YCISS' external affiliates are faculty and independent scholars at institutions across Canada and around the world as well as graduate students at universities in Southern Ontario.
External Fellows and Independent Scholars
External Fellows and Independent Scholars
Samantha Arnold, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg
Joni Aasi, Assistant Professor, Palestinian Academy for Security Sciences and Bir Zeit University
Stephen Baranyi, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, SIDGS/EDIM, University of Ottawa
Victoria Basham, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter
J. Marshall Beier, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Colleen Bell, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
Gabriel Ben-Dor, Director, National Security Studies, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa
Ambassador (Retired) Kant Bhargava, Former Secretary-General SAARc and Member of the Canadian Advisory Council for Shastry Indo-Canadian Institute
Cal Bricker, Vice President, Public Affairs, Canadian Waste Services
Jodi Burkett, Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
Paul Buteux, Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies; Professor of Political Science, University of Manitoba
Ryerson Christie, Lecturer, University of Bristol
Michael Dartnell, Professor, Georgian College
Timothy A. Donais, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Maya Eichler, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Conflict Studies, St. Paul’s University, Ottawa
Peter Gizewski, Defence Scientist/Strategic Analyst, Department of National Defence
Bernd Goetze, (Brigadier General, ret’d), Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of Council Operations, NATO
Kyle Grayson, Lecturer in International Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
David Harries, Associate Executive Director, Foresight Canada and Chair, Canada Node The Millennium Project
Deborah Harrison,
Professor (retired) and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New
Brunswick; and Professor (Status Only), Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto
Eric Helleiner, CIGI Chair in International Governance, and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo
Alison Howell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester
John Kirton, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
W. Andy Knight, Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta and Governor of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv , PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tromsø
Keith R. Krause, Professor, Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva
Andrew Latham, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Macalester College
Geneviève LeBaron, Researcher, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
Pierre Lizée, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Brock University
Peggy Mason, Director, Council Development, Canadian Council for International Peace and Security (CCIPS), Consultant, PMICS, and Special Advisor, UNSG
Peggy Falkenheim Meyer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University
Jennifer Milliken, Lecturer, Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva
Mark Neufeld, Professor of Global Politics, Trent University
Dean Oliver, Director, Research and Exhibitions, Canadian War Museum, Directeur, Recherche et expositions, Musée canadien de la guerre
Theodore W. Olson, founding member of YCISS and Associate Professor of Social Science (Retired), Faculty of Arts, York University
Augustine S. J. Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
Sorpong Peou, Professor & Chair, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg
Simon Philpott, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Quiggin, Security and Intelligence Unit, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa
Stéphane Roussel, Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
James P. Sewell, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Brock University
Christopher Spearin, Associate Professor, Canadian Forces College
P.J. (Bud) Taggart, Brigadier General (ret'd)
Robert Volterra, Partner, Latham & Watkins (London, England)
Melissa Autumn White, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Syracuse University; Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University
Michael Williams, Faculty Research Professor of International Politics, École supérieure d'affairs publiques et internationals, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Ottawa
Thom Workman, Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of New Brunswick
Ariane Bélanger-Vincent, BA, MA (Laval), (PhD candidate Université Laval and YCISS Graduate Researcher in residence 2008-09)
Research Interests: Anthropology of policy; anthropology of violence; research methodologies; political history of anthropology; critical discourse analysis; militarism. Her most recent work focuses on the “responsibility to protect” notion. As an anthropologist, Ariane is interested in rationalities and informal power networks supporting this notion, its recognition, and its current meaning within institutions. Ariane holds a Canada Graduate Scholarship (2007-2010) through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Mark Busser, BA (McMaster), MA (York), PhD Candidate (McMaster)
Research Interests: Ethics of humanitarian intervention and of global politics more broadly; internationalism in heroic pop culture; influences of evolutionary and natural law arguments on the perception of a security dilemma; critical approaches to security studies and critical International Relations; effects of Armageddon/Revelation narratives on foreign policy; peace research; intersections of gendered identities with militarization and competition. Mark holds an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2006-2007 and currently holds a Harry Lyman Hooker Senior Fellowship at McMaster.
Jessica Foran, BA Honours (McMaster), MA (York)
Research Interests: Poststructural, feminist and postcolonial approaches to security; (re)productions of subjectivity and state; discipline, torture, imprisonment and the body; the (im)possibilities of sovereign exceptionalism; the politics of exceptionality and violence; binary constructions of war as related to memory and trauma; militarization; human (in)security. Her current work considers the impact of Canadian detention practices on the (re)shaping of Canadian sovereignty, and specifically seeks to challenge the dominant frames of exceptionality/normality and political/bare life that continue to inform the study of detainees and detention practices within the “war on terror”. This research examines the relationship between Afghan and security certificate detainees in order to bring attention to the social relations of power that heirarchize bodies, and the productive discursive and material functions that this provides for the Canadian state.
John Grant, BA, MA (McMaster), PhD Candidate (McMaster)
Research Interests: Environmental/natural resource policy; environmental/human security; the governance of common pool resources; comparative public policy. His doctoral thesis focuses on the various institutional arrangements affecting governance of the transboundary waters of the Great Lakes Basin. He is concerned with the factors that complicate policy development as they apply to issues of water export, diversion and withdrawal. On a broader scale, his work addresses the growing number of conflicts between water uses and water users as a consequence of resource degradation, and the various notions of individual and communal property rights that are related to the control and distribution of water resources.
Monica Ingber, BA (York University), PhD Candidate (Keele University)
Research Interests: International relations; continental political philosophy; critical security; post-structural politics; international law; human rights; complicity in political violence; Middle East politics, particularly Iraqi politics. Monica’s current research seeks to develop the concept of ‘chthonic security’, which will be used to interrogate the violence/security problematic that arises from a disjunction between State/regime and human security. Furthermore, the project explores the implications that chthonic security holds vis-à-vis issues of human rights and violence.
Heather Johnson, BA Honours (Queen’s), MA (McMaster), PhD Candidate (McMaster)
Research Interests: Migration and refugee studies; International Relations theory (poststructural and postcolonial theory); interdisciplinary studies, approaches and epistemologies; the politics of asylum and of humanitarianism; development studies; globalization studies; citizenship and non-citizenship. Her dissertation examines the ways in which the cross-border migration of refugees impacts global hierarchies of power and the sovereignties of nation-states, and how the related practices of border control affects understandings of political agency for non-citizens. Heather holds a SSHRC (CGS) for 2006-2009 and is a CCHS Human Security Fellow for 2008.
Cameron Jones BA (York), MA (Royal Military College)
Research Interests: The politics of security and defence with particular emphasis on the Canadian context; Canadian sovereignty, with a focus on arctic security, international relations theory, globalization studies; Security intelligence, threat perception, surveillance, (anti) terrorism, both domestic and transnational, as understood as religious, political or ideological violence and the politics of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”, including the specific power dynamics involved. Also, geopolitics, alliance associations, militarization, human rights, governmental structures for decision making; strategic planning and organizational design (particularly within the DND and related security agencies).
Jennifer Mustapha, BA Honours (Manitoba), MA (McMaster), PhD Candidate (McMaster)
Research Interests: International Relations; Critical Security Studies (post-structural, post-colonial and feminist analyses); Southeast Asia (security; regionalization; “Islamization” in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines; the “China effect” in Southeast Asian regionalism); US Foreign Policy (including its discursive aspects); the politics of “9/11” and the “War on Terror”. In her dissertation, Jennifer hopes to interrogate the effects that the US-led War on Terror, as a hegemonic security narrative, has had on Southeast Asia, for both state and non-state actors. Ultimately, she seeks to demonstrate that the pursuit of “security” by states, under the narrow rubric of anti-terrorism and in response to pressures that emerge vis-à-vis US foreign policy, actually contributes to forms of in-security. Jennifer’s research is currently supported by a SSHRC grant (2008-2010) and a McMaster Graduate Scholarship (2006-2010). She has also been a past recipient of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2007-2008).
Liora Norwich. BA Honours (University of Toronto), MA (London School of Economics), PhD Candidate (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Research Interests: Social movement theory (contentious politics), state-in-society approach, constitutionalism and constitution-building in divided societies, ethnic conflict and genocide studies. Her dissertation focuses on the changing strategies of minorities in deeply-divided societies, examining specifically the changing state-societal relationship of the Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Quebecois collective of Canada. The study explores the development of these two cases as larger processes of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization. Liora holds a scholarship from the Israeli Research Authority and Hebrew University.
Alina Sajed, BA, MA (Romania), MA (McMaster), PhD Candidate (McMaster)
Research Interests: International relations theory (poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches); the politics of diaspora and exile; migrant identities and intellectual nomadism; the politics of culture and cultural politics; refugee issues and the politics of humanitarianism. Her dissertation's tentative title is “Fantasies of authenticity: nomads, natives, and travelers. The politics of exile and diaspora in the Maghreb.” This project intends to explore practices of fantasy, desire and emotion and their implications for International Relations through an examination of the literary and aesthetic productions of Maghrebin diaspora in France. Alina holds a SSHRC (CGS) scholarship for 2005-2008, and is currently a graduate research fellow for the Institute of Globalization and Human Condition at McMaster.
Nicole Wegner, BA Honours (Saskatchewan), MA (McMaster), PhD Candidate (McMaster)
Research Interests: Canadian foreign policy (peace operations and international interventions, gender in foreign policy); pedagogical practices in International Relations Theory; critical security studies (feminist, post-structural, post-colonial approaches). Her dissertation explores the genealogy of “peace building” discourse in Canadian foreign policies that legitimize militarization. From this, she seeks to offer alternative explanations and recommendations for the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Nicole currently holds a McMaster Graduate Scholarship (2006-2011).
