Faculty research
The Political Science department has outstanding faculty and includes researchers that have International reputations. They conduct research in a wide-variety of areas ranging from cutting edge scholarship on European integration to radical re-thinking about the possibility of politics in a post-modern era.
Below you'll find a list of the department's faculty and their areas of specialization and current research.
Regular faculty
Name | Areas of specialization and current research | |
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Dr. Kelly Aguirre | Indigenous politics; Political theory; Indigenous rhetorics; Poetics and storytelling practices | |
Dr. Michelle Bonner | Latin American politics; human rights; social movements; police and democratization; gender and democratization; comparative politics; global south (Latin America) | |
Dr. Marlea Clarke | African Politics (Southern Africa focus); comparative politics (global south focus); political economy of development; precarious employment and labour market restructuring; commodity chains (garment industry); work and migration; globalisation; gender and politics | |
Dr. A. Claire Cutler | International relations theory; international law and organization; private international trade law; international political economy | |
Dr. Rita Dhamoon | Identity/difference politics and power including multicultural policies and theories, culture, nation-building, gender politics and feminism, intersectionality, critical race, post-colonial and anti-colonial politics, citizenship and democratic politics; focus on Canadian politics | |
Dr. Avigail Eisenberg | Democratic theory including pluralism, feminism and minority rights; Canadian politics including constitutional law and politics, minority groups, human rights and civil liberties | |
Dr. Simon Glezos | Speed and technology; contemporary political theory; international relations theory; theories of the state; theories of political violence; globalization; contemporary information technologies; capitalism and resistance | |
Dr. Wilfrid (Will) Greaves | Securitization and security theory; human and environmental security; climate change; natural resource extraction; Arctic politics; Canadian foreign policy | |
Dr. Matt James | Canadian constitutionalism and citizenship; Canadian politics; social movements; prestige; political theory; reparations. | |
Dr. James Lawson | Canadian politics and political economy; environmental and natural-resource politics; the historical geography of resource policy conflict | |
Dr. Justin Leifso | Canadian politics; Canadian public policy; neoliberalism; governance in Canada | |
Dr. Mara Marin | Feminist theory; social theory; history of political thought; structural injustice; oppression; domination; legal theory; authority; political obligation | |
Dr. Oliver Schmidtke | Citizenship and immigration; identity politics; comparative politics; xenophobia and racism; European integration. | |
Dr. Sarah E. Sharma | International political economy; global environmental governance; international relations; global governance; global finance; global north-global south relations; global displacements | |
Dr. Amy Verdun | European integration studies; monetary integration; European integration theory; European comparative politics; international political economy; international relations | |
Dr. Scott Watson | Securitisation and the social construction of security/insecurity; international relations theory; international security; migration and refugee policy | |
Dr. Andrew Wender | Politics, society, and religion in the Middle East and worldwide; political theory; religion, and philosophy including comparative political theory and comparative religion | |
Dr. Feng Xu | Chinese politics; comparative politics (East Asia); gender politics (especially East Asia); migration and citizenship; national and diaspora identities; policy ideas, translation theory and global hegemony; global south (East Asia) |
Adjuncts and Cross-listed faculty
Name | Areas of specialization and current research | |
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Dr. Janni Aragon, | Gender and politics; American politics; feminist theories and methodologies; social movements; youth and politics; women and technology, and transnational feminisms | |
Michael Asch | Socio-cultural anthropology; North America; political and legal anthroplogy | |
Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Public Administration |
Comparative politics; urban politics and governance; comparative urban politics and policies; comparative border cities and regions | |
Dr. Jeff Corntassel, Indigenous Studies |
Global Indigenous rights; Indigenous political mobilization/self-determination movements | |
Dr. Arthur Kroker, Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) |
Contemporary French and German political theory; Canadian political and social thought; technology, culture and theory; ethics and biotechnology | |
Dr. Colin MacLeod, Philosophy |
Contemporary political philosophy; ethics; philosophy of law | |
Dr. Warren Magnusson, Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) |
Contemporary social and political thought; governmentality and politics; the local and the global; the political economy of the urban; urbanism as a way of life | |
Dr. Laura Parisi, Gender Studies |
Globalization and resistance; gender and international human rights; gender and international development | |
Dr. Michael Prince, Studies in Policies and Practices |
Trends in social policy; federal-provincial relations; aboriginal governance; policy making in disability politics; policy issues. | |
Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Indigenous Governance Program |
Indigenous comparative politics; Indigenous diplomacy and treaty relations; Indigenous legal traditions and governance; US/Canadian Indigenous law and policy. | |
Dr. Reeta Tremblay, Adjunct Professor (Emerita) |
Comparative federalism; public policy; identity politics; global south (South Asia) | |
Dr. Jim Tully, Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) |
political and legal theory/philosophy and their history: public philosophy, freedom, constitutionalism, nonviolence, civic engagement, Indigenous-Settler relations | |
Dr. RBJ (Rob) Walker Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) |
Contemporary social and political thought; theories of discourse, ideology and culture; philosophy of social science; international political theory; concepts of space and time in political thought; modernity/postmodernity | |
Dr. Michael C. Webb Associate Professor (Emeritus) |
International political economy; globalization and governance; Canadian foreign policy |