CSPT alumni
Graduates of the CSPT program find success in many areas of academic activity, including working as full time faculty in academic departments, conducting important research projects, and continuing their studies in a range of CSPT-related fields.
Anita Girvan
PhD (2015) Interdisciplinary Studies (English & Political Science) and CSPT (Supervisors: Dr. Nicole Shukin and Dr. Warren Magnusson)
Anita Girvan is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Global Studies on traditional Coast and Straits Salish territory. After a 1-year visiting faculty position at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, Anita returned to UVic where she is currently finishing a book entitled Carbon Footprints as Cultural and Ecological Metaphors, under contract with Routledge Publishing. Her newest project - entitled "Trickster Carbon" - explores trickster stories from her Caribbean cultural moorings as an alternative to colonial understandings of carbon which attempt to trap, sequester and manage an inherently unruly and ambivalent carbon. She is also teaching Political Ecology in the School of Environmental Studies at UVic.
Liam Mitchell
PhD (2013) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Arthur Kroker)
Liam Mitchell is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and the Coordinator of the Media Studies Program in the Department of Cultural Studies at Trent University.
Liam is interested in the effects of our continual immersion in media, particularly those social media services that seem to fall under our control. He brings a phenomenological perspective to bear on everyday cultural practices, focusing on questions like the ontological implications of social media and the significance of boredom.
David Cecchetto
PhD (2011) English and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Ross)
David Cecchetto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University, where he researches and teaches critical digital theory.
Deanne LeBlanc
MA (2014) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Heidi Stark)
Deanne LeBlanc is currently a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at The University of British Columbia, where she studies indigenous-settler relations under the supervision of Dr. Barbara Arneil.
Regan Burles
MA (2014) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. R.B.J. Walker)
Since completing his MA in CSPT, Regan Burles has commenced a PhD in Political Science at the University of Victoria. He researches international relations and political theory; in particular, his work focuses on theories of sovereignty.
Adam Molnar
PhD (2014) Political Science (Supervisor: Dr. Colin Bennett)
MA (2008) Sociology and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Sean Hier)
Adam Molnar is a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He focuses on surveillance, technology, and privacy in national security and policing. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University (2013-2014).
Christopher Parsons
PhD (2013) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Colin Bennett)
Christopher Parsons is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Citizen Lab in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where he researches the ways in which privacy is affected by digitally mediated surveillance and the normative implications that such surveillance has in (and on) contemporary Western political systems. He also works as a policy analyst, and is a passionate privacy advocate.
Sebastien Malette
PhD (2010) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Warren Magnusson)
Sebastien Malette is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. His work concerns problematizing the relationships between Law and Indigeneity as both enabling and disrupting relations of domination affecting countries and communities with colonial histories.
Steven Orr
MA (2014) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Arthur Kroker)
Steven Orr is currently a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, where he does work on the politics of narratives and origin stories.
Simon Labrecque
PhD (2014) Political Science and CSPT (Supervisor: Dr. Arthur Kroker)
Simon Labrecque is currently a Postdoctoral Follow in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where he researches aesthetics and political theory.