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Marc Epprecht (Acting) (he/him)
Director, Cultural Studies
Professor, Department of Global Development Studies
epprecht@queensu.ca

Marc Epprecht is a professor and the former head of the Department of Global Development Studies at ���˴�Ƭ. A historian by training, but interdisciplinary by inclination, he has published extensively on the history of development in Africa, with particular attention to the roles of gender and sexuality.

Key works include Hungochani: The history of a dissident sexuality in southern Africa (winner of the Joel Gregory Prize – best book on Africa published in Canada in 2004-5), Heterosexual Africa? (runner-up for the Mel Herskovitz prize) and Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City (MQUP, 2016). His latest book, (Bamenda: Langaa Press, 2024) is a hybrid of auto-ethnography, historiography, and reflections upon healing from ‘toxic masculinity’ as a key component of decolonial methodology. Marc is a Research Associate with the History Workshop at Wits U., Johannesburg, and is currently a lead in two multidisciplinary research teams with partners on four continents focused on queer subjectivities in Mozambique, and transitions from extractivist economies in South African and northern Canada (notably, through ‘ecotourism’).

Marc is a long-standing friend of CUST and is excited to be joining the team in a leadership position.

Contact the Director for:

• guidance on committee composition (MA and PhD)
• questions about the PhD program including admissions inquiries
• academic progress (PhD) including qualifying exams, thesis proposal, dissertation-related questions

Jeff Brison (he/him)
Director, Cultural Studies (On sabbatical July 1, 2025-December 31, 2025)
Professor, Department of History
cs.director.jbrison@queensu.ca

Jeff is the author of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada, a study that explores the influence of private American philanthropy on the making of a national culture in Canada. A founding member of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI), his recent work includes Cultural Diplomacy as Critical Practice, The Global Engagement of Museums in Canada (), and a series of articles exploring the history of Canada’s use of “culture” in advancing its foreign policy initiatives and global orientations. Over two decades, Dr. Brison has supervised more than 40 graduate students and served on dozens of supervisory committees in the Departments of History, Art History, the Faculty of Education, and the Cultural Studies Program. He is the 2014 recipient of the Department of History’s Faculty Teaching Award, 2021 recipient of the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and, in 2023, he was awarded the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision. He is always eager to help students navigate their way through the Cultural Studies Program and/or to chat about culture and history (and probably anything else!)

Scott Rutherford (he/him)
Program Coordinator
ruthers@queensu.ca
613-533-6000, ext. 79521

Scott is an Associate Professor in Global Development Studies and the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. He is the co-editor of Canada and the Third World: Overlapping Histories (University of Toronto Higher Education Press, 2015) and wrote Canada’s Other Red Scare: Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters during the Global Sixties (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020). His new research explores material histories of labour, family and grief in late 20th century Northwestern Ontario through the study of work objects left behind by the departed.

Contact the Program Coordinator for:

• questions about Colloquium (CUST 802/902)
• questions about the MA program including admissions inquiries
• academic progress (MA) including professional development, application to thesis-based MA, promotion to PhD,  and the Capstone course (CUST 850 Capstone Project)

Carrie Miles (she/her)
Program Manager
cs.admin@queensu.ca

Originally from Hamilton, Carrie completed a BSc in Psychology and Chemistry at Wilfred Laurier University. Building on jobs counting trees, counting money, and counting the neurons in Einstein’s brain, she joined Queen’s in 2010, working first in Alumni Relations, moving briefly to Smith, and landing in Cultural Studies in May 2016. She’s a soccer mom, an avid hiker, a pitiful but persistent runner, and generally a lover of the outdoors. Plans for the future include one day (soon-ish) pursuing an MA. Carrie oversees budget and student funding, TA and RA positions, and the overall administrative operations of Cultural Studies.

Contact Carrie for:

• Faculty issues: course assignments, affiliation, general support, questions about MA or PHD guidelines
• Student advising on funding implications of withdrawal, medical leave, transfer to part-time
• TA/RA/TF assignments & issues
• Course & curriculum planning, hiring, Collective Agreement issues
• Compensation for Additional Duties per Appendix Q
• Cultural Studies Council and student governance questions 
• Financial requests

Susanne Cliff-Jungling (she/her)
Graduate Program Assistant
custgrad@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 ext. 77027

Contact Susanne for:

• Admissions and assistance with application process
• Course add/drop
• Transcript questions
• Grant, award, and scholarship applications
• Scheduling & protocols of exams & defenses
• Matters regarding enrollment, including time limit extensions, transfer to part time, and annual progress reports