BSIA Fellow

Izabela Steflja

Izabela Steflja

Izabela Steflja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU). Prior to joining WLU, Dr. Steflja was a Professor of Practice in International Development and Political Science at Tulane University (2016–2021). Dr. Steflja has conducted years of ethnographic fieldwork in post-conflict countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Serbia, and […]

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Ben Clift

Ben Clift

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy, Deputy Head, and Director of Research in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He recently held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The OBR and the

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Vicki Squire

Vicki Squire

Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Her research explores the politics of migration, displacement, asylum and solidarity activism across various contexts. She is author of several books, including Reclaiming Migration (2021, Manchester University Press), Europe’s Migration Crisis (2020, Cambridge University Press), Post/Humanitarian Border

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Trevor McCrisken

Trevor McCrisken

Trevor McCrisken’s research and teaching interests are in US foreign policy and US politics with a focus on the use of US military force, counterterrorism, national security policy and the ideational bases for US foreign policy. His current major research project focuses on the narratives constructed around the use of drones for ‘targeted killing’. He is

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Karen Yeates

Karen Yeates

Dr. Karen Yeates MD, FRCPC, MPH. is a graduate of McGill University (BSc 1993) and Queen’s University School of Medicine (1997). She is currently a Professor of Medicine and Clinician-Scientist in the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University. She co-founded (2012) and co-directed the Office of Global Health (ending in 2016) within the Faculty of

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Mark Raymond

Mark Raymond

Mark Raymond is the Wick Cary Associate Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Cyber Governance and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Social Practices of Rule-Making in World Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). His work appears in various academic journals including International Theory, the

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Don McCutchan

Don McCutchan

Don McCutchan has broad international experience, working with the financial sector, pension funds, mining, and real estate. A former senior official at the Canadian Department of Finance, Don was involved in virtually all areas of government policy and was actively involved with the negotiation of the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Don has extensive experience coordinating

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Monica Emelko

Monica Emelko

Monica Emelko is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Water Science, Technology & Policy at the University of Waterloo, where she also serves as the Director of the Water Science, Technology & Policy Group. Monica’s research is focused on drinking water supply and treatment, and risk analysis for public health protection.

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Michael Lawrence

Michael Lawrence is a Research Fellow of the Polycrisis Project at the Cascade Institute (Royal Roads University, Victoria BC) where he examines the causal mechanisms of crisis interactions across such global systems as governance, energy, food, economy, climate, ecology, technology, and security. He leads the Institute’s production of complexity learning tools, co-edited of the Global

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Cheryl Martens

Cheryl Martens

Dr. Cheryl Martens is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Sociology and History at the University of San Francisco Quito. She is co-investigator and the Quito project leader for the Hungry Cities Partnership project: Migration and Food Security in the Global South (MiFood). Her latest work focuses on Venezuelan migration and temporary shelter (Care, 2021)

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Benny Skinner

Benny Skinner

Benny Skinner (they/them) is a Two-Spirit thinker, educator, and creator living in the Great Lakes Regions (Waterloo, Haldimand Tract) of Turtle Island. On their father’s side, they come from the community of Harbour Round, Newfoundland that has mixed Ktaqmkuk Mi’kmaq, Inuit, Keltic, and French ancestry. On their mother’s side, they come from the Kapampangan people

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The BSIA is closed Monday, January 26th due to severe weather and local travel conditions.