Contract Academic Instructors

Joseph Ahorro

  • Democratic Reform
  • Canadian Political Parties
  • Citizen Political Participation


Amee Barber

  • Urban politics and policy making
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Gender and politics


Sevan Beukian

  • Politics of post-Soviet countries, particularly the Southern Caucasus region
  • Nationalism, nation building and state building
  • Diasporas, transnationalism and transnational movements and migration in the globalizing world
  • Self-determination politics, focusing on the post-communist cases
  • Postcolonialism and political theory


Mark Blythe

  • Rawlsian Liberalism
  • Functional capability theory
  • Identity and multiculturalism


Tom Butko

  • Terrorism and revolutionary/"counter-hegemonic" violence
  • Political Islamist movements
  • Middle East Politics


Bede Eke


Mikael Hellstrom

  • Multiculturalism
  • Ethnic Relations
  • Immigrant integration
  • Public Management & administration
  • Civil society 


Satish Joshi

  • Geopolitics - Polarity in World Politics
  • Great Powers politics in the 21st Century
  • International Relations Theory, particularly - realism
  • Adjunct interest:  South Asia, Indian politics


Elisa King

  • Political economy of development
  • Technological learning, national innovation systems
  • Focus areas: the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan


Morris Maduro

  • International law as applied to the Arctic
  • Canada and the Arctic
  • Canada and Extraterritoriality
  • Application of International law by/in National Courts
  • Intersection of International Law and the Canadian Criminal Code


Robert Murray

  • International Security (especially Arctic sovereignty and humanitarian intervention issues)
  • Problem-solving International Theory (focusing on realism and the English School)
  • Foreign Policy Analysis (Canadian and American)
  • The History of Political Thought (international and American)


Joan Reynolds

  • Political Theory (Poststructuralism)
  • Latin American Comparative Politics
  • Sociological Theory
  • Transitions to Democracy/Indigenous Resistance Movements


Trevor Tchir

  • Continental political thought
  • Post-Enlightenment accounts of freedom
  • History of political thought
  • Theories of the self and identity disclosure in public space