Contact information
Email: vkitchen@uwaterloo.ca
Areas of specialization
- International Relations
- Security studies
- Feminist security studies
- Canadian national security
- International Relations pedagogy
Degrees
- PhD, Political Science, Brown University
- A.M., Political Science, Brown University
- B.A. Hons (with high distinction), International Relations, University of Toronto
Veronica Kitchen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where she researches national security and teaches in the field of International Relations. She is a member of the Balsillie School Board, and the Interuniversity Partnership Council governing the Global Governance PhD programme. She was co-director of the Canadian Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS) (through 2023) and serves on the executive of its successor, the Canadian Network for the Study of Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES) where she is co-lead of the working group on early career researchers. She has published extensively on gender and national security, heroism and global politics, IR pedagogy, mega-event security, Canadian-American security relations, and transatlantic security relations.
Selected awards
- Fulbright Scholar, 2001
Selected Publications
- Kitchen, Veronica and Jennifer Mathers, editors. 2019. Heroism and Global Politics. Abingdon: Routledge. . Published in paperback in 2022.
- Kitchen, Veronica. 2010. The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security and Identity (New York: Routledge).
- Kitchen, Veronica. 2025. “The Post-9/11 Evolution of National Security in Canada” in: International Relations in Canada. Ed. Michael Murphy. Under contract, Palgrave.
- Kitchen, Veronica. 2023. “Multilayered but Not Coordinated: National Security Policing in Canada after 9/11” in The Legacy of 9/11: Views from North America eds. Andrea Charron, Alex Moens & Stéphane Roussel. McGill-Queens. *Chosen by The Hill Times as one of their 100 best books of 2023.
- Bandula-Irwin, Tanya. and Kitchen, Veronica. 2022. The Twitter Conference as a New Medium of Scholarly Communication (and How to Host One). PS: Political Science & Politics, 55(4), pp.778-782.
- Kitchen, Veronica. 2021. “Using Games and Simulations to Scaffold Experiential Learning in Global Politics” Journal of Political Science Education 18(1): 119-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2021.1987258
- Kitchen, Veronica. 2018. "Veterans and military masculinity in popular romance fiction." Critical Military Studies 4(1):34-51.
- Kitchen, Veronica and Kimberly Rygiel. 2014. “Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada” International Political Sociology 8(2): 201-217. 50/50 co-authorship.
- Dunton, Caroline and Veronica Kitchen. 2014. “Paradiplomatic Policing and Relocating Canadian Foreign Policy” International Journal 69(2): 183-197. 50/50 co-authorship.
Current projects
- Provide in a list format.
- Gender & national security
- Global politics pedagogy
- Research safety & security
Courses taught
- PSCI 150
- PSCI 281
- PSCI 420
- PSCI 482
- PSCI 611