Professor Leah Cowen sitting speaking at a board room table to large crowd.

Leadership

The Connaught Fund is managed by a committee made up of members of the university’s governing council, senior administrators and other representatives of the university community.

Connaught Committee Members


 

Professor Leah Cowen

Committee Chair
Vice-President, Research & Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives.

 

Professor Joshua Barker

Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Vice-Provost, Research & Education

 

Professor Barbara Fallon

Senior Administration Representative
Associate Vice-President, Research

 

Professor France Gagnon

Senior Administration Representative
Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, UTM

 

Professor Renée Hložek

Physical Sciences Representative
David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics

 

Professor Trevor F. Moraes

Life Sciences Representative
Department of Biochemistry

 

Professor Thy Phu

Humanities Representative
Department of Arts, Culture, and Media, UTSC

 

Professor Creso Sá

Social Sciences Representative
Department of Leadership, Higher & Adult Education

 

Jane Zhao

University Research Community Representative
Graduate Student, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

Connaught Review College

The Connaught Secretariat thanks the following individuals who are serving on the Connaught Review College in the 2024-25 academic year.

Membership of Connaught Disciplinary Panels

Humanities

  • Joshua Pilzer, Faculty of Music
  • Marieme Lo, Women & Gender Institute
  • T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Meghan Sutherland, Visual Studies / Cinema Studies Institute

Physical Sciences & Engineering

  • Natalie Enright Jerger, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Mary Pugh, Mathematics
  • Marney Isaac, Physical & Environmental Sciences (UTSC)
  • Oya Mercan, Civil & Mineral Engineering
  • Angela Demke Brown, Computer Science
  • Ziqing Hong, Physics
  • Kevin Golovin, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
  • Ting Li, Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Aaron Wheeler, Chemistry

Life Sciences (Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Biology)

  • Julie Claycomb, Molecular Genetics
  • Melissa Holmes, Psychology (UTM)
  • John Calarco, Cell & Systems Biology

Life Sciences (Social, Cultural, Environmental & Population Health Research)

  • Lori Ross, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Social Sciences

  • Feng Chen, Management (UTM)
  • Shari Eli, Economics
  • John Hannigan, Sociology (UTSC)
  • Francine Menashy, Leadership, Higher & Adult Education
  • Amal Madibbo, Social Justice Education
  • Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Global Development Studies (UTSC)
  • Hilary Brown, Health and Society (UTSC)
  • Christopher Higgins, Human Geography (UTSC)
  • Farzaneh Hemmasi, Music
  • Carmen Logie, Social Work
  • Daniel Silver, Sociology (UTSC)
  • Sumayya Kassamali, Anthropology & Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Kyle Danson, Social Work
  • Laura Doering, Rotman

Connaught Secretariat

Headshot of Judith Chadwick

Judith Chadwick

Program Director
Assistant Vice-President, Research Services

Jeremy Knight, Director, Research Development
Michael Hussey, Research Funding Manager, Internal Programs
Cheryl Nash, Research Funding Officer