Affiliated faculty

Indian Politics; Nationalism; Masculinities

Ethnobiology, Biocultural diversity and Ecosystem health

Comparative politics and public policy (advanced industrial countries); American government and politics; Information and communications policy; social implications of new information technologies

History of Western interpretations of Chinese history and society; the history of China and South Asia since 1400, Western intellectual and cultural history; the comparative history of science, economic and social history and the history of colonial and post-colonial societies. 

Latin American politics; Human rights; Democratization; Policing; Media; Social movements and Protests; Transitional Justice;

Modern South Asian history from the eighteenth century to the present, colonial India, histories of religion, empire, nationalisms, and decolonization; trans-national history, global history.

Intersections between Secularism; Religious Radicalization; Securitization; Post-colonialism; Religious Identity in Contemporary Canada.

"water sustainability, sound resource management, public policy development, and ecologically based legal and institutional reform."

International education and research, comparative public administration, international cooperation and development in a multilateral context

Comparative politics and policies studies; Comparative urban, politics and governance studies; Comparative border and migration studies; Governance and multilevel/complex governance systems

Modern Middle Eastern History; World History; Colonial Land Policies

African Politics (South and Southern Africa focus); political economy of development; precarious work and labour market restructuring; globalisation and democratisation in Africa; labour and migration (Africa); ‘decent work’ and global clothing production.

Water law; Growth Management and Land Use Law, Food Systems and Agricultural land; Common Ownership of property.

Colonial and early national Latin American intellectual history; global cultural history; thematic interests include Indigenous and mestizo accounts of the Spanish Conquest; utopian thought; female spirituality; and Ibero-American as well as Ibero-Asian Baroque culture

"Economic Theory, Governance and Public Policy"

Groundwater footprints and sustainability; Mega-scale groundwater systems; Fluid flow around geologic structures; Groundwater recharge and discharge

Improving basic urban services in informal settlements; Waste co-production in Brazil; Policy and Outreach for re-shaping Waste into resources

Citizenship and Citizen Participation; Governance and Participatory; Governance; Collective bargaining and dispute resolution in the Public Sector; Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics; Welfare States and Social Policy; Gender and Sexuality; Work and Social Vulnerability; Labour Movements, Labour and Union politics;

Community-Based participatory research; social responsibility of higher education; knowledge democracy; social movement learning and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Public health systems and services research; health promotion; healthy cities and communities; health and nature; healthy public policy; community development and health

Health Inequities and Urban Structure, Social Gradients in Health Outcomes; Disability and Public Policy

Aesthetics, Ethics, History of Philosophy with special interests in Environmental Aesthetics and Ethics; Philosophy of Prehistoric and Contemporary Art; and Early Modern Philosophy

"Rural China state-society relations; mainland Southeast Asia; with a particular focus on development and gender

Forestry and Fish resource sectors; Urban Sustainability; Community-based Governance.

"Cross-sector collaboration; Stakeholder relationships; Business and human rights; Social & Community-based entrepreneurship"

Climate Change Issues; Application of Government Policy to Climate-change Mitigation and Adaptation

Cross-cultural and Sociological Perspectives on Children and their Care

Feminist Political Economy; Gender Equality Measurement; Community/ Economic Development and Wellbeing; Colonization and Decolonization; Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms; Global South/ Latin America & the Caribbean/ Africa

Intersection between romantic aesthetic theory and romantic conceptualizations of the “other"; early 20th century German literature

Anthropology of knowledge; Economic anthropology; Political anthropology; Globalization; Religion; Southeast Asia

Post-1945 diasporic and transcultural writing/filmmaking; memory studies; Jewish identity in contemporary cultural discourse; and teaching and learning about the Holocaust (HTL)

Professor and Director, Centre for Global Studies

19th colonial architecture in India; impact of international cultural conservation protocols on museum management practice in the developing world; architectural history and decorative arts, also heritage and museums studies

Political and legal theory/philosophy and their history; public philosophy; freedom; constitutionalism; nonviolence; civic engagement; Indigenous-Settler relations

Small-scale farmers and food sovereignty; history of poverty, race and gender; British colonial history

Contemporary social and political thought; Theories of discourse, ideology and culture; Philosophy of social science; International political theory; Concepts of space and time in political thought; Modernity/postmodernity

Securitisation and the social construction of security/insecurity; International relations theory; International security; Migration and refugee policy

International and global political economy; Globalization and governance; Non-governmental organizations, the non-profit sector, and global civil society

Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Union; social and political history of the Stalin period; as well as the formation of a modern Ukrainian nation from the mid-nineteenth century to the present

Globalization and transnational sociology