Zijie Zhang is a student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in the Master of International Public Policy program. His research interests center around the constructive role of middle powers like Canada in establishing new norms in the Indo-Pacific in the fields of global governance. He received his doctoral degree in International Relations from […]
Hannah recently graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science specializing in Research with a minor in Geography. Throughout her undergraduate degree, Hannah developed a strong interest in researching gender, development, peace, and conflict. In the final year of her undergraduate program, Hannah had the opportunity as one of
Blayne Haggart is an associate professor of political science at Brock University in St. Catharines and a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo. His research focuses on the international political economy of knowledge, including intellectual property, and internet and data governance. He has written extensively for popular and academic
Natasha Tusikov is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto and a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology and regulation. Her research interests
Dr. Herdem is researching the policy and technological governance of green hydrogen within the context of sustainable energy transitions.
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Michael Gordon’s research broadly surrounds irregularized migration and the externalization of European border controls, with a particular focus on the acts of solidarity through the work of civil society Search and Rescue (SAR) operations. These research interests coalesce around the theoretical intersections between sovereignty, solidarity, forced migration and borders at the supposed margins of the Global North. In
Roman Vysochanskyy is a scholar with extensive experience in the fields of philosophy and humanities. His areas of specialization span Introduction to Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Postcolonial Studies. Roman has proven competence in Orientalism and Postcolonial Studies, and International Public Policy within the Context of Security and Governance. From 2016 to 2022, Roman functioned
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Dr. Philipp Blechinger is an international expert in renewable energy and rural electrification. He holds a PhD in engineering from the TU Berlin. During his studies, he gained first working experiences in 2007 – 2008, working with consultancies in the field of renewable energy supply. He continued working as researcher at TU Berlin in the
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Russell J. A. Kilbourn is Professor and Chair of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Kilbourn publishes on memory, film, comparative studies, critical posthumanism, and postsecular cinema. His books include The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (Wallflower/Columbia UP, 2020), W.G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (NWU Press, 2018), The
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Dr. Sandra Biskupski-Mujanovic is a SSHRC Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) postdoctoral fellow in the University of Waterloo Political Science Department. Building on her doctoral work, Dr. Biskupski-Mujanovic’s research investigates men’s commitment to achieving greater gender equality in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Her areas of research and teaching specialization include gender, conflict, and
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Ivan (John) Jaworsky is Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (retired in 2018). His research interests include dissent and its legacies in the Soviet Union and its successor states, regional issues and inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine, civil-military relations in Ukraine, and the politics of ethnicity in Canada. Between 2000 and 2010 he was
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Dr. Tom Deligiannis is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. His research focuses on the peace and conflict implications of human pressure on the natural environment, particularly qualitative research linking environmental change and violent conflict. Tom received his PhD from the Department of Political Science, University
