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
Shelly Ghai Bajaj (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2022) is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Bessma Momani on projects relating to identity, democracy, disinformation, and social media. She studies comparative politics of both developing and advanced industrial democracies and is interested in the politics of identity and ethnonationalist mobilization, political parties and party strategy, the
Halyna Padalko (She/Her): worked in media communications in Ukraine for 9 years as the TV host of a socio-political talk show “The opposite view LIVE”, press officer of the Ukrainian Digital Transformation Institute, and Chief Communications Officer for the Ukrainian “Vivat” publishing house. In 2020 Halyna was elected a deputy of the Lutsk City Council.
M. Tamer Özsu is a University Professor of Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo where he holds a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship. He also holds a Distinguished Visiting Professor position at Tsinghua University. He is the Founding Director of Waterloo-Huawei Joint Innovation Laboratory since 2018. His
Dr. Igor Linkov is Senior Science and Technology Manager with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), and Adjunct Professor with Carnegie Mellon University. He develops methods and tools for measuring risk and resilience in interconnected networks and applies these tools to critical infrastructure, transportation, energy and cyber systems, supply chains and currently
Helena Shilomboleni is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. She is also a Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo. Her research areas of expertise are agriculture and food security, climate smart agriculture, scaling
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