In 1990, Victor Konrad accepted the position as founding Executive Director of the Fulbright Program between Canada and the United States. Dr. Konrad has devoted his career to higher education advancement and development between these neighbouring countries. His research is centred on the transfer of culture across borders, and he has published extensively about Native American encounters with Europeans, cultural landscape transitions, and Canada-U.S. borderlands. Professor Konrad has taught at universities in the United States and Canada, and from 1980 to 1990 served as Director of the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine.
Research Interests: North American relations, Culture transfer across boundaries, Migration and identity, Border policy, Geography.
| Institution: | Carleton University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Collective Identity Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Migration |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | victor.konrad@carleton.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | V. Konrad (2017) “Re-Shaping Cross-Border Governance in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands,” In B. Dupeyron and T. Payan, eds. Agents and Structures in Cross-Border Governance: North American and European Comparative Perspective. (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press) V. Konrad and L. Rouviere (2016) “La <>, l’ouverture de la frontiere chypriote et le potential de reunification,” Diplomatie 80 (Mai-Juin 2016), 20-25. V. Konrad (2015) “Greening the ‘Green Line’ in Cyprus,” La Frontera (Spring 2015) 35, 2: 18-19. A. Amilhat-Szary and V. Konrad (2017) Border Culture. Border Regions Series. Routledge (under review) G. Correa-Cabrera and V. Konrad, eds.(2017) North American Borders in Comparative Perspective. University of Arizona Press (under review) Z. Hu and V. Konrad (2017) “Narrating Territory and Security in Remote Border Places: The Kokang Dispute and the Evolving Borderlands between China and Myanmar,” Geopolitics ( published online April 28, 2017) V. Konrad (2016) “Continental East-West and Global North-South? Re-Imagining (B)Orders in Globalization,” International Studies 50, 1&2: 16-34. V. Konrad (2015) “Evolving Canada-United States Cross-Border Mobility in the Cascade Gateway,” Research in Transportation Business and Management Special Issue on Transportation and Trade Across International Borders, 16, September, 121-130. |
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