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Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1608
Email: Xu_Zhang@2574444.com
Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for environmental and health applications with focus on water treatment, cancer diagnostics and treatment
Department: University Relations
Phone:
902-317-4420
Email: Victor_Tomiczek@2574444.com
International Education
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1455
Email: Tracy_Lillington@2574444.com
Area of expertise include nursing clinical practice in the areas of : wound/ostomy/footcare/surgical and emergency practice.
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1226
Email: tom_urbaniak@2574444.com
Canadian Politics, Public Policy, Economic Development, Municipal Politics, Polonia (Polish communities outside Poland)
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1616
Email: Todd_Pettigrew@2574444.com
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, History of Medicine, History of Debt
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1138
Email: Timothy_Rawlings@2574444.com
Invertebrate zoology, Evolutionary ecology, Molecular ecology, Marine ecology
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1224
Email: Theresa_Corsano@2574444.com
Areas of Expertise or Research Interests: Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Well Being, Workplace Stress and Job Burnout.
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1274
Email: terry_gibbs@2574444.com
Critical globalization studies, social justice, global citizenship.
Department: Athletics and Recreation
Phone:
902-578-4158
Email: Teena_Campbell@2574444.com
Expertise: Physical education and sport/physical activity instruction. Interests: Coaching, promoting Active for Life activities in community and schools, sports and physical fitness
Department: Office of Registrar and Admissions
Phone:
902-563-1117
Email: Tanya_Andrews@2574444.com
Community Economic Development, Non-profit organization, Social Enterprise
Department: Registrar's Office
Phone:
902-563-1649
Email: Suzanne_MacLeod@2574444.com
Areas of expertise: Grade Entry, Registrations and Add/Drops, Room Bookings, Government Reporting, Convocation, day-to-day interaction with students, staff/faculty and the general public
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1302
Email: Stephanie_MacQuarrie@2574444.com
Biochar, Materials Chemistry, Biomass Conversion, Isolation of High Value Products from Biomass, Catalysis, Functional Materials.
Department: Shannon School of Business
Phone:
902-563-1992
Email: Stephanie_MacPherson@2574444.com
Sustainable tourism, destination management, tourism operations planning and management, event management
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1926
Email: Stephanie_Gilbert@2574444.com
Occupational stress, employee health and well-being, organizational leadership, and motivation at work.
Department: Education
Phone:
902-883-1206
Email: Sonya_Singer@2574444.com
Literacy Education, Social Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1156
Email: Sheila_Christie@2574444.com
Medieval drama, literature, and culture, archival research; dramatic literature; fan fiction; applied theatre, theatre for social change, stage management, stage craft, directing
Department: Financial and Information Management
Finance, Investments, ESG, Entrepreneurship, Machine Learning
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1252
Email: Scott_Stewart@2574444.com
Philosophy of Love and Sex; Applied Ethics; Philosophy and Literature; Ethics
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1339
Email: Sandra_Jack-Malik@2574444.com
dyslexia, reflective practice, settler ally, narrative inquiry and currere
Department: Financial and Information Management
Phone:
902-563-1178
Email: Sahand_Ashtab@2574444.com
Short Food Supply Chains, Circular Economy, and Closed Loop Supply Chains
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1268
Email: Rod_Nicholls@2574444.com
Continental Philosophy, Theatre Aesthetics, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1884
Email: Rebecca_Jones@2574444.com
Office: A 231-C
Emergency/Critical Care Nursing, Forensic/Sexual Assault Nursing, Geriatric/Long Term Care Nursing, Palliative Care Nursing
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1315
Email: Peter_MacIntyre@2574444.com
Positive Psychology; Motivation; Emotion; Anxiety; Second Language Acquisition
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1161
Email: Peter_Kerr@2574444.com
Marketing, Sales Management, Performance Measurement
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1300
Email: Patrick_Howard@2574444.com
teacher education; education for sustainability; literacy education; digital media; phenomenological research methods
Department: Management Information Systems
Phone:
902-563-1185
Email: Patricia_Morrison@2574444.com
MIS
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1818
Email: Nadine_Ratchford@2574444.com
Career Services, Career Development, Job Search
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-2814
Email: Michelle_Jetha@2574444.com
Adolescent Brain Development, Adolescent Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Psychopathology (internalizing/externalizing behaviors), Schizophrenia, Emotion, Attention
Department: Engineering
Phone:
902-563-1879
Email: Melissa_Deane@2574444.com
Areas of expertise include Power Transmission and Distribution, Electronics
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1391
Email: matthias_bierenstiel@2574444.com
Chemistry, natural products, applied chemistry, health medicine, industrial processes, bio-products
Department: IT Services
Email: Matthew_Keough@2574444.com
Skilled in designing user interface, developing websites, Photoshop design, debugging, web applications, and hardware. Technical skills include Hardware Diagnostics, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, C#, Objective-C, PHP, SQL, CSS, XML, XHTML, and HTML. Network management with hardware maintenance.
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1321
Email: Marybeth_Doucette@2574444.com
Decolonization, reconciliation, business education, two-eyed seeing, Etuaptmumk
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1623
Email: Mary_Keating@2574444.com
My research interests are in the fields of Renaissance Dramatic Literature and Renaissance Poetry, in particular the Renaissance sonnet sequence.
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1430
Email: Martin_Mkandawire@2574444.com
My research activities have been around mine water remediation and management with a goal to develop cost-effective strategies; and my research interests are, intra alia, in biophotonics and photochemistry of bio-compounds, development of devices with improved energetics using bio-inspire designs and bio-mimicked processes like improving energy conversion efficiency using bio-inspired design and architecture of devices in organic solar cell
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1846
Email: Lyndsay_Best@2574444.com
Microbiology
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Email: lloyd_white@2574444.com
Areas of Interest include Sociology of Deviance and Crime, Sociology of the Family, Canadian Society, Sociology of Sport and Sociology of Religion.
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1963
Email: Lilla_Roy@2574444.com
Epidemiology, quality of life measurement, patient preference and value measurement, choice experiments, health economics, health technology assessment, priority setting in health care
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1176
Email: Leslie_Wardley@2574444.com
Dr. Wardley�s research includes qualitative and quantitative scientific exploration of targeted consumers through identification of their preferences, motivations, and buying behaviours. Through these insights organizations are able to predict and possibly amend behaviour.
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1433
Email: Leslie_MacIsaac@2574444.com
loves the beaches in Cape Breton, pets, playing darts , and is proud to be working at Cape Breton University as an CBU Alumni!
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1626
Email: LeeAnne_Broadhead@2574444.com
International Relations, Environmental Politics, International Political Economy
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1923
Email: Kevin_McKague@2574444.com
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Social Enterprise, Inclusive Markets, Social Franchising
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1667
Email: Ken_Oakes@2574444.com
Finfish and shellfish husbandry, water treatment, reactive oxygen species, environmental remediation
Department: L'nu, Political, and Social Studies, School of Arts and Social S
Email: Katie_MacLeod@2574444.com
Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous research ethics, and Acadian-Mi�kmaq relations, Acadian identities, Minority language retention, Acadian nationalism, ethnohistory, ethnography, qualitative research
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1969
Email: Kathryn_MacIntosh@2574444.com
Area of expertise: teaching techniques incorporating experiential learning, fish behaviour, parasites of wildlife
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1255
Email: Kate_Krug@2574444.com
Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Sociology of the Family
Department: Nursing
Email: Karen_Kennedy@2574444.com
Sexual Violence, Curriculum
Department: School of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1876
Email: Judy_MacInnis@2574444.com
analytical instrumentation, Transmission Electron Microscopy, science (chemistry) outreach
Department: Nancy Dingwall Health and Counselling Centre
Phone:
902-563-1359
Email: Judy_Kelley@2574444.com
Registered Nurse
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1256
Email: joseph_parish@2574444.com
medical anthropology, historical epidemiology, socio-cultural determinants of disease, bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, 18th century, 19th century, forensic anthropology
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-2815
Email: John_Mayich@2574444.com
Student Affairs
Department: Risk Management
Phone:
902-563-1846
Email: John_MacMillan@2574444.com
Occupational Hygiene, Risk Management and Organizational Health and Safety
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1238
Email: jim_gerrie@2574444.com
Technology, religion, ethics, media, software studies
Department: Strategic Communications and Events
Phone:
902-322-0786
Email: Jill_Ellsworth@2574444.com
Social Media, Brand Journalism,
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1336
Email: Jennifer_Currie@2574444.com
Event Management and Business Communication
Department: Office of the President
Phone:
902-563-1932
Email: Janice_Tulk@2574444.com
Mi’kmaw music, history, culture, and ways of knowing; Indigenous tourism development and economic reconciliation; industrial soundscapes and expressive culture; material culture, maker and DIY culture, and fibre arts in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Department: Math, Physics and Geology
Phone:
902-563-1181
Email: James_Preen@2574444.com
Graph Theory; algebra and structures. Regularity, distance and polynomials.
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1206
Email: Helen_Mersereau@2574444.com
Risk communication, occupational hygiene, health risk assessment, occupational health and safety.
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1242
Email: heather_sparling@2574444.com
Nova Scotia Gaelic song; Cape Breton vernacular dance; Atlantic Canadian disaster songs; memorials; memorialization; language and music; language revitalization with music; genre
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1217
Email: Heather_Schmidt@2574444.com
As a Community Psychologist, I use participatory action research, and other collaborative, decolonializing approaches to facilitate empowerment, inclusion and social justice for historically-marginalized communities such as L�nu / Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ+ post-secondary students, and individuals with mental health challenges.
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-563-1967
Email: Godwin_Dcunha@2574444.com
Fundamental and Applied Enzymology, Protein Chemistry, Biochemical Techniques and Instrumentation
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1237
Email: Geraldine_Carlin@2574444.com
areas of interest are mental health and weight bias and discrimination
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Email: Gerald_Pocius@2574444.com
folklore, material culture, vernacular architecture, cultural landscapes, museums and historic sites
Department: Psychology
Phone:
902-563-1451
Email: Geoff_Carre@2574444.com
Effects of nature exposure on cognition and mental health: physiological underpinnings
Department: Communication and Languages
Phone:
902-563-1234
Email: Felix_Odartey@2574444.com
corporate communication, race and media, news and public affairs, as well as communications law and policy
Department: Shannon School of Business
Email: Enayat_Rajabi@2574444.com
Data Analytics, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Management
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1438
Sexual violence, sexual consent, access to and use of health services, determinants of health, health promotion
Department: Student Affairs
Phone:
902-563-1278
Email: Donalda_Johnston@2574444.com
Immigration
Department: Financial and Information Management
Phone:
902-563-1312
Email: Derrick_Hayes@2574444.com
Primary area of research is in community economic development and not-for-profit activities in Cape Breton
Department: Education
Email: Dennis_York@2574444.com
Evaluation of blended and online programs, learning engineering, engagement strategies and community building in digital learning environments, and the role of social media in facilitating online teaching and learning in postsecondary education.
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1213
Email: David_Johnson@2574444.com
Canadian Government and Politics, Canadian Public Administration and Public Policy, the Canadian Constitution, the Monarchy in Canada
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-574-1547
Email: David_McCorquodale@2574444.com
Species at risk in Canada, beetles, bees; Changes in bird populations
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts (LiFTA)
Email: Dana_Mount@2574444.com
Environmental issues (cultural/political, not scientific), environmental humanities, postcolonial issues, world literature, gender.
Department: Chemistry
Email: Collins_Nganou@2574444.com
Reactive nanomaterial for water splitting and photocatalyst,
Department: Nursing
Phone:
902-563-1961
Email: Claudette_Taylor@2574444.com
Palliative Care, Oncology Care, Symptom Management Cancer Patients, Nurse Practitioner
Department: Literature, Folklore and the Arts
Phone:
902-563-1415
Email: chris_mcdonald@2574444.com
Popular Music, Atlantic Canadian Folk and Traditional Music, Social Class, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory
Department: Chemistry
Phone:
902-956-0789
Email: Chigozie_Okolie@2574444.com
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Magnetic nanoparticles
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1814
Email: chantelle_cormier@2574444.com
Forensic Entomology; Science Outreach
Department: Organizational Management
Phone:
902-563-1661
Email: Catherine_Leviten-Reid@2574444.com
affordable housing, community development, non-profit organizations
Department: Library
Phone:
902-563-1348
Email: caroline_power@2574444.com
Serial aquisitions
Department: Education
Phone:
902-563-1672
Email: Carolin_Kreber@2574444.com
Teaching and Learning in higher education; Transformative education; Higher Education and Society; internationalization of the curriculum; community-engaged learning and research; the scholarship of teaching and learning
Department: Biology
Phone:
902-563-1988
Email: bruce_hatcher@2574444.com
Marine Ecology, Oceanography, Climate Change Adaptation
Department: Enrolment Services
Phone:
902-563-1432
Email: Bilynda_Whiting@2574444.com
Student Retention and Persistence
Department: Experiential Studies in Community and Sport
Phone:
902-563-1452
Email: Bettina_Callary@2574444.com
Sport coaching, coach development, adult learning
Department: Health Sciences
Phone:
902-563-1293
Email: Bernard_MacLennan@2574444.com
Infectious disease, food safety, food quality, general microbiology
Department: Communication and Languages
Phone:
902-563-1870
Email: bernard_farenkia@2574444.com
Second / foreign language acquisition and Pedagogy, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Language contact, Cross-cultural Pragmatics / Intercultural communication, Postcolonial linguistics, Variational Pragmatics, varieties of French, Translation, Linguistic politeness / Interpersonal communication, Academic discourse.
Department: Registrar's Office
Phone:
902-563-1646
Email: Barbara_Kennedy@2574444.com
Area of Expertise: Student degree audits, Convocation, and Academic Calendar.
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1354
Email: Andy_Parnaby@2574444.com
Canadian politics and current affairs, Cape Breton history and culture, Cape Breton University
Department: Humanities
Phone:
902-563-1301
Email: Andrew_Reynolds@2574444.com
History and philosophy of science, especially cell biology and evolution
Department: L'nu, Political and Social Studies
Phone:
902-563-1858
Email: Andrew_Molloy@2574444.com
Public Policy and Public Administration, Canadian Government and Politics, Community Economic Development
Department: Engineering
Phone:
902-563-1844
Email: Allison_Mackie@2574444.com
Drinking Water and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Reuse of Industrial By-Products, Detection and Treatment of Emerging Organic Contaminants
Department: Strategic Communications and Events
Phone:
902-563-1200
Email: Alanna_MacQueen@2574444.com
Department: Finance
Phone:
902-563-1851
Email: Aaron_MacDonald@2574444.com
We love engaging with the Cape Breton University community on social media. Follow us at the links below for important announcements, events and more.
Unama’ki espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wla na no’kamanaq aq maqamikewminu mena’qiknmuetuk.
Cape Breton University is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw People.