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Curriculum Vitae Dr. Bessma Momani Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo Balsillie School of International Affairs WEBSITE www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~bmomani LANGUAGES English, Arabic, Basic French EDUCATION Ph.D. 2002, University of Western Ontario M.A. 1996, University of Guelph B.A. 1994, University of Toronto CURRENT POSITIONS 2004- Professor, Political Science, University of Waterloo/Balsillie School of International Affairs. 2018- Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Stimson Center, Washington, DC. 2005- Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance and Innovation, Waterloo, Canada. 2015-2018 Trudeau Fellow, The Trudeau Foundation, Montreal, Quebec. 2018- Member, Provincial Security Advisory Board, Ontario, Canada. PAST POSITIONS 2016-2018 Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Doha Center. 2017 Consultant, IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office. 2011-2014 Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. 2012-2013 Visiting Associate, Georgetown University’s Mortara Research Center, Washington, DC. 1998-2004 Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario. 2002-2003 Lecturer, Wilfrid Laurier University. EXPERTISE • Middle Eastern Politics; Middle Eastern Economies • Populism, Radicalization, and Diversity • International Financial Institutions; Global Economic Governance GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONOURS 2017 SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant ($25,000) 2016-2017 Department of National Defence ($14,000) 2016-2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Public Interaction Grant ($150,000) 2016-2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Project Grant ($50,000) 2016-2017 BSIA Publication Support Grant ($3,000) 2016-2017 BSIA Workshop Support Grant ($7,500) 2016-2017 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant ($200,000) [PI - J. Habib] 2015-2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship Award ($250,0000) 2015-2016 SSHRC Connection Grant ($50,000) [Principal Investigator] 2015-2016 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award Page 1 of 22 2015-2016 University of Waterloo Excellence in Arts Teaching Award 2015-2020 SSHRC Insight Grant ($123,000) [Co-Investigator] 2015-2020 SSHRC Insight Grant ($85,000) [Principal Investigator] 2014-2015 IDRC Small Partnership Grant ($12,500) 2014 UBC Scholarly Publication Award ($8,000) 2013-2014 UW Lois Claxton HSS Endowment Fund Award ($7,000) 2013-2014 UW Research Incentive Fund ($8,000) 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar Award ($12,500) 2013 Nominated for the Arab Ambassadors Award, political category. 2012-2013 UW/SSHRC Seed Grant ($5,000) 2011-2012 UW Research Incentive Fund ($8,000) 2011-2013 UW International Collaboration Grant ($10,000) 2011 Nominated for the Canadian Public Administration’s J.E.H. Hodgetts Award. 2011-2013 SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($75,000) 2010-2011 UW/SSHRC Seed Grant ($8,000) 2010-2011 UW Course Internationalization Grant ($1,500) 2009-2010 UW Lois Claxton HSS Endowment Fund Award ($3,000) 2007-2010 SSHRC Strategic Grant ($84,500) 2006-2007 UW/SSHRC Seed Grant ($5,500) 2005-2006 UW/SSHRC Travel Grant ($1,200) 2004-2005 UW/SSHRC Seed Grant ($5,500) 1996-1999 Female Doctoral Scholarship- Annual 1996-1999 Special University Scholarship; UWO- Annual 1994-1995 University of Guelph Founding Scholar Award June 1994 High Distinction; University of Toronto BA Degree June 1994 Dean’s Honour List; University of Toronto 1990-1991 Ontario Scholar Award PUBLICATIONS Books 1. We Stand on Guard for Thee Co-edited with A. Edgar and R. Mangat. University of Toronto Press (Submitted, 2018) 2. What’s Wrong with the IMF? Co-authored with Mark Hibben. Polity Press. (2017). 3. Tahrir Square and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on Politics, Law and Security. Co-edited with Eid Mohamed. Indiana University Press. (2016). 4. An Arab Dawn: The Demographic Dividend of Arab Youth. University of Toronto Press. (2015). 5. Targeted Transnationals: The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians. Co-edited with Jenna Hennebry. UBC Press. (2013). 6. Shifting GeoEconomic Power of the Gulf. Co-edited with Matteo Legrenzi. London: Ashgate. (2011). 7. From Desolation to Reconstruction: Iraq’s Troubled Journey. Co-edited with Mokhtar Lamani. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (2010). 8. Canada and the Middle East: In theory and practice. Co-edited with Paul Heinbecker. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. (2007). 9. IMF-Egyptian Negotiations. Cairo Papers in Social Science. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press. (2006). 10. Twentieth-Century World History 1st Canadian Edition. With W. Duiker. Toronto: Thomson-Nelson. (2006). Peer-Reviewed Articles 1. “The Importance of Transnational Circulation for Citizenship Capacity-Building.” International Political Sociology, with Melissa Finn (Forthcoming, 2018). Page 2 of 22 2. “Theorizing the Power and Impact of Geographies of Circularity: Local and Transnational Arab Activism” with Melissa Finn and Michael Opatowski in International Political Sociology (2018). 3. "Canadian Arab Youth Vote 2015" with Melissa Finn, Canadian Political Science Review (2018). 4. “Building Foundations for the Comparative Study of State and Non-State Terrorism: Strategic Communication in the Terrorism Attack Cycle” with Melissa Finn in Critical Studies on Terrorism. Pages 1-25. (2017). 5. "Established and emergent political subjectivities in circular human geographies: transnational Arab activists” with Melissa Finn in Citizenship Studies 21.1 (2017): 22-43. 6. "Canadian Foreign Policy from the roaring 1990s." International Journal 72, no. 2 (2017): 192-202. 7. “Youth Evaluations of Countering Violent Extremism and Anti-Radicalization Programming in Kenya” with Melissa Finn and Michaal Opondo in Journal for Deradicalization No. 7, Pages 164-224. (2016). 8. "An Effective Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A Bottom Up Approach” with Anton Malkin in Global Policy Vol 6, Issue 4. Pages 521-530 (2016). 9. “Cooperation or Clashes on 19th Street? Theorizing and Assessing IMF and World Bank Collaboration” with Mark Hibben in the Journal of International Organizational Studies. Vol. 6, Issue 2. Pages 27-43. (December, 2015). 10. “Best Practices in Central Banks’ Organizational Culture, Learning and Structure: Case of the Moroccan Central Bank” with Samantha St. Amand in Economic Notes. Vol. 44, No. 3. Pages 449-481. (October, 2015). 11. “Muslim Brotherhood: Between Democracy, Ideology and Distrust” in Sociology of Islam with Eid Mohamed Vol. 2, Issue 3-4. Pages 196-212 (2014). 12. “The Harper Governments' Messaging in the build up to the Libyan Intervention; Was Canada different than its NATO Allies” in Canadian Foreign Policy Journal with A. Cooper Vol. 20, Issue 2. Pages 176-188 (Fall 2014). 13. “Re-balancing the G20 from efficiency to legitimacy: The 3G coalition and the practice of global governance” in Global Governance with A. Cooper Vol. 20, No. 2. Pages 213-232 (April-June 2014). 14. “Change in IMF Policy Advice to North Africa After the Arab Uprisings” in Journal of International Organizations Studies with D. Lanz Vol. 5, Issue 2. Pages 37-52. (September 2014). 15. “The United States and Bahrain: Interpreting the Differentiated Response to the Arab Spring” in Digest on Middle East Studies w. A. Cooper and A. Farooq. Vol 22, Issue 2. Pages 360-384. (Fall, 2014). 16. "The Harper Governments' Messaging in the build up to the Libyan Intervention; Was Canada different then its NATO Allies"” in Canadian Foreign Policy Journal with A. Cooper Vol. 20, Issue 2. Pages 176-188 (Fall, 2014). 17. “Re-balancing the G20 from efficiency to legitimacy: The 3G coalition and the practice of global governance” in Global Governance with A. Cooper Vol. 20, No. 2. Pages 213-232 (April-June 2014).+“Whose authority? Exporting Canadian urban planning expertise to Jordan and Abu Dhabi” in GeoForum with L. Khirfan & Z. Jaffer Vol. 50. Pages 1-9 (December, 2013). 18. “China at the International Monetary Fund: Continued Engagement In Its Drive for Membership and Added Voice at the IMF Executive Board” in Journal of Chinese Economies Vol. 1, Issue 1. Pages 125-150 (December, 2013). 19. “Explaining the Use of Planning Consultants in Ontario Cities” in Canadian Public Administration with L. Khirfan Vol. 6, Issue 3. Pages 391-413 (September, 2013). 20. “The Arab Spring Can Bring a Demographic Dividend: That is Good for Business and Investors" in the Global Policy Journal Special Issue. Pages 1-11 (August, 2013). 21. Management consultants and the United States’ public sector” in Business and Politics Vol. 15, Issue 3. Pages 381-399 (August, 2013). 22. “Shaping the Middle East in the Midst of the Arab Uprisings: Turkish and Saudi Foreign Policy Strategies” in Third World Quarterly with C. Ennis Vol. 34, No. 6. Pages 1127-1144 (July, 2013). 23. “The Knowledge Bank Testing the Limits of a Legitimate Global Knowledge Actor” in Review of Policy Research with Teresa Kramraz Vol. 30, No. 1. Pages 409-431 (July, 2013). 24. “(Re)Branding Amman: the values, the image and the making of place" in Place Branding and Public Diplomacy with L. Khirfan Vol. 9. Pages 49-65 (February, 2013). 25. “Between Caution and Controversy: Lessons from the GCC States as (Re)Emerging Donors” in Cambridge Review of International Affairs with C. Ennis Vol. 25, No. 4. Pages 605-627 (December, 2012). 26. “Japan’s Rescue of the IMF” in Social Science Japan Journal with Carin Holryod Vol. 15, Issue 2. Pages 201-218 (January, 2012). Page 3 of 22 27. "Qatar and expanded contours of Small State Diplomacy" in International Spectator with A. Cooper Vol. 46, Issue 3. Pages 113-128 (June, 2011). 28. "The IMF and its Borrowers: How Multipolarity