Faculty and Associates

Tozun Bahcheli
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, King's University CollegeResearch Interests / Specializations: Turkish foreign policy issues, Greek-Turkish relations and Cypriot politics

Dale Ballucci
Assistant Professor, SociologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Police response to sex crimes, police response to prolific/chronic and high risk offenders, legal decision-making in unaccompanied refugee child claimants

Bob Barney
Professor Emeritus, School of KinesiologyResearch Interests / Specializations: "Nation-bulding" through the Olympic Games; sport and social impact; sport for development and peace

Isaac Bayor
Academic Research AssociateResearch Interests / Specializations: peacebuilding, customary practices of justice

Greg Beckett
Assistant Professor, AnthropologyResearch Interests / Specializations: crisis, disaster, and trauma, responses to crisis, especially in forms of humanitarian intervention, Haiti

Dan Bousfield
Assistant Professor, Political ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Social movements, protest and critical political economy, with an emphasis on psychoanalysis, gender, technology, pedagogy and resistance

Oana Branzei
Associate Professor, Ivey Business SchoolResearch Interests / Specializations: Pro-social functions of business, from social enterprises and cross-sector partnerships to global NGOs and multinational conglomerates.

Chi Carmody
Associate Professor, LawResearch Interests / Specializations: International economic justice and public international law

Michael Coyle
Associate Professor, LawResearch Interests / Specializations: Aboriginal justice, talking circles, and dispute resolution

Regna Darnell
Emeritus Professor, AnthropologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Linguistic anthropology with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples, history of anthropology

Marta Dyczok
Associate Professor, Political Science and HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: Media migration and post-communism in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and specifically Ukraine

Samar El-Masri
Academic Research AssociateResearch Interests / Specializations: Ethnic conflict resolution; Women's rights and Middle Eastern Politics

Julia Emberley
Professor, EnglishResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous testimonial practices, Residential schools, Literary Criticism & Theory, Postcolonial, Women's Literature & Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

Randa Farah
Associate Professor, AnthropologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Oral history and memory among Palestinian refugees; generational and gender relations

Jim Freedman
Professor Emeritus, AnthropologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Governance and poverty reduction in conflict-affected and fragile environments

Alain Goldschlager
Professor, French LiteratureResearch Interests / Specializations: Le roman du XXe siècle, Théories littéraires, Sémiotique, Analyse des discours, Littérature comparée, Littérature de l'holocauste.

Amanda Grzyb
Associate Professor, Information and Media StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Media and the public interest; Holocaust and genocide studies; homelessness; museums, memorials, and public memory

Bernie Hammond
Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Social Justice and Peace Studies, King's University CollegeResearch Interests / Specializations: Development, justice and peace

Adam Harmes
Associate Professor, Political ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: International political economy, global finance, global economic governance

Michael Heine
Assistant Professor, School of KinesiologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Discourse analysis of Olympic spaces; economic processes and commodification in sports; Aboriginal Games documentation in sub-Arctic and Arctic Canada; sport and social impact

Ted Hewitt
Professor, SociologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Social movements and population health, local government, and international cooperation for urban development in Latin America

David Howe
Associate Professor, School of KinesiologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Sport, Development and Peace (SDP); human rights and disability as related to SDP

Tracy Isaacs
Professor, Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Action theory, ethics, feminist ethics

Susan Knabe
Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Information and Media StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Sexuality in relation to genocide and in relation to post-coloniality, trauma and memory

Kate Korycki
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Feminist ResearchResearch Interests / Specializations: Identity politics, memory in transition (and amnesia in non-transition) societies, narratives and imaginaries of belonging, intersections of gender, class and race, French post-structuralism, communist feminism vs. anti-communist feminism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism

Rande Kostal
Professor, LawResearch Interests / Specializations: Legal reconstruction of Germany and Japan post-World War II

Erica Lawson
Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor - Gender, Sexuality, and Women's StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Women as peacebuilders, SGBV, Liberian peace huts, feminist and critical race theories; grief and violence

Tracy Lemos
Associate Professor, Theology, Huron University CollegeResearch Interests / Specializations: Personhood; dehumanization; torture; physical violence; trauma; masculinity

Ryan Liss
Assistant Professor, LawResearch Interests / Specializations: Public International Law, Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law

Michael Lynk
Associate Professor, LawResearch Interests / Specializations: Labour law, human rights law

Margaret Martin
Associate Professor, LawResearch Interests / Specializations: Legal philosophy, international human rights

Laura Misener
Associate Professor, School of KinesiologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Social impact of sport and events

Nigmendra Narain
Lecturer, Political ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Feminist theory, India and Pakistan, South Asian women's organizations

Andrew Nelson
Professor, AnthropologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Bioarchaeology, Human Skeletal Biology, Paleoradiology, Hominid Evolution, Paleopathology, Archaeometry, Mummy Studies - Peru (North Coast), Egypt

Sarah Nimigan
Academic Research AssociateResearch Interests / Specializations: International Criminal Court, international criminal law

Sid Noel
Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Studies, King's University CollegeResearch Interests / Specializations: Politics of power sharing in deeply divided societies, federalism and consociationalism, conditions conducive to the success or failure of constitutional accords

Valerie Oosterveld
Professor, Faculty of LawResearch Interests / Specializations: International criminal accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes; sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict

Donna Pennee
Professor, EnglishResearch Interests / Specializations: Cultural nationalism and policy in relation to globalization, critical race studies in Canadian literary history

Joanna Quinn
Associate Professor, Political ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Traditional justice practices in Uganda, Fiji; truth commissions in Uganda, Haiti

Felipe Quintanilla
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and CulturesResearch Interests / Specializations: Hispanic identity, belonging, and war; diasporic strategies of remembrance in post-war El Salvador; militarism and activism

Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon
Professor Emeritus, Political ScienceResearch Interests / Specializations: Canadian foreign policy-making, United Nations, human rights, women's rights, NGOs

Scott Schaffer
Associate Professor, SociologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Contemporary and global social theory, the sociology of development, and resistance movements, the interplay between sociological theory, social policy, and social change

Frank Schumacher
Associate Professor, HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: Global history of mass violence, colonialism and empires, resistance and rescue in genocides, international and transnational history, globalization, the United States in world affairs

Megan Shore
Associate Professor, Social Justice and Peace Studies, King's University College (Currently on Leave)Research Interests / Specializations: Role of Religion in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Sharon Sliwinski
Professor, Information & Media StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Intersection of visual culture, political theory, and the life of the mind; photography, human rights, and the social imaginary - often using a psychosocial approach.

Juan-Luis Suarez
Professor, Hispanic Studies; Director, The Cultureplex LabResearch Interests / Specializations: Cultural Complexity and Complexity Theory, Transatlantic Studies, Humanism, Digital Humanities, Colombian Peace Agreement

Jonathan Vance
Undergraduate Chair, Department of HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: Military history, Canadian history, social memory, First World War, Canadian culture, and prisoners of war

Robert Ventresca
Professor of History at King's University CollegeResearch Interests / Specializations: Religion in historical mass violence and genocide; Holocaust history and memory; transitional justice; post-conflict reconstruction; truth and reconciliation; war crimes trials; human rights

Kim Verwaayen
Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's StudiesResearch Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian women's literature and Indigenous women's writing; trauma and testimony studies; feminist theory, particularly feminist literay theory, postmoden, poststructuralist, postcolonial feminisms, global and Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous women's activism in Canada; intersubjectivity and (other) theories of relation; feminist pedagogy; internationalization

Pauline Wakeham
Associate Professor, EnglishResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous literatures, visual and performance arts, and film, cultural studies and cultural theory, postcolonial and globalization theory, discourses of reconciliation and redress, Canadian literatures

Karolina Werner
Academic Research AssociateResearch Interests / Specializations: Indigenous governance, peace, inclusion, UNDRIP, Africa

Jerry White
Professor, SociologyResearch Interests / Specializations: Aboriginal treaties, case law and regulations; Aboriginal education

Carl Young
Associate Professor, HistoryResearch Interests / Specializations: Religious social movements, nationalism, and imperialism in modern Asia, centering especially on Korea and Japan