Department of Political Science

PhD students and post-doctoral

Political Science PhD students

Name Areas of research Supervisor
Kelly Aguirre Research Interests: Indigenous politics and philosophy (Canada/US contexts): self-determination and decolonization in theory and action; critical Indigenous responses to recognition and Aboriginal rights discourses; nationhood/nationalism and modernity; community-based initiatives to restore traditional governance systems; relationality and freedom (liberation politics and post-structuralism; territory/boundaries and interdependence); Indigenous language revitalization and descriptive/conceptual political vocabulary; narrativity and collective identity
James Tully
Marta Bashovski Research Interests: Politics and processes of narrative and storytelling; ideas of community; politics and philosophies of history and temporality; critical methodologies and practices of critique; politics of speech, language and writing; reading literature and literary theory politically. R.B.J. Walker
Adam Carmichael Research Interests: Feminist and multicultural theory: gender relations within insular communities; politics of group representation; biopolitics; state normalization of sexualities; polygamy; political and religious extremism; critical discourse analysis. Avigail Eisenberg / James Tully
Michael Carpenter Research Interests: Liberty and security, especially political rights and regional stability. Scott Watson / R.B.J. Walker
Anastasia Chebakova Research Interests: EU-Russia relations, European Common Foreign and Security Policy, European Common Security and Defense Policy. Amy Verdun
Ivan Dumka Research Interests: Western European politics, with a focus on national varieties of capitalism, institutional reform, the welfare state, and European integration.  More generally, he is interested in comparative politics, neoinstitutionalism, and political economy. Amy Verdun
Guillaume Filion

Dissertation: "Politics of Technology and Software's Ideology. The Effects of Digital Technologies' Programming on Social Relations"

Research Interests: Political theory; digital studies; contemporary political thought.

Arthur Kroker
Andréa B. Gill Research Interests: R.B.J. Walker/ Warren Magnusson
Alexander Gunn Research Interests: Oliver Schmidtke
Anne-Marie Hallé Dissertation: "Dying in the Community"

Research Interests: Politics underlying and surrounding contemporary forms of death and dying in the context of an emerging ideal of public health, the palliative care movement.

Bradley Bryan / Warren Magnusson
Nanchu He Dissertation: How Does Media Marketization Influence Media Control in Post-Tiananmen China?

Research Interests: His research interest focuses on Chinese media control. The main idea of his dissertation is marketizing media control in post-Tiananmen China. It is a market mechanism of media control for the Chinese Party-state that incorporates the Party censorship into the market mechanism of media control over the livelihood of media professionals and the survival of media organizations. He defended his thesis of marketzing media control in the traditional Chinese media including radio, newspaper, TV, magazine, and publications. He thinks such a mechanism can be applied in the new media, such as Internet media and satellite TVs.

Guoguang Wu
Charles Horn

Dissertation: Geographies of the Urban: Reclaiming Indigenous Political Space

Research Interests: Urban Indigenous politics

R.B.J Walker
Serena Kataoka

Dissertation: "Civil Cities: (en)titling Canadians"

Research Interests: Urban political theory, urban planning, post-structural thinking, immigrant settlement, and cinema.

Arthur Kroker / Warren Magnusson
Maria Koblanck   R.B.J Walker
Simon Labrecque

Research Interests: Cultural, social, and political thought; art, aesthetics and politics; practices of cultural research dealing with biotechnologies

Arthur Kroker
Bruce Leslie   Avigail Eisenberg
Jackson2bears Leween   Arthur Kroker
Sébastien Malette Research Interests: Politics of Nature, Governmentality, Modernity, and Western Political Thought. Warren Magnusson
Shauna McRanor Research Interests: Indigenous-settler relations, "Culture" in political and legal theory James Tully
Jöelle Alice Michaud-Ouellet  
Liam Mitchell Dissertation: "A Phenomenological Critique of Social Media,"

Research Interests: Political theory and cultural studies, political construction of apparently ontological categories (like time) by apparently non-political forces (like technology).  His dissertation examines the patterns of use apparent on sites like Facebook, reddit, and 4chan in order to draw larger conclusions about social media's implications for society. He attributes more significance to boredom than he probably should.

Arthur Kroker
Adam Molnar Adam Molnar is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria and a research assistant for the New Transparency project. His dissertation research focuses on the social, economic, legal, and technical dimensions of interoperable security networks, particularly in the context of mega-events. He has also written on the intersection between cultural political economy/critical realism and critical security studies. Other research interests include international political economy, international political sociology, critical security methods, science and technology studies, and postcolonial readings of philosophy of science. Colin Bennett
Steffen Neumann Dissertation: Theories of recognition revisited: A critical examination

Research Interests: Social & Political Theory (particularly theories of recognition, Critical Theory, Bourdieu’s praxeology); multiculturalism/ identity politics; racism, discrimination, and symbolic exclusion.
His dissertation focuses on the intermediation between “identity models of recognition” (Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth) and “status model of recognition” (Nancy Fraser, Iris Young). It also intends to explore the integrability of Bourdieu’s social theory within the discourse on recognition.

Oliver Schmidtke
Pablo Ouziel Research Interests: Surveillance, Human rights and Freedom of Speech Colin Bennett
Christopher Parsons His research focuses on how privacy is affected by digitally mediated surveillance, and the normative implications that such surveillance has in (and on) contemporary Western political systems. His dissertation interrogates relationships between Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies and online service providers’ roles in monitoring and mediating digital communications, and seeks to identify how and why these systems are deployed and their broader impacts on Western society. He write about digital surveillance, privacy, and security issues at my personal website. Find out more at his personal website: http://www.christopher-parsons.com Colin Bennett
Miriam Polman Dissertation: "The Promise of Dignity: An Argument Against Deference and for the Renewal of Citizenship".

Research Interests: Theories of democracy, citizenship, knowledge and rights. Canadian Politics.

Avigail Eisenberg
Alexander Robb Dissertation: "Nonviolence and Freedom: Practices of Freedom for Global Democratic Constitutionalism".

Research Interests: Democratic and constitutional theory, and political theories of peace and nonviolence. He delights in applying his interests in political philosophy to problems in Canadian politics, political economy, geopolitics and global governance.

James Tully
Tatania Shaban Democratic development and governmental transparency in Belarus and Ukraine during their transition period from communism, role of Russia, European Union, European Neighborhood Policy, Eastern European Partnership, European Union political conditionality, mechanisms which determine the EU’s influence on political and administrative reform in the former Soviet Union countries, and what would be the factors that may determine the EU to consider offering these countries membership. Countries of my current interest are Belarus and Ukraine. I also consider doing comparative research, including former USSR countries such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Georgia. Amy Verdun
Timothy Smith Research Interests: Political theory and imperialism; political theory and post-colonialism; political visions of Canada.  James Tully
Delacey Tedesco   R.B.J. Walker
Fay Weller   Warren Magnusson
Sarah Wilkinson   Avigail Eisenberg
Mark Willson Dissertation: The Discursive Production of Homelessness: inclusion, tolerance, and the politics of community

Research Interests: Canadian politics, political theory, 'homelessness' policy and anti-poverty activism in British Columbia through the lenses of recognition politics and contemporary forms of governing citizens, Canadian social movements, political economy and municipal politics, and theory concerned with democracy, embodiment and political space.

Matt James / Warren Magnusson

Post-doctoral

Post doctoral Areas of specialzation and current research Dept Advisor
Donna Wood

Comparative politics/Canadian federalism/multi-level governance/European Union. My post-doctoral research focuses on comparing the governance of employment policy in Canada with the European Union approach through the Open Method of Coordination to determine whether EU approaches might provide ideas to improve intergovernmental relations, strategic policy-making and citizen and stakeholder participation in Canada

Amy Verdun
Bartholomew Paudyn

International political economy; management of risk and uncertainty; politics of creditworthiness and regulation of credit rating agencies; Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); analytics of government; financial technologies of control and discipline; spatial-temporal explanations of fiscal and monetary relations/governance.

Amy Verdun

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