Cassandra Chapman

Cassandra earned her Ph.D. from McMaster University, and the focus of her doctoral studies was on the Cognitive Science of Language. Her doctoral degree was funded by a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship. During her PhD studies, Cassandra also completed a visiting term at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was funded by the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement. Cassandra’s dissertation investigated how sentence structure (syntax) and sentence meaning (semantics) affect reading times in language processing.

Cassandra has taught undergraduate courses at University of Toronto, McMaster University, Brock University, and Sheridan College. She has also earned teaching certificates from the MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching at McMaster University and Woodsworth College at the University of Toronto. As an educator, Cassandra recognizes that all students enter the classroom with unique backgrounds, experiences, and learning styles. She embraces this diversity in her teaching and utilizes a variety of teaching methods in the classroom. As an educator, Cassandra aims to inspire students to think critically about the world around them and to never stop learning.