Epp, Roger

Director, UAlberta North and Professor, Political Science
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

repp@ualberta.ca
+1 780-492-2365 (office)
+1 780-914-1339 (cell)

Webpages:
https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/roger-epp/home
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/roger-epp

Link to CV

Roger Epp is professor of political science at the University of Alberta. He is a willing teacher as well as an experienced administrator, having served as Deputy Provost and as Dean of the Augustana Campus. He is a public scholar with a range of interests including the rural west, settler-aboriginal relations, higher education, and, from a critical position, theory and ethics in international relations. One common thread in his work is that of place. His writing has appeared in such diverse public venues as Inside Higher Ed, the Small Farmer's Journal, the Toronto Star, and the literary magazine Geist. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Review of International Studies. A native of rural Saskatchewan, and a former newspaper journalist, Dr. Epp earned a BA at the University of Alberta and both MA and PhD at Queen's University. In print and other forms, he has explored what it means to live in the prairie region with a sense of memory and care. He is author of We are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays, co-editor of Writing Off the Rural West and co-producer of the documentary "The Canadian Clearances" for CBC Radio's Ideas. He was honorary witness at hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and participated in two panels at the final national assembly in 2014. He is co-editor of Roads Taken: The Professorial Life, Scholarship in Place, and the Public Good. In international relations, his current work is focussed on the idea of the limit, the frontier, the outsider, the apocalyptic; on human suffering rather than power politics; and on thinking the international from beyond 'the West.' All of these themes engage religious ideas and identities. Dr. Epp has held visiting appointments at universities in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and most recently in Brazil, at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná.

Areas of Interest

Democracy
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples
Politics
Religion and Public Life
War and Peace
Land and Peace
State