The new directors are Professor Colin Coates, director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies (RCCS); Professor Laurence Harris, director of the Centre for Vision Research (CVR); Professor Christina Kraenzle, director of the Canadian Centre for German聽& European Studies (CCGES); Professor David Mutimer, director of the Centre for International聽& Security Studies (YCISS); and Professor Lisa Philipps, director of the Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL).听听

鈥淥n behalf of the 91亚色 research community, I would like to congratulate Professors Coates, Harris, Kraenzle, Mutimer and Philipps on their appointments,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色's vice-president research & innovation.聽鈥淭heir leadership expertise will be essential to further strengthening the unique and exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary research, collaborations and partnerships at 91亚色鈥檚 research centres and institutes.鈥�

Colin Coates (left), Canada Research Chair in Cultural Landscapes, is also professor in the Canadian Studies program at Glendon College and president of the Canadian Studies Network-R茅seau d鈥櫭﹖udes canadiennes.聽His research examines political culture in New France and the history of Canadian utopias.聽He also conducts research in the area of environmental history, and is an executive member聽of the聽Network in Canadian History & Environment 鈥� Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l鈥檈nvironnement, funded by聽the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Coates has co-edited and authored several books including, Introduction aux 茅tudes canadiennes: histoires, identit茅s et cultures (with Professor Geoffrey Ewen, Glendon) and Visions: the Canadian History Modules Project (with Professor Marcel Martel, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies,聽along with four colleagues from other universities), Majesty in Canada: Essays on the Role of Royalty among others.聽Coates won the Lionel Groulx-Yves Saint-Germain Foundation鈥檚 prize for Heroines and History 鈥� Representations of Madeleine de Verch猫res and Laura Secord (co-authored with Cecilia Morgan of OISE).

Laurence Harris (right)聽is a professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, a member of the graduate programs in Kinesiology聽& Health Science and in Biology, and has served as chair of the Psychology Department. He is the director the Multisensory Integration Laboratory at 91亚色, which investigates how information from visual, auditory, vestibular, proprioceptive and tactile senses is combined by the brain to create our perception of body and space. Applications of his research include the design of virtual environments and improving perception in situations where sensory information is impoverished, such as in the unusual environments of underwater or in space, in ageing or in clinical conditions such as partial blindness or Parkinson鈥檚 disease.聽Recently, Harris聽ran an聽experiment on the International Space Station looking at astronauts鈥� perception of orientation. He is the author of聽more than聽100 scientific articles and has edited nine books on topics pertaining to vision including Vision in 3D Environments, Cortical Mechanisms of Vision, Seeing Spatial Form, and Levels of Perception. 聽He is editor-in-chief of the journal Seeing and Perceiving: a journal of multisensory science.

Christina Kraenzle (left) is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures聽& Linguistics (DLLL) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.聽She has served as a CCGES affiliate since 2004 and been a member of the centre鈥檚 executive committee since 2005 through her role as the coordinator of the German Studies Program within DLLL.聽Kraenzle鈥檚 research explores modern German literature, film and culture, with a focus on transnational cultural production, migration, travel and globalization. Her recent publications include Mapping Channels Between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations (with J枚rg Esleben and Sukanya Kulkarni, 2008) as well as articles in The German Quarterly, German Life and Letters, Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism in the German-Speaking World, and the volume Searching for Sebald: Photography after W. G. Sebald.

David Mutimer (right), a professor in the Department of Political Science, is also the founding editor of Critical Studies on Security and the editor of The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs.聽 He has been a member of YCISS since 1987 and has previously served as its deputy director.聽Mutimer was also聽a visiting professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom (UK), as well as a principal research fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK.聽Mutimer鈥檚 research considers issues of contemporary international security through lenses provided by critical social theory and explores the reproduction of security in and through popular culture.聽His research has focused on various aspects of weapons production and control, and more recently on the politics of the global war on terror, and of the regional wars around the world which are being fought by Canada and its allies.聽Mutimer is presently leading a SSHRC-funded international research project on arms export controls.聽His recent published work includes journal articles in Studies in Social Justice, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Contemporary Security Policy among others.

Lisa Philipps (left) has been a faculty member聽at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1996.聽Prior to that, she held appointments in the faculties of law at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, and has held visiting professorships at Melbourne Law School, University College London and the University of Toronto among other institutions.聽She served as associate dean research, graduate studies & institutional relations at Osgoode from 2009 to 2011.聽Philipps' research focuses on tax law, budgets and feminist legal studies.聽She has published widely on topics, including聽fiscal transparency, income splitting, gender聽budgeting, the distributional impact of tax cuts, the tax treatment of unpaid work, charitable tax incentives and more. Most recently she published two co-edited books on Tax Expenditures: State of the Art and Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making: Comparative Perspectives.听听

In all, 91亚色聽lists 29 research centres and institutes.

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