Konrad, Victor
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.
Listing Details
| 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: | Konrad and M. Kelly, eds. (2021) Borders, Culture, and Globalization: A Canadian Perspective. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. Konrad (2021) “Expanded Border Images and Aligned Border Narratives: China Encounters and Negotiates the Border with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam,” In J. Schimanski and J. Nyman, eds. Border Images, Border Narratives. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. Rethinking Borders Series, 127-47. Konrad and R. Widdis, eds. (2021) Borders and Bordering in Atlantic Canada. Victoria: Borders in Globalization e-book. https://biglobalization.org/outputs/bigbooks Ptak and V. Konrad (2021) “’Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones’”: How borders, energy development and ongoing experimentation shape the dynamic transformation of Yunnan Province.” Journal of Borderlands Studies 36, 5 https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2021.1924074 Correa-Cabrera and V. Konrad (co-editors) (2020) North American Borders in Comparative Perspective. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. |
