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Kimie Hara

Kimie Hara is a Professor and the Renison Research Professor in East Asian Studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo. She specializes in modern and contemporary international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, border studies, Cold War history, and Japanese politics and diplomacy. She supervises graduate students in the areas of East Asian Studies, International […]

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Erin Hannah

Erin Hannah

Erin Hannah is Associate Professor of Political Science at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. Her research and teaching interests include global political economy, development, gender and trade, global governance, global civil society, and the role of expert knowledge in global trade. She has published extensively on these topics in Review of

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Jonathan Hui

Jonathan Hui

Jonathan Hui is a PhD from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, with research interests in the fields of futures studies, international relations, and sociology, particularly Chinese and Asian approaches to international order. His dissertation is titled “Heaven is Quiet and Technologies are Everywhere: Chinese Cosmotechnics and Dyadic Approaches to International Structure”, which sketches a

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Seyed Ali Hosseini

Seyed Ali Hosseini

Ali Hosseini is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, focusing on global social governance. His broad research interests include peacebuilding, development, and institutionalization of human rights. His PhD dissertation focuses on failure of international intervention in assisting post-Taliban Afghanistan in institutionalization of a culture of peace, drawing interactions between

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Shohini Ghose

Shohini Ghose

Shohini Ghose is a Professor of Physics and Computer Science and founding Director of the Centre for Women in Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focuses on quantum computation and communication, as well as gender issues in science.

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Kamiel S. Gabriel

Kamiel S. Gabriel

Dr. Kamiel S. Gabriel holds a Bachelor of Science (honors degree), and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He holds a diploma in Space Science from the International Space University (H/Q in Strasburg, France), and an M.B.A.

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Nelson Graham

Nelson Graham

Nelson Graham is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University. His research delves into the pivotal role higher education institutions are playing in providing academic and integration supports to international students. Additionally, he explores how international student’s temporary status hinders their access to federal and

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Steven Evans

Stephen Evans

Dr. Stephen G. Evans is interested in the occurrence and behavior of catastrophic landslides, landslide dams, glacial hazards, tsunami and other natural disasters, hazard assessment (including magnitude and frequency) and risk analysis. Recently, in his investigation of the 2011 Japan tsunami, he became interested in the architecture and behavior of urban damage systems. His research

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Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk is a Ph.D. Candidate in Global Governance with the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests included critical migration and border studies, with a focus on gender. From an intersectional feminist framework, her dissertation examines how migration governance policies and practices shape the lived experiences and

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Aaron T. Francis

Aaron T. Francis

Aaron is s a PhD Candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, who is pursuing a specialization in global political economy. Aaron’s research examines the political economy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Caribbean with specific reference to extractive industry development in the aluminum and oil sectors of

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Tim Elcombe

Tim Elcombe

Tim Elcombe, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor and past Department Chair of Kinesiology & Physical Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. Broadly speaking, Dr. Elcombe’s scholarship uses a pragmatic normative lens to examine concepts and issues related to sport ethics, cultural and political aspects of sport, sport development and governance, and social impact through sport (and

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