Our Team

Interim Dimensions Director, Faculty of Arts 

Dimensions Faculty Chair, Faculty of Arts, 2021-2023

Associate Professor, Department of English

Dr. Hyacinth Simpson (she/her) is the interim Dimensions Director and an associate professor in the Department of English where she specializes in decolonial, Black, and Caribbean studies. Her research prioritizes valuing Afrocentric theories and worldviews; and her community-engaged research projects position partners in Black communities as equal contributors in the preservation, production, and dissemination of knowledge. One such project – Black Canada and the Great War – is being undertaken in collaboration with institutions, organizations, and individuals in Black communities across Ontario and Nova Scotia. Over her academic career, Dr. Simpson has championed EDIA in curriculum development, in community-based participatory research models, and in tenure and promotion processes. One of her goals for the Dimensions Program at TMU is to promote the formation of communities of practice in which local-area groupings work together to foster more equitable research cultures and ecosystems by developing and sharing expertise, knowledge, and resources on a range of EDIA issues. 

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Hyacinth Simpson Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, Faculty of Science

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biology

Costin Antonescu (PhD) studies fundamental and cancer cell biology. His research program specializes in growth factor signalling and cellular metabolism and relies on several advanced microscopy techniques. His research focuses on revealing new insights into how certain cells operate in healthy people, as well as to find new vulnerabilities of cancer cells that may lead to new therapies. Costin aims to work with the Dimensions program to address inequities and barriers to inclusion and accessibility in STEM research at TMU.

Costin Antonescu Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, Ted Rogers School of Management

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Management

Eugene is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Ted Rogers School, and was previously on faculty in Australia, Slovenia, and the United States. He earned his PhD from the University of Toronto. His research interests are in two streams. First, he studies how consumers' political ideology influences their decisions in the marketplace; second, he seems to examine how consumers' feelings of power influence those decisions as well. At the Ted Rogers School, he teaches marketing analytics and services marketing. In his teaching, he aims to include service learning as a key part of the curriculum, and he is on service committees related to sustainability. He believes that research in management principles, especially marketing, can offer insights into issues related to social justice and equity, benefiting not just the business world but the society in which we all live.

Eugene Chan Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, The Creative School

Associate Professor, School of Fashion

Henry Navarro Delgado (he/him/él) is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, activist, and scholar investigating the convergences of fashion, visual culture and social justice through theory and practice-based research. His participatory creative practice engages Black, Indigenous, racialized, rural, and other underrepresented communities with art, media making, design, and entrepreneurship on their own terms. Navarro Delgado’s scholarly publications examine fashion, popular culture, and apparel sizing in relation to gender, and social and cultural identity, through a decolonial lens. He also serves in several professional and academic organizations by capitalizing on actionable EDIA principles and practices. In 2022, he guest-edited ‘Black Masculinities, Dress & Style as Gendered, Racialized Experiences’, a special issue of the Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion journal. Henry's interest in the Dimensions Program is based on his personal alignment with its mission of recognizing that the multiplicity of perspectives, experiences and complexity of diverse individuals foster research excellence, innovation and creativity within the postsecondary sector. His own lived experience and professional trajectory are based on a multidimensional approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion to achieve communities where we all can thrive.

Henry Navarro Delgado Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, Library

Copyright and Scholarly Engagement Librarian & Research Lead, TMU Library

Ann Ludbrook (MLIS, MA) is currently on the CARL Open Education Working Group,, external link (external link)  and the CFLA Copyright Committee, external link (external link) . Her research interests include Open Education, Copyright, and issues surrounding Copyright and Indigenous Knowledge in the context of libraries and archives. Ann hopes that the Dimensions pilot will shed light on obstacles equity-deserving groups at TMU face when doing research, and provide transformative solutions to better address inequities.

Ann Ludbrook Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Science

Jenn McArthur (PhD Des.) leads the Smart Buildings Research Group. Her research focuses on applying data science and machine learning to transform existing buildings to be better for people and for the planet. To this end, her key projects are the development of a Cognitive Digital Twin for TMU campus and a Smart and Ongoing Commissioning system that will be deployed in TMU's upcoming Smart Campus Integration and Testing Hub. Passionate about translating research outcomes to practice, she has provided input to the City of Toronto Net-Zero Existing Buildings Strategy and to NRCan's Existing Building Commissioning Task Force. Jenn also serves as the Graduate Program Director for Project Management in the Built Environment and teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs in DAS.

Jenn McArthur Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, Yeates School of Graduate Studies

Professor, Sociology

Paul Moore (he/him) has focused service on grad student professional development for the past decade, as TMU director of the MA & PhD in Communication and Culture (2012-17); as Interim Associate Dean of Arts for Research and Grad Studies (2019); and on Graduate Studies Council (2015-17 and 2020-21). He chaired TMU's tri-council student grants committee (2015-2017), national SSHRC doctoral grants committees (2013-14), and a panel on experiential "extras" in PhD education at the 2018 Canadian Association of Graduate Studies. Dr. Moore is a media historian; his latest project on multicultural moviegoing considers racialized differences between 1950s European and 1970s Asian diasporic film audiences in Canada.

Paul Moore Profile and Contact Info

Dimensions Faculty Lead, Faculty of Community Services

Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies

Kathryn Underwood's work over the last 20 years has been with community initiated programs of research in early childhood services and professional practice. Informed by disabled childhoods and parent and family experiences, she is interested in social institutions, including universities, and their role in responding to broader social questions of equity, diversity and inclusion. Research policy and standards have both facilitated and hindered her partnerships, but she believes these institutional processes can be enhanced to ensure that researchers are able to engage with critical social questions, that are ethically connected to community.

Kathyrn Underwood Profile and Contact Info