Improvising Futures Research Team (2022–2027)

Ichiro Fujinaga is an Associate Professor in Music Technology Area at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.  He has Bachelor’s degrees in Music/Percussion and Mathematics from University of…

Sherrie Tucker (Professor, American Studies, University of Kansas) is the author of Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (Duke, 2014), Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands…

Dr Charity Marsh (she/her) is a queer, white settler researcher, artist, and educator living in Treaty 4 with her two kiddos. She is Director of the Humanities Research Institute, Director…

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…

Eric Lewis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, where he is also the Director of the Laboratory of Urban Culture. He was Director of the Institute for…

Dr Rebecca Caines is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and scholar. Her artistic practice, teaching and research work crosses between creative technologies (including sound art, new media, and augmentation), contemporary performance…