Our Experts

Daiva Stasiulis has published extensively on citizenship, race and migration, feminism and diversity. In connection with her research on foreign domestic workers, she has worked with domestic worker associations and served as the Chair of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Violence Against Migrant Workers. In 2007, with co-author Abigail Bakan, she was awarded the 2007 Canadian Women’s Studies Association annual book prize for Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (University of Toronto, 2005). Professor […]

Tuula Heinonen is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. Her interests are in gender and international social development, women’s health, integration issues of immigrants and refugees in new host countries, photovoice, and arts-based social work practice and research. She also completed an advanced diploma in art therapy at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute in 2016. Research Interests: International Social Development, Cultural Identity and Cultural Retention of Immigrants, Refugee and Immigrant Settlement Issues, Social […]

Laura Macdonald is an expert on Latin America and global political economy. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance and the political impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). She has edited four books: The Politics of Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (with Tina Hilgers); North American in Question: Regional Integration […]

Jeff Sahadeo is Associate Professor at Carleton University and the director of the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS). His teaching and research interests include the eastwards expansion of the European Union, diaspora, migration, and empire in Eastern Europe and Asia. He also works on issues of colonialism, nationality, frontiers, and borders in relations of power and the creation of identities and states. Jeff Sahadeo has conducted extensive work in Uzbekistan. His current research focuses on issues of […]

For over a decade Nimo Bokore’s research focused on immigrant and refugee resettlement in Canada. Her latest study explores how Canadian-Somali women conceptualize war trauma, forced migration, and how these circumstances influence their later resettlement process.  She is currently collaborating with other teams on projects  such as: (1)“Emerging voices: how Syrian newcomers and other key stakeholders perceive Canada’s three sponsorship programs for refugee (re)settlement”   funded by the Social Science And Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant (2) “Finding a Space […]

Jeffrey G. Reitz (Ph.D., FRSC) is the R.F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and Professor and former Chair in the University’s Department of Sociology.  He has published extensively on immigration and inter-group relations in Canada from comparative perspectives and has frequently contributed to discussions of policies on immigration, multiculturalism and immigrant employment in Canada.  He is the co-author […]

Professor Dembinska’s research focuses on Central Europe and post-soviet space covering issues of identity politics, majority-minority relations, ethnic conflicts and inter-ethnic integration. She explores the politics of recognition and ethno-political movements in post-communist countries. She works on the processes of the construction of states and nations, mainly looking into developments in post-conflict societies and de facto States. She studies political and institutional processes of building trust in divided societies. And finally, she looks into the role of ‘borderization’ processes for […]

Nancy Vamvakas obtained her Ph.D. from Western University. She was awarded a Post-doctoral SSHRC Fellowship in 2006 which led to the publication of her book, Europeanizing Greece (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Dr. Vamvakas teaches Comparative European Politics, Public Administration and Environmental Politics. Her area of specialization is Greece. Dr. Vamvakas joined Dr. Jurg Steiner’s international research team, The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy, in 2014.  Under this umbrella, she is examining the deliberations leading to the Syriza Government’s signing of Greece’s Third Memorandum of Understanding. […]

Jeremy Kinsman is a former Canadian diplomat. He was the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2000–2002) and the Canadian Ambassador to the European Union (2002–2006). He was the Canadian ambassador to numerous countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Balkans and the Russian Federation. Since 2011, he has been Distinguished Diplomatic Visitor at Ryerson University, Toronto. Jeremy  Kinsman has been a member of the Foreign Affairs Council of Justin Trudeau. Jeremy comments on foreign affairs, and contributes to CBC News, Policy Options magazine, the Globe and Mail, and the International Herald […]

Dr. Melanie Adrian is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her work critically examines the tensions which arise when a general religious right is applied in a specific context and what this application signifies for national identity and cultural norms. Her book, Religious Freedom at Risk: The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned (Springer, 2016), takes up these issues in France and the wider European context.   Research interests: […]

Health care is a policy area undergoing rapid, profound, and costly metamorphoses; yet forms of health care governance rarely evolve in step with these changes. Katherine Fierlbeck examines innovative forms of governance emerging from disciplines ranging from public administration to epidemiology, and investigates how well they can be applied to discrete fields of health care. She also focuses on the development of inter-governmental relationships in addressing specific areas of policy development (such as health technology assessment and pharmaceutical purchasing).   […]

Laurie Beaudonnet is an Assistant Professor and the Jean Monnet Chair at te University of Montreal. Her research interests include: Comparative politics, European integration, political behavior, public opinion, elections, multi-level governance, welfare regimes and quantitatives methods. Research Interests: EU integration; EU politics; EU elections

Antoine Rayroux works as consultant in international affairs, with expertise in Canada-Europe relations, and he is a visiting scholar at CÉRIUM – the Centre for International Studies at the Université de Montréal. He is currently involved in various EU-funded projects that foster the policy dialogue with Canada – covering both trade agreement (CETA) and strategic partnership agreement (SPA). Prior to that, he was a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Concordia University and has been a Fulbright-Schuman visiting scholar at […]

Kristin Semmens specialises in the history of tourism and leisure under Hitler. Currently she is also working on a book project for Bloomsbury Press, a short introduction to the Third Reich. Research Interests: The Holocaust, German history, Modern European history, History of tourism and leisure, and Public history

Dr. Lloyd Howard was Professor at and Chair of the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria until his retirement in 2016.  His area of research comprises Medieval Italian Literature and Dante Studies in particular.   Research Interests: Italian Studies, Medieval Italian Literature, Dante Studies.

Daniel Stockemer’s research interests are in the field of political participation, political representation, right-wing extremism in Europe, as well as quantitative and qualitative research methods. Dr. Stockemer is co-editor of European Political Science (EPS), the professional journal of European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).  Research Interests: Political participation, Elections, Social movements, Right-wing extremism, Democracy and democratisation, Women’s representation, and Quantitative and qualitative methods