About the Authors
Sue Fostaty Young: Most recently Sue was the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario where she oversaw a wide range of programming to support post-secondary instructors’ teaching development. Her program of research—learning-assessment-focused educational development—has earned her recognition across campus as The ICE Queen.
Meagan Troop has worked in the field of educational development for over a decade with experience in both college and university contexts. In her most recent role as the Manager of Educational Development at Sheridan, Meagan has collaborated with faculty, staff, and administrators to design and facilitate evidence-informed programs and initiatives that build teaching and learning capacity. Her research interests include creative pedagogies, transformative learning, educational leadership, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Jenn Stephenson: Jenn is a Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. Her current research (with co-investigator Mariah Horner) examines a recent trend towards audience participation in game-theatre hybrid performances where the audience become active co-creators in the experience. As a teacher of theatre history and dramatic literature, she is infamous among her students for her love of toasters.
Kip Pegley is a Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music, Queen’s University. He is the co-editor of Music, Politics and Violence (Wesleyan University Press, 2012), and, more recently, his work on sound and trauma has appeared in Singing Death: Reflections on Music and Mortality (Routledge, 2017), Music and War in the United States (Routledge, 2019), and MUSICultures (2019).
John Johnston: Currently, John Johnston is an instructor and teaching fellow in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. As a passionate geoscience educator for more than two decades now, he has designed and taught more than twenty-five different courses at three universities and numerous professional workshops. John’s research focuses on coastal geoscience and geoscience education, most recently creating learning frameworks uniting students with extended reality experiences and three-dimensional geological models.
Mavis Morton: Mavis is an Associate Professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology and teaches in the Criminal Justice and Public Policy undergraduate program and the Social Practice and Transformational Change graduate program at the University of Guelph in Guelph (UOG), Ontario. Currently, Mavis is the Director of the First Year Seminar (FYS) program where she works with instructors to help design interdisciplinary courses for first-year students that fit the FYS program criteria. Mavis is a member of numerous teaching and learning committees at the UOG. Mavis is a critical community-engaged scholar, and her program of research includes both collaborative research with community partners on violence against women and other social justice issues and often includes working with and training students as researchers on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research projects.
Christa Bracci is an adjunct professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law, where she teaches and develops courses in legal research, writing, and practice skills. Her research interests include skills pedagogy and curriculum design. She has worked and practiced in a range of environments including in government, and in both boutique and large national law firms. Christa is a member of the Bar of Ontario.
Anne O’Riordan: After a career in healthcare spanning four decades, as an occupational therapist and educator at Queen’s University, Anne traded academia for the front lines in healthcare. The patient mentors with whom she worked, along with her own journey as a patient and caregiver, compelled her to become a Patient Advisor at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
Valerie Michaelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Brock University. Her research focuses on health equity and the social dimensions of the health of children. Social justice and human rights are core to her work. She is passionate about teaching students the critical thinking skills they will need to engage productively with the critical equity issues they will face as health professionals.
Kanonhsyonne Jan Hill is the Associate Vice-Principal (Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation) at Queen’s University. She leads the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, providing strategic support and leadership to oversee the university-wide implementation of the recommendations from the Queen’s TRC Task Force Report. Jan is Mohawk, Turtle Clan, and a Clan Mother at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
Shayna Watson is a family physician in the Department of Family Medicine, and Regional Clerkship Director, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her non-clinical work and scholarly interests include community-based medical education, longitudinal integrated clerkships, EDIIA (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigenization, and Accessibility), and reflective practice.
