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Keith Cherry is a teacher, researcher and community activist living on unceded Coast Salish territories. Keith is currently a Killam Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta working with Prof. Joshua Nichols. His upcoming research project explores the relationship between rural Indigenous activists and their urban supporters in co-articulating social struggles. Keith Cherry is also CFGS Graduate Fellow, having received a PHD in Law and Society at UVic working with Professors Jeremy Webber, John Borrows, Oliver Schmidtke and James Tully. He […]

Jörg Broschek holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair at Wilfrid Laurier University and focuses on issues of Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance in Europe and Canada. Broschek’s work uses case studies to compare patterns in the institutional architecture, development, and operational performance of systems of multilevel governance. His current research focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of institutional reforms in federal systems and multilevel trade governance in North America, Europe and Australia Concepts and applications of multilevel governance are particularly […]

Ben is a scientific research collaborator and Postdoctoral Scholar in the “Borders in Globalization” program at the Center for Global Studies at Uvic. His work focuses on the theoretical and legal renewal of the territorial borders of the States in the era of globalization. He is writing a book about the concept of “postmodern border” which proposes that the border is not only analyzable by the territory and by the inter-state level but rather by the prism of the relationships between […]

Edwin Hodge is an Assistant Professor, and a research fellow with the Borders in Globalization program at the Centre for Global Studies. Edwin’s research background lies in the areas of social movement theory, gender theory, and political sociology. His most recent work has been to examine political radicalization and conspiratorial thinking in Far Right social movements.   Research Interests: Right wing extremism, Social movements, White supremacy & the Alt Right, Incel & “red pill” movements, Masculinities.

Amelia joined the University of Surrey in January 2019 as Head of the Department of Politics, and Chair in European and International Affairs. Previously she worked as Director of the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Canterbury Christ Church Uni (2013-2018), after positions in Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Institute for European Studies, where she directed the Euromaster degree, as well as the Educational Development (EDU). Amelia is a long-standing Jean […]

Arnd-Michael Nohl is investigating various subject-matters from an educational science perspective: the political socialization of populism supporters, the educational interaction in child day-care centers, learning with and from material things. In the course of his research, he also further develops qualitative methods. Research Interests: Political Socialization, Political Education, Educational Processes, Migration, Populism, and Research Methods

Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey. His current research interests include Europeanization of foreign policy, politics of austerity in Europe, issues of policy implementation and political trust, the current Eurozone crisis from the perspective of the rise in populism, pathways to political engagement in Europe and the rise of populism and the emergence of national stereotypes in the media. Dr. Exadaktylos is the co-editor of Research Methods in […]

Franziska Fischer currently pursues her Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria in the faculty of Political Science under the supervision of Dr. Oliver Schmidtke and in collaboration with the Centre for Global Studies. She successfully balances her academic career and the arrival of her first child in January 2019. Franziska holds an MA joint degree in Erasmus Mundus Global Studies from the University of Leipzig and the University of Wroclaw with an additional research semester at Dalhousie University in […]

Dr. Chien-Huei Wu is currently Associate Research Professor at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree in European University Institute, Florence in 2009. Since then, he worked as Assistant Professor at the National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan for a short period. Before pursuing his doctoral degree in Florence, he worked for the Ministry of Justice in Taiwan as a district attorney. In 2011-12 , he advised the Ministry in drafting […]

Dr. Andrea Wagner is an Assistant Professor at MacEwan University in Edmonton and a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, providing the European Commission with regular updates and analytical reports on Romania’s latest anti-corruption efforts. Dr. Wagner has worked for the United Nations Headquarters, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on corruption and rent-seeking in Romania, specifically on how liberalization and marketization of the state-planned economy have engendered new and more pernicious […]

Ramūnas Vilpišauskas is a Professor and was the Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University from 2009 to 2019. He worked as the head of the Economic and Social Policy group and as the advisor to the President of the Republic of Lithuania HE Valdas Adamkus. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas graduated from Vilnius University (Faculty of Economics), Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Lancaster University (UK). He studied or trained at the University of Oslo […]

Ebru Turhan is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “INSITER-Inside the Turkey-EU-Relations” at the Turkish German University of Istanbul and Visiting Researcher at the IEP Berlin (Institut for Europäische Politik). Her research focuses on EU-Turkey affairs, External differentiated integration with the  EU, EU enlargement politics, EU institutions, German-Turkish relations and the Refugee crisis. Research Interests: EU-Turkey affairs, External differentiated integration with the EU, […]

Alfred Tovias is Professor Emeritus of the Department of International Relations of the Hebrew University. He was the Chairman of the same Department from 2010 through 2012. Before he served for five years as Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International  Relations at the same University (2005-2010). He holds also the EU-sponsored Jean Monnet Chair on External Economic Relations of the EU. Alfred is also the president of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration (IASEI), together […]

Alina Thieme is a research associate at CETEUS (Centre for Turkey and European Studies), University of Cologne. She was holding the position as Executive Manager of CETEUS from 2018 until late 2019. In this time she was active as programme manager for the establishment of the Master European and International Affairs at the Turkish German University in Istanbul, which is funded by the DAAD. Moreover, she was the programme manager for EUCOPAS, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and for […]

Nathan joined the ASU School of Politics and Global Studies in the Fall of 2016 to pursue his PhD in Political Science, studying International Relations and Comparative Politics. He completed his BA (2013) and MA (2016) from the University of Illinois Springfield. His research interests include Identity and Ideology, Religion and Conflict, Radicalization, and the State-Dissident Nexus. More broadly, he is interested in studying the role of religious and political ideologies in social and political movements within the context of […]

Cecilia Emma Sottilotta is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Rome. Before joining the AUR, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science of LUISS Guido Carli,  working on the research project  “The choice for Europe since Maastricht: Member States’ preferences for economic and fiscal integration – EMU Choices” funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation  program.  She has been Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Salzburg, Austria (2016), Visiting Professor […]