Improvising Futures Research Team (2022–2027)
Position
William Echard
Dr. William Echard’s musicological work is concerned with social semiotics, embodiment, and cultural processes of reception. He deals mostly with post-1950s popular musics of North America, and has published in…
Jim Davies
Jim Davies is a full professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, he explores computational modeling and artificial intelligence applied to human visual…
Claire Carter
Dr. Claire Carter’s current research examines the relationship between movement/exercise and the embodiment of gender within the changing dynamics of queer and trans communities in Canada. She teaches courses on…
Dustin Brass
Dustin Brass is a lecturer and placement coordinator for Indigenous education at the First Nations University of Canada in Regina. He advocates for Land-based education – a curriculum connecting to…
Paul Barrett
My research is situated at the intersection of Canadian literature, multiculturalism, and digital humanities. I am the author of Blackening Canada: Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism (Toronto), the editor of ‘Membering Austin Clarke (Wilfrid…
Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand is professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. She is an internationally recognized ecologist with research interests ranging from theoretical to empirical studies of…
Taiwo Afolabi
Dr Taiwo Afolabi is a Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina. He is…
Sherry Farrell Racette
Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts and curatorial practice. Her work is grounded in story: stories of people, stories objects tell, painting stories, telling stories…
Mervyn Horgan
My research gathers an eclectic set of substantive interests grounded in a normative commitment to solidarity. My expertize is in social theory, cultural sociology, the sociology of everyday life, urban…
Dylan Robinson
Professor Robinson is a Stó:lō scholar who holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University, located on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples. His…
