Faculty

Areas of specialization

  • American and Canadian Politics
  • Comparative-Historial Political Development (Canada & US)
  • Comparative Social Policy

Angela Carter (on Leave)

Associate Professor | Balsillie School of International Affairs Fellow

Areas of specialization

  • Environmental policy/politics
  • Political economy
  • Comparative politics
  • Canadian politics

Alana Cattapan

Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair

Areas of Specialization

  • Gender and public policy
  • Reproductive justice
  • Public engagement
  • Community-engaged research
  • Health policy and biotechnology
  • Canadian politics

Andrew Cooper

University Research Chair and Professor | Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs | Associate Research Fellow - UNU CRIS

Areas of specialization

  • International institutions
  • Global governance 
  • Diplomacy 
  • Comparative foreign policy 

Anna Drake

Associate Professor

Areas of specialization

  • Contemporary Political Theory
  • Democratic Theory, Deliberative Democracy
  • Rights, Justice, and Activism
  • Feminist Theory 
  • Justice & Gender

Anna Esselment

Associate Professor | Associate Dean, Graduate Studies

Areas of specialization

  • Intergovernmental relations,
  • Campaigns and elections,
  • Canadian institutions,
  • Canadian politics,
  • Provincial politics,
  • Political parties,
  • Political marketing

Jasmin Habib

Professor | Chair, Political Science

Areas of specialization

  • Refugees, Diasporas and Exiles,
  • Settler-Colonialism,
  • Postcolonialism,
  • Anti-Racism,
  • Nonviolence,
  • Peace,
  • Feminist and Social Justice Movements,
  • Ethnography and Autoethnography,
  • Israel/Palestine Culture and Politics,
  • US Culture and Politics,
  • Human Rights and Humanitarianis

Areas of specialization

  • International political economy,
  • International money and finance,
  • History of political economy

Areas of specialization:

  • public administration
  • public policy
  • local government
  • federalism and multilevel governance

Jingjing Huo

Associate Professor

Areas of specialization

  • Political economy,
  • Political parties,
  • Research methods

Veronica Kitchen

Associate Professor

Areas of specialization

  • Security studies (critical security studies, feminist security studies)
  • National security
  • Counter-terrorism
  • International Relations
  • Canada-US relations

Alexander Lanoszka

Associate Professor

Areas of Specialization

  • International security
  • Alliance politics
  • Theories of war
  • European security  

Areas of specialization

  • Canadian Politics,
  • Public Policy,
  • The Supreme Court of Canada,
  • The Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
  • Parliament, Constitutional Law

Bessma Momani

Professor

Areas of specialization

  • International financial institutions,
  • Middle East Politics and Economics,
  • International Affairs,
  • Diversity and Populism

Mariam Mufti

Associate Professor | Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies | Co-op Advisor

Areas of specialization

  • Politics of South Asia,
  • hybrid regimes,
  • democratization,
  • party politics,
  • comparative politics

Areas of Specialization

  • International Political Economy,
  • Production and Trade,
  • Regionalism,
  • Economics and Security

Horatiu Rus

Associate Professor

Areas of specialization

  • International trade,
  • Environmental & natural resource economics,
  • International development,
  • Political economy

Hongying Wang

Associate Professor

Areas of specialization

  • Chinese politics,
  • International relations,
  • Political economy

David Welch

University Research Chair

Areas of specialization

  • International relations,
  • International security

Heather Whiteside

Associate Chair, Graduate Studies | Associate Professor | Balsillie School of International Affairs Fellow

Areas of Specialization

  • Political Economy
  • Public Policy

Rowland Keshena Robinson

Assistant Professor

Areas of Specialization

  • Native American and Native Canadian Politics
  • Native Identity
  • Decolonization
  • Settler Colonialism
  • Critical Native, Structuralist, Postmodern, Marxist, & Decolonial Theory