Department of Political Science

Faculty research


Regular faculty

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Dr. Janni Aragon Areas of specialization: Gender and politics; American politics; feminist theories and methodologies; social movements; youth and politics; women and technology, and transnational feminisms. Email
Dr. Colin Bennett Areas of specialization: Comparative politics and public policy (advanced industrial countries); American government and politics; information and communications policy.

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Dr. Michelle Bonner Areas of specialization: Latin American politics; human rights; social movements; police and democratization; gender and democratization; comparative politics.

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Dr. Marlea Clarke Areas of specialization: African Politics (South and Southern Africa focus), political economy of development, labour and social movements, employment and labour market restructuring, globalisation and democratisation in Africa, gender and politics, and health and human rights.

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Dr. A.Claire Cutler Areas of specialization: International relations theory; international law and organization; private international trade law; international political economy. Dr. Cutler teaches courses on International Relations, International Political Economy, and Critical Globalization Studies.

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Dr. Avigail Eisenberg Areas of specialization: Democratic theory including pluralism, feminism and minority rights; Canadian politics including constitutional law and politics, minority groups, human rights and civil liberties.

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Dr. Cosmo Howard Areas of specialization: The impact of public sector reform on bureaucratic identity, governance challenges for national statistical agencies, social policy implications of individualization and the street level implementation of welfare reform.

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Dr. Matt James Areas of specialization: Canadian constitutionalism and citizenship; Canadian politics; social movements; prestige; political theory; reparations.

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Dr. Arthur Kroker Areas of specialization: Contemporary French and German political theory; Canadian political and social thought; Technology, culture and theory; ethics and biotechnology.

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Dr. James Lawson Areas of specialization: Canadian politics and political economy; environmental and natural-resource politics; the historical geography of resource policy conflict

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Dr. Warren Magnusson Areas of specialization: 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.

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Dr. Oliver Schmidtke Areas of specialization: Citizenship and Immigration; identity politics; comparative politics; xenophobia and racism; European integration.

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Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Areas of Specialization: Indigenous Comparative Politics, Indigenous Diplomacy and Treaty Relations, Indigenous Legal Traditions and Governance, US/Canadian Indigenous Law and Policy.

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Dr. James Tully Areas of specialization: Political philosophy; history of political philosophy; contemporary political philosophy; Canadian political theory; constitutional theory.

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Dr. Amy Verdun Areas of specialization: European integration studies; monetary integration; European integration theory; European comparative politics; international political economy; international relations.

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Dr. R.B.J (Rob) Walker Areas of specialization: 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.

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Dr. Scott Watson Areas of specialization: Securitisation and the social construction of security/insecurity, international relations theory, international security, migration and refugee policy.

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Dr. Michael C. Webb Areas of specialization: International political economy; globalization and governance; Canadian foreign policy.

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Dr. Guoguang Wu Areas of specialization: Institutional change, political economy, globalization, elite politics, media and politics, and foreign policy and regional security, with empirical references to China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

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Dr. Feng Xu Areas of specialization: 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.

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Limited term professors

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Dr. Kimberly Speers Areas of specialization: Performance measurement and management, accountability frameworks, change management, food politics, and business and strategic planning in government.

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Sessional instructors

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Dr. Bartholomew Paudyn Areas of specialization: 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.

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Dr. Andrew Wender Areas of specialization:

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Cross-listed faculty

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Dr. Taiaiake Alfred Areas of specialization:

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Dr. Michael Asch Areas of specialization: My particular interests lie in issues pertaining to Indigenous rights, particularly in Canada. I also have a strong interest in the historiography of Anthropology, and of the political philosophical thought with which the history of the discipline is associated

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Dr. Herman Bakvis Areas of specialization:

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Dr. Colin MacLeod Areas of specialization: issues in contemporary moral, political and legal theory with a special focus on the following topics: (1) distributive justice and equality (2) children, families and justice and (3) democratic ethics

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Adjunct professors

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Dr. Robert E. Bedeski

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Dr. Bradley Bryan Areas of specialization: Political Theory, Law, Imperialism, Technology, and the Politics of Health.

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Dr. Radhika Desai Areas of specialization:

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Dr. Derek Fraser Areas of specialization:

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Dr. Gordon Smith Areas of specialization:

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Dr. Gerald Thomas Areas of specialization:

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Dr. Reg Whitaker Areas of specialization:

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