York Centre for International and Security Studies

Resident Fellows

	Director David Mutimer, BA (Western), MA, PhD (York), Deputy Director; Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS; Coordinator, Graduate Diploma in International and Security Studies Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: International relations; critical security studies; non-proliferation; European security. Please click here for his homepage.

	Edgar J. Dosman, BA (Saskatchewan), MA (Oxford), PhD (Harvard), Professor of Political Science (retired), Faculty of LA & PS Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Canadian foreign and defence policy; regional conflict and conflict resolution (Central America and the Caribbean, Southern Africa); Arctic studies.

	Robert Latham, BA (Pomona College), MA (Chicago), PhD (New School for Social Research), Director; Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Global security; transnational relations; environmental politics and knowledge; human security; global governance and sovereignty; North-South conflict; democracy and security.

	Elizabeth (Libby) Lunstrum, BA (Washington), MA (Michigan State), PhD (University of Minnesota), Assistant Professor of Geography, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Environmental politics in conflict, post-conflict, and transnational spaces; transnational migration; territory and state formation; political violence (southern Africa).

	Nalini Persram, BA (Music) (Regina), BA (Victoria), MA (East Anglia), PhD (Wales), Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science, Social and Political Thought Program, Faculty of LA & PS; Social and Political Thought Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Subjectivity and survival; postcoloniality; feminism; Caribbean culture and resistance; international political theory.

	Sergei Plekhanov, Diploma (Moscow), PhD (Institute for the Study of the USA and Canada), Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS; Coordinator, Post-Communist Studies Programme (PCSP) Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Russian foreign policy; Russia/Soviet Union-American relations; European security; post-communist transition studies.

	Sandra Whitworth, BA (York), MA, PhD (Carleton), Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Faculty of LA & PS; Graduate Programme Director, Department of Political Science; Home-base Editor of International Feminist Journal of Politics Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Gender and international relations; international institutions; peacekeeping (Cambodia). Please click here for her homepage.

Fellows

	Howard Adelman, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto), Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of LA & PS (Retired); Founding Director, Centre for Refugee Studies (1988-1993) Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Early warning; conflict management; Canadian refugee policy (domestic and overseas).

	Anna M. Agathangelou, BS (Miami), MA (Eastern Kentucky), MA, PhD (Syracuse), Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Feminist and postcolonial theories; empire and globalization; critical security studies; the global political economy of sex and race; militarization of social relations; feminist postcolonial pedagogies and epistemologies. Currently she is the “conversations” editor for the International Feminist Journal of Politics as well as on the editorial board of Globalizations.

	Nergis Canefe, BA (Bogazici University, Turkey), MA (SUNY Binghamton, USA), PhD (York), Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Applied political philosophy in the areas of citizenship; diasporic identities; forced migration; democratic governance; group rights and conflict resolution. Regional Focus: Southeast Europe and the Middle East.

	Elizabeth Dauphinee, PhD (York University), Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Levinasian ethics and international relations theory, the politics of apology and forgiveness, the American cities of refuge, and poststructural Christian theolog.y

	David B. Dewitt, BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Stanford), Professor of Political Science Residence: on leave Research Interests: International relations; regional security; strategic studies; conflict management; Asia Pacific; Middle East; Canadian foreign, defence, and security policy.

	Wenona Giles, BA (Santa Clara), Teaching Degree (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Toronto), Deputy Director, Centre for Refugee Studies; Professor, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Gender, migration, forced migration and refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war.

	Susan Henders, BA (Saskatchewan), B Journalism (Carleton), M Phil (Chinese University of Hong Kong), D Phil (Oxford), Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Democratization and identity in East and South-East Asia; the politics of autonomy and minorities in Asia and Europe; the international relations of East Asia.

	Peter Penz, BA, MA (British Columbia), D Phil (Oxford), Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Environmental policy; development and displacement; refugees; social justice.

	Stuart Schoenfeld, BA (Loyola of the East), MA, PhD (Case Western Reserve), Associate Professor of Sociology, Glendon College Residence: YCISS, York University Research Interests: Environmental issues, with a special interest in the politics of the environment in the Middle East, and the relationship of Middle East environmental issues to the global ecological crisis; the use of narratives in the social construction of environmental issues; religious diasporas and political mobilization.

	Craig Scott, BA (McGill), BA (Jurisprudence) (Oxford), LLM (University of London), LLB (Dalhousie), Professor of International Law, Osgoode Hall Law School Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: International public law; human rights; the United Nations; international relations; social theory.

	James Sheptycki, BA (Saskatchewan), MA (Essex), PhD (London School of Economics), Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Transnational crime and policing; intelligence and security; crime politics in a transnational context; crime, insecurity and human rights.

	David Shugarman, BA (Alberta), MA, PhD (Toronto), Director, Centre for Practical Ethics; Professor of Political Science, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Canadian politics; ethics and public policy; federalism; international affairs.

	Orest Subtelny, BA, MA (North Carolina), PhD (Harvard), Professor of History, Faculty of LA & PS Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: Growth of the Russian empire; Soviet nationality problems; modern Ukrainian history.

	Stephen Weiss, BA (Lafayette College), MA, PhD (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Policy and International Business, Schulich School of Business Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: International negotiations (business, diplomatic); strategic alliances; communications in conflict; conflict management.

	Bernard Wolf, BA (City University of New York), MA, PhD (Yale), Professor of Economics and International Business; Director of the International M.B.A. Program, Schulich School of Business Residence: Keele Campus, York University Research Interests: International economics; international business; international organization.