Completed Ph.D Supervisions:

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Maya Eichler, "Militarized Masculinity in Post-Soviet Russia: Towards a Feminist Analysis of the Russian-Chechen Wars," August 31, 2009.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Cristina Masters, "Body Counts: Reading Moments of U.S. Militarism from the Margins of International Politics," September 11, 2008.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Colleen Bell, "Liberating Security: Governing Canada in ‘The Age of Terror'," November 28, 2007 (Winner of the Graduate Program in Political Science Yumiko Iida Memorial Award for Best Dissertation, 2007).

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Frederick Guillame Dufour, "The Modern Era and the Tranformation of Anti-Judaism," May 18, 2005.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Krista Hunt, "Getting Connected: Examining the Complexities of the Internet for Feminism," March 11, 2003.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Stacey Mayhall, "Riding the Bull, Wrestling the Bear: Sex and Identity in the Discourses of Global Finance," December 6, 2002.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Peter Nyers, "Body Politics in Motion: Refugees and States Of/In Emergency,"
April 8, 2002.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Marshall Beier, "Securing Against the Hoop:Postcoloniality, Cosmology, and the Study of Security," January 22, 2002.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Leslie Jeffrey, "Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand," May 26, 1999.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Yumiko Iida, "Sources of Japanese Identity: Modernity, Nationalism and World Hegemony," April 30, 1999. Winner of the 1999 University-Wide Dissertation Prize and the York University Nomination for the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize.

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Elizabeth Philipose, "Prosecuting Violence, Performing Sovereignty: International Relations and Laws of War," March 5, 1999.

In Progress:

Ph.D Dissertation, Women's Studies, Naoko Ikeda, "Re-defining Security, Re-defining Japan’s “War-Front” and Women’s Local Anti-Military Resistance in Tokyo, Japan."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Rachel O'Donnell, "Colonial Plants and Contemporary Bioprospecting: The Gendered History of Petiveria alliacea."

Ph.D Dissertation, Political Science, Sarah Newman, "The Making of Risky People: HIV/AIDS and the Construction of Social Order in Canada."

Completed M.A. and B.A. Supervisions:

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Leila Beheshti, " Politics, Power And Perversion: the Discursive Construction of HIV/AIDS," August 2008.

M.A. Research Paper, Women's Studies, Leanne Townsend, "A Politics of Silence in Japan-South Korean Relations: The 1990-2006 Movement for Redress for the 1930-1945 Imperial Japanese Military's 'Comfort Women' Prostitution System," February 2007.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Donna Seto, "Contesting the Limitations Surrounding the Comfort Women Redress Movement: Towards Understanding the Multiple Subjectivities of Survivors" January 2007.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Katsurari Tsuchiya, "Sexing the Subjects: Japanese Modernization and Secual Violence During the Fifteen-Year China War, 1937-1945," November 2006.

M.A. Research Paper, Women's Studies, Emily Rosser, "Speaking Bodies Firmly in Place: Sexual Violence, Women and Gender in the 1999 Guatemalan CEH Report," November 2006.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Mark Busser, "Beyond Intervention: Exploring the Ethical Bases of the Responsibility to Protect," September 2006.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Kirsten Ryan, "Strengthening Social Movements through a Consideration of Social Location: An exploration of the Perspectives of First Nations Women," September 2005.

M.A. Research Paper, Women's Studies, Naoko Ikeda, "Militarizing Femininities: Current Media Discourses of ‘New Women' in the Japan Self Defense Forces," June 2005

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Sarah Newman, "Practical Foundations: Theorizing Gender and Development," September 2004.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Nelson Lai, "Woman on the Verge of an Environmental Breakdown: Ecofeminism and the Politics of Sustainable Development," January 2002.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Farnaz Ghotb, "‘Warriors' ‘Ladies', ‘Whores' and ‘Dykes': Gender Roles and the United States Military," October 2001.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Cristina Bagaco-Masters, "Cyborg Soldiers and Militarized Masculinities,"
October 2000, Winner of the Douglas Verney Prize for Best Master's Research Paper in Political Science, 2000.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Maya Eichler, "The Gendered Politics of Environmental Destruction and Protection: A Green-Feminist Analysis of the Rio Earth Summit," October 2000.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Meagen Bovell, "Gender Exploitation And Women's Resistance: A Feminist Analysis Of Women Working In Mexico's Maquiladoras," September 2000.

MA. Research Paper, Political Science, Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Essentialized Pacifism: A Statistical Reappraisal of the Gender Gap," September 2000.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Deepika Grover, "‘Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead': Hollywood (Re)Presents World War II," 1998.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Krista Hunt, "Reconstructing the Child Sex Tourist: Gender, Culture and Identities of Travel," 1997.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Chantale Walker, "Discourses of Local and Global with Development and IPE Discourse," 1997.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Klaudia Dmitrienko, "The Synthesis of Sexism, Militarism, History and Nationalism: Understanding the Construction of the Rape Culture of War," 1997.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Veronika Seethaler, "Austrians are ‘In', Refugees are ‘Out': The ‘Violent' Workings of Day-to-Day Print Media, Politics and their Subtexts," 1997.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Sabina Eleonori, "‘Beauty and the Beast': The Dialectic of Humanitarianism and Politics," 1997.

MA Research Paper, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (co-supervised with David Long), Franca Gucciardi, "The Infectious Dichotomy of Women/Human Rights: A Study of Prostitution in Southeast Asia," 1996.

MA Research Paper, Political Science, Lori Galway, "The State, Export-Oriented Industrialization and Forced Migration," 1996.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Andy Quan, "The International Lesbian and Gay Movement: ILGA, NAMBLA and the Imagined Future," 1994.

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Jordan Berger, "Redefining Liberation? Class, Gender and Islam in Modern Algeria," 1994.

B.A. Honours Thesis, Women's Studies/Political Science, Jacqueline Portuguese, "Palestinian Women's Activism," 1992.

In Progress:

M.A. Research Paper, Political Science, Helen Beasley, TBA.

Last updated: March 30, 2011