Academic Advisory Board

Hannah McGregor

SFU Publishing 

Hannah McGregor’s research and teaching focus on the links between publishing and social change, from the role podcasts might play in expanding public engagement with research, to systemic barriers to access in the Canadian publishing industry.

Hannah completed her PhD at TransCanada Institute at the University of Guelph in 2013, where her research focused on contemporary white Canadian women’s representations of distant suffering. She held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta; her project, “Modern Magazines Project Canada,” was a collaborative initiative that took up the call to read magazines as a form of new media technology that, alongside radio and film, helped to shape the emergent consumer-publics of the twentieth century. 

Adel Iskandar

SFU School of Communication

Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. Iskandar's work deals with media, identity and politics; and he has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. Iskandar's engaged participatory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as "Jadaliyya" and academic podcasting such as "Status." Prior to his arrival at SFU, Iskandar taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.

Roxanne Panchasi

SFU History

Born in Toronto and raised in Montreal, I completed a BA in History at Concordia University. After graduating in 1993, I set off for central New Jersey where I entered the Ph.D. program in History at Rutgers University. From 1996-1999, I spent three glorious years roaming the streets of Paris. I joined the faculty at SFU in 2001 and completed my doctoral dissertation in 2002.

Since the beginning of my academic career, I have been interested in the study of a wide range of cultural objects and moments from the French past. My early research included subjects as diverse as the emergent science of handwriting analysis in nineteenth-century France and the "uncanny" rehabilitation of wounded soldiers during and after World War I.

Joe Clark

SFU School for Contemporary Arts

Joseph Clark is a lecturer in film studies at Simon Fraser University. His research and teaching interests focus on archival and non-theatrical media, including newsreels, home movies, and sponsored film. He is a long-time member of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival Programming Committee and part of the organizing committee of the Vancouver Podcast Festival presented by DOXA. He is the author of News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle.

Lyana Patrick

Faculty of Health Sciences

Dr. Patrick’s work focuses on challenging colonial constructions of community planning as it connects to health and well-being. Specifically, her work on the interconnections between justice and health seeks to promote Indigenous understandings of community building and towards better understanding the factors that hinder or help Indigenous peoples to create community connectedness. She has a keen interest in bringing together researchers working in justice, health, geography, Indigenous Studies, community and environmental studies, to pursue an intersectoral/cross-disciplinary approach to addressing justice and health.

Lupin Battersby

SFU Knowledge Mobilization

Lupin Battersby, PhD, Director, Knowledge Mobilization at SFU, provides training and expert consultations to SFU researchers and is involved in efforts to better recognize KM work. Lupin has 20 years of experience in research and knowledge mobilization within and outside of academia with a primary focus on the challenges and opportunities of mobilizing research in health and social sciences.

Nadia Shihab

SFU School for Contemporary Arts

Nadia Shihab is a filmmaker and artist working in the realm of experimental documentary. Her projects emerge through processes that are relational and improvisational, and have taken the form of films, sound composition/performance, visual art and writing. She is the director of SISTER MOTHER LOVER CHILD, ECHOLOCATION, AMAL’S GARDEN, and the feature-length film JADDOLAND, which was awarded five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award, and went on to broadcast for three seasons on US public television.

Am Johal

SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement

Am Johal is Director of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Co-director of SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative. He is the author of 'Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene' (Atropos Press, 2015) , is co-author with Matt Hern (with contributions from Joe Sacco), of "Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale" (MIT, 2018) and 'O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology' (transcript press, 2024).

He is the co-founder of UBC's Humanities 101 program, has been a Visiting Professor with SFU's Centre for Dialogue and an associate with SFU's Institute for the Humanities. He currently teaches in SFU Graduate Liberal Studies. He previously served as chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition, as a board member with the Vancity Community Foundation, the Or Gallery, 221A Gallery, the Vancouver City Planning Commission, the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, Indian Summer Arts Society, Vancouver International Film Festival, 221A and many other organizations. He has graduate degrees in international economic relations and media philosophy.