Heather Bliss joins the Department of Linguistics as a Lecturer. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia and recently completed a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Victoria. Bliss has taught at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and UBC. Her diverse research profile includes fieldwork and research on the Blackfoot language, including developing an online digital archive of Blackfoot contemporary stories. Read more about Dr. Heather Bliss…

Theodore D. Cosco will join SFU’s Department of Gerontology as an Assistant Professor in January 2019. He holds a PhD in Public Health and Primary Care from the University of Cambridge and is currently is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University and the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford. His research interests include positive aspects of ageing (e.g. resilience), and longitudinal modelling of ageing trajectories, life course epidemiology, the policy implications of an ageing population, and psychometric analysis. Read more about Theodore Cosco…

Maaike Helmus is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology. She holds a PhD in Forensic Psychology from Carleton University and also a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for studying risk assessment tools that could help courts determine whether inmates, particularily Indigenous individuals, are likely to re-offend (with the University of Saskatchewan). Helmus has taught a wide range of courses including graduate methods/statistic courses, undergraduate statistics, introduction to psychology, psychology of criminal conduct, and forensic psychology. Her research and teaching interests include: offender risk assessment; sex offenders; statistics; prediction; recidivism; Indigenous offenders; meta-analysis. Read more about Maaika Helmus…

Aaron M. Hoffman is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University in the Department of Political Science. He comes to SFU from the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University in Indiana and holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. He is an expert on international security issues, focusing on the scientific study of emotions in counter-terrorism and foreign policy. Working at the nexus of political psychology, media studies and international politics, he is the author several books and journal articles. Read more about Aaron M. Hoffman…

Irene Pang is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Studies. A political sociologist, she holds a PhD in Sociology from Brown University and comes to SFU after holding a postdoctoral fellowship with the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. Her research interests include labour, citizenship, and rights contestation in contemporary China and India. Pang’s current research examines how low-income internal migrant construction workers in Beijing and Delhi navigate relations with capital, the state, and civil society in their struggle to achieve substantive citizenship beyond its formal bureaucratic status. Read more about Irene Pang…

June Scudeler (Métis) is Assistant Professor in First Nations Studies and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. She holds a PhD in English from the University of British Columbia and was most recently a Shadbolt Fellow with Simon Fraser University Galleries and a term Assistant Professor in First Nations Studies. Scudeler’s research investigates how gender, sexuality and politics are deeply intertwined for Indigenous people. Her current project explores Indigenous Gothic, horror and science fiction film and literature. She has taught courses ranging from gender, race, sexuality and social justice in literature, and Indigenous film and resurgence. Read more about June Scudeler…

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl is joining SFU as a Senior Lecturer with a joint appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Urban Studies. She holds a PhD in Geography from University of Minnesota and from 2012-2015 held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair in GSWS at SFU. Muller Myrdahl’s research investigates urban inequalities and inclusion strategies, especially those targeting women and sexual minorities. She has taught courses ranging from feminist theory, qualitative methods for feminist research, housing policy and urban social geography, and university writing and critical reading. Read more about Tiffany Muller Myrdahl…

Zachary Rowan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology. He holds a PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland College Park and has held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of Psychology and Social behavior at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include co-offending and the socialization processes associated with peers primarily among adolescents. He is driven by a desire to understand the differential significance of peers across adolescence and young adulthood. Read more about Zachary Rowan…

Chelsea Rosenthal joins SFU’s Department of Philosophy from the Center for Bioethics at New York University where she also completed her doctoral work in Philosophy and earned a JD in the School of Law. Rosenthal’s research lies at the intersection of normative ethics, political philosophy, and Philosophy of Law. She has taught Philosophy of Law, Advanced Introduction to Environmental Ethics, Advanced Introduction to Public Health Ethics, and a seminar on Democratic and Science Expertise. Read more about Chelsea Rosenthal here…

Martin Santamaria joins the Department of Economics as a Lecturer, having previously taught at the University of California, Department of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. His teaching and research interests include statistics, intermediate microeconomics, including modern micro-imperfect competition, game theory, externalities, and asymmetric information. Read more about Martin Santamaria here…

Kevin Schnepel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. He comes to FASS from the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of California. His research focuses on the economics of crime, health economics, labour economics, and environmental economics. Schnepel is passionate about projects that increase our understanding of programs and policies that can increase rates of successful re-entry into society for released prisoners. Read more about Kevin Schnepel here…

Matthew Sigal is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. He comes to SFU with a PhD in Quantitative Methods from York University and his research interests include quantitative methods, data visualization, multivariate statistics, psychometrics, item response theory, and statistical pedagogy. Sigal is particularly interested in data visualization (especially for truly multivariate analyses), multilevel and structural equation modeling, and alternative modeling strategies within the framework of survival analysis. Read more about Matthew Sigal here…

Laurel Weldon is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. With a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, Weldon most recently held the position of Distinguished Professor at Purdue University and directed the Purdue Policy Research Institute. She was also the founding director of Purdue’s Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion (2011-2015). Her research concerns the relationship between institutions, social movements and laws and policies on women’s rights, especially on violence against women. She has taught courses ranging from Independent Study courses Gender and Development, Social Groups and Public Policy, graduate courses in Gender, Race, Class and Public Policy and Pro-seminar in Public Policy and undergraduate courses Woman, Politics and Policy. Read more about Laurel Weldon here…

Natahnee Winder is Tsaidüka (Duckwater Shoshone), Diné, Cui Ui Ticutta (Pyramid Lake Paiute) and Nuucic (Southern Ute). She joins SFU’s Department of First Nations Studies and School of Public Policy as an Assistant Professor this fall. Winder holds two Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico: a BA in Sociology with a concentration in Social Welfare, and a BA in Native American Studies with an emphasis on Nation Building and Leadership. She was a Ronald E. McNair and Research Opportunity Program scholar while at the University of New Mexico, and held 2015-2016 Henry Roe Cloud Fellow at Yale University. She comes to SFU having done her doctoral work in Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation is a comparative analysis of the residential school history of Canada and the United States based on the perspectives of Indigenous university students using photo-voice. Her research interests include health & well-being, Indigenous education, ethnic & race relations, community based participatory research, Indigenous research, and qualitative research. Read more about Natahnee Winder here…

Zheng Wu is a Professor in the Department of Gerontology and Canada Research Chair in Aging and Health at SFU. Wu holds a PhD in Social Demography from the University of Western Ontario and comes to SFU from the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he was director of the Population Research Group. Wu is also involved with University of Victoria’s Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health, University of Washington’s Centre for Studies in Demography and Ecology, and Xi’an Jiaotong University’s Institute Population and Development Studies. His research interests include a range of aging-demographic topics, including family demography, trends and patterns of aging population in Canada, union formation and dissolution in later life, and physical and psychological wellbeing of older adults. Read more about Zheng Wu here…