Our Experts

Dr. Rouba Al-Fattal Eeckelaert is a professor at the University of Ottawa. She is an expert in European and Middle Eastern politics. She is a founding member of the Euro-Arab Forum and the founder/president of the Canada-Arab Forum, which are Brussels and Ottawa based NGOs promoting dialogue and cooperation. Rouba gained significant field experience at the Canadian Mission to the EU, PASSIA in Jerusalem, the Security and Defence Agenda, and the NATO-Parliamentary Assembly as a Research Assistant. She is also […]

Eugene Beaulieu is professor in the Department of Economics. Dr. Beaulieu’s principle area of research is empirical international economics, with an emphasis on political economy, causes and consequences of international trade policy, and economic development.   Research Interests: International Trade; Economic Development; CETA

Dr. Ana Maria Peredo is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Ana María joined the School of Environmental Studies in July 2016, prior to which she was a member of the Gustavson School of Business (2000-2016) and Director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy (2008-2014) at UVic. Her research focuses on the role of business in society, specifically poverty alleviation and business emerging from civil society. As an anthropologist, she has worked for UN and […]

Dr. Jen Baggs is an Associate Professor in the Peter B Gustavson School of Business, at the University of Victoria. Her primary research is on international trade and industrial organization, and focuses on how free trade agreements and exchange rate fluctuations affect firm survival, growth and financial structure, on international trade in hazardous waste, and on the effects of competition on incentive based contracts, effort and performance. Dr. Baggs conducts her research in association with Statistics Canada and the Entrepreneurship Research Alliance. […]

Dr. Basma Majerbi is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria. Her research is on international finance, and includes issues of integration versus segmentation of financial markets, international diversification benefits in portfolio investments, international finance and the role of financial systems in economic development and growth, as well as risk in currency pricing in global equity markets and foreign exchange rates. Dr. Majerbi is also Operations Chair for the Centre for Social and […]

Andrew Newcombe is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, at the University of Victoria. Professor Newcombe’s research focuses on international economic law dispute resolution, in particular, international investment law and investor-State arbitration. Before joining the faculty, Prof. Newcombe articled and practised as an associate with Swinton & Co. (now Miller Thomson) in Vancouver. In addition to his academic work, Prof. Newcombe advises governments, investors and non-State actors, and acts as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations. Research Interests: International public law, […]

Dr. Budd Hall is Professor Emeritus at the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. Prof Hall’s research interests are in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, Social Movement Learning and Community University Engagement. He has worked with partners in the Ireland, the UK, in the Netherlands, in Germany, in Italy (with the European Science Shop movement) and in Spain with […]

Charlotte Schallié is an Associate Professor and current Department Chair in the department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Her research interested include post-1945 diasporic and transcultural writing/filmmaking, memory studies, Jewish identity in contemporary cultural discourse, transcultural studies, and Holocaust education. Her current SSHRC-funded research project —“Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education,” develops a new dialogical-reflective pedagogy in Holocaust and Human Rights education fostering broad and deep collaborations and intercultural exchange between researchers, […]

Merli Tamtik is a Assistant Professor at the Faculty of  Education, University of Manitoba. Her research project focuses on policy coordination issues in Canadian innovation policy. She also works as a sessional instructor at Western University, teaching courses in educational policy and international education. Dr. Tamtik has graduated from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE), Faculty of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (LHAE) at the University of Toronto. Her research projects have examined the Open Method of Coordination […]

Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross is an Associate Professor at the Department of History (Humanities) at the University of Victoria. In his research and teaching Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross focuses on immigration, race, and inequality in twentieth century North America, with an emphasis on urban politics and experience. He has written on the experience of Italian immigrants in post-war North America. From 2010 to 2013, he was the chair of the urban studies committee at the University of Victoria. Comprised of faculty members in departments across […]

Helga Hallgrimsdottir joined the School of Public Administration in 2017. She is fellow at the Centre for Global Studies, a senior researcher for the project Borders in Globalization (BIG) and the current president of the University’s Faculty Association.  Helga Hallgrimsdottir is a historical comparative sociologist, using history and comparison to get perspective on what human experiences mean. Prior to her appointment at the School, she was appointed to the Department of Sociology at UVic.

Rosa Stewart is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Hispanic and Italian Studies (Humanities) at the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies (University of Victoria). Professor Stewart is also a Coordinator of the Study Abroad program at the Universidad de Alcalá, in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Her research interest is in the cultures of the Hispanic world, specifically in 19th century realism novels, colonial and contemporary Mexican novels, bilingual education, literature and the Spanish language. She takes part in the UVic Speakers Bureau and […]

Dr. Helga Thorson is an an Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Dr. Thorson’s research interests lie in modernist German and Austrian literature, Scandinavian studies, gender studies, history of medicine, foreign language pedagogy, and Holocaust studies. She also teaches the I-Witness field school; a four week course examining Holocaust memoralization in Central Europe. Research Interests: German and Austrian literature, Scandinavian Studies, Gender Studies, History of Medicine, and Holocaust Studies

Adam Molnar researches security and policing arrangements, practices of surveillance, and the implications for privacy and politics. In addition to his work on security, policing and major sports events – Dr. Molnar can speak to issues in national security and policing, in particular, counter-terrorism responses, civilian-military relations, public-order policing, and the use of surveillance technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), public video surveillance, lawful access to digital communications, other practices of surveillance and privacy – particularly those founding urban […]

Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk is professor at the departments of Germanic and Slavic Studies and History. His fields of expertise are: Russian History, Soviet Culture, Modern Ukraine, Stalinism (including Stalinist cinema, Nikolai Gogol), and modern Russian national identity as reflected in film and literature. Dr. Yekelchyk is author of Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (University of Toronto Press, 2004); Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford University Press, 2007; Choice magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” for […]

Iryna Matiyenko is a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on the analysis of the electronic identity card policy development in the Russian Federation. She examines motivations and drivers of this policy innovation, associated changes in public administration and social implications for population. Her research includes perspectives of privacy advocates and resistance movement to identity card. Iryna has five years of experience in non-profit projects in Poland and Ukraine in the role of the international project […]