Contract Academic Instructors

 

Joseph Ahorro

  • Democratic Reform
  • Canadian Political Parties
  • Citizen Political Participation

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

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