PARTICIPATING FACULTY

 

Michael Asch, Ph.D. (Columbia); Department of Anthropology.
Anthropological theory; Western conceptualizations of indigenous peoples; political relations between Indigenous peoples and Canada; the influence of anthropological theory on Canadian jurisprudence; relational ontology in Indigenous and Western political thought. Website

Gregory Blue, Ph.D. (Cambridge); Department of History.
World history; intellectual/cultural history; Sino-Western relations; comparative colonialism and decolonisation; North-South relations; history of science.  Website

Luke Carson, Ph.D. (UCLA); Department of English.
Aesthetic theory; pragmatism; theories of action and practice.  Website

William K. Carroll, Ph.D. (York); Department of Sociology.
Political economy; social movement theory; Marxist theory.  Website

Evelyn Cobley, Ph.D. (UBC); Department of English.
Theories of literature, culture, and ideology; modernism and postmodernism; aesthetics and politics.  Website

Emile Fromet de Rosnay, Ph.D. (Queen's); Department of French.
Romanticism and Modernist Poetics, Avant-Garde art, Extreme Contemporary. Literature and other media; Intermediality. Critical Theory. Mauritian literature and culture; "Créolité".   Website

Aaron Devor, Ph.D. (Washington); Department of Sociology.
Gender; human sexuality. Website

Steve Garlick, Ph.D. (CUNY Graduate Center); Department of Sociology.
Critical social theory; gender and sexuality; sociology of the body; science and technology studies; sociology of knowledge.  Website

Sean Hier, Ph.D. (McMaster); Department of Sociology.
Surveillance; moral regulation and moral panic; risk sociology; race and racism; media; intellectual exclusion.  Website

Arthur Kroker, Ph.D. (McMaster); Department of Political Science.
Technology; culture and theory; contemporary French and German political theory; Canadian political and social thought; ethics and biotechnology. Website

Warren Magnusson, D.Phil. (Oxford); Department of Political Science.
The political theory of the urban, the local, and the global; sovereignty and governmentality; social movements and critical practice; political ontology.  Website

Martha McMahon, Ph.D. (McMaster); Department of Sociology.
Qualitative methods; feminist theory; ecological Feminism; women organic farmers. Website

Stephen Ross, Ph.D. (Queen's); Department of English.
Modern British literature; critical theory, especially Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism and deconstruction.  Website

Karena Shaw, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins); Department of Environmental Studies.
Environmental, feminist and indigenous politics; Contemporary political theory; the changing character of local, global and marginal political action.  Website

Lincoln Shlensky, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley); Department of English.
Postcolonialism; Caribbean literature; Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies; Diasporas. Website

Nicole Shukin, Ph.D. (Alberta); Department of English.
Canadian literature and cultural studies. Theories of biopower in relation to non-human nature, particularly semiotic and material currencies of animal life in industrial and post-industrial cultures of capitalism. Co-representations of "race" and "species" in colonial discourses and new discourses of imperialism. Website

Cheryl Suzack, Ph.D. (Alberta); Department of English.
Indigenous literatures, studies in law and literature, Canadian literature, postcolonial studies, feminist studies Website

James Tully, Ph.D. (Cambridge); Department of Political Science.
Political philosophy; history of political philosophy; Canadian political theory; constitutional theory.  Website

Peyman Vahabzadeh, Ph.D. (SFU); Department of Sociology.
Classic and Contemporary Sociological and Political Theory, Social Movements, Identity Politics, Exile Studies, Justice, Sociology of Arts and Literature, Iranian Studies. Website

Elizabeth Vibert, Ph.D. (Oxford); Department of History.
Modern history; colonial identities; colonial gender and race relations; colonial travel literatures. Website

R.B.J (Rob) Walker, Ph.D. (Queen's); Department of Political Science. CSPT Program Director.
Sovereignty and subjectivity; theories of modernity; exceptionalism; ideology and culture; international political theory; concepts of space and time in political thought.  Website