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Executive

Printable PDF of the 2021-2022 MUFA Executive

MUFA Executive 2021/2022

September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022

Nicholas Kevlahan

Nicholas Kevlahan

President

Mathematics and Statistics

1 (905) 525-9140 x 23412 mufapres@mcmaster.ca

Katherine Cuff

Vice-President

Economics

1 (905) 525-9140 x x23827 cuffk@mcmaster.ca
Elkafi Hassini

Elkafi Hassini

Past-President

Operations Management

1 (905) 525-9140 x 27467 hassini@mcmaster.ca
Catherine Anderson

Catherine Anderson

Remuneration

Linguistics and Languages

1 (905) 525-9140 x 26241 canders@mcmaster.ca

Ana Campos

Special Enquiries and Grievances

School of Interdisciplinary Science

1 (905) 525-9140 x 21509 camposa@mcmaster.ca
Kristen Culver

Kirsten Culver

Member at Large

Nursing

1 (905) 525-9140 x 24322 culverk@mcmaster.ca

Claude Eilers

Pension

Classics

1 (905) 525-9140 x 23380 eilersc@mcmaster.ca

Aadil S. Merali Juma

Treasurer

Accounting and Financial Management

1 (905) 525-9140 x x23897 merali@mcmaster.ca

Lydia Kapiriri

Special Enquiries and Grievances

Health, Aging and Society

1 (905) 525-9140 x 27203 kapirir@mcmaster.ca
Gail Krantzberg

Gail Krantzberg

Tenure and Promotion

School of Engineering Practice and Technology

1 (905) 525-9140 x 22153 krantz@mcmaster.ca

Zoe Li

Academic Affairs

Civil Engineering

1 (905) 525-9140 x 21225 zoeli@mcmaster.ca

Liss Platt

Human Rights & Equity

Communication Studies and Media Arts

1 (905) 525-9140 x 27954 plattl@mcmaster.ca

Spencer Pope

Membership

Classics

1 (905) 525-9140 x 23378 spope@mcmaster.ca

Deborah Sloboda

Member at Large

Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

1 (905) 525-9140 x 22250 sloboda@mcmaster.ca

Council

2021/2022 MUFA Faculty Council

Department Contact Name Contact Email
ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Aadil Merali Juma merali@mcmaster.ca
ANESTHESIA Jennifer Nash nashjv@mcmaster.ca
ANTHROPOLOGY Kee Yong yongk@mcmaster.ca
SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Matthew Woolhouse woolhouse@mcmaster.ca
BIOCHEMISTRY& BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE Russell Bishop bishopr@mcmaster.ca
BIOLOGY Suleiman Igdoura igdoura@mcmaster.ca
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Prashant Mhaskar mhaskar@mcmaster.ca
CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL BIOLOGY Ryan Wylie wylier@mcmaster.ca
CIVIL ENGINEERING Samir Chidiac chidiac@mcmaster.ca
CLASSICS Claude Eilers eilersc@mcmaster.ca
COMMUNICATION STUDIES & MEDIA ARTS Faiza Hirji hirjif@mcmaster.ca
COMPUTING & SOFTWARE Antoine Deza deza@mcmaster.ca
EARTH, ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY Sean Carey careysk@mcmaster.ca
ECONOMICS Anastasios Papanastasiou papanasa@mcmaster.ca
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING James Chen chihhung@ece.mcmaster.ca
ENGINEERING PHYSICS Rafael Kleiman kleiman@mcmaster.ca
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF Konstantinos Apostolou apostol@mcmaster.ca
ENGLISH & CULTURAL STUDIES Mary Silcox silcox@mcmaster.ca
FAMILY MEDICINE Matthew Kwan kwanmy@mcmaster.ca
FINANCE & BUSINESS ECONOMICS John Siam siamj@mcmaster.ca
FRENCH Nicholas Serruys serruys@mcmaster.ca
HEALTH, AGING & SOCIETY Meridith Griffin griffmb@mcmaster.ca
HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT Glen Randall randalg@mcmaster.ca
HEALTH RESEARCH METHODS, EVIDENCE & IMPACT Amiram Gafni gafni@mcmaster.ca
HISTORY Stephen Heathorn heaths@mcmaster.ca
HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT Catherine Connelly connell@mcmaster.ca
INFORMATION SYSTEMS Ali Montazemi montazem@mcmaster.ca
INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE Chad Harvey harvech@mcmaster.ca
KINESIOLOGY Krista Madsen woolhouse@mcmaster.ca
LABOUR STUDIES Stephanie Premji spremji@mcmaster.ca
LIBRARY Wade Wyckoff wyckoff@mcmaster.ca
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGES Nikolai Penner pennern@mcmaster.ca
MARKETING Marvin Ryder ryderm@mcmaster.ca
MATERIALS SCIENCE Andre Phillion andre.phillion@mcmaster.ca
MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Megumi Harada haradam@mcmaster.ca
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Gary Bone gary@mcmaster.ca
MEDICINE Karen Beattie beattik@mcmaster.ca
NURSING Michelle Butt buttml@mcmater.ca
OBSTETRICS& GYNECOLOGY Derek Lobb lobbd@mcmaster.ca
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Elkafi Hassini hassini@mcmaster.ca
PATHOLOGY& MOLECULAR MEDICINE Laurie Doering doering@mcmaster.ca
PEDIATRICS Joyce Obeid obeidj@mcmaster.ca
PHILOSOPHY Nancy Doubleday doublen@mcmaster.ca
PHYSICS& ASTRONOMY Maikel C. Rheinstadter rheinstadter@mcmaster.ca
POLITICAL SCIENCE Greg Flynn flynngl@mcmaster.ca
PSYCHIATRY& BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENCE James MacKillop jmackill@mcmaster.ca
PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOUR Deda Gillespie dgillespie@mcmaster.ca
REHABILITATION SCIENCES Brenda Vrkljan vrkljan@mcmaster.ca
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Daniel Machiela machiel@mcmaster.ca
SOCIAL WORK Christine Sinding sinding@mcmaster.ca
SOCIOLOGY Luca Berardi berardil@mcmaster.ca
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Linda Stockton stockton@mcmaster.ca
SURGERY Janie Astephen-Wilson astephej@mcmaster.ca

Committee Structure 2021/2022*

 

Standing Committees

Joint Committee

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Nicholas Kevlahan Mathematics & Statistics kevlahan@mcmaster.ca
Catherine Anderson Linguistics & Languages canders@mcmaster.ca
Katherine Cuff Economics cuffk@mcmaster.ca

Nominating Committee

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Elkafi Hassini Operations Management mufapres@mcmaster.ca
Nicholas Kevlahan* Mathematics & Statistics kevlahan@mcmaster.ca
Katherine Cuff Economics cuffk@mcmaster.ca
Ana Moro Linguistics & Languages dirmeld@mcmaster.ca
Rafi Kleiman Engineering Physics kleiman@mcmaster.ca
Diana Sherifalo Nursing dsherif@mcmaster.ca

Remuneration

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Catherine Anderson Linguistics & Languages canders@mcmaster.ca
Nicholas Kevlahan Mathematics and Statistics mufapres@mcmaster.ca
Katherine Cuff Economics cuffk@mcmaster.ca
Michel Grignon Health, Aging and Society grignon@mcmaster.ca
Aadil Juma Accounting and Financial Management merali@mcmaster.ca
Kirsten Culver Nursing culverk@mcmaster.ca
Andre Phillion Materials Science & Engineering philliab@mcmaster.ca

 

University committees and boards

Copyright Working Group

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Sara Bannerman Communication Studies & Media Arts banners@mcmaster.ca

Honour M Selection Committee

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Todd Alway Political Science alway@mcmaster.ca

Pension Trust

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Thomas Hurd Mathematics & Statistics hurdt@mcmaster.ca
Sherman Cheung Finance and Business Economics scheung@mcmaster.ca
Claude Eilers Classics eilersc@mcmaster.ca

President’s Advisory Committee on Building an Inclusive Community

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Elisabet Service Linguistics and Languages eservic@mcmaster.ca

President’s Advisory Committee on Relations with Community

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Deda Gillespie Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour gilles@mcmaster.ca

Rudy Heinzl Award of Excellence Committee

Contact Name Department Contact Email
Peter Vilks Strategic Management vilksp@mcmaster.ca

* Chair

Note: These committees are effective as of September 1, 2021

Budget Advisory Committee Terms of Reference