Advisory Board
We are grateful to have an esteemed group of professors who generously lend their expertise and guidance to our publication. Our advisory board members bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in various academic disciplines, ensuring the high standard and quality of the research we publish. They play a vital role in shaping the direction of CJAM and contribute significantly to our mission of fostering academic collaboration and excellence.
Dr. Anne F. MacLennan, AdvisorDr. Anne MacLennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. She has a PhD from Concordia University and holds an MA and an Honours BA from McGill University. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript which is a study of the program listings of seven cities across Canada during the 1930s to explain the distinct element of local non-network radio and the changes across the country as national network radio is put in place in stages. The work is based a on a large data sample of newspapers, archival research, and other documentation. One of Dr. MacLennan's latest book chapters is “Forming Networks: National Radio Networks − Public, State, and Commercial,” in Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, edited by Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio. She will teach her 40th distinct course in 2023, has supervised more than 30 MA students to completion, 6 PhD students to completion, and one postdoctoral fellow. |
Dr. Michelle MacDonald, AdvisorAs a graduate of McMaster’s Biochemistry Undergraduate Program, Dr. MacDonald remained at McMaster and pursued a PhD in the Medical Sciences Graduate Program in the Faculty of Health Sciences, in the area of muscle biochemistry. Her PhD thesis focused on “The Regulation of Carbohydrate and Lactate Metabolism in Exercising Human Skeletal Muscle”. She continued with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo, in the Department of Kinesiology, where her research focused on “Fatty acid transport proteins in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue of lean and obese patients and their role in the development of Type 2 diabetes”. Currently, Dr. MacDonald holds the title of Teaching Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University. She is also the Co-Director for the Integrated Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences program—an esteemed joint initiative between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering. Dr. MacDonald is particularly drawn to the Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind due to its commitment to fostering undergraduate research and facilitating discussions on the evolving global landscape. |
Dr. Mary Francoli, AdvisorMary Francoli is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies. She is also an Associate Dean and Director of the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from Western University. Prior to joining the School of Journalism and Communication, she was the Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in New Media and Internet Politics at Royal Holloway, The University of London. Dr. Francoli’s research looks at the relationship between digital media and issues related to politics and governance. While this is a large and diverse field, most of her research has focused on the way that digital mediahas impacted citizen engagement and mobilization, governance, and access to information and data. Dr. Francoli is a leading researcher in the field of open government and open data. She has authored two major reports for the Open Government Partnership assessing the Government of Canada’s progress in the area of open government. She has provided expert testimony to the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Government Operations on the issue of open data and has been invited to speak about open government and open data at a number of conferences and venues. |