Emma Swan

Emma Swan (She/Her) is an interdisciplinary scholar/practitioner in the field of gender and development, with a focus on fragile and conflict affected contexts. She holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa and is a cross-appointed post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Global Studies and the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost. Emma’s doctoral work explored how Western (and Orientalist) narratives related to Palestinian resistance have been integrated within liberal peacebuilding interventions and the diverse ways that men have, through a combination of cooption, resistance, and strategic adoption, navigated the resulting shifting resistance space. Her published work spans Canadian foreign policy, masculinity and resistance activism, and gender and peacebuilding. In addition to her academic work, Emma has consulted for development organizations such as Islamic Relief, Oxfam International, Action Against Hunger and UN Women.