

Dr. Smith is an Associate Researcher in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia. She is the former executive director of Coastal Jazz and the highly…

Sociologist Howard Becker continues to observe, interview, and write, after retiring from a forty-six year academic career. His most recent publications include “ASA Convention” in Social Psychology Quarterly (2007) and…

Since the mid 1990s, Andra McCartney has been developing an approach to the creation of electroacoustic soundwalk art which features reflexivity studies as an important aspect of the work, integrating…

Dr. Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University. She won the Sonneck Society’s 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music for…

Dr. Weinstock holds a Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Philosophy and is the founding director of the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal. He is…

University Research Chair Daniel Fischlin is a leading Canadian humanities researcher who has produced important cross-disciplinary work, including some sixteen books with a wide variety of international presses. His most…

Alan Stanbridge is an Associate Professor in Music and Culture in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed in the Museum Studies graduate program.…