Faculty
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Research Areas: 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 Comparative Indigenous Feminist Studies.
isabel@ualberta.ca
Greg Anderson
Research Areas: International Political Economy, Political Economy of North American Integration.
780-492-0632
greg.anderson@ualberta.ca
Blair Attard-Frost
Research Areas: Governance of artificial intelligence, AI policy, digital policy, political economy of AI, trans studies, feminist science & technology studies.
blair.attardfrost@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. Ashley is the 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. Cressida holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair.
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.
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 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. Jared is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts.
Didier Zúñiga
Research Areas: Political theory; Nature; Feminist theories; Posthumanism; New materialisms; Non-western & non-canonical political theory.
didier@ualberta.ca