Faculty and Associates

Tozun Bahcheli

Professor Emeritus, Political Science, King's University College

Research Interests / Specializations: Turkish foreign policy issues, Greek-Turkish relations and Cypriot politics

Dale Ballucci

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Criminology, the administration of the criminal justice system, police response to prolific high-risk offenders and sex crimes, legal regulation of children and youth, sociology of law, sociology of knowledge, the sociology of childhood, governance, risk technologies, and criminal justice policy.

Bob Barney

Professor Emeritus, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: "Nation-bulding" through the Olympic Games; sport and social impact; sport for development and peace

Isaac Bayor

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: peacebuilding, customary practices of justice

Greg Beckett

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Crisis, disaster, and trauma, responses to crisis, especially in forms of humanitarian intervention, Haiti

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

Associate Professor, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Critical political theory, continental philosophy and speculative political theory (especially the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and the post-Nietzscheans), as well as the history of political thought. Particular areas of interest include post-humanism, information/digital warfare, and critical surveillance/terrorism studies.

Dan Bousfield

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Research 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 School

Research Interests / Specializations: Pro-social functions of business, from social enterprises and cross-sector partnerships to global NGOs and multinational conglomerates.

Chi Carmody

Associate Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Public International Law, International Trade Law, Legal Theory and International Organizations

Michael Coyle

Associate Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Aboriginal justice, talking circles, and dispute resolution

Regna Darnell

Distinguished Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Linguistic, Symbolic and Humanistic Anthropology Anthropological Theory, Critical Theory, Indigenous Knowledge Qualitative and Collaborative Methods History of Anthropology and Linguistics; Ethnohistory Indigenous Peoples of North America (Cree, Ojibwe. Slave, Mohawk, Kwakwaka’wakw, Interior Salish) Sub-Saharan Africa Canadian Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and National Identity Ethnographic Theory; Poetics; Genres of Ethnographic Writing Medical Anthropology; Cultural Constructions of Health and Illness; Ecosystem Health; Public Health Contemporary Nomads; Urban Indians; Indigenous Health Documentary Editing; Archival Research Methods

Marta Dyczok

Associate Professor, Political Science and History

Research Interests / Specializations: Media migration and post-communism in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and specifically Ukraine

Samar El-Masri

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Transitional justice, civil society, women's human rights and Middle East politics

Julia Emberley

Professor, English

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

Randa Farah

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Oral history and memory among Palestinian refugees; generational and gender relations

Jim Freedman

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology

Research Interests / Specializations: Governance and poverty reduction in conflict-affected and fragile environments

Alain Goldschlager

Professor, French Literature

Research Interests / Specializations: Le roman du XXe siècle, Théories littéraires, Sémiotique, Analyse des discours, Littérature comparée, Littérature de l'holocauste.

Amanda Grzyb

Professor, Information and Media Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Genocide and state violence (El Salvador, Rwanda, the Holocaust, Sudan); museums, memorials, and commemoration processes; media and the public interest; social movements; and community resistance to metallic mining.

Bernie Hammond

Professor Emeritus ~ Social Justice and Peace Studies/Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Social Justice locally and globally, inequality, poverty, politics and conflict around mining in Central and South America, participant in SSHRC funded project, “Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador”, director of project: Amanda Grzyb

Adam Harmes

Associate Professor, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: US and Canadian foreign policy, conservative and progressive movements, political strategy and communications techniques

Michael Heine

Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology

Research 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, Sociology

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

David Howe

Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology

Research 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 Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Action theory, ethics, feminist ethics

Shimelis Kene

Assistant Professor (Limited-Term), Faculty of Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Public International law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Law and society, Postcolonial Theory

Susan Knabe

Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Information and Media Studies

Research 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 Research

Research 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, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Legal reconstruction of Germany and Japan post-World War II

Erica Lawson

Associate Professor - Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Women as peacebuilders, SGBV, Liberian peace huts, feminist and critical race theories; grief and maternal activism

Yadira Lizama-Mué

Postdoctoral Associate, The CulturePlex Lab

Research Interests / Specializations: Digital Peacebuilding, Children and Transitional Justice, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science

Ryan Liss

Assistant Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Public International Law, Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law

Michael Lynk

Emeritus Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: International and domestic human rights and humanitarian law, labour law

Margaret Martin

Associate Professor, Law

Research Interests / Specializations: Legal philosophy, international human rights

Laura Misener

Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology

Research Interests / Specializations: Social impact of sport and events

Nigmendra Narain

Lecturer, Political Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Feminist theory, India and Pakistan, South Asian women's organizations

Andrew Nelson

Professor, Anthropology

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

Sarah Nimigan

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: International Criminal Court, international criminal law

Sid Noel

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Research 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 Law and Director, TJ Centre

Research Interests / Specializations: International criminal accountability for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes; sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict; gender-sensitive transitional justice; outer space law and armed conflict

Donna Pennee

Professor, English

Research Interests / Specializations: Cultural nationalism and policy in relation to globalization, critical race studies in Canadian literary history

Joanna Quinn

Professor, Political Science and Director, TJ Centre (Currently on leave)

Research Interests / Specializations: Role of acknowledgement in overcoming the effects of human rights abuses after conflict and in settler colonial societies; traditional justice practices in Uganda, Fiji; truth commissions in Uganda, Haiti

Felipe Quintanilla

Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures

Research 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 Science

Research Interests / Specializations: Canadian foreign policy-making, United Nations, human rights, women's rights, NGOs

Scott Schaffer

Associate Professor, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary global social theory; xenosociology, social exclusion/inclusion, and social ethics; necroethics and conceptions and practices of human value.

Frank Schumacher

Associate Professor, History

Research 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 Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: Media and visual culture, political theory, human rights, and the social imaginary

Juan-Luis Suarez

Professor, Digital Humanities; Director, The Cultureplex Lab

Research Interests / Specializations: Digital Humanities; Cultural Networks; Analysis of Peace Agreements.

Glorieuse Uwizeye

Assistant Professor, Nursing

Research Interests / Specializations: Intergenerational health effects of exposure to socio-political and racial violence; health impacts of genocide against the Tutsi; epigenetic mechanisms linking prenatal exposure to genocide or genocidal rape and adulthood health outcomes.

Jonathan Vance

Undergraduate Chair, Department of History

Research 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 College

Research 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 Studies

Research 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, English

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous literary and cultural studies; Indigenous reparations movements; discourses of reconciliation and settler colonial critique

Karolina Werner

Academic Research Associate

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous governance, peace, inclusion, UNDRIP, Africa

Jerry White

Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous peoples’ well-being; Indigenous Education ; Truth and Reconciliation.

Tadek Wojtych

Postdoctoral Fellow, History/Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Research Interests / Specializations: History textbooks, museums, truth commissions, Germany, Poland, Canada

Carl Young

Associate Professor, History

Research Interests / Specializations: Religious social movements, nationalism, and imperialism in modern Asia, centering especially on Korea and Japan