Ph.D Committee Member:

Completed:

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Mary Mei-Ju Young, "The Political Economy of Agro-Food Restructuring in Indonesia in the 1990s," September 23, 2009.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Ryerson Christie, "Peacebuilding and Cambodian State-Civil Society Interaction: An Immanent Critique of the Promotion of NGOs as a Means of Resolving Conflict," September 22, 2009.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Tina Managhan, "Disturbing the Peace: (M)others, Biopolitics and the Question of Resistance in International Relations," November 11, 2008.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Allison Howell, "Madness in International Relations: Therapeutic Interventions and the Global Governance of Disorder(s)," June 18, 2008.

Ph. D Dissertation, Political Science, Kim Rygiel, "Globalizing Inequality: The Politics of Citizenship as Government in an Age of Security,” September 11, 2006 (Winner of the Graduate Program in Political Science Yumiko Iida Memorial Award for Best Dissertation, 2006).

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science Rosalind Warner,"Discourses of Global Environmental Governance: From Colonialism to the 21st Century," September 7, 2005.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Elizabeth Dauphinee, ""Finding the Other in Time: On Ethics, Responsibility, and Representation," February 23, 2005.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Marie-Josée Massicotte, "Mexican Sociopolitical Movements and Transnational Networking in the Context of Economic Integration in the Americas," December 6, 2004.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Leah Simmons, "The Israeli Women's Movement and the Critical Juncture of
Statehood," November 14, 2002.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Denise Roman, "Alterity and Identity: Nation, Gender and Popular Culture in Post-Communist Romania," December 7, 2001.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Barbara Pirsch-Steigerwald, "The Rise of Neo-Liberal Discourse in Canada, 1984-1996: or How NAC Became a ‘Special Interest' Group," December 5, 2001.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Yasmine Shamsie, "The Politics of Democracy Promotion: Efforts by the Organization of American States to Promote Democracy in Haiti (1990-1998)," September 17, 2001.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Jacqueline True, "Engendering Transformation: Constructing States and Markets in Post-Communist Europe," November 15, 2000.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Tami Amanda Jacoby, "Women's Protest in Zones of Conflict: A Case Study of Two Israeli Women's Protest Movements," November 13, 2000.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Carolyn Bassett, "Negotiating South Africa's Future: COSATU and Strategic Unionism," June 20, 2000.

In Progress:

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Cheshmak Farhoumand, Political Science, "United Nations and Human Rights Mechanisms and the Human Rights of Women: CEDAW and the Challenge of Applying Universal Norms in a Multicultural World."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Nelson Lai, , "Screening Anxieties, Security and the Body: The Political Economy of Internet Spectatorship and the War in Iraq."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Christopher Hendershot, "Sex, Guns and Rock and Roll: Re-Telling the Story of Private Military Corporations and Global Military Violence."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Lori Crowe, "Pop Culture, Security and IR: the Militarized Superhero."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Véronique Aubry, "Un/Making Empire in IR: A (de)Colonizing Feminist Critique of IR Pedagogical Practices."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Melanie Richter-Montpetit, TBA.

M.A. Second Reader/Committee Member:

Completed:

M.A. Thesis, Communication and Culture, Lesley Williams, "Manoeuvering the Peacekeeping Myth: Canadian New Media Reports on the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan," June 2009.

M.A. Research Paper, Women's Studies, Alexandra Marie Baril, "The (un)Productive Work of Resistance: Algerian Women's Social Reproduction During the Algerian War of Independence," January 2008.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Sonia Vassileva, "The Global Mass Media System and US Dominance," September 2006.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Lauren Turner, "Militarized Lives: Women, Militarism and Gender Equality in the Palestinian Occupied Territories," June 2006.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Lily Tekle, "Crimes of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict," December 2005.

M.A. Thesis, Anthropology, Sheri Gibbings, "Governing Women, Governing Security: Governmentality, Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Activism at the UN," September 2004.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Abhinav Kumar, "America's Army Game and the (Re)Production of War," September 2004.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Melanie Richter-Monpetit, "Dynamics and Prospects of Contemporary ‘Traditional' Peacebuilding: A Comparative Analysis of the Gendered Political Economy of Armed Conflict in Somaliland and South Somalia," 2003.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Todd Alway, "A Generalized Account of a Generalized Other: Constructing the ‘Constructivist' State," 1999.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Andrea Harrington, "Peace, Freedom, Miller: Russian Transformation in Global Perspective," 1999.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Clare Rodger, "International Migration: A Challenge for Post-Cold War Security," 1998.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Natasha Pace, "Reconceptualising Security: A Look at Population Movement," 1997.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Kirsten Ruecker, "Restructuring as a Gendered and Sexed Process: East German Women and Re/Production," 1997.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Brian J. Bow, "Changing the Subject: Rethinking the Specification and Nature of Subjects/Objects in Security Studies," 1996.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Velta Elaine Brown, "The Politics of Law and its Role in the Perpetuation of Patriarchal Hegemony," 1996.

External Examiner:

Ph.D Dissertation, York University Graduate Program in History (inside external), Tarah Brookfield, "‘Our Deepest Concern Is for the Safety of our Children and Their Children’: Canadian Women Respond to Cold War Fears at Home and Abroad, 1950-1980," September 16, 2008.

M.A. Thesis, York University Graduate Programme in Sociology, (inside external), Karine Côté Boucher, "Governing through Borders: Mobilizing Risk, Anxiety and Biopower in the Canada-United States Smart Border Declaration," September 13, 2005.

Ph.D Dissertation, Queen's University Department of Political Studies, Theresa O'Keefe, "The Mini-Skirt Brigade: Feminist Identity Construction in the Irish Republican Movement," August 14, 2003.

Ph.D Dissertation, Queen's University Department of Political Studies, Wayne Cox, "A Crisis ‘In' Conflict for International Relations: The Case of the Turkish/Kurdish War Through Neogramscian Lenses," May 17, 2000.

Ph.D Dissertation, York University Graduate Programme in Sociology, (inside external), Maja Korac, "The Power of Gender in the Transition from State Socialism to Ethnic Nationalism, Militarization and War: The Case of Post-Yugoslav States," September 22, 1998.

M.A. Thesis, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Tobi Davidge, "Citizens of Europe: Democracy, Gender and the European Union," December, 5, 1995.

Dean's Representative:

Ph.D Dissertation, York University Graduate Programme in Political Science, Shireen Hassim, "Identities, Interests and Constituencies: The Politics of the Women's Movement in South Africa, 1980-1999," June 12, 2002.

Ph.D Dissertation, York University Graduate Programme in Philosophy, Sharon M. Murphy, "Knowing Persons," September 10, 1999.

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