Zaiotti, Ruben

Ruben Zaiotti is the director of the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence, a Jean Monnet Chair in Public Diplomacy and Associate professor in the Political Science department at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). His main areas of interest are European Union politics, border control and immigration policy, social media and public diplomacy and transatlantic relations. Ruben Zaiotti is the author of the monograph “Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers” with University of Chicago Press and editor of books on language and globalization and on migration policy.  He has published articles for Review of International Studies, European Security, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Borderland Studies, International Journal of Refugee Law. You can find his musings about Europe and borders on the blog ‘Schengenalia’ and follow him on twitter @schengenizer. Ruben Zaiotti is also the curator for the recently launched project Schengen Border Art, an online repository of creative performances about European borders.

Research Interests: European Union, European Union-Canada relations, International relations and Foreign Policy, and International security