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923 Robie Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3
Phone: 902-420-5437
Fax: 902-491-8634
BAadvising@smu.ca (for academic advising inquiries)
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Dr. Mary I. Ingraham
Faculty of ArtsDean
Office: MM 218A
Mary Ingraham is a music historian and Professor of Musicology. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, emphasizing cultural studies and considering issues of ethnicity, race, gender and spirituality in identity studies. Prior to joining ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ, she was Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge.
Dr. Ingraham previously served as Director of the interdisciplinary Sound Studies Institute at the University of Alberta, where she was also a Professor of Musicology in the Department of Music, and Manager of UAlberta partnerships with the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta and the Cultures of Sound Network (with Smithsonian Folkways Records, the Canadian Museum of and the History, and Memorial University of Newfoundland). She is co-founder and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Music in Canada Research Group.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Dr. Ingraham received a Bachelor of Music degree at Mount Allison University, a master's degree at the University of Victoria and her doctorate at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Her research appears in publications including Ars Lyrica, Intersections, University of Toronto Quarterly, Nineteenth-century Music Review, International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education, Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education and others, and with Ashgate, Routledge, Oxford University, University of Alberta, and University of Michigan presses. She is the author of multiple online resources for exploring culture in Canada, and has presented her research internationally in Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, UK, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and across the USA and Canada.
Dr. Myles McCallum
Ancient StudiesProfessor
Associate Dean of Arts - Curriculum and Student Affairs
Office: MN426
Myles McCallum is a Full Professor of Ancient Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures, and served as the department's Chair until June 2021. He is a Roman archaeologist, specializing in the study of Roman villas, Italian urbanism, the ancient economy and archaeological ceramics. He has published on archaeological ceramics, Pompei, Roman imperialism in southern Italy, Italian urbanism, Roman villas, and Roman imperial properties.
He is co-director of the Basentello Valley Archaeological Research Project in Puglia and the Villa of Titus Excavations in the Apennines of Lazio, and a collaborator on the Queen's University excavations at Caere on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy. His research looks at the role played by imperial properties in the cultural development and social organization of rural Italy, cultural agency and the development of urbanism in Italy during the Republican period, and economic archaeology.
Recent research awards include a SSHRC Insight Grant (2019-2024), along with Martin Beckmann, for his project; and a (2020-2021), to examine the archaeological end environmental evidence for religious activities at Lacus Cutiliae (Lago di Paterno) in central Italy. Since 2009, he has also been an Associate and then Co-Editor for , the journal of the Classical Association of Canada. Read more about Dr. McCallum’s research and publications.
Dr. Sara Malton
EnglishProfessor
Associate Dean of Arts - Research and Faculty Support
Office: MN330
Sara Malton is a Professor of nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English Language & Literature. Her recent research awards include a SSHRC Insight Development Grant in 2020 for her project, “Wondrous Hunger: Salvation, Starvation and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Fasting Girl.’” Her book, , was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2009. Her work has appeared in such journals as Studies in the Novel; Victorian Literature and Culture; European Romantic Review; and English Studies in Canada; and in essay collections by McGill-Queens UP, Peter Lang, and the University of Missouri Press.
Dr. Malton is the current Secretary and a past Trustee (2014-17) of The Dickens Society. Learn more about her research and publications at .
Dr. Kirrily Freeman
HistoryDirector, Outreach and Experiential Learning
Office: MN 232
Dr. Kirrily Freeman is a Professor in the Department of History. Her teaching and research focus on the cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe, in particular the two World Wars. Her most recent publications include (Palgrave Pivot, 2022) and (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Dr. Freeman has served as Director of Outreach and Experiential Learning for the Faculty of Arts since 2022. She is the program coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Major in Public Humanities and Heritage at Saint Mary’s. Since 2016, she has also been the Coordinator of the Nova Scotia Provincial Heritage Fair, held every June at the university. Read more in her Faculty Profile.
Shyloe Beals
Administrative Assistant to the Dean of Arts
MM218B
Emily Anderson
Senior BA Program Advisor
On leave until March 2025
Abhishek Bhuchar
BA Program Advisor
MM218C
Robyn McIntosh
BA Program Advisor - Psychology
MM218F
Shawn Simamba
BA Program Advisor
MM218D
Marla Cranston
Communications Officer
MS220
Administrative Assistant, BA Advising Centre and Office of the Dean
MM218
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