Faculty
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Research Area: Ethnic and Gender Politics, Nationalism, Globalization and Processes of Racialization, Immigration Policies and Politics, Surveillance and Border Control, and Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism. Yasmeen holds a Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights.
780-492-2162
yasmeen@ualberta.ca
Rob Aitken
Research Areas: International Political Economy (IPE), and the everyday contexts of Global Financial Practices
Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
Research Areas: Comparative Indigenous Politics, Gender and Indigeneity, Indigenous Feminism and Resistance, Resource Extraction, Bodies and Consent. Isabel holds a Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights
isabel@ualberta.ca
Greg Anderson
Research Areas: International Political Economy, Political Economy of North American Integration.
780-492-0632
greg.anderson@ualberta.ca
Siobhan Byrne
Research Areas: Feminist Anti-War Activism, Peace Studies, Conflict Resolution, Gender and Power-Sharing.
780-492-2066
siobhan.byrne@ualberta.ca
Ashley Esarey
Research Areas: Political Communication, Leadership, Democratization, East Asia Politics. Director of Taiwan Studies Program
esarey@ualberta.ca
Reza Hasmath
Reseach Areas: Ethnicity and Immigration, International Development, Social and Public Policy, State-Society Relations, China
Cressida Heyes
Research Areas: Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of the Body, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Trans Studies, Medical Humanities, Contemporary Social and Political Theory.
David Kahane
Research Areas: System Change, Public Participation, Anarchism, Climate Change, Prefigurative Politics.
dkahane@ualberta.ca
W. Andy Knight
Research Areas: International Relations; International Organization; United Nations System; Global Governance and Multilateralism; Global Security; Human Rights; Responsibility to Protect (R2P); Small Island States; Sub-Altern Peoples; Terrorism
780-492-0020
andy.knight@ualberta.ca
Mojtaba Mahdavi
Research Areas: Middle East and North Africa Islamic Political Thought Social Movements Democratization Post-colonialism State-Society Relations Political Economy Religion & Politics Contemporary Islamic Studies Iranian Studies. Mojtaba holds the ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta.
Rob McMahon
Research Areas: Community Informatics, Digital Media and Infrastructures, Digital Literacy, Communication Policy and Regulation, Community Engagement.
rdmcmaho@ualberta.ca
Fiona Nicoll
Research Areas: Politics of Art and Everyday Life, Reconciliation, Indigenous Sovereignty, Racism, Public Art, Nationalism, Whiteness, Gambling Policy
fnicoll@ualberta.ca
Feodor Snagovsky
Research Areas: Canadian Politics, Political Behaviour, Comparative Politics, Political Elites, Representation.
feodor.snagovsky@ualberta.ca
Corey Snelgrove
Research Areas: Indigenous-Settler Relations, Settler Colonialism and Decolonization, Critical Theory, Political Theory, Marx and Marxism
cjsnelgr@ualberta.ca
Joshua St. Pierre
Research Areas: Critical Disability Studies; Dysfluency Studies; Critical Theory; Social Acceleration; Phenomenology. Joshua is holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Disability Studies.
jstpierr@ualberta.ca
Lori Thorlakson
Reseach Areas: Political Parties, Multi-level Systems, Energy Transition, Democracy, European Union.
Jared Wesley
Research Areas: Canadian Politics, Alberta Politics, Political Culture, Elections, Political Parties.
Didier Zúñiga
Research Areas: Political theory; Nature; Feminist theories; Posthumanism; New materialisms; Non-western & non-canonical political theory
didier@ualberta.ca