Improvising Futures Research Team (2022–2027)

Lisa Barg teaches in the Schulich School of at McGill University. Her work on race and modernism during the interwar years has appeared in American Music and Journal of the…

Ellen Waterman is Professor and Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada at Carleton University. Previously she taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland where she was IICSI site coordinator. She…

Tom Scholte is Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC where he teaches acting and directing for stage and screen. He has performed for such theatre companies…

Ichiro Fujinaga is Canada Research Chair in Music Information Retrieval and Professor in the Music Technology Area of the Department of Music Research at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. He…

Sherrie Tucker (Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas) is a contributing editor and co-author for the collaboratively created Open Access book entitled, Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive…

Dr. Charity Marsh (she/her) is a settler community-engaged researcher, multidisciplinary artist, collaborator, and scholar living in Treaty 4. A former Tier II Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Popular…

James Harley is a Canadian composer presently based in Ontario, where he teaches at the University of Guelph. He obtained his doctorate in composition at McGill University in 1994, after…

Andrew Staniland began January 2019 as IICSI Site Coordinator at MUN, and serves on the Executive Committee, the Management Team, and the Digital Tools Committee. Andrew is a faculty member…

George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Along with Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble he is co-author of The Fierce Urgency…

Dr. Marta McCarthy, is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, where she has been directing the choirs and teaching musicianship and music education/pedagogy for seventeen years. She is…