Research Associates

Research Associates participate in the intellectual and creative life of Sensorium, submit and administer grants through the Centre, and/or are active in a research cluster, and in organizing workshops and conferences.

We accept applications both from faculty within the Schools of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design and those situated in faculties outside of AMPD.

If you are interested in becoming a Sensorium Research Associate please complete and submit the following online application form.

Headshot of Associate Professor Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston.

Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston

Graduate Program Director, Theatre and Performance Studies; Associate Professor of Theatre

Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston is an anthropologist, performance theorist, theatre director and playwright. She is Associate Professor of Theatre and has graduate appointments in Theatre & Performance Studies and Social Anthropology at York University.


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Katherine Knight

Associate Professor, Visual Art & Art History

Katherine Knight’s research and creative work explores the intersection of private and public experience through landscape-based approaches using the still and moving image, often incorporating text and archival material. The recipient of the Canada Council’s Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, she has exhibited her photo media works extensively across North America.


Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Performance

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Performance Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster is a Dora-award winner performer and theatre creator based in Toronto. She is a founding member of the theatre collective The Howland Company, a recent assistant artistic …


Marissa Largo

Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies

Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies Dr. Marissa Largo (she/her) is a curator, educator, artist and researcher of Asian diasporic cultural production and its intersections with race, gender, and community engagement. Her projects have been pres …


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Laura Levin

Associate Professor, Theatre; Associate Dean Research, AMPD

Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies and Associate Dean, Research in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design. Her research focuses on site-specific, immersive, and urban intervention performance; performing gender and sexuality; activist and political performance; performance, human rights, and environmental justice; intermedial and digital performance; research-creation methodologies; and performance theory.


Gabriel Levine

Interim Associate Dean, Academic, AMPD, Sessional Assistant Professor of Drama and Creative Arts, Glendon Campus

Interim Associate Dean, Academic, AMPD, Sessional Assistant Professor of Drama and Creative Arts, Glendon Campus Gabriel Levine is the author of Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings (MIT Press 2020). He co-edited Practice (MIT/Whitechapel 2018), an …


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Nina Levitt

Associate Professor, Visual Art & Art History

Nina Levitt works in photography, video, sculpture and interactive technologies. Her practice is primarily concerned with the ways women have been imaged and imagined in popular culture.


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Brenda Longfellow

Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Arts

Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Arts Professor Longfellow has published articles on documentary, feminist film theory and Canadian cinema in Public, CineTracts, Screen, and the Journal of Canadian Film Studies. She is a co-editor (with Scott MacK …


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