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Presenter Biographies:
Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, specializing in ethnic and gender politics; nationalism, globalization and processes of racialization; immigration policies and politics; multiculturalism and anti-racism; human rights; and citizenship theory. She has published extensively on these subjects, including as co-author of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization (2002).
Dr. Mehdi Ammi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. Dr. Ammi’s research crosses the fields of health economics, applied microeconometrics, and health policy. He is particularly interested in how resources are allocated in the health care system in Canada, and whether or not this allocation is efficient. He is currently the principle investigator for a project titled 'The Impact of Regionalization on Health Care Accessibility in Canada,' which is funded by a SSHRC Internal Development Grant.
Dr. Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Political Economy at Carleton University. His research spans a variety of topics related to the political economy of health and health care. He has authored and edited over a dozen books on these subjects.
Sherry Aske is a News Editor, Presenter and Producer with CBC Ottawa. She is a graduate of the Carleton School of Journalism and Communication with a Master’s degree in Communication Studies. Her research looked at the impact the digital transition is having on journalists, news consumers and the industry at large.
Dr. Richard Baker completed his PhD in Political Science at Carleton University, a Post- Doctoral Fellowship with the Department of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University, and has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on the critical geopolitics of Canada-United States relations, and his current book project explores the role that Canada plays in the US geopolitical imagination.
Dr. Rena Bivens completed her PhD with the Glasgow Media Group at the University of Glasgow, and is now Assistant Professor of Communication at Carleton University. Dr. Bivens held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University and was a Banting Fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton. Dr. Bivens' research explores and interrogates normative design practices which are embedded in media technologies using a critical race and gender lens.
Jennifer Boland is a PhD candidate in communication studies at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She is interested in research questions related to the people, practices, and politics of unexamined audiences, and her work explores a broad range of receptive and reactive practices to popular culture, including lurking audiences and suspicious audiences.
Dr. Randy Boswell is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Dr. Boswell has been shortlisted for the Pierre Berton Award, Canada’s top prize for popularizing Canadian history. He was also the 2010 winner of the Yves Fortier Earth
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Science Journalism Award and was co-writer of a 1997 National Newspaper Award-nominated special project on Gatineau Park. He continues to write history-related news stories on a freelance basis.
Dr. Miranda J. Brady is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication and a Co-Director of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language, and Education (CIRCLE). Her teaching and research focus on the construction of Indigenous identity in the media and cultural institutions like museums. Her co-authored book with John Medicine Horse Kelly, We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture is forthcoming with UBC Press in 2017.
Dr. Susan Braedley is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Dr. Braedley is a leading scholar in the political economy of health care, long-term care, and ageing in Canada. She has published extensively on issues related to care and social reproduction throughout the life course. She is also currently involved in two international research projects designed to explore aging in residential places ('Health Ageing in Residential Places') and to identify healthy practices for both residents and employees in long-term residential care ('Re- imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices').
Dr. Janine Brodie is a Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta. Dr. Brodie is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is editor or author of ten books, covering topics from women and politics in Canada to Canadian regionalism. Dr. Brodie is especially known for her outstanding scholarship on gender and politics, political economy, citizenship and social policy, and governing paradigms.
Dr. Chris Brown is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Program Director of the Bachelor of Global and International Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Brown specializes in the politics of Africa, and has worked in Botswana and Ghana as a local government policy advisor and development planner.
Dr. Doris Buss is Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Buss teaches and researches in the areas of international law, women's rights, global social movements, and feminist theory. She is particularly concerned with how gender equality and women's rights are framed and contested in different international legal, regulatory, and policy sites.
Dr. Julia Calvert is a recent graduate of the doctoral program at the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Calvert's research focuses on Canada's foreign investment promotion strategies and implementation in Latin America, and employs an international political economy lens to interrogate critically these practices.
Dr. Stephanie Carvin is an Assistant Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Dr. Carvin teaches and researches in the areas of international affairs, domestic and international security, and critical infrastructure protection. Dr. Carvin also maintains a public profile, contributing to greater public debates about international politics and affairs through both blog posts and journalistic pieces.
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Duncan Cass-Beggs is Director of Policy Horizons Canada, where he leads scanning and foresight activities to identify emerging policy issues for the strategic policy community within the Government of Canada. He has a particular focus on medium-term challenges and the development of innovative solutions.
Dr. Andrea Chandler is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Her fields of research are politics and government in Russia and Soviet successor states, comparative politics of social welfare reform, and gender and politics in post-communist states. She is the author of three books, the most recent of which is titled Democracy, Gender and Social Policy in Russia: a Wayward Society (2013).
Larry Chartrand is a Professor in the Faculty of Law – Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Chartrand’s expertise crosses the fields of education, law, and Indigenous rights in Canada, with a particular focus on Métis rights, Aboriginal governance and politics, residential schools, and Aboriginal Constitutional law. He has published two books and several articles on these subjects. He is also currently serving as President, Adjudicator, and Founding Member of the Indigenous Bar Association Scholarship Foundation.
Dr. Elizabeth Cobbett is a lecturer of international relations and international political economy in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communications Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Dr. Cobbett completed her doctoral dissertation, 'South Africa in the New World Order: Power, Finance and Society,' in 2012 at Carleton University, and has continued to research in the area of the political economy of global finance within the African context since then.
Louise Cockram is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. She is currently the research lead on a project with the Springtide Collective. This project aims to promote democratic renewal in Nova Scotia by interviewing former MLAs to gain insight into the challenges and successes of being an MLA in the Nova Scotia Legislature.
John Coleman is a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Administration and a fellow at the TPIC. He worked at the National Research Council of Canada for 30 years in a number of roles including General Manager of Surface Transportation Institute and acting VP Engineering.
Amanda Connolly is a foreign policy and defence reporter for iPolitics. She spent two years reporting for the CBC’s Calgary digital team. She was among the digital team members honoured with awards for their cross-platform coverage of the Alberta floods. Amanda graduated from Carleton University's Bachelor of Journalism program in 2012 with high honours and has also contributed to the Vancouver Observer, CBC The House and Avenue Magazine.
Tara Connolly is a Project Coordinator and Disabilities Counsellor at the Center for Accessible Learning at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario. Currently, she is coordinating a project that offers outreach and follow-up support to prospective post-secondary students and their support network as they prepare for the transition to a post-secondary environment.
Ron Couchman is an independent scholar who has extensive experience in the nonprofit sector, particularly related to organizations striving to end violence against women. He is currently the Community Engagement Manager for the Toronto division of the White Ribbon Campaign. 3
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Formally, he served as president of the Men for Equality and Non-Violence organization and Project Manager at the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence against Women.
Dr. William Cross is Professor and Bell Chair for the Study of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also serving as President of the Canadian Political Science Association. Dr. Cross is widely published and read, and has been involved in the publication of 11 books (as either co/editor or co/author) related to Canadian politics. Dr. Cross also received the Research Achievement Award from Carleton University this year.
Dr. Mark Davis is currently a Senior Policy Advisor within the Aviation Security Directorate of Transport Canada. He has spent the past 10 years in the federal public service, the majority of which has been working on various applied projects in federal transportation policy. He completed his PhD at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. Davis is a fellow at CURE and TPIC.
Aliénor De Steur is a Master of Arts student in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. She is specializing in intelligence and national security, with a particular research focus on cooperation in the domain of security and international interventions. Aliénor has also previously studied political science for a year in Munich, Germany.
Jeffrey Dlugokecki is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. His research interests include diaspora communities in Canada, care ethics, and feminist political economy.
Dr. Alexandra Dobrowolsky is Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University. Dr. Dobrowolsky’s research centers on theories and practices of representation, mobilization, citizenship, and democratic governance, and she is currently undertaking a larger research project on the impact of the devolution of Canadian Immigration Policy on equality and multiculturalism.
Dr. Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. Dr. Dorries has extensive academic and professional experience in the areas of environment and First Nations planning. She is particularly interested in unpacking and addressing issues that confront planners because of the ways in which the planning process has been shaped by structural racism. She has addressed these issues in her academic research and also as a researcher for the Chiefs of Ontario.
Jan Dutkiewicz is a PhD candidate in Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York City, New York. He specializes in political economy, and is primarily interested in the commodification of nonhuman animals and natural environments, and the relationship between morals, markets, and violence.
Dr. Piotr Dutkiewicz is currently co-director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also a former Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton. Dr. Dutkiewicz has published on the politics of Eastern Europe and Eastern European society, state and administration in Eastern Europe, and 4
VFC: Presenter Biographies social change in Russia. He was also the Director of four large scale projects in Russia, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.
Joanne Farrall is currently a PhD student in Communications at the School of Journalism and Communications at Carleton University. She holds a Master of Arts from Queen's University in Gender Studies. Her current research explores how personal narrative, visual autobiography, trauma, and identity building intersects with systemic cultures of violence in an online context.
Maggie FitzGerald Murphy is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. Her research is centered on the ethics of care, governing norms, critical political theory, and feminism.
Dr. Christina Gabriel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. Dr. Gabriel’s research interests focus on citizenship and migration, gender and politics, regional integration, and globalization. She has contributed chapters and articles, as well as co-edited and co-authored two books, on issues such as migration, border control, transnational care labour, and North American regional integration.
Dr. Marc-André Gagnon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. Dr. Gagnon is known for his extensive work on social and health policy, particularly related to pharmaceutical policy and regulation in Canada. Using a political economy lens, Dr. Gagnon analyzes the dominant business models at play in the pharmaceutical sector, corporate impact on medical research related to medication, and corporate influence over doctors' prescribing habits. He also conducts comparative analyses of health insurance and Pharmacare.
Dr. Martin Geiger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University and is cross-appointed with the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is an active member of Carleton’s ‘Migration & Diaspora Studies’ (MDS) initiative and the Borders in Globalization (BIG) project. Geiger is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed ‘Mobility & Politics’ series and he initiated the joint faculty-student research cluster on ‘Mobility & Politics’.
Dr. Randall Germain is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Germain is known for his scholarship in the field of international political economy, international relations, global governance, and finance. Dr. Germain has published extensively on issues related to these fields, including as co-editor of the Routledge/RIPE series in Global Political Economy (2000-2007).
Sacha Ghandeharian is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. His research fields are international relations and political theory, and he is particularly interested in feminist post-structuralism and the ethics of care.
Dr. Christopher M. Gunn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University. Dr. Gunn’s research fields are macroeconomics, credit and banking, and technological change, with a particular focus on analyses of expectations-driven business cycles, real-financial linkages, and the effects and consequences of technological adoption on the economy. 5
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Dr. Brendan Haley is a PhD graduate of the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, and currently holds a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University. Dr. Haley's research and writing uses a political economy lens to examine the role of traditional natural resource sectors in Canada's on-going and urgent transition to a low-carbon economy. He is also a policy fellow with the Broadbent Institute and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Dr. Sheryl N. Hamilton is an Associate Professor appointed to the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Law and Legal Studies. She is the author of Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture (University of Toronto Press 2009) and Law's Expression: Communication, Law and Media in Canada (Lexis/Nexis 2009); co- author of Becoming Biosubjects: Bodies. Systems. Technologies. (University of Toronto Press, 2011); and co-editor ofSensing Law (Routledge, 2017). Her current research explores the ways in which hands and touch are being reconstituted as objects of formal and informal regulation in pandemic culture.
Dr. Fen Hampson is Chancellor's Professor and Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University. In 2014, The Hill Times recognized Dr. Hampson as one of the top 100 most influential Canadians in Canadian foreign policy, reflecting his expertise in the areas of Canadian foreign policy, global governance, international organization, international negotiation, and conflict resolution and analysis. He has authored and co-authored 10 books and edited and co- edited 26 volumes on various subjects relating to these broader research topics.
Dr. Roy Hanes is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Dr. Hanes has over 30 years of experience and expertise working as a practitioner, community organizer, teacher, researcher, volunteer, and advocate with people with disabilities, including as a founding member of the Ottawa Carleton Independent Living Centre. Dr. Hanes also developed and taught the first course in critical disability theories at Carleton University, and continues to teach disability focused courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Dr. Melissa Haussman is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Haussman teaches and researches in the fields of American politics and comparative North American politics. Her research questions have been linked together by the common theme of women's access (or lack thereof) to political power in North America.
Dr. Pablo Heidrich is an Assistant Professor for the Bachelor of Global and International Studies program at Carleton University. He specializes in the fields of international political economy, international trade policymaking (particularly in the contexts of financial crises), natural resources and development in Latin America, and comparative regionalism between East Asia and Latin America. He was previously a senior researcher at the North-South Institute, focusing on international trade and development.
Dr. Raffaele Iacovino received his Phd from McGill University and is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canada Research Chair on Democracy and Sovereignty at l’Université du Québec À Chicoutimi and Skelton-Clark postdoctoral fellow of Canadian Affairs in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. His teaching, research, and writing interests include
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Canadian federalism, Quebec politics, nationalism, citizenship, and immigration.
Dr. Dan Irving, Associate Professor in the Human Rights and Sexuality Studies programs in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Carleton University, is known for his scholarship on masculinities and trans* individuals. His current project explores Eminem and affective dimensions of youth masculinities in times of socio-economic crisis, and he has recently concluded a study of trans* and two-spirit individuals' experiences of un- and under- employment.
Dr. Satyamoorthy (Kabi) Kabilan is currently the Director of the National Security and Public Safety Team and Strategic Foresight Practice at The Conference Board of Canada. Dr. Kabilan received his doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge, and has since then co-founded and managed two technology start-ups and been a leader in the United Kingdom's Future Security and Intelligence Outlook Network (FUSION). Additionally, Dr. Kabilan was involved in developing the United Kingdom's National Counter Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST).
Elena Kaliberda is a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Communications at Carleton University. She is also the producer and host of the Russian Program Channel CHIN Radio Ottawa, and an independent media expert and consultant.
Dr. Lara Karaian is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University. Dr. Karaian’s research cuts across issues such as the legal regulation of sex work, gender and sexuality, queer and transgender legal theory, critical race theory, and law and morality. She is currently working on projects that examine the power of feminism in law and explore a positive theory of pleasure and sexuality in law.
Dr. Vincent Kazmierski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Kazmierski’s research focuses on the roles that unwritten constitutional principles may play in reinforcing and protecting fundamental elements of the democratic process. Recently, he has also started re-engaging in research examining the role of the law in promoting the inclusion -- or alternatively, exclusion -- of people with disabilities in Canadian society.
Emily Kennedy is a journalist, editor, content strategist, and social media professional working in print and digital media. Her articles have appeared in numerous print publications and websites. She is the partner-owner of a consulting firm specializing in social media strategy and management for events. She is an alumna of the Carleton School of Journalism and Communication.
Dr. Hashmat Khan is a Professor of Economics at Carleton University. Dr. Khan is also currently serving as co-director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Economics at Carleton University. His research focuses on business cycles, and the factors that influence, create, and disturb such cycles.
Ridhwan Khan is currently an M.A. student with the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. His research interests include critical legal studies, critical race theory, political economy, and American politics.
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Dr. Ummni Khan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her research interests focus on the ways in which sexuality, gender, and the racialized body are overlapping and constructed, policed, and put into discourse in law and society. She is particularly interested in the socio-legal construction of sexual deviancy, the intersections of emotion and the law, transgendered subjects, and pop cultural representations of law. She has published numerous articles on these subjects, as well as a book on S&M in the socio-legal imaginary.
Hayden King is Pottawatomi and Ojibwe from Beausoleil First Nation, and a PhD candidate (ABD) at McMaster University. His research interests are related to land and resource management (particularly in the Canadian North) and Anishinaabe political economy; he has co- authored and co-edited two books, and published several articles in these areas. Hayden is also a noted Indigenous public intellectual in Canada, and appears frequently in the media speaking on Indigenous issues.
Barrie Kirk, P.Eng. is the Executive Director of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence (CAVCOE). He has worked in the technology industries in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including senior management positions in Ottawa-area companies. He is a well-known speaker, broadcaster and consultant on automated vehicles. He is on the Board of Directors of Unmanned Systems Canada, the Automotive Advisory Board of Centennial College, and the CV/AV Technical Committee of ITS Canada. Barrie received a B.Sc. (Honours) in Electrical Engineering from Coventry University, U.K. and is a Professional Engineer.
Dr. Irena Knezevic is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication, culture, and health. She is currently working on a project with Dr. Phil Mount, called Project SOIL, which is focused on the possibility of on-site food production at public health care and educational institutions.
Dr. Kirsten Kozolanka is Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Her research expertise on the publicity state, political communication, alternative media, and media literacy can be seen in her numerous publications, including a forthcoming edited collection on publicity and the Canadian State. Dr. Kozolanka is also a faculty associate with the Institute of European and Russian Studies and a member of the Board of Management for the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education, both at Carleton University.
Dr. Tracey Lauriault is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies and Big Data, at Carleton University. She is also a research Associate with The Programmable City Project, based at the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis, Maynooth University, Repoublic of Ireland, and The Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University. Her areas of expertise span an array of topics related to data management and access to data.
Jo-Anne Lawless is Acadian-Mi'kmaq and a PhD student in the Department of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. Her research is focused on the experiences of Aboriginal students at Carleton University, and she aims to compile a history of Aboriginal programming so as to
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Dr. Laura Macdonald is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and former Director of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. Her areas of research cover a range of issues related to global civil society, citizenship struggles, Canada-Latin American relations, and immigration and border control policies.
Dr. Alexandra Mallett completed her PhD in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and currently teaches at Carleton University in the School of Public Policy and Administration. Dr. Mallett's experience spans public sectors and academia, but is connected by her interest and expertise in the fields of sustainable energy and climate policy, emerging economies, and low carbon technology cooperation.
Dr. Jonathan Malloy is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science and is cross-appointed to the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. His research focuses on Parliament, prime ministers, and political leadership. Dr. Malloy has also been involved in the recent creation of Carleton University's Transportation Policy and Innovation Centre.
Dr. David McGrane is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College and the University of Saskatchewan. He has published over twenty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and academic books, and maintains a high profile in the media as an expert on both provincial and federal politics and elections. His areas of research include federal-provincial fiscal relations, Canadian provincial politics, Canadian social democracy, and elections.
Dr. Patricia McGuire is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Dr. McGuire’s research focuses on Indigenous knowledges, resilience, and social history. She has published on the resiliency of Indigenous ways of knowing, and she is currently exploring the ways in which dominant research and knowledge frameworks have supported the colonial enterprise, as well as the important role of Indigenous knowledge in disturbing this enterprise.
Dr. James Meadowcroft, Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, is known for his scholarship on low-carbon transition, environmental policy, sustainable development, climate change and energy policy, and comparative environmental politics. His academic work focuses particularly on the ways in which governments are (or indeed are not) adjusting their policies and practices so as to mitigate and cope with the emergence of problems related to the environment and sustainability.
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood is an alumna of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, completing his Master of Arts in Political Economy in 2014. He now works for the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, and has written and published several reports related to trade issues, particularly related to the trans-pacific partnership and migrant workers.
Christopher Miller is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He is interested in issues related to migration politics and temporary migrant labour in Canada. 9
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Dr. James Milner is currently an Associate Professor in the Migration and Diaspora Studies unit and Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Milner has been a policy advisor, practitioner, and researcher on a variety of issues pertaining to refugees, African politics, and the United Nations system. He has also worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters.
Lauren Montgomery is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, with a specialization in Political Economy, at Carleton University. Lauren is a dedicated student- activist, who has been leading the student fight against rape culture at Carleton University.
Dr. Phil Mount is a lecturer and researcher at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Mount’s research employs a political economy lens to investigate issues related to the scale and governance of sustainable regional food systems. Much of this research focuses specifically on the intersection of food, health, and agriculture. He is currently the principal investigator of Project SOIL, which is focused on the possibility of on-site food production at public health care and educational institutions.
Dr. Milana Nikolko is Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. Her research interests span a variety of topics related to social capital formation and conflict in multi-ethnic societies, diaspora and horizontal legitimacy in global epoch, and political legitimacy in Post-Soviet space. She also teaches in these areas, including courses on nation building, nationalism, and ethnic conflict in Eastern and Central Europe.
Steven Orr is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. He has been involved in numerous provincial and federal electoral campaigns, working for the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada. He also runs a blog on Canadian politics and has an active twitter account on all things political.
Dr. Jeremy Paltiel is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. His PhD dissertation was a comparative study of political succession and economic reform in the Soviet Union and China; since then, he has continued to study the elite politics of the Chinese Communists. He is widely published, with his work exploring subjects related to China and its foreign relations, including the political economy of transition to market economies, management training in the People's Republic of China, and comparisons of business culture in China and Canada.
Dr. Maya Papineau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University. Dr. Papinaeu specializes in environmental and energy economics, the economics of climate change, renewable energy, and energy efficiency policy. She has experience as a policy analyst for Natural Resources Canada and as a researcher for the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway.
Kevin Patridge is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Carleton University. His research focuses on masculinities and the private security industry. He has published a chapter on militarized masculinities with Dr. Jane Parpart, and presented at numerous conferences on a variety of issues related to masculinities, security, and war.
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Matthew Pearson is a city hall reporter for the Ottawa Citizen where he covers municipal affairs and education. He is a graduate of the Carleton School of Journalism and Communication with a Master’s degree in Journalism and currently teaches as an instructor in the school.
Anna Przednowek is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Anna worked for over 14 years in South-Western Ontario as a social worker. Her research weds her clinical practice experience and her concern for the conditions that affect the lives of people labelled with Intellectual Disabilities and their caregivers.
Nasreen Rajani is currently a PhD student in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Her research interests lie at the intersections and interstices of technology, media, and feminist advocacy and activism.
Dr. Pauline Rankin researches and teaches in the area of gender and politics. Her current research is part of multi-disciplinary initiative at Carleton University, Gender Equality Measurement, focused on examining the ‘measurement turn’ in public policy and the questions related to epistemology, political change, policy innovation and feminist activism that arise from assumptions that equality can be quantified. Dr. Rankin is a past Director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies (2000-2005) and a former Director of the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies (2005-2007). She served as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Acting Director of the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies (2013-2014). She is currently Interim Associate Vice-President, Research & International.
Dr. Fiona Robinson, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, is a leading care ethicist and international relations scholar. She is the author of two books on care ethics (one of which was the winner of the inaugural J. Ann Tickner Book Prize in 2014 and shortlisted for the International Relations Book Prize, Canadian Political Science Association, in 2013), the co- editor of a collection on care and political economy, and the author of several articles on the ethics of care and global issues.
Daniel Rosenbloom is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. His dissertation identifies and interrogates the barriers to low-carbon innovation in Canada's energy systems, and attempts to uncover innovative ways to navigate such barriers.
Dr. Chris Russill is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. Dr. Russill studies and publishes on how we observe, know, and govern imperceptible environmental processes through media, thereby allowing us to process environmental changes that would otherwise be undetectable.
Dr. Stephen M. Saideman is currently Professor and Paterson Chair in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He specializes in the international relations of intervention. In addition to his extensive academic writing, Dr. Saideman maintains his own blog, contributes to several others, as well as tweets regularly on issues related to international relations, conflict, and politics. He also appears frequently in the media to discuss these same issues.
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Dr. Yiagadeesen Samy is a Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Dr. Samy’s broad research interests are in the areas of development economics and international trade, with a specific focus on trade and labour standards, debt relief, aid allocation, and the effectiveness of aid in fragile states.
David Sawyer has operated EnviroEconomics, a consulting firm, for over 20 years. He is one of Canada's leading environmental economists, and is an accomplished advisor, author, and communicator with experience working with government and industry in Canada and internationally. He is considered one of the best green house gas modelers in Canada, and is currently involved in designing the Canadian federal government's new climate action plan.
Sven Schirmer is a student at Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, pursuing a Master's degree in International Affairs. His research focus is on intelligence and national security. He is also currently a co-op student at Policy Horizons Canada, a research assistant for the Canadian Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, and a research assistant at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton.
Anna Shah Hoque is a Master of Arts student in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She is interested in exploring a range of topics in her research, including communications, identity, and hierarchies and normative discourses.
Professor Jonathan Shaughnessy holds a Master of Arts in Communications from Carleton University, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa. Professor Shaughnessy is also full-time Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Professor Shaughnessy has coordinated numerous exhibitions across Canada and has lectured at the National Gallery of Canada on acquisitions for the contemporary art collection.
Dr. Ray Silvius, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg, is interested in how rising non-Western political economies influence the global political economy. Using a heterodox and historical lens to explore international political economy and international relations, Dr. Silvius' work has focused specifically on the interstices of Russian state projects and post-Western notions of the global political economy.
Dr. Dale Spencer is Assistant Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. His research investigates violence, victimization, men and masculinities, and criminalization of the homeless and young people. He has published several articles analyzing topics related to these areas, including a book on martial arts, violence, and gender.
Dr. Christopher Stoney is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and Academic Director of the Transportation Innovation Policy Centre (TPIC) and Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE). His main research focus has examined infrastructure and urban sustainability and identifies barriers and opportunities in the field. Stoney recently published along with Graeme Auld and Bruce Doern Green-Lite: 50 Years of Canadian Environmental Policy, Democracy and Governance (2015) and is expected to publish along with John Martin and Alessandro Spano The State of Play: An International Comparison of Innovation in Local Government (2016).
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Dr. Mira Sucharov specializes in psychological and identity approaches to international relations, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and Diaspora Jewish politics. She is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Sucharov is committed to contributing to public debates and knowledge mobilization through political opinion writing and newspaper columns. In particular, she has reoccurring columns in Haaretz, The Jewish Daily Forward, and the Canadian Jewish News.
Peter Szyszlo is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development and Global Studies. His doctoral research aims to address the changing nature of higher education in Ukraine, against a backdrop of broader political transition and macro- political dynamics of globalization and the knowledge economy. Szyszlo is a member of the EUREDOCS Network (Sciences Po Paris) and the European Research Area Collaborative Research Network.
Viktoriya Thomson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. She is specializing in the politics of the Ukraine and the ‘Orange Revolution.’
Dr. Boris Vukovic works as a Disabilities Coordinator at the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities at Carleton University. Dr. Vukovic specializes in alleviating barriers to post- secondary education for students with psychiatric disabilities, learning disabilities, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Dr. Chris Waddell, the Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism at Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. He presently serves as publisher of J- source, is an associate editor at iPolitics, and is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He has written chapters in a wide range of books on political, economic and media issues and is a frequent commentator in the media on those issues.
Dr. Ira Wagman is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, and specializes in television studies, cultural theory, media and communication theory, media industries, and the ethics of mediated memory. Dr. Wagman is also cross-appointed to the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture, and was recently awarded the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy at the Center for Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Casey Warman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Dalhousie University. Dr. Warman specializes in the area of labour economics, and has published extensively on issues related to how immigrants navigate the Canadian economy and how the Canadian immigrant selection process influences the Canadian labour market.
Dr. Sandra Whitworth is Professor of Political Science and is also appointed to the graduate program in Gender, Feminism, and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Whitworth is renowned for her scholarship on feminism, international relations, and politics. In 2012, the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association named her the 'Eminent Feminist Scholar' and in 2016, she was named Distinguished Scholar by the International Studies Association-Canada.
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Dr. Alex Wilner is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, at Carleton University. Prior to joining Carleton, Dr. Wilner held a variety of positions at Policy Horizons Canada, the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, and the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His areas of expertise include deterrence theory and strategic studies, national security policy, and strategic foresight.
Dr. Stanley Winer is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy at the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Economics at Carleton University. His research combines economics and politics to work towards an understanding of the structure and evolution of fiscal systems in modern democracies. He is currently pursuing research addressing the meaning, measurement, and consequences for policy of electoral competitiveness in Canada, the United States, and India.
Dr. Dwayne Winseck is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Communications at Carleton University. In addition to his scholarly research on the political economy of communication and media, Dr. Winseck, maintains a well-regarded blog, Mediamorphis, and writes a bi-weekly column for The Globe and Mail. His research reflects his commitment to public scholarship through media, as he often analyzes issues related to media activist groups, media ownership, national and international regulatory experts and bodies, and how these groups influence the flow of information.
Dr. Frances Woolley is Professor of Economics at Carleton University and President Elect and Conference Organizer for the Canadian Economics Association. Her research centers on public policy, families, family decision-making modeling, and feminist economics. Dr. Woolley also has an on-going commitment to using this research, and economic theory more generally, to explain everyday experience in both her academic writings and her public blog.
Dr. Christopher Worswick is Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Carleton University. Dr. Worswick is an expert in the fields of labour economics and the economics of immigration; his extensive body of work has explored a range of issues pertaining to the Canadian economy, including the intersection of technological change and immigrant income, the relation between wage returns and mid-career job training, and immigrant earning profiles.
Dr. Mikhail Zherebtsov is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Zherebtsov's research interests are centered on contemporary issues of governance and public policy in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, including public administration reforms and institutional modernization, as well as regional politics and federalism in Vladimir Putin's Russia. He is also currently investigating the development of E-government in Russia.
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