Veronica Kitchen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where she researches national security and teaches in the field of International Relations. She was co-director of the Canadian Network for Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS) (through 2023) and serves on the executive of its successor, the Canadian Network for the Study of Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES) where she is co-lead of the working group on early career researcher. She has published extensively on gender and national security, heroism and global politics, IR pedagogy, mega-event security, Canadian-American security relations, and transatlantic security relations.