Faculty of Social Sciences Profile

Central Office :

Alison Estabrooks, Secretary

Darlene Estabrooks, Office Supervisor

Raine Phythian, Coordinator: Communication, including media inquiries, planning, International Relations Program advising, and managing projects in Social Sciences.

Christina Tardif, Technician: Statistical Analysis & Geographic Information Systems projects from Social Sciences faculty, assist faculty with IT related issues, lab assistant for GIS and Statistics courses, provide guest lectures on GIS.

Professor Paul Berry, Dean of Social Sciences/Associate Professor

Anthropology:

Dr. Robert Adlam, Associate Professor: Research on the Athapaskan Tahltan of northern British Columbia and Mi'kmaq of northern New Brunswick on their riverine salmon fisheries.

Dr. Grant Aylesworth, Assistant Professor: Archaeology, Mesoamerica, Ancient Maya, Archaeological Field School in Belize.

Dr. Patricia Kelly Spurles, Department Head/Associate Professor: Decision-making in breastfeeding; breastfeeding in Canada and Morocco; gender, ritual and space; henna practices; female and male life cycle rituals; gender and law in Muslim societies; Muslim minorities in the West; and gender and tourism.

Dr. Marilyn Walker, Professor: Medical anthropology and ethnobotany; traditional medicine and indigenous knowledge (in Mongolia, Siberia, Southeast Asia, India, arctic/subarctic & eastern Canada); circumpolar shamanism; deep ecology; complementary & alternative medicine, naturopathy.

Commerce:

Professor Paul Berry, Dean of Social Sciences/Associate Professor: Accounting pedagogy, merger and acquisitions, and financial intermediation.

Dr. M. Nauman Farooqi, Department Head/Professor/Coordinator, Norway and The Hague International Exchange Programs: Hawala - Informal Value Transfer Systems (IVTS), Entrepreneurship and experiential learning pedagogy.

Dr. Gina Grandy, Associate Professor: Competitive advantage, management and strategy in non-profits and public sector, leadership, stigmatized work, management education, and case study research. (On Leave until January 2013)

Dr. Tim Hynes, Director, Ron Joyce Centre for Business Studies: Corporate finance and strategic management.

Dr. Judith Holton, Assistant Professor: Leadership development; networking, learning and innovation in knowledge work; organizational complexity and change; building organizational trust and collaboration; enhancing team performance; research methodology.

Dr. Richard Hudson, Professor: Business ethics, finance, and management accounting.

Dr. Rhonda McIver, Assistant Professor: Accounting.

Dr. Jane Mullen, Associate Professor: Occupational health and safety; workplace
aggression; workplace stress, health and well being. Teaching in the areas of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, and Workplace Health and Safety.

Dr. Rosemary Polegato, Professor: Arts and culture marketing/management, cross-cultural consumer behaviour, and effectiveness of pedagogical approaches. Co-author of textbook on consumer behaviour.

Professor Peter Sianchuk, Associate Professor: Marketing strategy; planning and communications; and case research that examines business issues relating to small and medium sized enterprises (SME).

Professor Bill Waterman, Assistant Professor: Management, management accounting, financial accounting, operations management, auditing, entrepreneurial accounting, and corporate governance.

Professor Brent White, Assistant Professor: Public sector accountability, particularly the role of Legislative auditors and their practice of value-for-money audit; behavioral aspects of accounting.

Economics:

Dr. Niels Anthonisen, Associate Professor: Game theory and monetary theory.

Dr. Craig Brett, Professor/Canada Research Chair in Canadian Public Policy: Economic models of optimal income taxation, fiscal federalism, municipal taxation, and environmental taxation; workfare; spatial statistics and econometrics.

Dr. Samuel Gamtessa, Assistant Professor: Energy Efficiency; Climate Change Policy Modeling; Technical Change and Productivity; Capacity Utilization; Less Developed Economies. Teaching Interest: Energy Economics; Natural Resources Economics. Macroeconomics; Development Economics; Applied Econometrics; and International Trade.

Dr. Stephen Law, Department Head/Associate Professor: Regulatory policy, cable television economics, pharmaceutical markets, health policy, and intellectual property rights.

Dr. Christos Ntantamis, Assistant Professor: Analysis of regimes in financial and commodity markets, identification of real estate submarket boundaries, monetary policy rules, financial econometrics.

Dr. Frank Strain, Professor: economic growth and development, labour economics, the Atlantic Canadian economy, fiscal federalism, and economic history. (On Leave for 2012-2013 Academic year)

Dr. Carla VanBeselaere, Assistant Professor: Survey research, public policy, and voting, including survey methodology, public opinion, voting behaviour, educational policy, health care policy, and empirical methods/econometrics. (On Leave for 2012-2013 Academic Year)

Geography and Environment:

Dr. Zoe V. Finkel, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Marine Environmental Ecology: Climate change, biological oceanography, marine macroecology and macroevolution, biogeochemistry, and phytoplankton eco-physiology.

Dr. Michael Fox, Professor: Transportation issues; geographic education; innovation and diffusion of technology in schools, and community-based planning issues. (On Leave for 2012-2013 Academic year)

Dr. Leslie Kern, Assistant Professor: Urban geography and feminist geography; urban political economy and urban restructuring; global cities; gentrification; gender and cities; embodied geographies; environmental justice.

Dr. Georgia Klein, Assistant Professor: Climate change effects on aquatic systems; aquatic resources; invasive species in aquatic and terrestrial systems; global coastal change and management; and community adaptation to climate change.

Dr. Colin Laroque, Department Head/Environmental Science Coordinator/Geography Coordinator/Associate Professor: Past and future climates in Canada, especially related to alpine regions, and dendrochronology.

Dr. David J. Lieske, Assistant Professor: GIS, environmental visualization, species distribution modeling, and simulation modeling.

Dr. Ian J. Mauro, Canada Research Chair in Human Dimensions of Environmental Change and Associate Professor: Multi-media research and filmmaking, indigenous and local knowledge, climate change, food security, and risk assessment.

Dr. Jeff Ollerhead, Dean of Science/Professor/Director, Coastal Wetlands Institute:Coastal evolution (marshes, mudflats, and sandy barrier systems) and salt marsh restoration.

Dr. Tim Reiffenstein, Associate Professor: Economic geography; geographies of intellectual property circulation and regulation; Japan; forest industries. Coordinator of Kwansei Gakuin (KGU) University Exchange.

Dr. Brad Walters, Professor/Coordinator of Environmental Studies: Human influences on tropical forests; mangroves and temperate coastal wetlands; interactions between traditional fisheries and salmon aquaculture development in the Bay of Fundy; and research methods in human ecology.

Politics and International Relations

Dr. James Devine, Assistant Professor: International relations and foreign policy in the Middle East; the politics and foreign policy of Iran, international rivalries and protracted conflicts; democracy and authoritarian politics in the Middle East.

Dr. Wayne Hunt, Professor: Canadian politics, communications studies, relationship between public intellectuals and the media, transformational leadership; technology, design and innovation; global governance; politics and literature, the strategic analysis of public policy themes.

Dr. Mario Levesque, Assistant Professor: Canadian politics, public administration, policy change and implementation related to environmental (water, energy from waste, sustainability) and social (disability) policy; discretionary use of power; natural resource conflicts; public policy analysis; inter-governmental relations.

Dr. Geoff Martin, Part-time Assistant Professor: US Assassination, targeted killing, and drone warfare; International Political Economy, Canadian politics (New Brunswick, municipal and regional politics), and US politics and foreign policy generally.

Dr. Loralea Michaelis, Associate Professor/Department Head: History of political thought, contemporary critical theory, feminist political theory; ideas of temporal order in modern political thought from Hobbes to Rosa Luxemburg; political disappointment.

Dr. David Thomas, Programme Co-ordinator in International Relations/Assistant Professor: Politics in the 'developing' world; African politics; South African politics; International Political Economy; Canada and the 'developing' world; North-South relations; and the political implications of Paulo Freire's radical pedagogy.

Sociology:

Dr. Fabrizio Antonelli, Assistant Professor: School-to-work transitions for students in secondary schools; teachers’ work and learning practices; and critical pedagogy and democratic learning in the classroom.

Dr. Vanessa Oliver, Assistant Professor: Youth studies, arts and community based research, and health and homelessness. Recent projects include: study of homeless youth’s access to health and social services, an evaluation of community-based research uptake at Planned Parenthood Toronto, and a project with Aboriginal, Inuit and Metis youth around HIV prevention and decolonization.

Professor Morgan Poteet, Assistant Professor: Latin American immigrants and refugees, transnationalism, human rights and development; culture, identity, sense of belonging and school-work transitions for Central American origin youth in Canada.

Professor Toni Roberts, Lecturer: Gender issues (and the intersection with class, race and sexuality), masculinity, sexuality and identity, and socialization processes with particular interest in the body and the deconstruction of modern dichotomies in knowledge production.

Dr. Erin Steuter, Department Head/Professor: Media analysis including media coverage of the "War on Terrorism", representations of alternative medicine, and monopoly ownership of the media in New Brunswick.